Osmium

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by Osmium 11y ago
I don't disagree with you (hence the upvote) but let's put this into context: what are we worried about here? My fingerprints are easily obtainable by a determined attacker. No question at all; I leave a trail of them around me ev
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by Osmium 11y ago
They've released a fix for the DYLD bug, and it didn't effect El Capitan anyway. Point of interest, but I had manually changed my sudoers file when I was running Yosemite. I'm now running the El Capitan beta. The sudoers fil
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by Osmium 11y ago
The trouble with fundamental forces is that they're fundamental. Trying to explain them in terms of something else is ultimately misleading (even though this can work with literally almost everything else). So I'm sympathetic to
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by Osmium 11y ago
> [Touch ID] enables someone to build a large database of fingerprint hashes. (Don't give me any of that "it doesn't upload the actual fingerprints" - uploading hashes is just as useful to security services) This is s
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by Osmium 11y ago
Any news on long-term health risks from chemical exposure/half-lives/concentrations/wind direction etc? Last I heard the wind was blowing sea-wards after the blast, but there are a lot of people in Tianjin (and Beijing?) that
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Call it a non sequitur but what if they eventually decide they want to remove the 140-character limit from tweets? Arguably, it'd be a great move for Twitter to launch a (possibly Tumblr-esque) blogging platform under an adjacent-
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by Osmium 11y ago
Makes sense. Hopefully this can stabilise the Google brand as something more reliable (fewer products that are launched one day, taken down the next), while still allowing them to experiment. The name is genius too; it suggests that there w
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by Osmium 11y ago
Interesting, would love to hear some of your experiences! It sounds like the issues we face are slightly different. From my field, version control is pretty much a non issue[1], most of the widespread codes use that (typically svn, but that
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by Osmium 11y ago
Thanks very much for this. It's the Z620 I'm using at the moment, and I think it's excellent. Such a productive machine. Very nice internals too, logically laid out and seems like it'd be easy to upgrade in future.
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by Osmium 11y ago
I've yet to see an experiment software I've really liked. I've seen a few people use and struggle with OpenSesame recently, which seems like an incredibly featureful and useful project, but is also awkward because of it. Pyex
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by Osmium 11y ago
Thought it might be a possibility given that these support Thunderbolt 3 over USB C, which I'd expect them to be pushing pretty hard.
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by Osmium 11y ago
Any chance of getting > 4 cores in a notebook with one of these chips? Would love a 6-core or 8-core MacBook Pro, even if it had to be run at lower frequency or aggressively throttled while on battery.
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Attributing music to a computer explicitly would be purely marketing move and it doesn’t change the fact that author is always conscious being(s), which, unless we’re in singularity, a computer isn’t. I don't know. I'm sympat
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by Osmium 11y ago
Where do you get them from? I use a HP workstation at work, and I'm going to be sad to leave it when I leave my current job.
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by Osmium 11y ago
> but NNs can go beyond this, and this article is exactly the kind of thing that will instigate this evolution. Thought experiment: one day it is not uncommon for some deeply moving, emotional works to be composed entirely by computers
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by Osmium 11y ago
> If a woman doesn't want her naked body exposed on camera, that's her right, just as it's mine to make the same decision. There's no story here, just basic human courtesy and respect. Right, absolutely. The linked ar
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by Osmium 11y ago
> For the most part, I find that most online social media just degrades human interaction. Twitter encourages short shallow quips, Facebook shows me my friends arguing angrily and pointlessly over random articles, dating apps encourage s
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by Osmium 11y ago
> and still no ECC support, sigh Are there any technical reasons not to have ECC by default, or is it just market segmentation?
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by Osmium 11y ago
No more than you'd expect to be able to see a car, I don't think.
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by Osmium 11y ago
It's very encouraging to see some states have it, but an awful lot of that map is blank... I did see a news article recently about the Navy being quite progressive in this regard though (recently tripling its maternity leave time), whi
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Unlimited leave policies encourage employees to self-police and conform to peer pressure. I'm sympathetic to your concerns, but this is still a good thing and–importantly–a very good step in the right direction. Playing devil&#x27
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by Osmium 11y ago
Congratulations Netflix. I'm personally a big believer that equal maternity and paternity leave is crucial for future equality in the workforce, and Netflix have just set a great example to the rest of the industry. And a full year is
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by Osmium 11y ago
Isn't that the truth. Unless there's been a breakthrough in the last few years, I remember storing hydrogen being an absolute nightmare: and not because it can combust, but simply because it's so small . Minimising leaks and
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by Osmium 11y ago
It seems likely to me that the search engine will be replaced by personal assistant type services: you ask a question, and you get direct access to that knowledge. Whether Google will replace the search engine itself, or whether it'll
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Albanian I think you mean Albena not Albania, unless there was a typo in the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albena
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Changing what something has been called for a long time because the word has (relatively) recently been coopted to mean something else sounds like a really bad idea to me. It's how language change works though. Very few words stil
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by Osmium 11y ago
> The problem is that removing idiocy doesn't automatically make a piece of fiction good. Completely agree with your post, and especially this. I also second the Ted Chiang recommendation: as far as I can tell he's in a class o
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by Osmium 11y ago
This isn't a question of who's technically "right" or "wrong". I'm not suggesting we stop using the word in textbooks or the classroom. It's just simply, by modern popular usage, misleading to use the
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by Osmium 11y ago
Could we please have a veto in the popular press on the use of the word "organic" to describe carbon-containing molecules? I'm pretty sure "organic" has an entirely different meaning to most of the population, and i
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by Osmium 11y ago
Do you have to burn it to a USB/CD as the page suggests, or is does the tool give a way to upgrade in place without doing that? Edit: can confirm crazysaem's experience. I did an in-place upgrade on a fully-patched 8.1 system and

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