aliasEli

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by aliasEli 5y ago
The great tragedy of philosophy is that every time it gives some useful answers the topic ceases to be philosophical. Mathematics and logic were initially developed by philosophers. Modern science is a clear result of natural philosophy. Th
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Oops, forgot this: I for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
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The quality of AI generated text has been greatly improving in recent years. It has become really difficult to distinguish it from the average post on social media. I guess this means that AI systems can now pass the Turing test.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This skimmer looks like it is mass produced. The skimmer is used to read the magnetic stripe on the card. But the criminals also need the PIN code. So the criminals probably installed a camera somewhere or tampered with the keypad.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
With many journalists you have the experience that they are pretty good unless they are writing on something on which you're an expert. Ed Yong is a really good journalist, his articles are very good at explaining complicated subjects.
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The Essential Ed Yong Reading List(theatlantic.com)
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This article is a good example of things that might work in theory will probably not work in practice. It is also a very positive example of giving correct headlines to an article.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
> Don’t be GUI-first or CLI-first; be API-first. This is very good advice for all systems. First try to describe the domain before implementing the user interface.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I strongly suggest that you take a good look at git-annex[0]. git-annex manages (possible very large) files and helps you to copy/move them between different storage location, e.g. usb sticks or hard drives (actually it supports far mo
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This contains some pretty decent guidelines on how to help users of your web-sites. Unfortunately, when building a web-site for some customer, your payment will mainly depend on the satisfaction of the customer but not on the satisfaction o
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by aliasEli 5y ago
All monkeys (except for one species) do have hair all over their body. It is very useful to protect their skin from external influences like cancer causing UV radiation and heat/cold. So it is not at all surprising that humans have som
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I don't believe that using a <div> as a button is good practice for building accessible websites.
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This list omits the most important metric for Amazon reviewers: How much are they paid?
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It seems unlikely. Children have a lot of direct physical contact with other children. Infections of children will frequently go undetected because they often don't show symptoms. So we can only realistically have herd immunity if all
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Contrary to what a lot of people believe, it is actually pretty difficult to go from rags to riches in the USA, compared to other countries. One of the reasons is the low inheritance tax. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/comme
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This article discusses "nuclear" but does not include the word "fusion". Likewise, it discusses several countries, but it does not include "north korea".
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Everybody can read Hacker News without any registration. A lot of people that read HN know that almost all registrations are used to harvest their personal data. Others simply won't use a site that needs too much effort. If you really
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by aliasEli 5y ago
At first I thought this was some kind of parody. After reading some of the other articles I realized that the author was really fond of dropping garbage (code) anywhere without any considerations about its effects. Yes, this is really codin
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I have not really looked into its contents, but a course that suggests Christopher Nolan's "Memento" as additional material certainly sounds interesting.
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What I found a bit disappointing in this article is that it never mentions (structured) comments. Frequently, it is not feasible to find a simple name that describes a function. Many languages have some convention for documenting functions&
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I don't think that we know much about his current private life. Some time ago he "disappeared" for a rather long time.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Like several commenters pointed out, using separate systems seems the best approach for the short term. I suggest that you first implement the system for multiple schools before re-architecting your system. Your will have better understandi
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by aliasEli 5y ago
If you are in the EU I would definitely advise to use separate databases due to privacy laws (GDPR). This also keeps your database and queries simpler because you don't need to use a separate a separate tenant ID column.
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At first sight their service appears to be legal. However, when you are using their service on some website you may well be violating the EULA of that site. I am a bit surprised that they are a UK company. I would have expected some poorer
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is pretty scary than such a low mass is sufficient to infect a huge group, when you consider that one of its variants could be used as a biological weapon.
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There is a bit more info in the abstract of their Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03528-w
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Who needs this? I also see some technical problems. The watch can be detached from the frame on the wrist. It does not seem easy to design a robust and small mechanism for this. Also it has to deal with sweat and dirt.
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Lyme is a pretty nasty disease. I know several people who had it and some took more than one year to recover and some that still have residual effects. In the Netherlands ticks are fairly common and approximately 1 in 5 ticks carry the dise
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by aliasEli 5y ago
In South Korea I visited Dorasan station that is on the train line between South and North Korea. That train line has only been used a few times, for obvious reasons. At the moment I visited Dorasan. it was not really used. So there was thi
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Just have some patience. From TFA: > They have nine years, as it turns out, to get this trial > done, and I feel safe in predicting that it’s going to take > alllll niiiiine loooong sloooow years to get this done.

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