OminousWeapons

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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I can't believe no one has mentioned using the car for ride sharing. Let them try to figure out why you are taking such random, meandering paths and make them do more work to get warrants for data from each ride sharing company for eli
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Reminds me of the surveillance van shipped abroad by the union in the Wire XD
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I agree. From what I understand from Chinese friends, this is sort of an irrelevant move. Chinese culture demands fully supporting your children financially throughout their adult lives, including fully financing education, purchasing homes
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Honestly, I don't know; I unknowingly followed the author's advice. About half a year after the last incident, a friend who I went to school with called me up and offered me a job at his fledgling biotech. I accepted and never loo
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
> If people are trying to assign blame to a bug or outage, it's time to move on. This is one of my favorite excerpts. I once worked in a lab where we would have frequent catastrophic failures because there was never any disaster pla
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Having used both induction cooktops and gas burners for years, you can pry my gas range knobs from my cold dead hands. Induction cooktops create a set of constrains on use that gas ranges don't have.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I would encourage anyone who has never used a bidet to go out and try one. Most modern bidets are Japanese style (built into the toilet itself or replacing the toilet seat) rather than European style (discrete units which sit next to your t
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I agree with you.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I agree with everything you said. At the risk of being pedantic: > A feedback loop of profits from industry to universities. Right now when technological advancements happen at universities, those flow out to the general public, then to
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
The fundamental problem is that there isn't enough money in the system and there aren't enough professorships for the legions of PhD students that exist. We either need to cap the number of PhD students much more aggressively or w
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
> Well, I wonder if this could force people to start publishing their code so others can replicate the results. This would help greatly with the kinds of issues that are being discussed: The real solution to the problem is to set a rule
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I wouldn't say they are just as bad. They are also bad but they're bad in a very different way. The far right effectively has decided that objective reality doesn't exist at all. The truth is whatever they say it is and they
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
A lot of it is contingent on school size. If you're going to a rural high school with a student body of < 300-500 people, you're experiencing middle school again with older teens. Predictably, this has a high probability of suc
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I can't speak to the sandboxing, but their implementation is definitely non-standard considering that I don't see Google or gstatic appearing in umatrix when I go through the logon process and they aren't flagging me for capt
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
If you're script blocking, hcaptcha also only requires one reload of the page as opposed to two for Google (enabling Google then enabling Gstatic)
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Yeah, I should have said any accusations of bullying would be reviewed by mods.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Off the top of my head, it would have the tone of Facebook before they allowed public accounts outside of schools and right after they introduced news feed, it would be aggressively moderated, and it would cost enough money per month that p
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Can confirm. I spent many years in the Midwest and it is very common for strangers there to engage you in conversation randomly just to be nice. In contrast, in most East Coast cities, whenever people start up a conversation without an imme
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
It depends on what your threat model is and what your technical skills are, but here are some basics: Fundamentals: * If you are a Windows user, stop using an administrative account and set up a low priv user account for day to day work. *
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Blame ex-US companies and ex-US tax policy for ex-US brain drain. The US isn't forcing people to come here in the same way that China / Singapore / India / Vietnam aren't forcing US corps to shift production there;
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I once refactored a 15K line single function written in Matlab with no tests, source control, comments, docs, etc. Someone had very helpfully nested the entire function in a try catch block which displayed "the program experienced an e
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
> Why does the United States feel entitled to drain the intellectual capital of countries that are least able to afford losing it? Why do other countries feel entitled to drain all the manufacturing jobs and mid wage work from the United
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
They're trying to fool noobs into believing they are the smart money: "Look at this hype, if I get in now I can make a ton of money before the house of cards collapses".
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
I also tried to do this manually using the same resources from Bazzell and eventually just got tired of dealing with it and paid for Deleteme. To their credit, they did a pretty solid job removing my public data from data broker sites.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Racism depends on making assumptions or judgements about other people based on their skin color. It has nothing to do with power. Minorities don't have a free pass to be racist towards White people, and women don't have a free pas
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
If you're not familiar with it, I would recommend checking out Matlab's parallel computing toolbox for starters. IIRC Mathworks has several webinars surrounding that toolbox which cover the basics of what you are trying to do. Mat
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Yes, because it's the one async communication method I know the recipient is going to have no matter where they are in the world.
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
It is strange to me that there is this much concern over whether COVID came from a lab or not because ultimately it is irrelevant outside of highlighting a need for additional safety protocols if proven true. "Virus from a lab" !=
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Instead of harassing the ancestor for not perfectly optimizing their use of resources (which has zero impact on the climate one way or the other) or harassing me for suggesting that an 80/20 solution to a problem is better than no solu
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by OminousWeapons 5y ago
Its because environmentalism is quite literally a religion for a subset of users on this forum and they cannot believe that other people don't want to optimize their entire life around reducing their carbon footprint. The attitude in t

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