a3_nm

38 ms·

121.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Apparently you can only use it with Google Analytics, so it is indeed encouraging you to give up your analytics data to a third party. :)
122.
by a3_nm 9y ago
> Good luck with that. Well, depending on the books, it may be easy to download the books online without buying them...
123.
by a3_nm 9y ago
I think it may be too simple to say that perfectionism is bad. To me, it's one of two halves of the creative process. (At least in theoretical research, which is what I do, but I think this generalizes to other fields.) You have one ha
124.
Pure Nerd Fun: The Grasshopper Problem(backreaction.blogspot.com)
2 points by a3_nm 9y ago|0 comments
125.
by a3_nm 9y ago
I also thought this was interesting, but I don't see what this is referring to. Google has bought the DejaNews archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups and I haven't find any reference of the fact
126.
by a3_nm 9y ago
> a lot of us look at our email inboxes these days and notice that most of what's in there is automated transactional stuff, with occasional cold inbound introductions that quickly transition off into some better medium Just wanted
127.
by a3_nm 9y ago
It's a centralized system, with a single point of failure, and you cannot use it without a phone number.
128.
by a3_nm 9y ago
You can simply use Sci-hub. I don't see any moral argument against it. The research that you want to access was probably entirely done by researchers who don't get a dime of the subscription money of publishers.
129.
by a3_nm 9y ago
> you need a corporation backing you to maintain one of the most critical pieces of web software My understanding is that Mozilla is supposed to be a nonprofit first and foremost: the Mozilla Foundation. The for-profit Mozilla Corporatio
130.
by a3_nm 9y ago
I don't think the competition is fair. The requirement to teach useful things to children makes it substantially harder to design experiences that are as stimulating as pointless distractions.
131.
by a3_nm 9y ago
If malicious people can add exploitable bugs and claim a bug bounty later, then they can also add exploitable bugs to actually exploit them. So I'd say that bug bounties also work here: they create an incentive to review the code of op
132.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Interesting, but Tab completion seems broken: cd Foosball/ cat r<tab> Selecting text (on Firefox) doesn't seem to work either.
133.
by a3_nm 9y ago
One thing I don't understand about this attack is whether it allows the attacker to connect to the Wifi network (in the style of airmon-ng for WEP), or whether the attacker can only decrypt packets of legitimate users. Has anyone figur
134.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Yes, this is what I meant: the command I gave is the way you optimize the frequency at which the keypress is repeated (on Linux systems with Xorg).
135.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Using typematic (keeping the "Enter" key pressed on the "Make Paperclip" button) makes the beginning of the game far less tedious in my opinion: xset r rate 200 255
136.
by a3_nm 9y ago
I don't want to imply that manufacturers don't have any responsibility in this problem, but I think there's a difference between recalling a defective unit or model from one company, and recalling an entire family of products
137.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Battery life is 3 hours, and this seems ridiculously low for something that's designed to be left running without supervision.
138.
by a3_nm 9y ago
I do not think that agencies will stop retouching photos. I suspect that they will just indicate "Photographie retouchée" on each picture and that's it. Indeed, while the article talks about a "cigarette-packet style war
139.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Nice! Point 23 is a bit misleading though: comm only works on sorted input files. Also, "disown -h" in Point 21 works on bash but not on zsh. Also, in Point 22, "timeout" only works if the command does not trap SIGTERM
140.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Not really. For instance, if you put the PDF file of the presentation online, then search engines will not be able to index this code easily, humans will not be able to cut and paste the code easily, etc.
141.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Hi, thanks a lot for pointing this out to me! However https://qntm.org/tetris#sec6 does not have any cases for width 10 where the player wins. Are you implying that you have run more calculations than described in this arti
142.
by a3_nm 9y ago
vim has something like this: users who pay can vote on features to be added. https://vim.sourceforge.io/sponsor/faq.php However, the donation is about helping poor children in Uganda, not about running the project.
143.
by a3_nm 9y ago
There's a related annoying question for which I've never found a conclusive answer: for the standard tetris board (width 10, height 22), is there a strategy for the player that guarantees that they will be able to fill at least on
144.
by a3_nm 9y ago
> selling goods and services in exchange for money still works better than giving things away and hoping somebody gives you a donation The problem is, had he tried to sell GPG, I doubt many people would be using it now...
145.
by a3_nm 9y ago
The problem with saying "less hours" is that the optimal numbers of hours of effort varies a lot depending on your current productivity. If you can't manage to focus on something despite persistent effort, yes it's much
146.
by a3_nm 9y ago
My email server is running on a cheap dedicated machine, with SPF and DKIM (and SSL) correctly set up, and which is only used to send my own email (no mass mailing, etc.). In many years of using this as my email system, I recall only two ca
147.
by a3_nm 9y ago
Not sure about the actual statistics, but XMPP is not just a standard for messaging between people: I think it's also intended as a backend technology for communication behind automated services. So even though there may not be many hu
148.
by a3_nm 9y ago
I think the situation is a bit different. While some companies have used XMPP for chat, I don't recall that any had advertised prominently the notion that you could use their chat system to talk to people on a different network. This w
149.
by a3_nm 9y ago
If you do not like the idea that by default Firefox will send data to Mozilla about your Firefox usage (no matter the privacy protection techniques being used), you should probably be aware that Firefox is already sending this kind of data
150.
by a3_nm 9y ago
There is also an important difference: media piracy can have a somewhat negative image in the eyes of the public, but pirating scientific papers does not. If academic publishers attract too much attention with a lawsuit, and more people und

More ›