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by BoppreH 13y ago
I was under the impression "placebo" includes the effects of: - the extra exercise of going to the medical center - better behavior under monitoring - talking to the test administrators (important for e.g. depression) - better org
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The Codeless Code (Programming Koans)(thecodelesscode.com)
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by BoppreH 13y ago
It was the same user asking the same question, and the English version may or may not be machine translated. It feels spammy, specially since the English version isn't up to par. I'm not sure this is what they had in mind with tha
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Unintended consequence #1: duplicated questions. http://pt.stackoverflow.com/questions/4021/numero-de-vezes-q... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21550842/amazon-cloudsear... Corollary
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by BoppreH 13y ago
For comparison, the Onion 9/11 cover: http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thecutline/onion-911.jpg
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Thanks. English is not my first language, and the dictionary is telling me "disinterested" can mean "having or feeling no interest in something". Am I wrong? And by lack of interest, I mean for example the picture on the
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by BoppreH 13y ago
The article makes it sounds like it's a secret and she's disinterested. The selected quotes make her look like she's underestimating the challenge. But then you listen to the linked excerpt of interview: - "I'm
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by BoppreH 13y ago
I don't buy fish and don't own a car. Edit: not that this is the extent of my actions, or even that I agree with this line of questioning.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
There was an "What If"[0] on xkcd about the ocean and ships' weight. The question itself was innocuous, but inside a parenthesis was this sentence: (Marine fish biomass dropped by 80% over the last century, which—taking
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by BoppreH 13y ago
A few months ago I made a 4D puzzle console game in Python: https://github.com/boppreh/anakata It's an amazing experience to think of visualizations. I ended up with a grid of grids, like you see in the readme. Ea
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by BoppreH 13y ago
I intend to purchase one of these VR sets as soon as possible, but I'll take extreme care to which games play on them. Either real life habits come to games and mindless killing FPS becomes less popular, or game habits come to real lif
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Funny, I'm sure I google'd a few of them and got a perfect match, but now I can't find any more. Probably my fault, sorry.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Suggestion: filter the titles that are identical to real ones. Or maybe it was part of the plan, demonstrating how they are indistinguishable. My deadly disease was just a website. IBM's "Watson" finally ready for
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by BoppreH 13y ago
I find it an excellent idea, and the ad-blocking is the cherry on top: Can I use ad-blocking software with Safeplug? Safeplug has ad-blocking software built-in out of the box. My only worry is that people may keep it off most of
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by BoppreH 13y ago
The http://www.keylength.com website mentions various standards suggesting key lengths. For example, from ECRYPT II Recommendations (2012) there's a mention of 2432 bit giving reasonable protection up to the year 2030. Ther
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by BoppreH 13y ago
8192 bit RSA key is one or two notches above overkill. 2048 is expected to last many more decades, and I haven't seen 4096 outside tin-foil hat environments. I know our national root certification authority uses 4096, for example. I pr
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Some contests count _tokens_ instead of chars. It fixes the problem nicely, but it doesn't have that charm of a block of magical code that fits on the back of a card.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Satoshi mined bitcoins alone for a long time, back when it was easiest. If they did not lose those original coins, they are stupidly rich. When you hit a jackpot like this, remaining silent and denying everything is one of the most sensible
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by BoppreH 13y ago
We need a new one for security measures, they are bound to become more popular because of NSA.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Unless I misunderstood, they know which keys belongs to which houses. They successfully factored those keys, and unless they threw the metadata away they still know the domain that is using that key. And if they did throw the metadata awa
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by BoppreH 13y ago
I couldn't believe it would work, so I made a toy implementation in Python using simple operator overloading: https://github.com/boppreh/derivative All values tried so far agree with Wolfram Alpha, so color me sur
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by BoppreH 13y ago
There's a short article from Dijkstra on this reasoning: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF He enumerates the four possible ways one could use, and goes on the pros and cos of each.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Reminds me of Charles Stross "Accelerando", where autonomous corporations take over the world and humans are driven away from it because we can't understand Economics 2.0.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Imagine an enemy soldier facing you. The weapon they are holding has a small profile compared to the person holding it, and they are directly behind the gun. I can see a few challenges on this: 1) Hitting the gun and not the person. (duh) 2
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by BoppreH 13y ago
That is an interesting concern. Any passerby can grab the drone while it's landing, and there's no way to know who did it. Constant camera feeds would help but you can still hide your face.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Their Acrylic plate upsell is using a pretty dark pattern. It's labeled "Uncheck this box if you DO NOT require a set of Acrylic Number Plates" and comes pre-checked.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
You can now see the total playlist time and the startup time seems to have been almost eliminated. It's great to see significant improvements to the software you use everyday.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
This doesn't lessen the severity of the issue. And we can only avoid the ones we know about, so until further evidence appears the USA gets the spotlight.
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Published on the Journal of Cosmology: http://journalofcosmology.com/ Wikipedia lists no less than 6 references questioning the credibility of this journal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosm
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by BoppreH 13y ago
Skipjack was designed using building blocks and techniques that date back more than forty years. I think it's safe to assume they have much stronger stuff now.

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