FabHK

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   by FabHK 2y ago

   The choice was between "we will upload your pictures unencrypted and do with them as we like, including scan them for CSAM" vs. "we will upload your pictures encrypted and keep them encrypted, but will make sure beforehand on
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   I'm still fascinated by a website linked on HN some time ago that was written in MarkDown, but then not translated to HTML and served, but sent as MarkDown along with a JavaScript renderer that would then translate and render it on the
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   Do we have anomalies accumulating here that indicate the early phase of a scientific revolution in Thomas Kuhn's terminology, that is, a replacement of the standard model/QCD? Or is it still "so far, so good"?
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   I was in Singapore in 2013 and there was a big sign on a street saying: Crime Alert THEFT OF BICYCLE AT THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD ON 20 MARCH 2013 @ 7 AM Witnesses, please call Tanglin Police Division (phone number redacted)
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   One thing I enjoyed when I drove through Incheon and Seoul, Korea, recently was that there were basically no ads/billboards outside.
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   The reasoning is very simple: You want criminals (no matter what crime) not to be able to enjoy the fruits of their "labour". That strikes me as eminently reasonable.
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   I've seen a paper (probably by Bostrom) deducing normative statements ("oughts") from the simulation hypothesis (purely descriptive, "is"). Namely: the grad students running these simulations are more likely to swit
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   > of those 3 companies Tesla seems to be taking it the most seriously. You call lying about it endlessly, misleading marketing, beta-testing on public roads, and not even having L3 properly in production "taking it the most seriousl
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   by FabHK 2y ago

   With the same operator, the rule is not called precedence, but associativity (left or right; consider 2^3^4 where it matters), but you still need a rule - unless you use parentheses, which you said you always do.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    > It’s all unfalsifiable. That might make it unscientific (in Popper's philosophy), but not impossible or implausible.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    The point is not that it's likely (or practically possible) that such a brain would come into being spontaneously. The point is that it is (mathematically) still more likely than some other theories about the formation of the universe
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    That's basically "infinite" DeMorgan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan's_laws#Extension_to_...
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    You don't write 1+2+3, but (1+2)+3?
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    SPOILER The statement translates to: ∀x ( IsAHatOfMine(x) => Green(x)) That's just equivalent to ∀x (~IsAHatOfMine(x) ∨ Green(x)) by the definition of implication (it's only false if the antecedent is true, a
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    One minute on Wikipedia would have disabused you of that wrong notion: > If the joining of the words or signs is orthographically represented with a hyphen, the result is a hyphenated compound (e.g., must-have, hunter-gatherer). If they
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    # returns the result
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    I think it might be flash memory (i.e. non-volatile, unlike RAM), but this must be so obvious to readers of this publication that it's never said explicitly.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    With coding problems in Julia, nice!
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    The market is liquid enough for 50 BTC. KYC kicks in at the withdrawal stage, not the exchange stage.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    In case you're serious: - open an account at a reputable exchange that supports fiat transfers to your jurisdiction and go through KYC (this can take a while). - transfer a small part to your BTC wallet at said reputable exchange and e
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    It's never been easier to "invest" in Bitcoin thanks to the ETFs which have been greenlight by the SEC since early this year. FTFY.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    Well, yes, fiat is extraordinarily useful, and used, including for crime. However, there are many rules and mechanisms in place to stop fiat being used for crime (KYC, AML, CTF, ...). So, it is better suited to legitimate transactions, and
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    afconvert is the only way I've managed to turn mp3s into something that Books would accept as an audiobook. afconvert -v -s 3 -f m4bf ....mp3
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    Similarly, I've had trouble getting audio files into a format that the Books app understands (for ebooks), until I found afconvert -v -s 3 -f m4bf filename.mp3
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    And sometimes handy: shift+cmd+. to toggle showing hidden (dot) files in Finder.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    At least for me (I've installed vlc via homebrew), there is a vlc binary in the PATH, and I can just vlc <filename>
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    And the latter has (at least in IT, where you had Moore's law) generally won out fairly quickly.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    On a refurb M2 MBA, as good as new. No probs with refurb iPad either.
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    I’d think that importing and using for example an aviation band transceiver is regulated in most countries, and prohibited unless both the device and the user fulfil certain requirements. As such, prohibiting the ownership and use of a devi
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    by FabHK 2y ago

    Possibly the author meant "horizontally".