AndrewOMartin

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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Itch.io was taken down recently be an over-zealous AI-based service to detect trademark infringement and notify the authority, I wonder if this is a similar case. It'd be nice to know if someone in TFL actually requested this, or if it
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
It'd be great if it could describe the performance of code in detail, but for now just adding a skill to detect if a bit of code has any infinite loops would be a quick and easy hack to be going on with.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
> Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger! > The venomous monster is drawing upon me > And I can’t escape him. > How near is his bite, > With teeth sharp and white! &g
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
I think it was this: https://www.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/comments/tam0yi...
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
I've no idea who this is, but Soft White Underbelly's interview with the hacker Gummo are really interesting, so I'm intrigued to say the least.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
I think I walked past this in a European capital city, could that have been your doorbell (city not specified for obvious reasons)? Or are other people already using this?
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Holy f---ing s--t! Did you just reboot your web server through an SSH pipe with your cellphone?!?
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
This article mentions that the speed of light seems fast to humans living daily lives, but is not so fast on an astronomical scale. The best demonstration of this I've ever seen is on "If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously a
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Good coverage of this for those in the UK (or otherwise have access to BBC Sounds) in Things Fell Apart S2. Ep 1: The Most Mysterious Deaths. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001v3dw Actually more interesting to
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
It can be refused, but you can't sue someone for non payment if they've offered to settle the debt with the right amount of legal tender. Pendantic, i know, but that's this whole thread. :)
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
This initially looks like a light weight alternative to Feedly (which was the most popular alternative to Google Reader), with the option of self hosting if need be. If so, I'm keen to get involved. Has anyone any experience with this?
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
This is a nice comment and speaks to the notion that every medium has its own characteristic feel even is not "better" by some metric (e.g. vinyl vs CDs, vs cassettes, vs live radio, vs mp3, etc.). A similar feeling of immediacy w
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Turing's life and work was a big part of my research and I was involved with a number of academic Turing memorial events, I've had dinner with his closest living relative. I'm well aware of all the inaccuracies. I was given 1
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Their argument for not watching 99% of their output is even stronger. Most of that tripe is overpriced even when pirated. I'm sure that know that global free distribution is doing them some good else this crack down on it even harder.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Did you guess a word which was already excluded? Maybe the arrangement of words assumed only "valid" guesses
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
If you want, coin the name. The fact is that the probability of any topic being mentioned in a discussion approaches one as the length of the discussion approaches infinity. It should have been called Godwin's Tautology. :)
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Mine is the line, "You found a shell on the beach?"
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Thanks, this comment, and comment 40986327 from afiori cracked it for me.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
There sounds like a decent amount of insight here, but it's a little vague for me. Could you give a bit more detail, possibly a worked example?
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Yes
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
If you're wondering whether to get involved in this game, and you've ever suspected you're a little vulnerable to getting addicted, then I'd suggest keeping a very cautious exclusion zone around Factorio. Alternatively,
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Could have been a typo.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Here's how I understand it, to make a VR app which can display one or more of your physical monitors you "just" need to make an app that's a fancy upgrade to VNC, nothing trivial but you'll be building on some fairl
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Yeah, that is more or less what the police said. > "We take a zero tolerance to bladed articles in public, and Bray has fallen afoul of this," said Sergeant Spellman of the police's Patrol Investigations Unit, "It is
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
You can carry a knife with a blade up to 3" as long as it's non-locking (i.e. flips open and closed like a Swiss army knife and you don't need to hold a button to close it). You can also carry much more dangerous stuff like a
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
I saw this one a while ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgFG7PUHfo - The Remarkable Story Behind The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time In summary, FFT is just a "dynamic programming" version of Fourier Tra
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Salads can be really good in Paris! :D Martin might just be imagining a slice of tomato on a leaf of lettuce, Froome and Thomas might have been imagining a range of herbs and roasted nuts with a delicious oil or vinaigrette, chunks of an in
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
I also find that spending money on something of your choice makes you feel a bit more like a decent human than being charitably gifted something of your choice, even if you were gifted the money.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
For me, the wildest fact about the City of London (the small, walled part), is that when the Romans left, some buildings were smashed up, but the roads and walls remained, and then the whole area was abandoned... for 470 years.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Thanks for the response, this and the rest of the comments here helped it finally click for me. I'm "recreationally" familiar with ZKPs, and always found the example of "video recording of alibaba" the most disappoi

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