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thraway123412

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thraway123412··on Zig, parser combinators, and why they're awesome
Look bro I like Haskell so Haskell is a perfect replacement for Scheme/Java.
thraway123412··on TLA+
I find it suspicious that glibc and musl should have the same bug. Double check your code?
thraway123412··on Ask HN: How do I learn drawing?
Reading about drawing doesn't make you good at drawing.

Pick up a pen and draw. After a couple thousand hours, you'll be pretty good at it.

thraway123412··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
Every time someone comments about downvotes, there has to be that one person to contribute a completely useless comment about comments about downvotes. It wouldn't be HN without you.
thraway123412··on YouTube Shadow Banned Us WTF Happened?
- Gmail locks out my account because of suspicious activity, which was sending two messages to test my own email server after an update & config change (both messages bounced back because of a typo).

I also stopped commenting on Youtube altogether because their algorithms tend to block so many comments.

thraway123412··on Gimp is 25 years old today
This looks like another instance of "I don't know how to use gimp, but I know how to use photoshop, therefore gimp is a very bizarre tool."

I'm pretty fluent in Gimp, and I only ever use Photoshop out of necessity, and I'm always totally lost when I need to do that.

thraway123412··on It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)
Random chance. Even the most secure generator (or true randomness) will generate "weak" results with dieharder if you run it a few times.

Dieharder is useless for everything except spotting obviously and blatanly broken RNGs. Also, dieharder (like all other statistical tests) make absolutely no statement about security. A generator that scores high may be trivial to predict.

It's also worse than PractRand or TestU01. Generators that score consistently well on dieharder can fail predictably and consistently PractRand and TestU01 (because the generator has actual flaws that Dieharder cannot detect but the others can). I don't see any reason to use Dieharder at all, it's ancient and has not been relevant for a long time.

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