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dleibovic··on Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
A one pager explanation I wrote after it finally clicked for me -- floating point is just binary scientific notation! Not sure why more places don't explain it like this. https://github.com/dasl-/floating-point-numbers#floating-poi...
dleibovic··on Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack
Is there a way to tell if my android phone received an update to protect against this exploit?
dleibovic··on LastPass release fix for DOM manipulation vulnerability
All of your LastPass browser extensions should be updated to version 4.1.44 or higher

On firefox, the version I'm using is still 3.3.4, which is the version available from the mozilla addon store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lastpass-pass...

Why the discrepancy? Am I still vulnerable? In their blog post, they even note:

We want to thank our partners at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Yandex and others who fast-tracked our extension review and release.

dleibovic··on Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Kafka is backed by spinning disks though. Am I missing something?
dleibovic··on Why Do Americans Stink at Math?
This comment suggests you did not read the article. The article directly contradicts your assertions.

In talking about how Japanese teaching methods are better than American teaching methods, it states: "Similarly, 96 percent of American students’ work fell into the category of “practice,” while Japanese students spent only 41 percent of their time practicing."

dleibovic··on $1 Unistroke Recognizer
I had trouble getting it to recognize my "arrow"
dleibovic··on The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust
What about this story is not dystopian? We have a city with a toxic sludge lake created to power our obsession with replacing our phones every year.
dleibovic··on The invasion of corporate news
Cardiff University researchers estimated in 2006 that 41 per cent of UK press articles were driven by PR, a phenomenon known as “churnalism”.

Wow.

dleibovic··on Hallucinogen in ‘magic mushrooms’ might have helped smokers quit
Would you mind explaining a bit more? This is really interesting to me.
dleibovic··on Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City
I agree with you that the traffic speed improvements being due to the bike lanes is poorly supported.

But still, this shows that there is room for intersection/street design improvements that do not slow down cars while making it safer for bikes.

dleibovic··on Bike lanes have sped up car traffic in New York City
Wow, that's terrible. I am so sorry to hear that. Where do you live?
dleibovic··on How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven
Is there any cause for concern about toxic chemicals being released into an oven that you use to cook food?
dleibovic··on Obama’s Path From Critic to Overseer of Spying
Mr. Obama was angry at the revelations, privately excoriating Mr. Snowden as a self-important narcissist who had not thought through the consequences of his actions.

I could not disagree more with that sentiment.

dleibovic··on I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on
To me, that is a perverse thought. I cannot justify the killing of innocents today to make the world a better place tomorrow.
dleibovic··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3059
Generally, when I'm working on a specific task that affects a handful of files, I'll have all of those files open in tabs. This provides a visual cue for each file (i.e. I know the "main" file is in tab position 1, the class that it calls is in tab #2, etc etc).

Furthermore, I can switch between tabs quickly with cmd + 1, cmd + 2, etc, or via cmd + option + left/right arrow. This can be quicker than fuzzy matching (which sublime text supports, btw), and it requires less mental overhead of remembering what the file is called when you want to switch to it.

dleibovic··on Bezier Curves and Picasso
Another great article on bezier curves that I've used is: http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
dleibovic··on What happens when the Secret Service uses a NSL on you
can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Do you have a source?
dleibovic··on Common JavaScript Gotchas
I thought php was also function scope, not block scope as the author claims...?
dleibovic··on Commit Logs From Last Night
So it just watches github's live feed for commit messages that contain a curse word.
dleibovic··on Jiro Dreams of Sushi
I'll be the dissenter here-- I was not a fan of the movie. It was a boring piece about a man obsessed to the point of craziness about sushi. His kids said to the mother: "Mommy, who is the strange man in our house?"

The man was Jiro, their father. Is that the childhood you want your children to live? For me, the mastery of a craft is not worth this price.

dleibovic··on Study finds hunter-gatherers' energy expenditure same as modern Westerners'
The gist of the article is this: the reason people are fat today is not because they burn fewer calories per day. In fact, they burn the same amount as hunter gatherers. Thus, the reason people are fat today is because they consume more calories per day.
dleibovic··on How you eat corn on the cob predicts whether you're an analyst or algebraist
If you butter your corn, it's best to eat in spirals to ensure even distribution of butter over time and minimal dripping.