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by WCSTombs 3y ago
TIL FTC has a blog. The writing style is not at all what I would expect from an official government channel: > When uttered by a pirate, “Avast!” is a nautical term for “Listen up and cut it out.” And when the FTC says “Avast!” to softwa
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
I guess I'm late to the party, but here's my take. There are 100 balls. First the host chooses N uniformly from [0, 100] (unknown to us) and makes N of them red and 100-N of them green. But it's annoying to paint 100 balls, r
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
Linux remains quite popular among software developers.
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
Also the "CLA" link just points to https://zed.dev/cla , which asks me to authorize Zed Industries to access my private GitHub profile. So at this point I don't even know what the CLA says. That's importa
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
PostScript is a pretty good programming language for what it's meant to do, which is put vector graphics in a box. It was the first language I wrote a lot of code in just for fun and not for school or work, specifically to draw a bunch
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
It's actually e) appeals strongly to your biases That's the main red flag. This is how people fall into these traps and eventually become unmoored from reality, because most people think waaay less critically about info
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
I'm sure everyone's aware, but just in case: this is not actually Wikipedia.
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
They came to the edge of stating that here: > It’s also possible that people who join Mensa differ from other people in ways other than just IQ. For example, people preoccupied with intellectual pursuits may spend less time than the aver
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
> All our [quantum computations] were done in a commercial cellphone, or a commercial Linux desktop... Someone should probably tell him that cellphones and desktops aren't capable of quantum computation yet.
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20231031194103/https://www.nytime...
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
old.reddit.com still works.
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
I've been using a flip phone for many years. I don't have a smart phone. One of the challenges is traveling and transportation, and the solution is mostly just planning ahead. - If driving to an unfamiliar place, study the map bef
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
Of those three, Vulkan is the only one that is cross platform, and the only one that natively targets Linux.
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
> 6) P = "I want to make lots of money." > > Quit programming. Become a rock star, actor, or corrupt politician. The odds of getting rich in these fields, however slight, are probably better than in programming. Well, t
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
Those "extra rights" would need to be spelled out in the terms of service, and last I checked, they were basically just making sure GitHub had the legal right to host your code on the GitHub service. It did not include any provisi
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
Makes sense. It's not the software license's job to make you a law-abiding citizen. That's the law's job. Is there more context to this, though? Are there software licenses out there with "just obey the law" in
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by WCSTombs 3y ago
You don't lose the outputs, they just aren't committed into Git. So for each new clone, you'd need to regenerate the outputs, but on a single clone, the outputs exist and are persistent in the .ipynb form of the notebook (whi
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
They're synonyms. The phrases "China's messaging" and "American propaganda" are also used in the article.
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
From the article: > It defined disinformation as “adversarial narratives, which are intentionally misleading; ..." All right, let's talk about misleading narratives. The title says the blacklist is accused of bias. 1. _Is_ it b
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
Something like this? https://github.com/takluyver/bash_kernel
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
From the PDF [1]: > We cannot prohibit speech that some experience as offensive or injurious. (...) A commitment to free expression includes hearing and hosting speakers, including those whose views or opinions may not be shared by many
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
From what I gather, the projects have quite different goals. CppFront: > My specific goal is to explore the question: Can we make C++ 10x safer, simpler, and more toolable if C++ had an alternative "syntax #2," within which we
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
It appears that the CppFront work has been in progress since 2015-2016, which would make it predate Carbon by a few years.
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
> The currently active fork of SDSL ( https://github.com/xxsds/sdsl-lite ) has a BSD license. How is that legally possible? As I understand, the GPL doesn't allow a derivative work to remove the copyleft provisio
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
Same content without Twitter: https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#soli...
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
- All 2FA I've needed so far works with any cell phone. They just text a random code to my flip phone. - I'm far out of my depth here, but aren't there hardware tokens for this purpose?
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
I don't own a smartphone. I carry a flip phone so people can contact me (and vice versa) if there's a need. I carry around a 3"x5" Rhodia dot pad everywhere I go. If I'm ever really bored and not near my computer, I
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by WCSTombs 4y ago
In my opinion, commit messages should say "what" changed, if necessary "why," and usually not "how." This person has a similar guideline: https://cbea.ms/git-commit/#why-not-how - "Wh
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by WCSTombs 5y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
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by WCSTombs 5y ago
Totally agree about the company. Specifically, the Uni-Ball Signo UM-151 black gel pen (0.38mm) is my all-time favorite non-fountain pen at this point. (The most popular competitor is probably Pilot's Hi-Tec-C/G-Tec-C, but the Uni

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