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Lanzaa
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10y ago
The quality of game renderings will lag behind movie renderings for a long time. At 60fps there is about 16.7ms available to render each frame. For a movie[1]: > There's a principle I call The Law of Constancy of Pain. Back when we
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> it could give people gigabit level access, 20 to 30ms latency, everywhere on Earth From: http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/spacex-seattle-2015-2015-... Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex&#x
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10y ago
You seem unable explain why she requires a diamond ring, which makes it very unlikely you would be able to change her mind. Engagement/wedding rings are status symbols. Most women feel this more strongly than men. When first engaged mo
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10y ago
If you spent much time looking at regexs you might enjoy this set of articles about improving regex engine performance: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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10y ago
The find utility is probably smarter than the other methods. I know two things to watch out for: sorting the directory entries and calling stat on each entry. You might like to read the rationale section of PEP 471: https://www.p
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10y ago
This looks like a very similar problem to the one dropbox wrote about in "Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning": https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc... https:&
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10y ago
This is exactly the link I was going to post. I think it does a great job showing that accuracy is not always the most appropriate metric for a model.
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10y ago
My bet is that Gavin was payed for his statement.
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11y ago
I think the issue is how quickly they identify the whales location. It seems like they have been able to track the movement fairly well. I imagine it takes a while to get a ship out to the identified location of the sound's origin, by
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11y ago
Part of the reason is that humans are not run on batteries. Humans are more similar to fuel cells in that we consume oxygen to produce energy. We inhale oxygen, combine it with our energy stores and exhale 80% of the mass[2]. An average Ame
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11y ago
Orthogonal sparse bigrams (OSBs) have been implemented in CRM114 since the publication of that paper.
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11y ago
I think most proof-verifiable languages are too limited to prove many types of security correctness valuable to tor users. For example, side channel attacks. A classic attack on computerized cryptography. I don't know of any proof lang
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11y ago
I thought the article was good. It started with a basic premise, "Should we ditch Python and other languages in favor of Julia for technical computing?" Then the article shows several methods for speeding up python code to be fast
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11y ago
Very impressive. I'm sure people here would love to hear more about the challenges you faced and what kind of things were surprisingly easy to get working. It looks like you followed the basic design of a Van de Graaf generator, so I i
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12y ago
One key thing that stood out to me was this: > [GCHQ operatives] noted that the use of PGP could mean the contents were potentially valuable. This good reminder that encrypting everything is important for security. Only encrypting valuab
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12y ago
It sucks that so many servers are still vulnerable to the shellshock issue. I am impressed with OVH's openness in regards to reporting this issue. I am amused and impressed by their final comment/conclusion; "Obviously it is
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12y ago
Shock therapy had some interesting results in regards to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy
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12y ago
I believe the network had become a bottleneck. As per the article: > [O]ur Spark cluster was able to sustain ... 1.1 GB/s/node network activity during the reduce phase, saturating the 10Gbps link available on these machines. If
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13y ago
One basic difference between Count-Min Sketches and HyperLogLog is that Count-Min Sketches represent the cardinality of items in multisets while HyperLogLog represent the cardinality of sets. For example, Put 3 of the item 'A' (wh
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13y ago
How are you determining which domain names are available? Also, you may want to add some sort of contact feature for people to leave suggestions.
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13y ago
This is a very interesting way of solving the key distribution problem. It forces attackers to capture both the digital part of the key and the physical.
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14y ago
How do you encrypt data stored on your severs? Also, the gli.ph https certificate will expire in less than two weeks. You may want to renew.
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14y ago
>> We encrypt data with 256-bit SSL in transit and AES-256 encryption before it hits disk. > For us crypto-ignoramuses, what's wrong with what you quoted? First off, it is very easy to get cryptography wrong. I wouldn't trust mo
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14y ago
I don't think leaving and tweeting about how you feel is a very useful response. It could lead to a form of evaporative cooling[1] and cause the behavior of the group to worsen. It may be better to put pressure on the group to change. Find
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15y ago
Verification is vital to security. In your example having a self signed certificate would be worthless. If someone is performing a Man In The Middle attack on your users then they can also sign their own certificate while impersonating your
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16y ago
I like this idea, but it would need some tweaking before being used. If voting on a comment gives karma to the commentator and it takes karma to vote, then people would need to comment to vote. I think this type of zero sum game would incre
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16y ago
I believe adding additional barriers would be bad. I currently do not comment very often. I feel that my comments would add little to the discussion, but by being allowed to upvote good stories and comments I feel like a part of the communi
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16y ago
I believe there are commercial vendors supporting FreeBSD out there. Here is one that I have heard of: http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdsupport I'm sorry I don't have any experience with them, but you might be able to try them out.
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16y ago
As a college student I have noticed many of my peers have to make the choice between a desktop and a laptop. The laptops often win because of their ability to be carried to classes and to collaborate with peers. Having a whiteboard to colla