Shitcourse has gotten extremely slow?
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The Mona Lisa printed on 8.5×11 paper is the same picture as The Mona Lisa on a cell phone screen. I was referring to the uncountable number of possible fonts, regardless of size.
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Is that more secure than a megabyte of random bytes?
I prefer a byte of random megabytes. Easier to type.
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There, so easy.
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What happens if you choose 10 random megabytes?
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It would frustrate everyone that wonders if this is just some lame binary joke where the number should have been written 0b10 for explicit interpretation but was instead written in the ambiguous form of 10?
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How has perf been following my changes yesterday?
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Damn it, we could've had graphs by now, graphs! If only we were all less lazy...
Incidentally, we need a graph feature!
(for potentially confused @sam: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/a-website-about-server-cooties/37172)
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The Mona Lisa printed on 8.5×11 paper is the same picture as The Mona Lisa on a cell phone screen. I was referring to the uncountable number of possible fonts, regardless of size.
Ah, we could probably simplify this and instead talk about font families.
There's potentially a huge number of font family names (they're strings, which takes us back to some very well-known results) but I don't know whether it is sane to consider the drawing instructions in the same way. Does the requirement to define closed glyphs constrain things too much?
My instinct is that with ever smaller details, you can make things as complex as you want and that the number of font families is thus axiomatically uncountable unless constrained through a finite encoding scheme. Mind you, I'm stuffed full of a headcold and it's late, so I might be dead wrong too.
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I was referring to the uncountable number of possible fonts, regardless of size.
There maybe an uncountable number of possible fonts. Reality says the number of possible fonts is <= Aleph-naught. The proof contrary is left to the reader as an exercise.
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Let's say there's a theoretical set of fonts where every glyph is a rectangle. Each rectangle can have any width and height. Even if we restrict the width and height to being between, say, 0 and 1, that's more than ℵ0 possibilities for each glyph.
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Are we restricting to languages understandable by humans? Those are inherently finite. Hence less than ℵ0.
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Yes, but if you constrain it to, for example, its maximum size being what fits on my hard disk - let's call it 400GB - then it isn't infinite anymore.
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If you're going to limit things to what is practical, then nothing is infinite.
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Except human stupidity #Satire
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Except human stupidity #Satire
... and maybe the universe, but we're not so sure about the latter?
Filed under: quote hijack
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If the Universe was infinite, we'd never be able to prove that it was...
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Are we restricting to languages understandable by humans? Those are inherently finite.
Not true. There are infinite languages that can be understood by humans well enough through techniques such as fixed points and ω-regular languages.
You're probably familiar with at least one useful application of ω-regular languages; they're the natural theoretical model of computer services. Web servers, FTP servers, sshd, etc., all are applications of this fundamental structure; the state that is conceptually gone through infinitely often is the “accept another input request” state.
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Getting back on topic a little bit.
if anyone has firefox and is willing to run yslow against theis site i'd be interested in knowing if there are any parts of the site that are particulalry slow to load for you that possibly i could track on http://isitjustmeorservercooties.com/
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No slowness detected here. <50ms total load time.
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well that's good...
anyone else found anything? ;-)
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A hard refresh shows a total load time of 850ms, but that's in the dev tools, not YSlow
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Slower than slow for a bit a few mins back.
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Slower than slow for a bit a few mins back.
<img src="/uploads/default/18816/8bac1cfc5cf50f4f.png" width="399" height="88">@sam, very slow, long load times, spinners, and some 504s.
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noted:
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/a-website-about-server-cooties/37172/271?u=accalia
<img src="http://what.thedailywtf.com/uploads/default/_optimized/220/834/6bd9930cb2_690x268.png"