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by Beldin 5y ago
Since your own computer will typically have the vault unlocked, you don't need a+b+c. You can suffice with a circa 2000s Sony Music cd. Or any driveby malware, or malvertisement, etc. Using the 2nd factor on another device as the first
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by Beldin 5y ago
If you're in a brainstorm session for solutions (which is what this sounds like), keeping a positive flow is way better than halting to consider a neutral or even a negative. In other words, don't ignore the atmosphere and end up
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by Beldin 5y ago
Interesting. I read the article as if it was talking about problems that needed solving. You're talking about ideas that (in the interests of the business) need shutting down. I would probably go with "that's not a good idea&
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by Beldin 5y ago
My uni offers both a one-year MSc SE, and a two-year MSc CS. For organisational reasons, the 2 yr program is basically SE+MSc Information Science. Students can pick their final subject; there is no difference in subjects between the two pr
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by Beldin 5y ago
Your rosy picture of industry is surprising to me. It could be right, and the few takes I've heard (eg. recently, google's AI ethics mess) being only one side or exceptions that prove the rule. But I have currently no reason to ex
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by Beldin 5y ago
The latter. Counter is stored persistently; power is needed only to decrease the counter (according to the article).
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by Beldin 5y ago
There certainly are aspects of academia that are overdue for improvement. However, for folks with a CS PhD degree, my guess is that moving out of academia has a high chance of you ending up contributing to surveillance capitalism. Now there
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by Beldin 5y ago
Don't forget there can be papers recognised universally as acceptable. From memory, it was 25% rejected by both PCs, 15% accepted by both PCs, and the middle 60% random.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> Reviews would become way more positive and useless. In my corner of CS, there are plenty reviews of debatable use that are very negative. In fact, I have a pet hypothesis that the average score of the lower scoring but accepted paper
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by Beldin 5y ago
Sorry, but I don't understand how forcing people to find a new job after 10-15 years ensures they're not forced out of their homeland.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> academic has to get away from the infantilism of using KPIs Well, science doesn't care that much for KPIs, per se. It's more that the managers want numbers to steer by. In academia, getting promoted means more management ta
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by Beldin 5y ago
If you have 20 independent metrics, this could work. Typically though, the metrics aren't independent as they all try to measure "doing your job well". In that case, if you gamed the "wrong" metrics, you still come
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by Beldin 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you use the word "novel"? I'll happily concede he wrote a werewolf story, but since it was never available as a book, I would not call it a novel.
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by Beldin 5y ago
> since there's some technical skill required. That's the understatement of the year. Check out - 2nd Reality: at a time when Doom-style graphics were awesome - 8088MHz: getting 1024 colours out of a CGA adapter (which is mad
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by Beldin 5y ago
> never mention their religion at work, that does not create a hostile work environment "Never mention" is a bit vague/weak. If you wouldn't be able to pick the one colleague proselytising from amongst the others, l
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by Beldin 5y ago
No. The standard web analytics tools of the late 90s basically parsed the http log. Even those will give you info equivalent to "looking through cameras". You might want GA, you might even need it, but you're absolutely not b
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Not really. One of the richest men on the planet divorced. Naturally, people are interested in backstories now. So media starts digging and finding things. Even if they're not directly related to the divorce, the divorce announcement
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by Beldin 5y ago
Actually the opposite: you would expect courts to toss out (and/or: opposition to successfully challenge) all evidence unless chain of custody is guaranteed. That's a very important part of "innocent till proven guilty".
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by Beldin 5y ago
Or GP has experience with such promises in the tech landscape, e.g. FB's promise about WhatsApp data. Or they don't believe in telemetry ever bringing value to users, only to the ones collecting it.
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Maybe in the USA. In Europe, evidence in criminal court cases needs to adhere to standards such as chain of custody. Which Cellebrite obviously fails given this research - their tool's output could be manipulated.
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by Beldin 5y ago
I think you're mixing up the Kuiper Belt with the Oort Cloud. Kuiper Belt is in the plane, and within the Oort cloud. Oort cloud is a sphere. At least, according to ESA [1]. [1] https://esahubble.org/images/opo0204
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by Beldin 5y ago
Original title says "a massive middle finger", but it seems HN has filters preventing that.
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I am not a lawyer, but i think there is a substantial difference. specifically, if you issue a takedown and they don't take every copy down, you can't sue them for that. Basically, to me it reads as if any failures of the Conten
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by Beldin 5y ago
For those like me who didn't know: a pickup is a thingy that generates a tiny electrical field around a string. This allows electronics to translate string vibrations to an audio signal. One thing missing (for me) from the article is a
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It's even simpler than that. Who wants to work on changing a UI that they themselves are comfortable with? It's work with - best case - no benefit in the eyes of the developer. Worse, you likely will break workflows - including y
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by Beldin 5y ago
> But the 20th century was full of people from poor backgrounds (includings immigrants arriving with 0 dollars) making it in e.g. arts. So much so, that the "starving artist" is a cliche. First up, the "starving artist&q
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by Beldin 5y ago
For Oscars, probably yes. For Nobel Prizes, not so necessarily. The Physics one tends to be awarded for stuff done one or more decades ago. E.g. Peter Higgs got his after retirement. Unlike the Turing award and at least some Nobel prizes,
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by Beldin 6y ago
> people think the way you learn to play an instrument is by learning to play a score. No! These things are about a different as learning to program and learning to type in a program from a magazine. In the time of home computers, befo
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by Beldin 6y ago
Having the stock market emit 325.95 kg CO2 per transaction [1] is one of the few ways I've ever heard to make the stock market significantly worse for society -- irrespective of your current feelings about it. [1] https://di
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by Beldin 6y ago
We have nuclear fusion, both from the sun and here on Earth (ITER, NIF, H-bombs). The main problems with human-started nuclear fusion are that (so far, iirc) it consumes more energy than it produces, and we cannot sustain it for a long time

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