Nadya

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by Nadya 9y ago
The quote is of Hal Abelson and one of his lectures at MIT disagrees with you [1]. The introduction is amusing and opens with Computer Science has nothing to do with Computers and little to do with Science. It's really a poorly named f
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by Nadya 9y ago
I'm more surprised that one of my old, known-to-be-insecure passwords is listed as "false". 6.5B passwords and it doesn't include the Exploit.In list (of nearly 600 million)? Quite surprising. You may have been part of a
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by Nadya 9y ago
I worked on-site and became a Very Valuable Individual. I then told my manager that I'm moving out of the country and would love the opportunity to continue my work remotely. In other words, I controlled more bargaining chips. I feel t
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by Nadya 9y ago
From what I can tell, they use it for everyone . [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785977 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665518 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by Nadya 9y ago
> Why didn't you just write it correctly in the first place? For the same reason Bluray replaced DVD replaced VHS. "The better solution didn't even exist at the time" (new browser features) often coupled with the eq
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It would still be an appeal to authority. However an appeal to authority, while sometimes fallacious, is not always fallacious. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority#Valid_...
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>but in the absence of that I'm going to interpret your silence as an admission that actually you're not as informed on the subject of discrimination as you initially argued. HN just ate my post I spent the last hour on. So i
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by Nadya 9y ago
Sorry for the late reply, but it seems you misunderstood what I meant about Dunning-Kruger in that it has to do with ability or perhaps knowledge in a defined field but not in something like a subjective experience . It'd be confirm
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by Nadya 9y ago
That's how I was already thinking of it as. eg. mutual friend throws a party, two people meet at the party Still an uncommon thing among the people I know and with that statistic I would think it should be much higher. I just thought
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by Nadya 9y ago
Thanks for going through the effort of finding some of those other numbers for me, puts a proper frame around the picture. I'm also sure "online" will likely continue growing. A bit of a tangent, but I'm a tad amazed &qu
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by Nadya 9y ago
Without knowing other numbers, and for being at a specific place , one out of ten couples is huge if you consider "at work" is an insignificant fraction compared to "the rest of the entire world". In comparison, how man
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by Nadya 9y ago
I can agree insofar as that. Although I don't think Dunning-Kruger applies, I do understand what you're trying to convey. But I don't feel it is a strong argument. You would have to show that the individual is not "wel
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by Nadya 9y ago
Pastebin for voice recordings is basically what vocaroo.com is, and I discovered that in the same context you discovered SoundCloud. And also because popular use by 4chan. When I first heard of SoundCloud it was mostly used by self-releasin
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by Nadya 9y ago
Which is why mindcrime feels you two are talking past one another; because you were. You're arguing statistics and the three of us (Caveman_Coder, mindcrime, and myself) are arguing that using that statistic to be dismissive is not acc
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by Nadya 9y ago
>Instead you chose to argue the point "everybody experiences at least some discrimination". You're probably right, but in doing so you choose a definition of the word "discrimination" so broad that it becomes mu
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by Nadya 9y ago
Bit of Google searching, found what I was looking for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810889 Image/File hosting sites are much like you described. 1. All existing options suck because of feature bloat/ads&
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by Nadya 9y ago
This is why I only use pseudonyms online and don't tie together my "real life" with my "life online". I think it's foolish to tie the two together if you ever want to express your personal opinions. Just becaus
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by Nadya 9y ago
>It's all bits in a computer, but those bits are backed by a sovereign entity. That's why we are able to use them as currency. I've always felt this argument is disingenuous. People traded goods and services prior to gov
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by Nadya 9y ago
Private music trackers exist, aren't (that) hard to discover, and aren't (that) hard to get into assuming you understand the differences between lossy and lossless file formats and the gist of torrenting. There's even places
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by Nadya 9y ago
>You are hiring programmer Am I hiring: (a) A programmer (b) Someone who considers themselves a programmer There is a difference between the two and hiring (b) when you meant to hire (a) could bite you in the ass. >Als
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>I don't care that you don't care for definitions. Words have meaning, whether you care about them or not. Words literally have definitions that change over time, in context, from different groups of people, in different regi
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The third person who failed to notice I put ability before knowledge. Also the second person to bring up someone with talent as an example when the original argument is that talent shouldn't matter, and I'm saying there is an expe
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by Nadya 9y ago
Which is why ability is judged before knowledge. If you play in the New York Philharmonic I couldn't give a damn if you even know what the definition of a chord is. Also if you're a professional, by definition, you're not a h
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>In fact, the very definition of a hobby refutes this I don't care much for definitions - because dictionaries are often years or decades behind how words are literally used. In this case it's a matter of breaking expectat
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"I like to play my favorite songs, I don't really know any music theory." But honestly, there is an expectation of some level of competency/knowledge when trying to "claim" a hobby, because people consider a
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by Nadya 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something - but it only OCR's things you choose to capture and isn't constantly trying to OCR every single thing you see. Are you misunderstanding the extension or am I missing something bigger? E: A total
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by Nadya 9y ago
>Also, most of us run a load just before going to bed, and shuffle it to the dryer in the morning. I've never met anyone who does this and the only times it happens is on accident. I live with hard water, so if I did this my cloth
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by Nadya 9y ago
From the creators of Copyfish: https://ocr.space/ They should have an API to point to. It is fairly accurate. I use them occasionally via ShareX, which uses their API for OCR. E: https://ocr.space/ocrapi
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by Nadya 9y ago
This is something I could actually see myself using soon, what perfect timing to stumble upon it. ps. Whatever SEO marketer you went to, abandon them ASAP. The spammed geo pages (in this case: airport pages) with duplicate content is going
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by Nadya 9y ago
Mother Jupiter misses a catch and an asteroid hits the Earth, wiping out all life as we know it. Think world-ending events - as rare/far-fetched as they may be. Some people don't want all of our eggs in one basket. The chances a

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