aithoughts

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by aithoughts 9y ago
I agree. People who don't understand need to know that big / Retina displays are not accessible to people who, let's say it, are poor immigrant geniuses who only have access to a 1024*768. Terminals are 80x24, and even system
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by aithoughts 9y ago
> Just because systems exist today that are bringing to your attention every single problem known to man doesn't mean you need to be involved in the solutions that are above your paygrade. Ironically, these are the same systems that
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by aithoughts 9y ago
That is odd indeed. I had the opposite experience a few years ago when I had a broken iPhone. I tried to give my account (iCloud) password but the clerk (Genius) stopped me and said "No, just the phone PIN so we can unlock it."
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by aithoughts 9y ago
I would go with something outside the US. Like Mullvad (cheap + same-day email support) or / AirVPN (better UI, slightly more expensive). If you go on reddit.com/r/VPN you'll find detailed info on which ones have which f
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Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses: Performance Results on Parallel Computers (1991) [pdf](crd-legacy.lbl.gov)
3 points by aithoughts 9y ago|0 comments
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by aithoughts 9y ago
Setting your wake-up time isn't enough? I am new to Flux but unless they introduced this feature in the last 6 days, I don't understand your critique.
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by aithoughts 10y ago
I disagree. This is an analysis piece. Its arguments are properly supported.
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by aithoughts 10y ago
I disagree for a very simple reason: Screening is not being carried out properly. http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover... I think we suffer from authority bias on this one.
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by aithoughts 10y ago
Why is it rubbish? Would you please elaborate?
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by aithoughts 10y ago
> this is clearly motivated by economical considerations more than security. Can you elaborate?
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by aithoughts 10y ago
Privacy is weighed against public safety all the time. The question is at which point does it become unreasonable. Warrantless searches of American individuals just so happens to be where we, as Americans, draw the line. On the other hand,
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New York City sues Verizon over unfinished fiber rollout(cnet.com)
3 points by aithoughts 10y ago|0 comments
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by aithoughts 10y ago
I'm surprised most people don't think like this. I think that we have a cultural problem. People chose to take out loans for their tertiary education because of our beliefs in the tertiary educational system. College is to get a j
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by aithoughts 10y ago
As a percentage, how many US colleges would you say are excluded from the opportunities provided by "rigorous course of study"? Would you say you could get this kind of rigorous study at any university? If not, how many (as a pe
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by aithoughts 10y ago
Well, like you said, it really depends on what you'll be doing. Granted, there are different paths one's trajectory will take, and you won't know them in advance. On the other hand though, I wouldn't presume to write my
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by aithoughts 10y ago
None. At least not on the first 9 months. Mostly it has been about performance, data structures, algorithms, and time complexities. So far, the first part (9 months) the focus is mostly on practical project-based learning and skills for dev
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by aithoughts 10y ago
This may or may not scale but I've been lucky to be part of a startup program that roughly matches your description of a "better option". It's a 2-year program; I was, and still am, part of their experimental first class
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by aithoughts 10y ago
Interesting. Your use of `git commit -am` resounded with me. I can't stand doing `git add .` ; `git commit -m "message"`; `git push`. I aliased "commit" to "ci" in git-config, and then do `git ci -am &quot
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by aithoughts 10y ago
Ironically, Germany is quite strong on privacy laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz
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by aithoughts 10y ago
> It follows that constant enforcement is contingent on constant supervision I think I've found that it's neither necessary nor sufficient. Constant enforcement just means that you give the ticket no matter who you stopped.
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by aithoughts 10y ago
Yes! In the book Rationality: From AI to Zombies [1], Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about this as the "availability" bias (Chapter 5.) [1] https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/
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by aithoughts 10y ago
I think people like this were that way before they had kids.
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by aithoughts 10y ago
> I think you don't understand the implications here. My knowledge and familiarity with the US and South America more than likely doesn't supersede yours. I think we can agree that the implications of a war with Russia far outw
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by aithoughts 10y ago
I think there is an implicit assumption that your last sentence is justification for condoning this type of hacking behavior, when it happens to us. I challenge this. Just because the US has meddled in elections in the past, it doesn't
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by aithoughts 10y ago
You have to set it up.
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by aithoughts 10y ago
> is a great problem to have ;) Your comment is inspiring. The question then becomes, how much of your project's worth, as a percentage, are they going to come after you for?
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by aithoughts 10y ago
Type "chrome referer control" into Google. The rest is you.
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by aithoughts 10y ago
I always feel like an oddball for calling my driver to make it more convenient for him (and faster for me) to pick me up. I usually Lyft line it though, so it's just a time boost (price is the same either way).
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GTX 1080 Graphics Card – DisplayPort 1.3/1.4 Ready(geforce.com)
3 points by aithoughts 10y ago|0 comments
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A Raspberry Pi dashcam with two cameras and a GPS(pidashcam.blogspot.com)
167 points by aithoughts 11y ago|85 comments

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