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by JadeNB 3y ago
> If a car can receive OTA updates it can receive OTA hacks, no passenger in car required. True, but that seems like a different threat model—the title is "Can a Passenger Hack an Airplane?", so I was taking the analogue to be
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Your car has the same problem My car is much less likely to be carrying hundreds of unidentified passengers, though, and any individual passenger messing around is harder to miss.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> edit: I see lots of downvoting, but people... be realistic. The average person will only see that a rebellion could be stopped. This isn't an example which explains negative outcomes to them well. I think you underestimate the Ame
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Neither group should have the power but I am far more likely to be in danger from a nearby guy on a power trip than from the FBI. I think that that's a less obvious conclusion than one might think, even though I share your more ac
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> If the results were more akin to a google or stack overflow where there was a list of results with context.. sure. I don't think the history of the usage of either shows that most people make any use of that context.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> If we do want to make this about accessibility, anyone who has worked with screen readers knows that semantic HTML has failed on that front too. Screen readers rarely understand fancy elements. Isn't that a failure of screen reade
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks!
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> My grad school was basically working through F=Ma-Cv-Kx in all it's expanding varied glory, working up to full blown finite element analysis. If I'm understanding correctly, you want another = there for a standard damped spri
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by JadeNB 3y ago
For a course-level approach by some of the early pioneers of the pedagogical approach of using numerical methods to understand differential equations, I strongly recommend Blanchard, Devaney, and Hall's book ( http://math.bu.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> At the undergraduate/introductory level, the only important question is "what awareness do you have of the breadth of this field, and what mastery do you have over the concepts that most agree are its "most fundamental&q
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> In my engineering curriculum in some cases the teachers were openly hostile to students that had a hard time understanding the material. While there's no excuse for it, I think faculty see so much apathy on such a regular basis th
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> What you should be "delighted" by is when you find a new way to explain something that resonates with most of the class You are right, and I am! I don't think that's incompatible with also being delighted when some
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Both fields embrace a sort of masochism and active desire to keep knowledge impenetrable b/c it acts as a mechanism to feed out the dummies. The system acts an an informal IQ test - that maintains the prestige of the departments.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Why not? I’ve been using their products and services with essentially no issues for 20+ years. That's exactly my problem—for a small company that is responsive to individual users, I could build on that trust and have some confide
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I generally trust Apple. Why? I can't imagine any kind of real trust relationship except with individual developers or small shops who can be responsive to individual customers. I certainly trust Apple more than Microsoft, but I
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> … the bloody thing already knows what keyboard it has and won’t let you make a user hostile mistake at the beginning of your setup journey. Do you mean, as the rest of your post suggests, something like "it will let you make a u
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Is this "data collection" or a backup feature? Backup is data collection. The difference between it and other sorts of data collection is only in intent, and intent, even if initially good, can change—at which point the da
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> At my desktop I have a 22" pen display (a Huion kamvas, the wacom displays are pretty overpriced), my phone, tablet and laptop all support S pens, and I have a couple of older non-display pentabs too. What laptop do you recommend
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Pseudonymous user so concerned about privacy that they use the browser with by far the greatest density of exploitable flaws. "I love Lynx" is different from "I use Lynx for security-sensitive browsing," and "g
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> It’s literally self evident that a person in jail can’t commit crimes on the outside. The statement itself contains all the axioms you need, citations are not something required here. It’s like saying a dead baker reduces the amount of
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I don't know about "throwing people in jail", but putting criminals in jail certainly reduces crime rates. That's the sort of statement that seems plausible, and even intuitive, but probably needs a citation. It wo
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I actually think this is the opposite of the case, for some definition of “generic”: the more generic problem has fewer possible solutions (there is only one pure function of type x=>x) so, if you hit on the right general problem to
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> There's real skill in creating simple solutions to complex problems. Not entirely facetiously, I think that, for engineers, there's real skill in creating simple solutions to simple problems—not, for example, finding the ge
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Because the poor guy contributes so much to math and math exposition and yet has his name misspelled everywhere, I'll mention that it's Terence, not Terrance.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The quadratic equation is completing the square while inexplicably avoiding all the intuition of completing the square. For example, to solve x^2 + 6x + 5 = 0, you would re-write it as (x^2 + 6x + 9) - 4 = 0, which is (x + 3)^2 - 4 = 0 and
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I think I'd also prefer the infinitesimal version of calculus, but the idea of limits is applicable to many other areas of math, not just calculus (evaluating infinite series, for example). So learning limits is probably a better
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Amazing that he managed to struggle forward enough to collect his pay checks. A real tribute to humanity. That looks like sarcasm, and, if so, it isn't contributing anything.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> schmorgus board I know HN frowns on grammar-policing comment, and rightly so; but I thought nonetheless you might like to know (and it looks so much more formal this way anyway!) that it's "smörgåsbord" (or the diacritic
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Windows is a bobsled on a long track, built on a mountain of anti-competitive. This feels like a drop in the bucket to me. Sure, but each drop fills more of the bucket. We'll never convert Microsoft into a user-friendly company
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Google has somehow managed to maintain this image as this scrappy underdog entity and it's absolutely ridiculous the mental gymnastics some people will engage in to excuse all their anti-competitive behaviors. But nothing about th

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