Kenji

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by Kenji 9y ago
How ready we are to sacrifice many of our freedoms and conveniences to * prevent 200 deaths - especially considering how mindlessly we accept risks that are multiple orders of magnitude higher, like driving cars. It is fascinating. *try to
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by Kenji 9y ago
>Don't want to get diverted into politics I don't think this has much to do with politics. If you're right, left or center, libertarian or authoritarian, doesn't matter, it's basic morality that this unwarranted
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by Kenji 9y ago
>Hannah Spencer isn’t the kind of mom who leaves anything to chance. So already we start off with a control freak who tries to defy the (random) nature of reality. >rentice arrived at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, three days before registratio
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by Kenji 9y ago
Don't kid yourself. Nobody will be punished for this. Well, maybe some little people who were instructed to do the deed.
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by Kenji 9y ago
There are actually ways in which science can come up with the wrong answer - for example if we lived much later, the universe would be expanding so rapidly that we could not see the stars around us - the night sky would be dark. We would wr
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by Kenji 9y ago
I am kinda surprised that Microsoft doesn't use tfs - after all, it's their own version control system. But then again, we use tfs at work and not a day goes by on which I do not long for git.
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by Kenji 9y ago
As someone who works with lasers on a daily basis - this is my nightmare. Luckily they're almost always overlaid with visible light (except during some special production steps), making things much safer.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Your comment contains a lot of appeals to emotion and very few facts, if any at all (for example, the claim that the "vast majority" of rape accusations is true definitely needs a source). This is the hallmark of someone who goes
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by Kenji 9y ago
Funny thing is, I am a developer myself. I just can't be bothered with a machine that auto-reboots all the time. I have no valuable data on that laptop, frankly, I'd rather have a virus every other year than deal with a machine th
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by Kenji 9y ago
That's also how I understood it. Your NAT usually blocks incoming connections by default - it does not know which computer in the network behind it was meant to be the receiver anyway. If you direct your NAT to send all incoming connec
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by Kenji 9y ago
I stopped all Windows updates on my laptop because I use it mainly before going to bed to watch some videos and read a bit, and the constant updates and forced reboots (forced as in, it just CLOSES EVERYTHING and shuts down) are an incredib
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by Kenji 9y ago
For weeks Stacey tried to keep Marie’s story a secret. “When you’re in high school, it’s, like, so important not to betray your best friends,” Stacey later told me. But tormented by guilt and bothered by the idea that Marie might be a far
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by Kenji 9y ago
I'm not gonna lie, I think most Android games are very bad and give 1 hour of enjoyment at the most. Gaming on a touch screen is some of the worst UX you can have imho.
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by Kenji 9y ago
I didn't leave yet. I think Windows is fine. Runs pretty stable. In the last decade, I had like 2 bluescreens on windows, and one was caused by accidentally bumping really hard into my PC, causing a kernel panic because of a voltage dr
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by Kenji 9y ago
I hate the fact how Windows S is shaping up to be a completely walled garden. Not even CMD and Powershell?? I hope they still spend enough time on actual versions of Windows which are used by power users.
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by Kenji 9y ago
>I basically rage-quitted PHP years ago, after repeatedly inheriting a series of Wordpress wrecks. Every language can be abused - the degree to which it can be abused is an indicator of its power.
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by Kenji 9y ago
>Their tlb shootdown is not only synchronous, but it only shoots one page at a time, synchronously. QNX6.6 introduced this too (as a fix for a race condition that existed in QNX6.5 and lower) and it was a huge pain to get actual realtime
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by Kenji 9y ago
I hope you get good compensation for this. I'd feel a constant low-key stress and couldn't switch off if I was in your shoes. For such requirements from my employer, I'd demand 50-100% more money than I make now.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Isn't it curious that folks like kim dotcom who do not hold hospitals or anyone to ransom earn global notoriety, are raided by swat teams and face the full face of the law while those that hold hospitals to ransom can operate with imp
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by Kenji 9y ago
Use a packet manager like apt to download and install your software. I think there are also packet managers for Mac OS and Windows.
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by Kenji 9y ago
>As sort of a sidenote: websites about UX seem to have the worst UX. That reminds me of my numerical methods professor who gave talks on how to present things - and his lecture was literally the worst at the entire uni and this is not ju
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by Kenji 9y ago
>The emails “spoofed” the DocuSign brand in an attempt to trick recipients into opening an attached Word document that, when clicked, installs malicious software. I love how nothing changed about this malware payload delivery in about 2
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by Kenji 9y ago
Why continue going to bed too late every night? Why continue to eat unhealthy food? Why continue to work out too little? Why continue taking drugs? Why doesn't everyone just live a perfect life? It's not easy to give up things and
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by Kenji 9y ago
This is trivially solved with an ad blocker. Frankly, I do not see the problem. Why should you rely on Google/Paint.NET/state legislation when the solution is literally a few button clicks away on both chrome and firefox? All brow
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by Kenji 9y ago
What you are doing is essentially using your computer as a memex (as described in "as we may think"), like it is intended.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Even though the sampling loses information about the wave; from the sampled data, your computer’s digital-to-analog converter can perfectly reconstruct the portion of the sound that contains all the frequencies up to half of the sampling f
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by Kenji 9y ago
I think the author neglects one point: Deciding what to keep and what to throw away is a really difficult problem. Why is that so? Because to do it 100% correctly, you would have to know the future . Because only then you can know for ce
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by Kenji 9y ago
My initial reaction was like "Oh, like white noise!" I could not have been more wrong. There is very clear structure in Perlin Noise. Great write-up and I learned something.
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by Kenji 9y ago
Well, those in the UK should fight for their livelihood. Educating people, organizing a movement, blacking out their own websites with a message, etc.
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by Kenji 9y ago
I would refuse to develop or deploy software in any country that mandates such backdoors.

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