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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I've not found many details about how this is actually working — there's some info on his D̴̹̭͂ë̷̗́̃̿̓̾͜ṃ̸͔͚̗̙̪̎̄̋ȏ̸̝̤̱͜n̶͇͇͙̻̩͑͑S̴̳̩̮̥͚̥̚ė̸̟̃͋͂͝e̷̪̲̪̰̣̿̀͠d̵̡̂͗ cable here [1], but apparently the O.MG cable is "a very diff
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It'll work without Javascript if you already have the image cached.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It requires javascript from a third party domain. Hah.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Said bad actors probably already have access to the source — or could get it if they wanted it.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Note that you can use tooth enamel, which freezes its carbon at time of development (instead of death). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20627335 That said, the error bars are simply too large to do anything reasonable
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Apparently it is possible to do radiocarbon dating on tooth enamel. Enamel contains 0.4% carbon and is indeed frozen at time of development. Unfortunately, we're limited to post-nuclear testing because without the atmospheric diffusio
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
How does your anecdote of dining at a hot new restaurant refute the challenges restaurants are facing with GrubHub's fees getting tacked onto typical phone-in orders?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
If you enjoyed this, you'll probably also really enjoy the video teardown of the Sony OSS 16-50mm kit lens. It's cool for two reasons — one is that it's a zoom lens, but the really awesome part is that it has an optical stab
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Looks like it's possible to do radiocarbon dating on tooth enamel. It's easiest (and most accurate) if you rely upon the byproducts of the nuclear era, but I'd guess you could also do traditional radiometric dating prior to
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
He is winning his age brackets (often 60+ or so).
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> Do you filter out the ones that don't? Of course not, that's a straw man that only you are suggesting and often isn't even possible on most systems. People by-and-large will apply all pending updates at once. Responsibl
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
You're missing the key point: the patch is disclosure to the bad guys. The P0 disclosure is the disclosure to the good guys and users. You're assuming that the bad guys are learning about the problem from P0's disclosures,
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Identity theft is an amazing PR term, not-so-subtly shifting blame onto the individual whose identity was fraudulently used. * The PII wasn't stolen from me, it was negligently exposed by services I contract with (and pay!) and others
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I'm super excited about this! For me the most exciting part is these four sentences: > The model is portable and free from low-level details. You don’t need to explicitly start and stop threads, and you don’t even need to know how
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Oh of course, thank you. I even knew that my camera has a 12 bit DAC, but somehow the way it was presented as 16 bit "literal" values made me forget that fact.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Really cool article. I'm left with just one question: Why are the 16-bit RAW values so limited in their dynamic range? Wouldn't sensor manufacturers want to have their pixels able to return values that range the whole way from 0
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Interesting. I had no idea, and would love to find any sort of copy about it on their website. How long does support last? What exactly am I buying? I must confess the interaction in TFA makes me much more reticent to do something outside
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I'm guessing this user is like myself; someone who _purchased_ 1password back when it was $40-60. Yes, I appreciate the fact that they're continuing to support things, and I am glad that they're finding a revenue model that s
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Perhaps travel across borders? Delete all data, throw an SSH key into 1Password, then once across the border, SSH to your main server to restore all data?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
... only if you have another pane with root logged in or with sudo authorized.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> produce well defined output. Perhaps “produce consistent results” would be more appropriate.
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Celebrities die 2.7183 at a time (2013)(ssp.impulsetrain.com)
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Clearly this means they've broken public-key cryptography.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
No the cluster size isn't fixed, nor is the event rate — the clusters are chosen purely based upon what an "unusually long" time between events would be. That's precisely how the rate ends up canceling itself out. Give
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I agree, this is a bigger and really dense cluster, but remember that e is just the average (mean) cluster size. There will be clusters bigger than it. My point is simply that our intuition of randomness biases us to see meaning in cluster
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
You know the old adage that celebrities die in threes? It's actually mathematically supported... or, well, it's supported that they die in 2.718s. Same principle would apply to cloud service outages if all the services and their
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It's not a big thing, and obviously it's a matter of taste, but I find it improves readability slightly. It's most notable if I'm doing work based on literature with standard notations (e.g., α₀ instead of alpha_0), but
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It's just a simple tab completion in the REPL and usual editors, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346931
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Good grief man. I literally just grepped through my installed packages for '₁', looked for a relatively interesting line with lots of unicode, saw "haversine" and realized it was a simple formula others would understand
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Folks who want to work with my program are going to know Julia. These tab completions aren't limited to editors/IDEs, they also work at the REPL. Just copy-paste the character you didn't know into Julia's help prompt:

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