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by almog 5y ago
This just goes to demonstrate what might be triggering these false positive auto-moderation, but it shouldn't justify it. What I mean is that if the model they use for flagging would infer that legit spam (comments to a post by Justin
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by almog 5y ago
Lacking grain, it probably only has the texture and general color of wood, but not the properties provided by the wood grain, nor its aesthetics.
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by almog 6y ago
I stopped using Google Photos after a bug I experienced few years ago when I configured my phone to upload everything to Photos and remove local copies: I knew photos are not exact copy and will be kept up to a certain resolution, yet some
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by almog 6y ago
> I mean, is there any inherent upside to burning tons of energy for games vs burning it for a cryptocurrency? You presume the total energy consumption would be the same whereas it'd be more likely that GPUs that are used for mining
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by almog 6y ago
The same debate is going over in the Pyrenees regarding reintroduction of bears. Farmers fear for their sheep (seem to be especially the case on the French side from what I've gathered) but guard dogs seem to reduce their losses tremen
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by almog 6y ago
On that note, what does aggressive even mean as an adjective to a predator?
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by almog 6y ago
I'm not saying that it's as good as egg white meringue, but have you tried using non-canned aquafaba? The non canned option has more neutral taste in my opinion. When I cook chickpeas (for Hummus) I sometime boil it twice - the fi
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by almog 6y ago
Exactly so, if they can actually read, understand, internalize and apply the dense content that CLRS delivers, 5 chapters a day (and mind you, he mentioned some of the more dense chapters in one of these 5 chapters days), that would have ma
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by almog 6y ago
> CLRS is over 1000 very dense pages. I assume the author just did a fairly casual reading and didn't work through many problems. When I saw his day to day plan include things like chapters 22-26 of CLRS, I thought the same and casu
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by almog 6y ago
They make that point exactly (and mention Drake equation of course) along with other possible explanations such as that it might be the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself, in what is probably my favorite This American Life #617 —
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by almog 6y ago
While not being a bad idea, I think that any advantage of this method and double/triple locking your password manager (by an additional encryption layer) falls into the category of warm-fuzzy-feeling-of-security. Also, while unlikely t
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by almog 6y ago
TIL these two lines (to get an integer absolute value without branching) are _patented_ : int const mask = v >> sizeof(int) * CHAR_BIT - 1; r = (v ^ mask) - mask;
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by almog 6y ago
Notable changes in the new edition: colored diagrams, two new chapters: 1. Hashing and randomized algorithms. 2. Divide and conquer.
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The Algorithm Design Manual 3rd edition (2020)(springer.com)
3 points by almog 6y ago|1 comments
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by almog 6y ago
Got it now. I wonder if it's likely that a deputy sheriff would keep a record of such encounter, during which I assume, they might ask a hiker to provide identifying details.
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by almog 6y ago
Right, you might have to pitch early or late to find a decent camping ground, but that would only apply the Alabama road walking part (which is 220 mile long and part of it goes through forests so it's even less). I still think that wo
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by almog 6y ago
Very interesting! The ECT (Eastern Continental Trail) links Pinhoti Trail with Florida Trail (through some road walking in Alabama) and further north part of Benton MacKaye Trail in Georgia until Mt. Springer where it takes on the AT. Given
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by almog 6y ago
Right, that's the exact model you should look for, InReach is the term they use to describe their whole sat-messaging line. By the way, they also have an API you can hook into. I once was toying with the idea of implementing a compact
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by almog 6y ago
I'm not sure how well his makeshift snowshoes performed, but the journal of his account during the time he waited for someone to find him portray him as more resourceful than most hikers I've met. As to his distance from civiliza
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by almog 6y ago
The key thing about a signalling mirror is that it can be useful _if someone is searching for you_ (and provided that you have clear sky above you). PLB or satellite messengers will not only let the first responders know where you are (both
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by almog 6y ago
I see now. I wonder if what Florida police took as 10 miles a day was in Florida or on the A.T. It probably makes for a big difference as the Florida Trail is much flatter and the terrain should be easier though I'm not sure the middl
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by almog 6y ago
I love how sometimes worlds collide and thruhiking related stories make it to HN. It is however sad for it to be in this context. If anyone reading this consider getting into long distance hiking, I'd encourage you to do so. While it i
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by almog 6y ago
> "was only able to hike 10 miles a day" Where is this quote from? It's not from the linked article. > "10 mi / day is absolutely abysmal for a normal thru hiker." To the best of my understanding, unless
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by almog 6y ago
Same, have been looking for a slightly different use case: Using RPi as a video capture card that takes an HDMI input and outputs H.264. Even better would have been to implement it as a UVC device that can be plugged in as a video source. I
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by almog 6y ago
I have a use case where I'm using 6 different amazon accounts which I'd have loved to use with containers controlled by bookmarks (I use Firefox keyword bookmarks a lot for productivity). The best out of the box way you could do i
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by almog 6y ago
>> You are likely missing some context about the choice If it's a product/business decision and you care about that aspect of your work, dig down and understand the context, otherwise, before long you're likely to grow
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by almog 6y ago
For anyone looking to get better in CP/algorithms, I'd highly recommend watching Algorithms Live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBLr7ISa_YDy5qeATupf26w
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by almog 6y ago
The article is not available unless you submit to subscribing to Medium. Yes, it's free (free as in paying by feeding them with your data), but thanks, no thanks.
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by almog 6y ago
I am not familiar with the numbers, but do they represent carbon trapped in the forest's plants or in the forest as a whole (that includes the soil as well). The latter has an accumulative nature in regard to the soil trapped carbon be
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by almog 6y ago
Thinking about it a bit more, perhaps one reason to a condenser in this scenario is to easily hide the mic from the video. It's doable with a well a dynamic mic and some composition work too though.

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