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by KMnO4 6y ago
Almost all discussion on this topic suggests a minimum amount of work to qualify.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
They did preface the post by saying they’re an engineer . Most likely that wasn’t their decision.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Asking what framework to use is like asking what kind of haircut to get. It depends on what you want it to look like.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I think the reaction is distrust that the manufacturers will play nice. If it costs them $20/phone average to warranty them for another 12 months, they may charge $50 more per sale. A similar thing happened in Canada. A few years ago,
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by KMnO4 6y ago
That’s neat; hadn’t seen that paper. Thanks for sharing.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Apple can and will do that. See Fortnite: https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/fortnite-c75/battle-roy...
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I don’t think it’s “pay $0.99 to remove ads” that’s the problem. It’s more about “Share your contacts for 500 gems” or “enable location tracking and we’ll give you access to all these cool filters”. N.B. Snapchat recently stopped doing this
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Adversarial attacks rely on a specific model’s gradient (since you’re essentially trying to find the most sensitive pixels). Adversarial noise that affects model A won’t necessarily work on model B. That said, most people transfer train fro
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I thought that too but running a random repository through that same tool isn’t any different.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
The “key logger” is the search autocomplete powered by Swiftype.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
For reference, there are 2.5 types of star trackers (called mounts): - Equatorial: follows star in one direction. Works best on lower stars since the move E-to-W mostly. Cheapest models start at $200 USD (MSM) - Altazimuth (azimuth+altitude
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Many years ago I read an article where someone used a regular DSLR and a barn door tracker to detect exoplanets (ie planets that orbit a different star). This is what got me into astrophotography. https://spectrum.ieee.org/g
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by KMnO4 6y ago
IIRC it was mostly to reduce overall expenditure on aerodynamics. Before FIA restricted resources, teams would use wind tunnels 24/7, up to 70 days per year. This was crazy expensive so the restrictions were implemented (and they happe
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by KMnO4 6y ago
String interpolation. It can be used for good but it’s possible to exploit if the user picks the string. Many languages have exactly the same feature: Python: f”Price: {get_price()}” JavaScript: `Price: ${get_price()}` Notice how both Pytho
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I think that’s because 99% of regular computer tasks don’t need 24 cores operating at 5 billion cycles per second. The differences between an i7-4xxx and i7-11xxx are more about hardware acceleration, eg HEVC and SIMD. That’s why they look
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Advertising isn’t black/white. I want to see ads telling me there’s a local farm selling produce a few minutes from my house. Or that the new Marvel movie is coming out in a couple months. These things bring value to my life. How else
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by KMnO4 6y ago
It’s two sides of the same coin. Both consuming substances and soliciting your body are choices that affect your own body. Selling drugs / buying sex are transactions at the expense of someone else’s body.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I don’t think he made paint. It’s from https://jspaint.app/
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Well, digits; a thumb is not technically a finger:)
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by KMnO4 6y ago
> that the added cost of the supercapacitor Anything made in the millions of units per year is value engineered to death. Even if the cost is only $0.10 more that will really add up. I’m not sure the cost is offset when the repairs are o
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Cool, although I was really hoping this would be client side. It should be possible to do something like this entirely in JS, right?
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by KMnO4 6y ago
The process is fairly simple. 1. Take illegal number 2. GZip it, or at least store it in a format that discards trailing null bytes. 3. Multiply it by a power of 256 Every power of 256 adds a zero to the end, in the same way that multiplyin
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by KMnO4 6y ago
It’s worse than that, insurance companies can be both sexist and racist with no consequence. A friend of mine moved and was quoted a much higher rate for their homeowners insurance, to which the agent replied “rates are higher in predominan
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I’m sure the algorithm isn’t checking “if (person.sex == male) { show_car_jobs(); }”, But rather “if (person.likes_cars) { show_car_jobs(); }”.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I’m having trouble telling if this is satire, but I think it’s not. The arguments are fairly weak, notably: 1. Using a static site generator, you have to keep track of the source code and the build (which the author suggests is more “source
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Thanks for saying this. Seems like most people have a misunderstanding of where the data came from. To clarify: in 2019 you could enter a phone number into Facebook search and it would show you whichever profile was associated with the numb
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by KMnO4 6y ago
I downloaded the list.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Strangely written article. Everything you need to know is in the first sentence, which just gets repeated half a dozen times using different words.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
A safer way: just download the dump for yourself and Ctrl-F your number. An even safer way : Look at your phone log. If you haven’t received 25 spam calls in the past week, your number probably isn’t in the list.
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by KMnO4 6y ago
Hm, I already know phone number is leaked, but searching for it (XXXxxxXXXX) doesn’t work. Once I prepended Canada’s country code: (1XXXxxxXXXX) it worked. Maybe this can be fixed with some simple communication? Ie “No result —- ensure you

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