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What blows my mind is how bots even care about this stuff. Back in 2009 I started my first tech startup with a friend. We crawled the net and stored the locations of and contents of online ads. Aside from the mistake that this actually cost
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I like Montreal and Toronto. I live in Toronto because I like the diversity, but I'm sure I would happily live in Montreal too. That said, it isn't fair to compare housing costs between Quebec cities and Ontario ones. Land tax is
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Would you have accepted a python solution? I typically don't do this type of stuff using raw openssl on the rare occasion I need it.
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Ahhh, I can read it that way now that you point out the other way of looking at it. Thanks for the followup and insights.
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Don't believe it jerf. It's obvious that this isn't the cutting edge that USG has to offer. Just a random department re-inventing the wheel. Disclaimer: Worked on CIA / FBI stuff two decades ago.
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> in view of modern biological and neurological knowledge How do we know that our mind is interpreting what this knowledge is in a coherent manner? The researchers themselves are already making a philosophical claim that truth is knowabl
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Real meat, with a philosophical hole right at the base of it that cannot be waived away. At some point somewhere something has to be taken by faith. Ones own mind being a coherent arbiter of logical reasoning is one that most modern people
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I've stopped being able to reliably find an animated gif and copy and paste it. One used to be able to just right click on an image and copy it. Now, I only get a still. I try clicking into the website that hosts the image and it'
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The thing is, when it comes to content this is basically the whole game. I once, after a disagreement with a friend of mine who is a designer about the difficulty of designing a non-doubly symmetric gear icon, burned around eight hours on d
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Cost of computing is not Moores Law. "Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years." Unless you're talking about Dennard scaling, which st
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Exactly. This is all an economic question that involves humans, how plentiful they're trained in different topics, the availability of different resources, security requirements (Cold War 2.0 ups security costs, for example), and many
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For some, yes. And their secondary benefit is joy. For others, no. It's joy. And their secondary benefit is learning.
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I learn a lot. The way I've learned best for me is to mimic children. Especially small children. They focus intently at seemingly incomprehensible complexity. Then they play with the small fragments they can get their hold on. "ba
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(For background, I'm a Christian.) I've learned that most of the people online that are 35 or under don't really try to get details right for work like this. It's a sort of intentional sloppiness that portrays a relaxed
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You don't get what I'm saying. I'm saying market dynamics (ie, setting the price lower when the grid needs less power) plus the inevitable AI that will game it to everyones advantage will solve this problem automatically. T
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This is simple. Musk just needs to throw 1% of his AI talent at optimizing charging times via realtime grid negotiating and nobody will need to even think about this. Cars will turn into one of our most valuable assets as they help stabali
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It's not hard to prove at all. Randomized controlled study organized over the phone so it's subject to legal protection from surveillance, unlike random FB messages. If 200 people send preselected product communique over brand new
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Theres this Orwell piece that just absolutely resonates with me. https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... My favourite bit in there is: > All the organs of his body were working –bowels digest
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It's a funny bit of musefulness, but again I disagree on terms. The subconcious layer of my mind does not merely generate plausibilities. That is part of it, yes, especially at the bounds of my senses colours will shade in that aren&#x
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Well, I don't agree with that fully either. For me, if there is a moral quandary or a highly analytical situation where the subconscious can't quite estimate it then it gets kicked up to the conscious layer for a real, expensive
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> your subconscious invents an explanation that you think is a fact. That may be the case for some people, but it isn't the typical case for me. Quite the opposite. My subconscious drives the show and after the fact if someone ask
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The problem with YAML is that meaningful whitespace means that the size grows quickly for highly nested documents. I don't love XML, but there is a reason I recommended Ox. I've used it for real projects and it never fell over lik
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Don't use this. Marshal has too many issues. If you really need persistence and can't use something like Postgres, use the Ox gem instead. It's more reliable between versions of Ruby and easier to parse from other languages i
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The reality right now is that there are coloured coins by default. We said this would happen back like at least five years ago, and now it is finally here. This is only the start and is essentially the doom of the libertarian case for the b
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Ostensibly based on what I said, yes. But in reality, he was right that untested meant partially insecure. There are real costs to tech debt. But it's hard to argue against a giant raise.
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When it works, it is awesome. But there are some caveats. Facets can break in unexpected ways and the last time you want to be dealing with this is when you're dealing with a fire in production.
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> just leads to more trouble down the road. I used to lean that way, but these days I disagree. Sometimes it's worth it to bolt as fast as you can and don't look back to meet a deadline. It's the difference between a $20
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What we really need is some sort of default arbitrator for cases like this. Support gives no answers because "reasons" too frequently for too many business critical applications and the courts are too slow to fix the problem and b
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We have perfectly fine definitions for intelligence amongst creatures that are not closely related to humans, and it mostly centres around problem solving, even when introduced to problems that the creature and its ancestors had never grapp
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I wouldn't say that is fair in that very few people can use that mode, so the net security win is minor and there exist hyperlocked down Android versions for years on the open market. A friend of mine even worked on one. This space i

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