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by abhorrence 7y ago
I think the defense is that (assuming IVs, nonces, etc... are held constant) that the files would encrypt identically. And the excuse for the rest of the disk is “it gets filled with random bytes to obscure how much disk space is actually b
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by abhorrence 7y ago
I generally like to have feature flags default to true in tests. It helps avoid this sort of situation, because if they ignore the flag, they’ve probably broken some tests. And if they only put it in the flagged path, their code won’t work
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by abhorrence 7y ago
Reflection isn’t required, but with sufficient reflection a language could essentially be extended to include duck typing.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
There’s very few constitutional limits on the power to pardon. I suspect abusive use of the power would fall under the scope of impeachment, but we’d be unlikely to ever see that play out. Pardons are also interesting because they have to b
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by abhorrence 7y ago
Do the NNs actually need to learn this? I’ve always assumed that NNs primarily being used to do computer vision, but that all the driving decisions would essentially be a fancy rule system. Is this not how most self-driving works?
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by abhorrence 7y ago
I believe they always intended to eventually be standalone. They wanted to use the collaborations to get the Sony name associated with games.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
Someone's "Bacon" number is how many films you have to go through in order to go from that person to Kevin Bacon. For example Patrick Stewart's Bacon number is 2. Star Trek: First Contact -[James Cromwell]-> Beyond Al
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by abhorrence 7y ago
This is not true. Vaccinations are not 100% effective. They're usually in the range of 90% to 99% effective. Protection also wanes over time. Because of this, herd immunity protects everyone, not just those who are unable to be vaccina
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by abhorrence 7y ago
And if you did live in California, your 3rd grader could still be suspended from school. This only really gets rid of the "arrested for no reason but resisting arrest" style of suspension.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
This doesn’t mean that bullying will go in punished. Nor does it mean that disruptive students will be allowed to continue disrupting class without consequence. It simply means that teachers have a lot less discretion, which will remove a l
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by abhorrence 7y ago
In many states the DMV allows you to register to vote while obtaining your drivers license (or other state ID card).
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by abhorrence 7y ago
I think the important bit is that at some point a team has to say “this is ready to not be behind a flag”. At that point you can’t blame a bug on “oh that’s still being worked on” because then you’ll be asked why it’s not behind a flag.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
Craigslist has slowly changed over the years with little tweaks here and there. It’s really fun to go through the Wayback Machine on it when people bring it up as an example of something that hasn’t changed.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
If ADA compliant content requires more resources to produce, allowing something to remain in violation because it’s free seems like a great way to price ADA compliant content out of existence. That said, perhaps an improvement to the ADA wo
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by abhorrence 7y ago
> Is this why so many Apple products have been increasingly low-quality? Potentially, however the author makes another mistake: assuming that Apple, Google or Facebook actually know what they're launching at the time they set the da
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by abhorrence 7y ago
I think what you’re saying is true in the case where you apply it consistently to all people you talk about. When someone knows many people’s preference of pronouns but singles one out with “they”, name or avoidance of pronoun, that’s where
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by abhorrence 7y ago
Clinics are often only involved in the “getting pregnant” stage. They rely on reports of live birth to determine when they should stop using a particular donor.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
How does this work with institutions like Kaiser? Are their hospitals not technically hospitals? Or are the physicians all technically contractors there?
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by abhorrence 7y ago
You can run your own gateway instance(s) for a lot cheaper than the nat gateway service. There are definitely some tradeoffs, but if $36/mo is an issue, they can be worthwhile: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/lates
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by abhorrence 7y ago
Concrete takes time to dry. A thorough spec for software design quickly approaches actually writing the software, albeit likely not in code.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
Don't those steps effectively give away the vulnerability though?
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by abhorrence 7y ago
TypeScript actually handles the first example quite well. If you simply have a heterogenous array type, the type of its members will be the union type of `number | boolean | string`. If you’ve used a typed tuple, then the type after access
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Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby(sorbet.org)
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by abhorrence 7y ago
I use Docker on Mac, and know many others who do as well.
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by abhorrence 7y ago
> a variable holding a 1 can turn into a "1" and back This is true of Javascript, but not of Ruby. irb(main):001:)> 3 * "3" TypeError: String can't be coerced into Fixnum People commonly conflate dyna
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by abhorrence 8y ago
This code in particular won’t, since it relies on a particular extension of the x86 instruction set. I don’t believe Arduino compatible chips have simd instructions, but if they do, a similar approach could be taken.
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by abhorrence 8y ago
I’ve been through four keyboard failures, and my experience has been that the keys over the parts of the computer that get hot are more likely to fail. I suspect it takes (or at least is more likely with) a combination of heat and contamina
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by abhorrence 8y ago
If the number in caller id is accurate, it provides a decent reporting channel. It’d make it easier for telecom providers to take abuse reports and punish the abusive robodialers, whether by cutting them off or referring them to law enforce
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by abhorrence 8y ago
Could you link to some information about the database switch?
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by abhorrence 8y ago
This article seems full of points that a lay person might nod along with, yet don't hold up to scrutiny. > The fact is, if we accept Marriott’s statement that the breach began in 2014, the system would already have been operating se

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