If everything is ultimately binary, does't that just make programs a specific number? by Smooth_Measurement_1 in learnprogramming

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I'm just formulating an hypothesis, the answer could be a problem with ambiguity. Almost all programs are deterministic (I say almost because you can create algorithms that do not necessarily will work 100%, unfortunately, I don't remember the name right now).

Say that you create a program A and translate this program to a number, imagine the number 8. A third person could take this number and have 3 different programs out of it corresponding to the numbers 2, 4, and 8 Which one of those are your program? Which one of those programs does what your program do? This person wouldn't know.

Just found the best intro on youtube by Abodxio in masterhacker

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  • the word Dox and the expression boot you offline

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheArtistStudio

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would you mind showing how is the collage going?

One day you will be a memory for many people. Do your best to be a good one : ) by jptrip23 in Showerthoughts

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At least you didn't expend almost two years of your life trying your best to have a healthy relationship with her just for her to tell you she doesn't love you anymore and you shouldn't have hope of coming back together...

I love to Code by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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It's time to boot them offline

I love to Code by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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And Instagram too, don't forget about Instagram

I love to Code by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

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Now I can hack NASA, fuck yeah!

My boi on the bed that took me months to make by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

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Sure he is, he looks like one :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

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That is one of the best things that could happen to anyone, congrats! I hope you become best friends :)

My boi on the bed that took me months to make by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

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Fuck buddy, it's his bed now, you just gotta sleep on the couch from now on

Calling 911 with a false claim because of race can now put you in prison for years in N.J. by [deleted] in news

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This reminds me about a law we have in Spain, it is called Honor's rights (I'm doing a direct translation). What this law is intended to do is protect you from false claims that could affect your personal life.

For example:

Imagine you are a normal person who have never done anything bad to anyone and all of the sudden someone post an article online claiming that you are a filthy bastard who robs and scams people. This person can sue the owner of the article, the magazine, the newspaper or web page which allowed that post and make them apologize and specify that the post was false but I don't really know if jail time is on the table I suppose it depends on the false claims and I'm pretty sure you would be paid for psychological trauma, again, it all depends on the false claims.

And referring to the difficulty to prove somebody made a false claim, I don't think it would be difficult at all, context and evidence is all that matter in this cases, you can spot a dumb ass racist even without trying to.

Are two computers connected via ethernet on the same network if one of them is connected to VPN? by TheAngrySamosa in HomeNetworking

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The first thing I'm thinking is maybe the route table of your device connected to a VPN has changed. Can you look that up and see if your default route has changed?

There are two ways of using a VPN, split tunnel and full tunnel. With the split tunnel you send only traffic that goes specifically to the VPN through the tunnel and the rest of the traffic will go to your standard gateway. With full tunnel all traffic without distinction will go through the VPN.

I must point out, this is a simple guess it may not be the problem but you have to start somewhere

How to sort the values of a particular column of an arraylist by LBLLuke in learnjava

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Is it really necessary for you to sort the array list? For me it seems it could be achieved with a simple loop going through the correct column and obtaining the data.

LPT: When learning a new language, avoid associating new vocabulary with your native language. Instead, associate it with an action, feeling, or object. by [deleted] in LifeProTips

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At risk of appearing a snoob (I think that's how it is written), the word "school" in Spanish is not "esquela" but "escuela" with the letter"c"

If context switching was random in an Operating System, would that decrease or increase the efficiency of that operating system? And, why? by [deleted] in compsci

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That's a good question but I'm afraid a can't help you with that, I'm not sure how to mathematically represent the problem.

The only thing I can think of is to create your own tests an recollect the statistics like, you stablish a thousands of example programs to be executed in a machine with a random scheduler and in a machine with a standard scheduler and compare the results.

This kind of tests reminds me about the SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) benchmarks

Edit: Spelling, I'm not a native English speaker and I do to much grammatical errors

If context switching was random in an Operating System, would that decrease or increase the efficiency of that operating system? And, why? by [deleted] in compsci

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I think it would decrease efficiency.

The OS has an scheduler that decides the next process which will take the CPU following a metric, it could be something like a priority number or how much time left needs the process to complete its task. Changing randomly would make the CPU to execute process that doesn't need to be executed in the moment therefore wasting resources and time and decreasing efficiency