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by Jiocus 5y ago
> “I remember just having this nagging feeling and that something just wasn’t quite right about [the movie ‘Catch Me If You Can’],” Logan said. “And that was that.” A reasonable perspective to have about every dramatized based-on-a-tru
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by Jiocus 5y ago
"32-bit number representing the number of 1/100'ths of a penny ought to be enough for anybody."
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Are you telling me these people don't need Kubernetes engineering in their operations and still deliver value to their clients?
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by Jiocus 5y ago
The author touches on knowledge management , which is one of the most interesting subjects I was able to study at uni (part of CS/SS). A kind of analogy to the techne/metis is the concept of explicit and implicit knowledge. W
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by Jiocus 5y ago
This article seems to be a rehash of the paper ‘Why AI is harder than we think’[1]. [1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871.pdf - Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964819
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by Jiocus 5y ago
There really is no doubt about. Only paralleled, in excellence, by it's namesake dist ;)
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Here's the Linux tag on ServerFault: https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/linux
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Before you mint a coin, you have to mine the metal ore :)
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If lawyers are involved, they are concerned with the fact that they ship a 150mWh battery, labelled 200mWh. This barely being a lock in the first place, though
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by Jiocus 5y ago
I read the title as "new hypothesis about evolutionary theory and gene inheritance". This is why I'm not a biologist (or OOP fan). :)
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Menthol enhances nicotine delivery by altering nicotine metabolism. Menthol also interact with nicotine nACh receptors in the brain in various ways[1]. [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3720998&#x2F
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by Jiocus 5y ago
> Its literally named subtle to discourage the general developer. “It is named SubtleCrypto to reflect the fact that many of these algorithms have subtle usage requirements in order to provide the required algorithmic security guarantees
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> I daydream that an undersea civilization resented the pillaging of their entire ecosystem and attacked the mining robot in self-defense. That might be the claustrophobic plot of Underwater (2020) . Deep-sea mining operations in the Ma
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Maybe you're thinking of Kazakhstan. Important to note that citizens had to install a root certificate for this to succeed, and even Then major browser vendors took action to invalidate it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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That's right. SubtleCrypto implementations are also fast, and available on mobile browsers. SubtleCrypto has some design choices to avoid common mistakes to reduce risk of vulnerable implementations[1], and as such it's aimed at t
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> You just can't compare the two. You just did. I was responding to the claim that Telegram wasn't providing a protocol or ability for developers to author their own clients.
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Ford Transit always makes me think of, > The Metropolitan Police reported on this vehicle in 1972 via a Scotland Yard spokesman that "Ford Transits are used in 95 per cent of bank raids. With the performance of a car, and space for
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Juan Atkins as “Model 500” “The Flow”, here as an original MTV music video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZJt0XlhEoQ
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Telegram is one of the few messengers that actually enables you to use any Telegram client available, or write your own[1]. The protocol that is de facto Telegram is called MProto[2], and is publicly available. § [1]: https://tel
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by Jiocus 5y ago
First time I hear of this steal.
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You are right. Using a straw is helpful in all these cases.
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For anyone who's not already familiar with Schneier, > Bruce Schneier taught his dog to do a secure handshake https://www.schneierfacts.com/
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by Jiocus 5y ago
I think this is a misconception. It's not about the fountain vs canned or bottle soda. Carbon dioxide lowers the pH of a drink to 4.5, which is acidic. The acid pH level erodes teeth and one shouldn't brush their teeth too soon af
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Torvalds on his coding environment, > I really need to switch over to something that is actually maintained and does utf-8 properly. Probably 'nano'. Hell yes.
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There's a use-case for QR triggered augmented reality overlay. Scan the code, insert your original video back into the printed document. Practical? Maybe not without a HoloLens or Apples upcoming device.
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“Hold my beer," - mobile Google Chrome. Trying to see it from Googles point of view though. Perhaps there is a useful distinction to be made between end-user apps, and apps and functionality targeting developers. There is developer too
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No, I don't share that view. I think cryptocurrencies seem, at most, equal to conventional evasive techniques, maybe even less useful when factoring in the hoops and overhead in actually translating the funds into real world goods and
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You describe a problem that is beyond any particular technology of choice in tax evasion. These problem already exists in society, and has existed since before the advent of cryptocurrencies. Tax evasion, in the individual style you describ
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What they mean is that with Payments 2.0, Telegram can facilitate a transaction without sharing credit card details with your merchant. An underlying premise is that a user may have an established trust in Telegram and their services, perha
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by Jiocus 5y ago
+1. I remember checking out Standard Notes and their longevity mission is very positive. They seem to have a solid product, but their approach just doesn't click for me. Been using Joplin for a couple years. It's one of those few

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