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by Nzen 6y ago
That sounds like what the production company for the movie _Unsubscribe_ did four months ago to 'top the US box office' [0] by buying out / sponsoring all their showings and then trying to resell the tickets themselves. Becau
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by Nzen 6y ago
This worldview discounts the political awareness that such actions can foster. Someone who replaced their crabgrass lawn with native meadow has a daily embodiment of their value system. When such a person hears about murder hornets, is this
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by Nzen 6y ago
> But you know what? You, personally, can solve this problem. You have the power to build The Next Thing. The thing that doesn't suffer this same fate. > The tech can exist. I urge you to (a) think about a long-term solution, and
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by Nzen 6y ago
I don't know about melty, but I like www.subtlepatterns.com tiles
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This is a legal requirement for some businesses. For example, some of our clients handle ITAR parts. (ex military parts that the US doesn't want shared with foreign nationals) For such an organization, hearing that the data export is e
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Twitter crops rather than rescales posted images to some 'interesting' subset of an image that doesn't fit the preferred aspect ratio. So, the person behind this account created an antagonistic situation: made a very tall, th
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What's the concentration of high-BMI-with-low-body fat in the general population ? Armed with that, I'll choose a p value myself, as to whether it's rare. Anecdotally, I agree, but I can't be sure that I am in contact wi
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by Nzen 6y ago
tl;dr A woman is told her cancer is inoperable and hates that her responses will resemble other terminal patients, whether stoic or sullen. She uses a baroque description of the situation, initially. For example, she refers to her husband a
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I agree this is a novel interpretation. Could you elaborate on what the computation performed involves ? I'm of the understanding that you send me ciphertext, I transform it with some operations you define, and I send back ciphertext-v
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I picked up my grandmother's medicine from a costco pharmacy for a while. One time, there was some question of whether she had picked up her medicine or a charge or something. To resolve this, the pharmacist printed a sheet of the late
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by Nzen 6y ago
The business card version, as I understand it, involves splitting our plaintext as bits, encrypt each, pass these 'bits' through a logical circuit equivalent to the desired computation (ex a full adder [0]), decrypt the 'bits
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tl;dr A javascript framework with a canvas output of 24x24 grid of dots. These dots can adopt nine distinct colors. Default input is arrow keys or mouse click on one of the dots. Includes a short eight section tutorial and api doc for two c
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If the language is boilerplate and the algorithms/data-structures derive from the physical constraints, was the OS course you completed mostly about hardware ? As to the inciting question, there is a Stonybrook OS course [0] designed a
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Presumably, one could retort that pragmatic practice isn't the optimal practice. Which is to say, if a service could derive authorization without secrets, that would present a smaller security attack surface than one that needed plain
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by Nzen 6y ago
Probably a bigger time commitment than implied, but the UN [0] and code for america [1] list volunteer opportunities. [0] https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/opportunities?f[0]=fie... [1] https://brigade.c
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by Nzen 6y ago
For someone with a short time scale, only trawling this thread, of course not. For someone young in this space, this comment and one hundred others -for and against- sift into hiso'er consciousness as part of the perceived zeitgeist of
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by Nzen 6y ago
Presumably, for the same reason it would be convenient for me to write in a non-javascript language for the browser: I've already invested in X lang, it would be nice not to have to keep current in two languages if someone is trying to
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by Nzen 6y ago
tl;dr the T2K collaboration published a paper in Nature [0] describing a 1/1000 certatinty that neutrinos and antineutrinos oscillate in 'identity' at a different rate. 'Oscillate identity' means they fluctuate betw
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by Nzen 7y ago
See also reddit programming buddies [0], though it's usually beginners [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingBuddies/
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Sure, that's why archive offers a macintosh emulator that starts by clicking the large image at the top of the page.
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Presumably, that would depend on your conversatonal goal. We could refer to the Apollo lander as a spacecar[0] in a casual conversation but that could be tedious or misleading if a NASA representative were trying to pigdin with an ESA repre
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by Nzen 7y ago
tl;dr former Slack director of product outlines twelve principles for a/b type experiments with features, products, whatever. (ex Good experiments involve analyzing the results as opposed to 'ship/kill?') Each principle
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tl;dr Randal Roe, a lawyer who helped define the merger for AOL's side. This is predominantly a comparison of internet (companies) then and now, with some emotional color of the deal itself. He does, though, outline why he thinks AOL i
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by Nzen 7y ago
I work at a company that makes a niche ERP. The owner wrote the original in Basis International's BBX. Within the last ten years, the company ported the ERP to Java. But, we still use it as a code generator for our dao layer and half t
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tl;dr a restated man page for dig, a dns information tool. It provides the name servers between this computer and the target. A very quick read, ~400 words of his and ~200 words of dig output.
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It's one of the contexts in which I'm willing to be the change I want to see. It's disappointing to click on the comments for a post and no one (especially the submitter) has told me what I'll learn/experience. And
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tl;dr Ben Cox bought a vga in => webcam out device that its parent company hadn't updated the linux drivers in a while. This details his journey of using tcpdump, et al, to analyze the sent packets. Eventually, he simulates the usb
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by Nzen 7y ago
I recall some interesting suggestions on the thread about Trinity Nuclear Test site open house [0]. Perhaps you could visit Fermilab. Strictly speaking, though, all museums are 'geek' destinations (just primarily history/art
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I didn't read it; but to help you decide whether to do so: this looks like a personal story about traveling in Alaska
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For a perspective of a mathematician that came to evangelize theorem provers, I recommend Kevin Buzzard's MS 2019-09 presentation [0] about LEAN. He highlights cultural misunderstanding and apathy on both sides of the domain divide. He

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