Kenji

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by Kenji 10y ago
I read "Simple Python interface to NSA datasets" That would have been... alarming.
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by Kenji 10y ago
As an engineer, you are in the comfortable situation that if your job is automated, pretty much the entire humanity can stop working because your job is among the last to get automated.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Writing a Java compiler (not the full language, but a large subset including inheritance and polymorphism), writing a C++ game engine. So much work involved. Very complex problems, needs a lot of theory but also practical knowledge. Needs g
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by Kenji 10y ago
I just look at my Romanian friends. Basically they have 10x more internet speed at 10x less price, just so, despite living in a much poorer country. The reason: It's basically wild west and the state hasn't yet regulated ISPs to d
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by Kenji 10y ago
Yes. The number of things ISPs have to do is already ridiculous. I.e. data retention, etc. None of this has any benefit for the customers, and it is why growth is hampered.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Show me a program that someone used in production that became unstable because of this bug, and I will give you the answer to your question ;)
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by Kenji 10y ago
Freedom as another word for 'regulating to death'. I feel so free in modern society, as the body of law grows day by day, already being a completely incomprehensible mess that no human (or company) can abide by. EDIT: Also, before
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by Kenji 10y ago
>How to Avoid Going to Jail Under 18 U.S.C. For Lying to Government Agents Step 1: Belong to the political elite.
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by Kenji 10y ago
>No one reports on "huh fight on terrorism you say, can we shine some light on this claim? How useful has Twitter been to home security...". Why isn't that the story? Because it's mainstream press. It engineers the ve
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by Kenji 10y ago
You're like the angry little kid who runs to the teacher when other kids have fun doing forbidden but perfectly reasonable things that harm nobody.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich
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by Kenji 10y ago
>I had this warm, organic tube amp combined with a cold, digital setup. What do you mean with warm and cold? You can use a digital equaliser and other plugins to make your digital setup sound however you want.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Rock solid 60fps, works out of the box on Chrome. I am impressed. EDIT: To swim forward under water, press space! EDIT2: Somehow, there's a bug with climbing out of the water, making her climb up on the edge, then places her like half
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by Kenji 10y ago
It's much worse on Xbox One. You have to change your country to something like the USA to be able to even SELECT English (the option doesn't exist for non-English speaking countries). And if you do that you can no longer pay becau
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by Kenji 10y ago
A colleague of mine has two master's degrees from a prestigious university, one of them is physics, and he buys bass guitar cables for 120$ and more because he believes he hears a difference between those and those that cost, say, 30$.
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by Kenji 10y ago
>but anything homebrew/self-hosted (to avoid tracking) is usually not going to protect high-value targets. Is it really realistic to expect advanced attacks on CAPTCHAs with visual recognition or Mechanical Turk? I think you'
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by Kenji 10y ago
Even if you put a CAPTCHA in there?
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by Kenji 10y ago
Dumb question: Why don't people just slap a little PHP + MySQL comment section (or similar) onto their site? It takes little skill to do that and has the benefit that you control everything because all requests go to you and you can ma
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by Kenji 10y ago
You probably missed the back then just before the part you quoted. So, the all major browsers is modified by the indication of time I had given two words before it. I feel like two pedants meeting each other is like an unstoppable force
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by Kenji 10y ago
I didn't say Chrome existed back then, you pedant.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I love how everywhere on the internet, the Edge DOM upgrade is portrayed as something great and novel when really it's computer science 101, making a proper tree structure - something that should have been done at least a decade ago, a
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by Kenji 10y ago
The header code generated contains typedef int bool; I am not sure if I want that in my header.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Trust me, the Xbox accounts aren't much better. It is painful. I generally avoid Microsoft accounts like the plague.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Thank you, I know all of that. I like native though. So, both VM and HTML5+JS are things I try to avoid for convenience messaging tools I use many times every day.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I wish I could freeze the program Thunderbird in time to keep it precisely how it is right now for the next couple of decades. I literally want not change. I know, I know. It's a pipe dream, the surrounding environment changes, breakin
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by Kenji 10y ago
The internet got popular. What that means: Government snooping, DMCA, lots of non-nerds and idiots on the internet, websites that lock content down regionally, bloated garbage websites. There was lots of untapped potential back then which m
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by Kenji 10y ago
>However the psychiatric/pharmaceutical establishment still assumes biological causes even though they have no real proof. Yes. I always hear "Chemical imbalance" thrown around but nobody can say which chemicals and how to
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by Kenji 10y ago
This is a very important article, I wish I could upvote it more. The dangers of taking such psychoactive substances regularly, in combination, at such a young age with a developing brain, are not to be underestimated! Parents need to be bet
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by Kenji 10y ago
>Remember that the most economical tool for the job is often not the coolest or trendiest - but is some old boring workhorse that other engineers will scoff at. When I read this, a voice in my head yelled PHP.
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by Kenji 10y ago
If it's futile now, just wait until they grow even stronger. It's now or never.

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