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There has been a lot of cyber crime in recent years, e.g. see the recent wave of ransomware attacks. These criminals are mostly amateurs that know some exploits and use them. The NSA is a huge organization that employs many professional exp
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This article is about Rust. Could that be added to the title?
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This seems very useful. Many JavaScript project depend on an insane number of npm packages, and manually checking whether they are outdated is a lot of work.
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Please note that this is an art project and not a serious invention.
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This is a good article with advice from some experts in this field. I have the impression that many people who advocate distributed systems, e.g. micro services or the cloud, are not really familiar with it. If you want to make your system
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The main physiological explanation is that we only that there is only a very small area that we can see clearly. Our brain reconstructs that information to give us the illusion that we see a much larger area. We can only do this somewhat re
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Yes, in this case it appears to be the Gobi dessert. One of the problems in China is that it is still expanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi_Desert#Desertification
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There is a very ambitious project in Africa that attempts to do the same: https://internationaltreefoundation.org/the-great-green-wall...
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One point that most illustration of the old dinosaurs probably get wrong is the lack of feathers. After all, all current dinosaurs have feathers (Yes birds are technically dinosaurs) and it seems reasonable to assume that some of their ance
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This is the mathematicians version of the "How to screw in a light bulb" jokes that were popular during the early ages of the internet. The article also briefly mentions Bourbaki[0], a pseudonym for a group of French mathematician
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It is open source software and it can reverse engineer programs from a lot of different systems. Some people may be worried about installing a piece of software on their computer that comes from the NSA. I don't think that there are re
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Ghidra: A software reverse engineering suite of tools developed by the NSA(ghidra-sre.org)
361 points by NotSwift 5y ago|142 comments
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One of the fascination results of modern DNA research is that we have a lot more knowledge about the evolutionary relations between species. All mammals must have descended from a common ancestor and even though we probably will never find
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The OneZoom tree of life explorer(onezoom.org)
4 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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You can let the CEO handle the overall presentation and let someone else do the demo. The CEO should focus on the overall picture and selling it as a product, while a more technical person should do the demo. I have seen this multiple time
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Honey stays good for an amazing time. It is due to two things. It is mainly sugar, which means that it has a high osmotic pressure which kills other organisms like bacteria and fungi. The bees make their own antibiotics to fight of infectio
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Most innovations happen in small companies. When they happen to develop a successful product and patent it, frequently a larger company just steals the idea and develops their own product. As a small company there really is not much you can
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In the traditional model, journal editors and the referees do most of the work, for which they are usually not paid. > The publisher's editors organized individual journal editors, helping to find new ones when one left, keeping the
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Something that I find extremely disturbing about this entire discussion is the implicit assumption that there is only one god. Some religions assume that there are many gods, e.g. Hinduism and most African religions. Other religions do not
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The Trump administration caused a lot of problems for the US. It further polarized the entire country. One big long-term problem is that it did push the supreme court to have a conservative majority. Conservative are not really a majority i
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The important votes in the supreme court are the swing votes. Thomas is in general pretty reliable in that he will generally have a conservative opinion. The really important persons in the court are the new arrivals, they are all conservat
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This article claims that we need more new programming languages. It supports their own solution, but it does so in a fairly nuanced way.
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Autopilot already suggested that it could steer your car without any user behind the wheel (it did not). Now there is a new term that suggests something even better, because it is "Full". Most people assume that because something
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From an evolutionary point of view, this is a very good adaptation. In the somewhat longer term it might not be a good adaptation when people start killing these birds because they might spread fire.
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I don't know if this is feasible for you, but try to avoid companies that force you to do a lot of work before they even consider you. Those are not nice places to work.
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Sorry, I really do not understand what you are trying to say. It is obvious that the measures that were taken have a high cost [0]. On the other hand if they were not taken there would be a high cost as well. I was arguing that knowing the
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Just curious, why the down-vote? The title of the article is clearly referring to the book. Also, the band took their name from this title. Calling them ancient is perhaps not very nice, but they were one of the first groups that were calle
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The official term is "The doors of perception"[0]. This is the source of the name of an ancient band "The doors". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception
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The very first risk that any company should recognize is that when some part of it is calling it is doing Agile, while it is actually trying to do SCRUM.
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Something that really worries me about this entire discussion, is that it really does not matter whether or not this virus came from the lab. The real threats are the current pandemic and future pandemics. The current pandemic is a serious

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