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by 00N8 7y ago
Yeah, calling the X-15 the most badass plane ever is a bit silly. If it counts, then why isn't the Space Shuttle "the most badass plane"? It went faster & higher, after all. Anyway, I'd assumed it was going to be the
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by 00N8 7y ago
Teaching people to day trade as a career sounds kind of like teaching people to challenge NBA players to basketball games for money, as a career
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by 00N8 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Einstein didn't agree with quantum physics either. Clearly you can do foundational work in a field & still go on to misunderstand its basic principles! :)
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by 00N8 7y ago
Yeah, I think it really comes down to the fact that the only way to have every detail on your system exactly the way you want it would take more time than you'll have in your life, so we make compromises. Commercial software & comm
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by 00N8 7y ago
it's probably too hot in there, but I wondered the same thing
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by 00N8 7y ago
"All engineering is plumbing - some fields just manage to avoid working on broken sinks & toilets" -anonymous
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by 00N8 8y ago
relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/984/
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by 00N8 8y ago
it's probably alright as long as he doesn't tell ISIS the secret recipe for "red iodine" (aka "nuclear nitroglycerin") I've heard 'red iodine' is a long running troll the intelligence community p
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by 00N8 8y ago
personally, I don't care one way or the other, so I always leave them whichever was my most recently used linter/IDE's default preference & basically ignore it beyond that the spec says to ignore it either way & I thi
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by 00N8 8y ago
so, are you saying we should replace social media platforms w/ decentralized sharing & aggregation driven by smart contracts? sounds intriguing but daunting
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by 00N8 8y ago
ever since I heard Noam Chomsky describe himself as a libertarian socialist, I thought, that's the non mainstream political affiliation for me!
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by 00N8 8y ago
as a former sociology major, I'm pretty sure the judicial system still spends much of its time on cases w/ less merit than this
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by 00N8 8y ago
Also, a lot of people want to ban fracking Personally, I'm not for an outright ban, but 100% public disclosure of the fracking chemicals used should be required at the very least
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by 00N8 8y ago
conversely, it seems like unless there are dead bodies in the water, human waste would be the worst likely contaminant. or am I missing something?
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by 00N8 8y ago
we allegedly had just such a product in use in my high school swim class it was almost certainly fictional, but it still might've worked
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by 00N8 8y ago
I agree. At best the argument that you can trust "smart" people is circular: that smartness is a socially constructed measure of how "good/right/clever" everyone else finds your thinking. so in general people w
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by 00N8 8y ago
we need sprinklers that leverage machine learning to adaptively choose different fire suppressants!
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by 00N8 8y ago
I even thought it might've been about the model BMW used to make (maybe it had pioneered something by having a more programmable ECU?)
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by 00N8 8y ago
there's an easy fix. suppose Ubuntu or openSUSE Linux: run your install on an SSD of at least 128 gb. set a swapfile of at least 64 gb right on your root partition & make sure it's mounted as swap (put in /etc/fstab
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by 00N8 8y ago
see, an article about their anti human support policies might've persuaded me. this article is just Microsoft accusing them of doing a less aggressive form of what Microsoft got in trouble for doing w/ IE 20 years ago.
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by 00N8 8y ago
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro... they did. Microsoft already dropped EdgeHTML & announced they'll be using Chromium under the hood, although maybe the author didn&
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by 00N8 8y ago
I think you're exactly right here in the same vein, vertical farming stuff like this could become appealing if we can design solar panels that function in an opposite (complementary) spectrum vs. plants
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by 00N8 8y ago
idk, but I think they employ multiple tokenizing strategies, including case insensitive, case sensitive,by words, by n-grams of letters...
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by 00N8 8y ago
and Graham's number is a correct but very weak upper bound -- as usual.
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by 00N8 8y ago
It's definitely speculation, but I notice the article did fail to clearly demonstrate that it's anything different...
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by 00N8 8y ago
The burden's on Bloomberg for accusing China of implanting the devices, or it's on the tech companies accusing Bloomberg of being full of --it, though? Looks like a standoff until we hear more
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by 00N8 8y ago
This is scarier & a lot more plausible than the Bloomberg/Supermicro story I think
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by 00N8 8y ago
this is a really cool trick. I don't think steganography is the right term though, when the 'hidden' image is viewable in most browsers
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by 00N8 8y ago
'Con' comes from the phrase 'confidence scheme'. Phishing is simply the most up to date version of the confidence scheme, using modern communication tech to achieve the same end - subverting the mark's context &
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by 00N8 9y ago
if you 3rd party log in w/ your google account you can browse pages the same as the spider. quora knows the google spider is the google spider, so they've got a pretty good argument of equivalence there... plus you can still open

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