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(...) Quick answer: yes. Long answer: Almost certainly. There are some tradeoffs that you've made. A big one is around the human readability of the key. Ask yourself, how often do humans inspect these, and how fast can you convert back to 40bit (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Lar, I've been experimenting with a method for OID construction which takes a pseudorandom 32-bit integer, converts it to a 40-bit integer by adding 8 bits of CRC, then converts that an to 8-byte base-32 ASCII representation using the 32 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) Whoops. Talking in shorthand tripped me up. In system-architect-speak "business" logic is the actual desired work effort of the program (contrasted with non business logic which is the infrastructure or other code that you have to do in order (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: reverse indexes (was Re: Text::Query)
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(...) There is a lot of overhead, yes, but it's cancelled out by: 1) NNTP headers are ignored during indexing (except the Subject and From values). 2) In the NNTP article body, the following are ignored during indexing: - Canonically quoted content (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Regex for mutations of "unsubscribe" (was: Re: unsusbscribe lego-robotics)
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(...) At first glance, I thought there was a bug in the news<->mail gateway which allowed this article through. But the word "unsubscribe" is actually misspelled. =:*p Anyone know of a good regex to catch mutations/misspellings of this word? (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | reverse indexes (was Re: Text::Query)
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(...) I'm having trouble figuring out how that's even possible. For example, the first sample line in the 'jeremy' file above appears to say that 'jeremy' occurs as the 19th, 590th, 595th 600th and 605th words of (URL) (which looks more or less (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | X-Mimeole header??? (was: Re: Legofest? Call for more info)
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Huw Millington wrotes: (...) Hey, I don't get it. This wasn't a MIME message according to the headers, so that's why the newsserver didn't reject it. But it says it's a MIME- encapsulated message, and the headers have something (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: 22/7 & infinities (was: Re: The nature of the JC god, good or evil?)
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(...) The "much better" one I heard was 355/113: 355/113 = 3.141592920353... which comes within ~0.000008 percent... (...) It's interesting to note, however, that there are important sets of numbers that include these irrational numbers and are (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Text::Query
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(...) Not very magical, no. It breaks text apart by anything non-alphanumeric, where the "alpha" part includes ISO-8859-1 international letters like ã, ñ, ß, and ø, etc. It converts everything to lowercase for indexing and collapses apostrophes. (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Conversion between LDU, inches and millimeters
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(...) 25.4 (...) Yes. Here is a table provided by Lycos: (URL) down and notice that the value for inch->millimeter is given as "25.4000" The story I heard is that, at some point around 100 years ago it was decided to redefine the English weights and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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