Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date
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@error said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
Anyone can access any mailbox @mailinator.com. Whenever a site forces you to give an email address, you can type in whateveryouwant@mailinator.com, go open that mailbox, click to confirm, and forget all about it.
Only to discover the website has blacklisted mailinator (and other receive-only e-mail services) because trolls and spammers use them to register on various forums and post their drivel. I recently learned there are blacklist libraries dedicated to that.
Edit: Looks like I was 'd quite a bit in saying that. Not enough good reply chains.
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@Bulb There's a reason why I specifically limited the meanings of 'box' and 'value'. Interpreted loosely enough, statements like 'programs are boxes for holding a value' or 'boxes are boxes for holding a value' are true too, but the boxiness and valueness of various things varies a lot across programming languages.
(for example in Perl, integers are mutable. TIL, holy shit.)
@Bulb said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
Actually that's not true in Python. If foo = 1, there is absolutely no way to make bar = 2 change value of foo in Python.
This is correct, and what is fun and occasionally fucks with people is
foo =1 bar = 2 print(id(foo)==id(bar)) bar = 1 print(id(foo)==id(bar)) foo = 1000 bar = 1000 print(id(foo)==id(bar))
prints False True False. The memory address of all integers under some implementation specific threshold is the same for all integers holding that value.
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@levicki said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
Oh. The "I'm a little disrespectful piece of shit still wet behind the ears who believes only young people like me can understand new things" argument. Why don't you crawl back into your safe space and let the adults talk?
I mean your argument is 'phones don't matter because people only use them for fun things'. If you want to die on a hill, maybe don't pick such a stupid hill?
This lady is 82. She gets it. Be like Ma-chan.
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@AyGeePlus said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
the boxiness and valueness of various things varies a lot across programming languages.
Not that much. Anyway, “variables are boxes that hold values” either holds in all languages—if we consider references to be a kind of values—or none of them—if we don't, because all practical languages⁺ have references and variables can contain them. When there is an indirection differs a lot, but it may always be there.
⁺ Actually, Haskell is kinda strange and it does not really have variables in the usual sense.
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@AyGeePlus said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
This is correct, and what is fun and occasionally fucks with people is
foo =1 bar = 2 print(id(foo)==id(bar)) bar = 1 print(id(foo)==id(bar)) foo = 1000 bar = 1000 print(id(foo)==id(bar))
prints False True False. The memory address of all integers under some implementation specific threshold is the same for all integers holding that value.
Looks like they did the same thing as Java.
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@_P_ said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
what's a variable
@error_bot smbc obviousness
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@levicki said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
the platform is still pretty limiting when it comes to real productivity
see, it's not though.
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@levicki
Sorry, let me correct 'phones don't matter because people only use them for fun things' to 'phones don't matter because most people only use them for fun things'.
If you don't want to write phone apps, just don't? You don't have to pretend phones are a lost cause(or ethically dubious?) as a platform because of all the gasp FRIVOLITY.
55% of all computers are small and portable and have GPS and are 24/7 available to people, but you don't want to write software for them, because... people have fun? I've heard of being allergic to fun, but even your software is allergic to fun? And you're allergic to money?
Why doesn't this apply to desktops too? Desktops are full of jerking off. Mainframes are where all the real productivity software lives.
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@AyGeePlus said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
Mainframes are where all the real productivity software
lives.goes to dieFTFY, though it's the same thing really.
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@HardwareGeek said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
You think colleges don't teach obsolete stuff? Some of the stuff I learned in college was obsolete even 30+ years ago when I was learning it; I just didn't have the knowledge to know that it was obsolete at the time.
And my cow-orkers don't know that even 25+ years after graduation.
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@error Isn't that last one (the one about "set of elements...") what axioms are for? I.e. stuff that's self-evidently true and where any proof would by necessity rely on the very thing it's supposed to prove?
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@Rhywden said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@error Isn't that last one (the one about "set of elements...") what axioms are for? I.e. stuff that's self-evidently true and where any proof would by necessity rely on the very thing it's supposed to prove?
