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by _nalply 2y ago
Could articles like this bemoaning Europe's state of regulation be opinion pieces? What if what Europe does is a good idea for the people but just inconvenient for companies? Europe is one of the power houses of the world but with low
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A variant of hiding in plain sight for a backdoor if you have a webserver: create a directory ". " (dot space) somewhere in the web-application and put your backdoor in that directory. A sysadmin just would see . . .. as directory
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So find a time machine and travel back and tell the people of your superior solution. scnr
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> I think this way it is difficult [...] It's just difficult, but not impossible. This said, such tampering is in my jurisdiction punishable by law (Art. 251 Forgery of a document), see https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/el
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And as per the instruction of 1919 "it is customary to draw a line above all letters making up the number, the dots of i and j being put above the line" (in other words, the horizontal line is directly above v, x, c, and so on but
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Even in truth there are grey areas. You read a scientific paper and discover a serious error in a side topic the paper only had a short digress about. Would that invalidate the whole thing? And where do you draw the line of invalidating err
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What if the creator didn't do the reveal? Would you still think about this and feel that you have learnt something? Disclaimer: I don't think it is a good idea not to reveal usage of AI. I just feel it is wrong to dismiss what you
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I read somewhere else here that children who get tested for IQ are tested because of some problems. This would introduce a bias.
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Not an expert but it seems acid is not specific enough. There are acidic organs like the stomach but also the vagina. I wonder if the nano robots would then attack stomach and vagina cells. This said, I am pleasantly surprised that nano rob
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It's the inner platform effect. When I was young I fell into the same trap. I invented a flexible database schema where I put each field into a database row with some metadata describing the field. But that's nonsense. Just use wh
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I also don't think we are lucky but hopefully not the worst possible unlucky. I am refering to this diagram: https://sites.ecmwf.int/data/c3sci/bulletin/202406/temperatu... Especially that SST as of
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As a general summary 2023 average ocean surface temperatures jumped by a bit more than one degree Celsius over the course of a few months. One degree doesn't seem much, but in the climate crisis people are discussing about two or three
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When I read that title I wondered how the colors get quantized, because... 8-bit! No, it's just a pixelating crystal (?)... Still nice.
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And why do you seem to think we are managing these risks successfully today?
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Often spammers and phishers misuse legitimate emails they hacked. Just ignore and move on.
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Some people will send their mass spam and phish anyway. No thanks.
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Safari also has not yet implemented it and they want to wait for it to become stable then implement it. https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/167#iss...
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Did not try it out, but an idea: write a user script that changes the <meta viewport>. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Viewport_m... what this meta tag does.
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You'll need to melt away the glaciers. Feasible? I am afraid not.
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Please take care. There's the "dark night of the soul". Everybody is different. I and my wife experienced something similar to this phenomenon but my wife decades (!) earlier than me and she was completely alone. She had medi
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I worked for a small legal company decades ago. I used a reverse ssh tunnel to administrate a Windows box remotely with Remote Desktop. Then I realized that I was circumventing a firewall. At a different company I had to be careful about su
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Always keep a tungsten cube in your pocket! https://thume.ca/2019/03/03/my-tungsten-cube/
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When everybody cranks up their usage when prices fall and stop when prices rise then the whole system might be unstable wildly swinging between low and high usage. Added with natural changes from solar and wind it's a tough nut to crac
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I just watched Sabine Hossenfelder's video (Gravity without Mass, https://youtu.be/Q0fwRMvNkoA ) where she talks about hollow spheres. Inspired by this video I have this hypothesis: There's quantum fluctuation. Par
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I think the magic word is: isomorphism! An isomorphism is a way to relate two different sets such that each element is paired with exactly one in the other set such that it does not matter if you do operations before or after. In my calcula
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I understand that this might be a problem in a programming language, even if you decide to ignore that mathematical sets have infinitively many elements. When I programmed an RPN calculator supporting quotients and complex numbers, I had to
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This means similar to duck typing?
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For me, tree traversal is beautiful. traverse(node): if node: [ ...traverse(node.left), ...traverse(node.right), node.value, ] The pseudo-code recursively produces a list of th
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You won't experience a difference
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Happened to me twenty years ago when working in India. Fiery diarrhea from spicy food. TMI?

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