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by adekok 11y ago
I worked on SNO for my masters, helping to build the water purification systems. The goal was one atom of impurity per cubic metre of water. It made distilled water look filthy. :) Everyone knew that if we got it to work, Arthur would win
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by adekok 11y ago
> Why do you really want to duplicate work and write, test, debug, maintain... a FLIF decoder yourself? Because multiple implementations are useful.
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by adekok 11y ago
> A common refrain you hear from law enforcement is "ignorance of the law is no protection from breaking it." > > But what if it was? It is for police and judges. See what happens if a policeman gives you a bogus ticket.
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by adekok 11y ago
Github took the intelligent approach of separating identity from authorization . You have your own identity, which doesn't change. On top of that, you have a set of authorization permissions which can be updated, added to, and de
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by adekok 11y ago
> This is probably too hard to ask every company to do the same, as it would exclude smaller companies who don't have the resources (this takes a lot of time and development!) What's hard about "Backup to google drive &#x2
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by adekok 11y ago
> The fact that the copyright is dead does not necessarily mean licensing contracts are also void. i.e. licensing something you don't own and have no rights to is fine, legally speaking. The more I learn about the law, the more
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by adekok 11y ago
As an implementor using OpenSSL, I like this. It has a simple API, and is clearly documented. I wish all security improvements were as simple and easy.
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by adekok 11y ago
Eron is the ex-boyfriend of Zoey Quinn, the person who's actions touched off GamerGate. Whether you're pro-GG or anti-GG, his update is new information about the subject.
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Hey Guys, Eron here with a legal update(np.reddit.com)
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by adekok 11y ago
> If the rules for the weekend are the "team decides" you can't just go claiming ownership of stuff you did for the team. That's a nice opinion. But as you say, it's a "rule". It's not the law. A
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by adekok 11y ago
> I'm not sure the licensing response would work in the case of the code developed over the course of a startup weekend event. You can always license any code you wrote. > How do teams address the issue of IP/ownership? As w
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by adekok 11y ago
> The best predictor of university physics scores is...wait for it.... university physics scores. <sigh> And how do you predict university physics scores for people who've never been to university? It's pretty obvious th
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by adekok 11y ago
I think his response to someone suddenly "owning" the company is odd. Here's what my response would have been: ---- Hi, Billy. Thanks for telling us about your other company with your friend. I'm a little disappointed
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by adekok 11y ago
It's been twenty years since I saw that... google doesn't offer anything useful.
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by adekok 11y ago
As a related note, the best predictor of university physics scores is high school English scores. Why? Because physics is about making a conceptual model. i.e. telling a story about a problem. And then solving it. For interviewing, com
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by adekok 11y ago
> With such powerful tools as LLVM, a new ISA can even be designed and implemented with all the tooling by a very small team. The Mill team defines their ISA and encoding manually, and then programmatically generates the compiler, assemb
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by adekok 11y ago
What makes you think I'm not already a parent?
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by adekok 11y ago
> The second strategy is to be so good at this as to believe in your lies/stories you're telling. That is harder than it sounds. Even sociopaths have a hard time outright lying. Or keeping lies straight. The technique being u
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by adekok 11y ago
And no, I don't recommend lying to border guards. :(
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by adekok 11y ago
There are ways to work around this. The key is to not lie, but to tell a different truth. I used to do this in high school, when my parents were grilling me. Friday night: go out with quiet friends. Saturday AM questioning: "How w
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by adekok 11y ago
Uncorroborated accomplice testimony is insufficient to convict someone. See https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/calcrim/500/708.html , among others. Why was he convicted? Because the law matters only w
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by adekok 11y ago
Alkali metals react in water because of coulomb explosions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfQSV4ygHE The explanation was only discovered this year.
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by adekok 11y ago
Thousands of people have been trying for 50 years. Every model they've tried has turned out to be wrong. It's easy to say "come up with better explanations". It's not very helpful, though.
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by adekok 11y ago
The analogy is more this: Take a coin and split it in two. One side has heads, the other has tails. The key thing is you don't look at the two halves . Now, take one half at random, and send it to a person very far away. Too far aw
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by adekok 11y ago
The question of meaning is a question for philosophers. Physicists deal with what they can model / explain. > They are obviously "communicating" somehow. The mechanism is simply unknown. The mechanism is the "vir
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by adekok 11y ago
The "virtual" particles are intended to avoid the "action at a distance" issue with fields. The virtual particles are place-holders for calculations. They came about from looking at the philosophical problem of "Wh
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by adekok 11y ago
> McCarthy was a bit overzealous but honestly I don't see the issue with it. Some people are unable to learn from the lessons of others. Remind me to turn you in as a communist / whatever in the next round of inquisitions. The
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by adekok 11y ago
> So then maybe it wasn't important? (I don't know, i'm just suggesting maybe this goal was not as important to the business as you think it was. :P) "let the managers run the company into the ground." This was f
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by adekok 11y ago
> after reading that post, my prob that the author is a very difficult person is 0.995. Or maybe higher. Oh, quite possibly. That doesn't negate the idea that perhaps their managers goals were opposite to Amazon's goals.
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by adekok 11y ago
> That's great. It's not your company :) Seriously. No, what I meant was your explanation of the outcome is unsatisfactory. All of the outcomes you described are negative. I don't believe that all choices result in nega

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