UnquietTinkerer

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by UnquietTinkerer 11mo ago
Thanks for posting this. It served as a call to action for me, and hopefully it will for others as well.
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by UnquietTinkerer 2y ago
Oh look, my old friend Checked Exceptions! I knew we would meet again one day :) In all seriousness, anonymous sum types would be quite nice. It would make it easier to be precise about return values in situations where `Optional` and `Resu
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by UnquietTinkerer 3y ago
Cute idea. I like that you can click on the creeps to invert their value. However, I found that the path logic inscrutable and frustrating. The creeps take a random path when they reach some intersections (I think? There was no explanatio
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by UnquietTinkerer 4y ago
Someone else posted a link to the source for this quote: https://www.zerohedge.com/user/105370 . The writer pretty clearly has an axe to grind with the city, the sanctions, the war, and a lot more (read some of his othe
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by UnquietTinkerer 4y ago
Wow, that guy is ... extreme. I'm glad you posted the link, but I'd personally take any conclusions he draws with a grain of salt.
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by UnquietTinkerer 5y ago
This is a good line of questioning. I believe that the difference between the two situations is that the pizza deal is implied to be just for Alice and Bob. If either walks away then the deal is totally sunk, so they both have equal &quot
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Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired(old.reddit.com)
66 points by UnquietTinkerer 5y ago|71 comments
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by UnquietTinkerer 5y ago
Off topic for password rotation, but has anyone tried assigning randomly generated passwords to the users rather than letting them choose their own? People (including me) _hate_ memorizing things and would probably write an assigned passwor
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by UnquietTinkerer 5y ago
For comparison (not trying to be argumentative!), it looks pretty good in gnome terminal on linux mint: https://utio.net/demos/box_drawing.png I only mention this because I've used these to decorate tables in my o
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by UnquietTinkerer 6y ago
Just found this (on reddit). I'd love to know more about what's going on. It's amusing that the Go app was built in a highly controlled environment, while the kernel was built on some random laptop (and was compromised). It
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by UnquietTinkerer 8y ago
For anyone interested, here are links to the slides and the accompanying white paper. [Slides] https://millcomputing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/20... [White Paper] https://millco
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by UnquietTinkerer 8y ago
Try this shell script: #! /bin/sh # This is a bit hacky: we use the -i flag to force the interpreter into # interactive mode after the initial commands are executed. # The "proper" way to do this is pr
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by UnquietTinkerer 8y ago
Ironically, xonsh itself suffers from a long startup time due to it's use of python. This is my primary (negative) experience with the issue in the linked article, and the reason why I stopped using xonsh.
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by UnquietTinkerer 9y ago
If we can't quantify "internal experience" then what leads philosophers to believe it exists? What evidence is there that conciousness is distinguished by something other than raw complexity?
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by UnquietTinkerer 9y ago
I don't understand how lazy loading could help here. The images are all behind hyperlinks, and their display sizes are all hardcoded into the HTML. There is nothing preventing the browser from completing the page layout immediately a
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by UnquietTinkerer 9y ago
Popper was talking about tolerance in general. Tolerance of hateful actions, in general, is counter-productive. Tolerance of speech in particular is not, as speech alone does not and cannot "destroy free speech".
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by UnquietTinkerer 9y ago
I think the 60 Minutes segment was just marketing copy handed to them by IBM (how else could they talk for 20 minutes about cutting-edge ML without mentioning Google or Amazon at all?). Watson is introduced as "an AI" - singular
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by UnquietTinkerer 9y ago
This explanation really helped, thank you.
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by UnquietTinkerer 9y ago
I found that the "new" site looks reasonable with javascript completely disabled (i.e. turn it off in the browser settings). The problem appears to be when using a plugin to selectively restrict javascript (I use uMatrix) - in
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by UnquietTinkerer 10y ago
Dutch elm disease (and emerald ash borer) wiped out natural tree populations in forests just as thoroughly as those planted in the city. While monocultures are not helping, that is a footnote to the real problem here: these diseases are in
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by UnquietTinkerer 10y ago
Practicality aside, that was a fascinating and very well-written paper. Thank you for posting it.
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by UnquietTinkerer 11y ago
This is just playing games with microeconomic terms. However you choose to define "value", using heroin is self-destructive and usually (always?) irrational. If you choose to include that kind of behavior in your definition of v
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by UnquietTinkerer 11y ago
I think BSR here stands for "branch to subroutine", i.e. CALL.
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by UnquietTinkerer 11y ago
The two conditions are not equialent - the first is true if GEngine is null or does not use sound, and the second is true if GEngine is not null and is undefined otherwise due to dereferencing a null pointer. I assume the original author
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by UnquietTinkerer 11y ago
But what would happen if we actually succeeded in preventing aging and death? Death is, as far as I can tell, not an accident or some kind of cosmic tragedy. It's the constant, forced renewal that makes biological and social evolutio
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by UnquietTinkerer 11y ago
The µMatrix plugin for Chrome provides fairly granular control over content requests and javascript execution.
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by UnquietTinkerer 12y ago
(-b + sqrt(b*b - 4*a*c)) / (2*a) (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4 a c)))) (* 2 a)) It does depend on your use case.
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by UnquietTinkerer 12y ago
I honestly don't know, but if Proposition 13 is still in effect [1] then it would appear you are right - property taxes can only increase by 2% a year. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2
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by UnquietTinkerer 12y ago
I think it is similar with property taxes. At least where I am they are tied to property value, which is assessed based on the recent sale price of comparable properties. If someone is willing to paying huge sums for houses in your neighb
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by UnquietTinkerer 12y ago
Just going by the quotes in the article, the judge was concerned. He concluded that the search warrant was valid (because the threats came from the woman's IP address), but the SWAT raid was unreasonable and excessive. > the Cour

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