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azatom··on Google Public NTP
I wonder whether the next intern's project at g will be the eliminating leap days with speeding up the clock for a week :)
azatom··on Ask HN: How to generate random test data (valid and noise too)?
Can you show me an example of this "controlled randomizing"? What I know about it either just too much space for randomizing, or I have to add some pattern/rules, how to generate it.. so it is the base of the problem. But if there is an implementation what already have that some kind of "dictionary" for fuzzing, that is exactly what I am looking for.
azatom··on Ask HN: How to generate random test data (valid and noise too)?
The emphasis is more on the brute force. These testing tools are for a concrete method with concrete data structure (if not just one property) - so the "finding something I don't expect" does not apply. I'd like to stress test the a system on highly unreliable data, from the too witty parses to the to the electrical thingies, like memtests bitpatterns. Yes, I can unit test what I know, but in addition I want to know what I don't know:)
azatom··on Acrobat PDF rendering engine added to Microsoft Edge
So pdf is officially dead. R.I.P.

(Big company product only bundles with widely used product, if they are desperately longing the the descending userbase. Look for flash, when users begin no longer installing by themselves, it come to the windows.)

azatom··on How to get started in writing a Rich Text Editor from scratch
Port Libreoffice to the web! :)
azatom··on Boxy SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics Editor
"Can't edit local files Android does not currently allow web apps to open and save local files."

Why? For example this works in android chrome: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3582671/how-to-open-a-lo...

azatom··on Ask HN: Is Recursion Worth It?
Sorry if my english did cause problem in the second, clarifier paragraph.

Under support I mean "it works well", and not "try it, if you are lucky, it may work".

If you are not using a school example like print the first 10 fibonacci with recursion, you will get a stackoverflow error. By support now I mean, the language not only allows, but encourages the readable, original form of an algorithm.

azatom··on Ask HN: Is Recursion Worth It?
Which programming language support it?

Sure it works on most, but usually it is for prototyping the algo. It is really bad pratcice not separating the space of the programflow (stack) and algo's flow (heap). You will realize it when you get stackoverflow - actually this is the main reason to the forum's name.

azatom··on Why we cannot send message from one chat platform to other?
No they don't, these are all pretendous laws, leaving loopholes. It is much easyier gathering one big "fine" from companies, than taxing individuals.
azatom··on Why we cannot send message from one chat platform to other?
"Stay in your fence, sheep!"
azatom··on New 256GB Mac Mini, 512GB MacBook Pro Have Slower SSD Speeds Than Prev. Models
That wouldn't be appleish, they don't like complicated stuff, look for unified gpu memory:)

Optane is discontinued, for a reason?

azatom··on TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT
Two types of comments:

- "the result doesn't even work..." yeah, even to be a rubberduck is amazing, what thll you expect, got your payment too?

- "wow, amazing...": not really, best case it is a google without (direct) advertisement, found the original code/very similar parts..

tryied with own obfuscated code, not from the net... can not get anything from it

azatom··on Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI
Is this an AI generated article?
azatom··on Git Is for Data [pdf]
No. People hate ads because ads are lies.

This is formally the best way describing what/why it does. Even the best open source things have basically just codes, not this kind of documentations.

azatom··on Visually symmetric words
What about cursive, where mirroring/rotating does not even produce the same number of letters? (eg.: google love hate mirror image)
azatom··on Firefox 106
Without cryptography the digital signature makes no sense, everywhere it is called digital.

But proably you are "right". Https became a thing because big companies needed the online thing, and it has to be secure. Pdf is one of last remnant of an era, called offline, so it is an enemy. And Mozilla is not an independet thing.

azatom··on Firefox 106
I do not find more details about that. BI tried the editing (so the update happend), and I guessed it is not "digital", but something like drawing a signature.

Test with a gov. signed pdf, other tools show the sig correctly, firefox nothing. (Address bar shows a shield that it is not tracking for not signed too. The menu has a pdf details which show nothing relevant.)

azatom··on Firefox 106
Still does not handle digital signature. Why? Over a decade ago if someone asks editing or something like the lock in the adressbar for https comes sooner for pdfs.. (libreoffice or ubuntu's pdfsig command shows the signature and check its validity)

On the other hand this is the only browser showing its attachment.

azatom··on Tell HN: Microsoft Edge is browser with least learning curve from Chrome
I have tried it for months on desktop - not as secondary or main, but as the only browser.. and a lot. And switched back.

I just can not get used to the "slow" pdf engine. On scrolling/paging for split second it is blurry (chrome/ium, firefox are fine).

About the other reasons I am not sure, but even if the pdf engine changes, the little annoyances just make Edge as a least painfull solution for who is forced occasionally (workplace/etc), or just only a few minutes per day/week browsing on desktop.

azatom··on Xx: Simple text based file format for creating binary files and data buffers
This is endianessly stupid:)
azatom··on Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size
Like USA will begin in 2023!? I could hardly believe it when I heard it, it is barely three centuries away!
azatom··on What is the proper way to utilize: Ctrl, Alt, Ctrl+Shift, Alt+Shift, Alt+Ctrl?
PS.: maybe at least partially is what you are afraid is irrelevant (not only keyboard shortcuts are affected): anything easily achieveable must be revertible.
azatom··on Saudi Arabia reveals 170-km-long mirrored skyscraper to house 9M people
The reaaon is that those houses are not built in the desert. Your point is invalid.

You have to protect the plants from the drought and humans from sandstorms. You can not cover a km wide 100m tall city, it has to be 200m x 500m. (numbers are arbitrary, but it has to be compact and as always, biger is cheaper, if 200x200 already covered "up" it is.

But of course the whole idea is just "clickbait".

azatom··on Nothing Phone (launching July 12)
"Divided" is not competition, it is "conquered".
azatom··on “Irrational” Compression
> "...there is no repeating pattern in the decimals, any combination of numbers is possible somewhere ..." Just pretend pi in base2 is in base10. It is irrational and no sequence will appear with 2-9. Or what am I missing?
azatom··on Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript
I don't get it. I do not want to define recursion, but for me as a programmer stackoverflow is a recursion, what is happening if I call y(factorialFactory)(10000).
azatom··on Show HN: SET Puzzle Game in HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Not color blind friendly. I mean not everything must be usable with full color blindness, but even a small game would be nice to be usable with slight color blindness. The green/pink, relatively thin borders are indistinguishable.
azatom··on The Internet We Know Is Built on Hacks
Evolution is built on hacks. Society is built on hacks. Mathematics was not built on hacks. Since Gödel mathematics is built on hacks too. Aint nobody has time build sg right instead of to be working. Hack the hacking world.
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