Osmium

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by Osmium 11y ago
It seems a little unfair to judge a company against their hypothetical future actions. I agree that if they do remove the option to disable it in future then that's a problem, of course. > they sell two very popular lines of compute
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by Osmium 11y ago
I haven't been following this too closely. Are the salt streaks where the water is too? Are we actually seeing the water itself in these images or not?
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Users should have full control over their own machines. Agreed. > System Integrity Protection is obnoxious paternalism at best Couldn't disagree more. The user maintains full control: you can disable it at will, temporarily or
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by Osmium 11y ago
> but what would you consider: > > a really good reason? Honestly, as devs, we're more susceptible to this kind of attack than the average user, not less (e.g. see XcodeGhost). System integrity protection is great for us, ye
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by Osmium 11y ago
Which also gives us rheology (study of flow), diarrhea ("a flowing through"), rhythm (measured flow), etc. Ultimately coming a Proto-Indo-European root (*sreu-? I think), which also gives us the Rhine river and the word 'stre
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by Osmium 11y ago
> It sounds like you're saying that reported loneliness isn't unreliable because we can't externally test it. I'd think it's just the opposite; if we have no external tests, that's a great reason to assume i
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by Osmium 11y ago
> It's my understanding that when designing a study, you look to strengthen statistical power, which is determined by a combination of a) significance criterion (p values, confidence intervals) b) magnitude of the effect and c) samp
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I'd also disagree that some phenomena only exist as experiences. As far as we know, all experiences are also physical states in the brain. Absolutely. But in order to map those experiences to those 'physical states' you
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by Osmium 11y ago
> is that sample size is extremely small (19 individuals) This is not meaningful. I'm not sure why this keeps getting repeated, but it's entirely possible to get significant results from small sample sizes. No comment on the re
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by Osmium 11y ago
Doesn't this depend on the mode of operation/block chaining? Or is it an issue regardless?
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by Osmium 11y ago
> They use Blowfish. Says it all really - their default encryption is a long-obsolete 64-bit block cipher you might have picked in 1999 because it was faster than 3DES. Not defending it, because I know it's old and there are weaknes
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by Osmium 11y ago
Absolutely, but one might just suspect that the download was corrupted, no? Especially in these circumstances. I think as developers we have a responsibility not to assume that, and to be diligent, but I can understand how it happened.
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by Osmium 11y ago
Tarsnap seems to rely pretty heavily on Amazon's infrastructure, so I'm guessing it won't support this? Which is a shame because I'd really like to use it, but can't afford to right now as an individual. Arq seems r
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Am I understanding this correctly: the devs who downloaded Xcode from an unknown source disabled gatekeeper to get it to run? This is generally known as hubris. We think we're smart and that the rules don't apply to us, b
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I often read comments like this about The Forever War and I'm never sure if I read the same book. I enjoyed it but it seemed an awful lot more shallow than it's given credit for. Likewise. Which is not to say I thought it was
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Pulling an app two days after a long period of development without really thinking through seemed odd to me. But that's his choice. Right, absolutely it's his choice. I wouldn't even go as far as saying I'll never b
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I’m sorry to all of my fans and customers who bought this on my name, expecting it to be supported for longer than two days. Well, that was me. Funnily enough I haven't had a good experience with Overcast either (vs. Pocket Casts)
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by Osmium 11y ago
I was reading an informed opinion recently that longer shifts are much better for nursing, in that there's a lot of lost efficiency and lost knowledge during shift changes. Perhaps limiting the total number of hours worked in a week, r
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by Osmium 11y ago
> This is because there is no use-case for professional users. I don't know, it can still useful for generating your initial cells for complicated systems (defects, interfaces, etc.), and it can always be useful to test an idea qual
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Food is the key. Agreed with this. I don't find it necessary to skip meals though, I just ensure I get a good, solid breakfast at the appropriate time at my destination (I also change my watch to the destination time early too, I
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by Osmium 11y ago
> What hardware are you running this on? You might be better off running multiple VMs bound to a single core as opposed to a single VM tied to many cores. Just a quad-core i7. I offload anything that requires major processing power to a
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by Osmium 11y ago
Does anyone know how performance compares to e.g. VMware Fusion for (multi-core) CPU-bound tasks? Are there any benchmarks yet? I only need a very lightweight (command line) VM, but it needs to be as performant as possible. It'd be nic
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by Osmium 11y ago
> But I'd never put it on a resume because that would imply mastery of the subject Would it though? I think it at least demonstrates interest and a sufficient level of involvement to finish the course. I wouldn't assume it im
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by Osmium 11y ago
Since establishing provenance is such a big problem for Google, perhaps it might be a good idea for Google to offer a time-stamping service itself?
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by Osmium 11y ago
> The data here is poor in several ways- the selection is highly weighted towards european countries and excludes, for instance, Canada and Mexico and South America. Africa is right out and the only asian country is Japan. Further, GDP i
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by Osmium 11y ago
> For instance, studies that compute the gyromagnetic ratio of the electron (to 10 decimal places no less) and then compare that against the experimentally obtained value would be classified as "high rigor". You mean like, say,
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Are you talking about a random distribution of points on a line / square, or about rolling dice? Right, exactly. I made my comment in reply to the grandparent problem talking about dots on a screen. For a discrete distribution lik
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by Osmium 11y ago
> you just end up forgetting when it's time to charge and don't have any power when you need it. This is just a design problem though. The Kindle should warn you when you only have a few days battery (or, say, a hundred page tu
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by Osmium 11y ago
> So I would anticipate the clumping to even out as the sample size increases. Clumping won't even out. A useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the distance between samples (e.g. a radial distribution function). If you don&
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Some startups have even promised commercialization within a couple of years (but we know how those promises usually go). These are exceptionally difficult problems for a start-up to tackle (unless they've had a genuine 'eur

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