An axiom would necessarily be an asymptote on that graph.
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@error Axioms are either trivial to prove, or impossible.
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@dkf said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@error Axioms are either trivial to prove, or impossible.
I thought the definition of an axiom is that it couldn't be proved or disproved, but seemed to be true, based on countless observations. Could you give an example of an axiom that can be proved? Bonus points if it's one of Euclid's axioms.
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@jinpa My point was that axioms are true by definition, which is formally trivial to prove. (Prove A? A is an axiom! Job done. QED.)
I suppose they can also be described as accepted, denied, or ignored; they correspond respectively to having the statement as a foundational truth of your reasoning, a foundational falsity (would that be more of a co-axiom?), or simply not mentioned. The last case is naturally best for statements that can be proved or disproved from others (by the principle of minimality) but also accounts for the infinity of unprovable statements that we know must exist (due to Gödelian incompleteness if nothing else). Nobody actually has an infinite number of axioms in reality because we simply can't remember that many...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
*we aren't using them to choke off your revenue; we're using them as a basic tool of self-preservation.
If by self-preservation you mean not seeing ads, then sure.
Vet your ads properly, make it impossible for malware to be delivered through them, and we'll stop blocking them.
I won't.
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@dkf said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
My point was that axioms are true by definition, which is formally trivial to prove
Yes, from the point of view of formal logic.
But "where do those axioms come from", "are they "true" in any sense of the word" are super difficult philosophical questions outside the strict realm of math.
So in that chart, they are at the topmost rightmost position possible.
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@anonymous234 said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
Yes, from the point of view of formal logic.
But "where do those axioms come from", "are they "true" in any sense of the word" are super difficult philosophical questions outside the strict realm of math.
Young man, you're very clever. But it's axioms all the way down.
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@MrL said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
*we aren't using them to choke off your revenue; we're using them as a basic tool of self-preservation.
If by self-preservation you mean not seeing ads, then sure.
No, by self-preservation I mean defense against malware delivered over ad networks.
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@anonymous234 said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
But "where do those axioms come from", "are they "true" in any sense of the word" are super difficult philosophical questions outside the strict realm of math.
There is no particular reason for the common set we use, apart from their utility (they work well for describing what we believe to be true) and brevity of expression (they are reasonably short in themselves). Other axioms could be chosen, and in fact have been from time to time; a lot of work in 20th century Math was in reworking the axiom schema to be smaller (so 1+1=2 doesn't need to be a foundational truth, but just a derived one).
We do not yet know what are the axioms needed to place Physics on the same basis as Math in this regard. The search for the "theory of everything" is really about that, and it has a lot of blind alleys where people spend an entire career constructing things that don't match reality. I guess one good axiom about reality is that it keeps on being real even when you don't believe in it; it is external to our minds (and embeds them)...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@MrL said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
*we aren't using them to choke off your revenue; we're using them as a basic tool of self-preservation.
If by self-preservation you mean not seeing ads, then sure.
No, by self-preservation I mean defense against malware delivered over ad networks.
I just had a stupid idea: Antimalware updates over ads! Pre-pwn computers to not be vulnerable!
I'm sure others have had this idea...
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@MrL said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
*we aren't using them to choke off your revenue; we're using them as a basic tool of self-preservation.
If by self-preservation you mean not seeing ads, then sure.
No, by self-preservation I mean defense against malware delivered over ad networks.
I know. Good excuse, but I find it unnecessary.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@MrL said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
*we aren't using them to choke off your revenue; we're using them as a basic tool of self-preservation.
If by self-preservation you mean not seeing ads, then sure.
No, by self-preservation I mean defense against malware delivered over ad networks.
I just had a stupid idea: Antimalware updates over ads! Pre-pwn computers to not be vulnerable!
I'm sure others have had this idea...
You joke, but that's actually a surprisingly common malware tactic: lock the backdoor behind you so that other malware can't get in and take over the computer you just took over.