This is the environment that almost all user software is executed.

Yes.

Credit cards are used for such things but don’t buy stuff if you don’t have the money for it.

Now add human into that sentence

We’re at the stage of private equity where that’s really hard to do.

Virus coder doesn’t know how to make a VM. No surprise there.

This article does a very bad job of explaining the algorithm. It’s both overly complicated and not sufficient. It doesn’t explain how the index and codepoint turn into the string, it just gives an example.

What makes it particularly elegant is that it does this without any shared state between encoder and decoder. The adaptation is purely a deterministic function of the encoded data itself

Also known as the only way such a thing can work…

“We aren’t completely batshit insane!”

Can’t wheelie in a kart. But I did read your post now.

Mario kart karts can turn a lot easier than real cars at speed.

2 years 10 months. It’s public & federated.

Dr Who did this bit

“Manipulate”

Yes. The check digit is calculated using base 10

I know. I just like to point out when people say the price of an index like it means anything. Market cap is actually useful. It’s like saying “oil is $100” with no context as if every single person in the world is taught what the “barrel” unit is at birth.

That’s the kind of variation is associated with small numbers. I’d be curious to see the overall/5 year average graph.

Headphones are built into your phone?

As a software engineer, the grunt work is reasoning about my code, something a statistical model can’t do.

By conflating pedophilia and child abuse you give cover to child abusers. Most of the time children are abused because they’re vulnerable. It’s actually the only reason we have statutory rape/abuse material laws.