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taco9999

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taco9999··on Unreal numbers
For bijection, the path through the rationals can just jump over and skip any numbers that have already been visited by the path.
taco9999··on Leaving Google
Was it this article?

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...

taco9999··on Shift-to-Middle Array: A Faster Alternative to Std:Deque?
What benefits does this have over a standard VecDeque?
taco9999··on Numbering should start at zero (1982)
> C gives pointers one past the end of an array meaningful semantics

Nelson Elhage wrote about an alternate interpretation: https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/08/indices-point-between-eleme...

taco9999··on When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster [C++]
A potential issue with that is needing to adjust the distribution of either X or Y, since if X and Y remain uniform, then there will be a lot of points packed into the sides of the circle with higher density than the center column.
taco9999··on See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS
Then how would you know if the original random numbers were affected?
taco9999··on When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option
> kitchen knives were made impossible to use for homicide

Can't wait for kitchen knives that immediately self-destruct if you use them on items that didn't come from the knife manufacturer's grocery store.

taco9999··on They Fool Ya (Live)
https://unlistedvideos.com/v.php?youtube-Ojr8294tzmA
taco9999··on Pixel phones are sold with bootloader unlocking disabled
Probably not, since there will be a warning screen displayed on boot if the bootloader is unlocked.
taco9999··on Remote Attestation is coming back
See: https://xkcd.com/488/

Also, since a lot of different movie streaming services (e.g. Hulu, Disney+) have launched, a lot of content has moved off of Netflix, leading to a higher piracy rate.

taco9999··on Remote Attestation is coming back
The emulated TPM will not contain the TPM manufacturer's private key that is used to sign responses.