Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I'm not the OP, but I assume hi-DPI support means that applications scale up their GUI sizes appropriately based on the DPI. When I use a hi-DPI display (like 4K displays), a lot of old software renders text and widgets too small to se
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Not just HR - the lowest rung of recruiting. It sounds like the author was doing cold-call sourcing.
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Exactly. Ultimately, people who work for a company need to follow orders. Managers should strive to avoid issuing orders like this, but if people are exhibiting an attitude problem and not doing the right thing, then they are entirely appro
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Distributed ACID transactions across multiple DBs or clusters has been possible for a while if you have been willing to pay the latency penalty for the transaction to complete, hasn't it? As far as I know, Google systems have to pay th
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Seems unlikely with any sapient intelligence. If the intelligence understands mathematics then some form of communication will be possible. Consider: 0 1 2 3 4 5 ... 0 + 0 = 0 0 + 1 = 1 1 + 1 = 2 1 + 2 = 3 There are only so m
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
If you are worried that a home hub will spy on you, then you should be way more worried your phone will do the same thing. A lot of phones already listen to audio nonstop. Take the Android phones that listen to "OK Google" or th
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I will concede that I almost always used the "bluetooth off" button in order to disconnect my current bluetooth device. I did this because it was faster and more convenient than going into the Settings menu and disconnecting that
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I'd probably agree that seems to be how it's most widely shared. But note that Google did announce in Feb 2017 that they're changed their algorithm to combat fake news: > Google announced changes to its search algorithm Tu
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
That's what notaries are for: "Identifying the person appearing before the notary by reference to significant proofs of evidence including passport, driving license, birth certificate, diplomatic documents etc." [1] Notaries
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I wonder if this will have an impact on combating fake news. I would suspect that few people would pay subscriptions for fake news, so there probably isn't a lot of that out there. On the other hand, legitimate journalistic content is
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
This is a disappointing decision. As a user, I don't want Google to rank page content for me based on something other than what I'll see when I visit the page. With this system, presumably, Google sees one thing (the actual articl
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Yes. The SEC's involvement in the cryptocurrency space has been very reasonable so far. They're really trying hard to understand the new technology developments and regulate them appropriately, and not just be curmudgeons. Good jo
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
The quality of vehicles has increased dramatically over that time. There isn't a similar increase in the quality of grain. A vehicle that I purchased roughly ten years ago has operated perfectly fine with half of its scheduled oil chan
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I did notice that there wasn't any good "blue" on the grid they provided: https://theconversation.imgix.net/files/186280/original/file... My two monitors display the grids a bit differently, bu
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
> The alternative take is that LIGO's detectors are unfathomably sensitive, detecting when its ~4km arms stretch by just 10^-19 meters. That's a 10,000th the width of a proton, where the proton is just a 100,000th the width of
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
> The security assumptions that SGX is built on are flawed. They assume that no side channel attacks will be mounted to determine the processes that occur in side the chip. Protecting against side channel attacks and reverse engineering
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Buying a company that owns an asset or holds a license is a reasonable way to obtain said asset or license. Nothing wrong with that.
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
How is it irrelevant? You can buy Bitcoin with yuan, transfer the bitcoin to a foreign exchange, and then buy another currency like the US dollar with the bitcoin, thereby circumventing capital controls.
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Not only was SSN not intended to be a national id, it was explicitly not supposed to be a national id. In the era when SSN was established, Nazi Germany and its emphasis on "papers, please" was on the public's mind. SSN was
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I'm not a farmer but I would guess it's serious. Land area is measured in acres, and the amount of water that crops need per growing cycle could be measured in feet, hence acre-feet. An acre-foot is the amount of water required to
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Yes. Anyone can "fork" any code for any time and reason. Anyone can announce that they're doing it. What makes this newsworthy? Is it a credible fork? What's the reason for the fork? Who is contributing? > Current
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Ethereum's VM is computationally universal, aka Turing complete. You can compute any function. I'd be happy to help clarify these concepts if I can, but I don't understand what you see is the tension between the halting probl
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> Ethereum makes the assumption that given a user-defined algorithm and a user-defined input, that within the limitations of the EVM whether or not the algorithm will halt can be determined. No, it does not make that assumption. It simpl
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I don't know much about the Etherium, but I don't see what problem there is with respect to Turing completeness and the halting problem. My understanding was that programs are limited to a finite number of steps in the Etherium v
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
I suspect that part of the problem is that airline seats aren't advertised in a way that allows consumers to effectively comparison shop. Consumers aren't aware of or can't tell the difference between the "economy"
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Looks like this link goes to the wrong place. Here are some related articles: https://www.wired.com/story/google-abruptly-cancels-town-hal... https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ceo-must-answer-the
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
> The guy who was fired was way out of line, far beyond any reasonable limits to topics of discussion. What did the author say that was "out of line"? Can you please cite a section of the essay and explain? Note: Please see thi
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
Have you read the memo? It's coherent. People just don't like what it says. Please read this article which includes responses to the memo from four scientists who study the subject matter: http://archive.is/z6xxP
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> psuedo-scientific bullshit A professor of social psychology at Rutgers said: > The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right. An evolutionary psycholo
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by Pyxl101 9y ago
A professor of social psychology at Rutgers said: > The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right. An evolutionary psychology professor said: > For what

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