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by asperous 7y ago
This is talked about in the book "Peopleware", that states the opposite. Imposing tight deadlines often stresses people out, causing them to miss creative solutions that would save time. Instead they chose the obvious, longer, saf
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by asperous 7y ago
There's actually a lot easier ways of cheating on tests than that even. Teachers still have to watch their students, the solution is just designed to reduce the temptation for the average student to cheat.
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by asperous 7y ago
Look up the self app lock. That's the feature I just tested on my personal device that worked fine
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by asperous 7y ago
I just tried it on mine and it worked fine.
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by asperous 7y ago
> Now if Apple/Android made a simple way for a test proctor to put your phone into a single app only that you couldn't easily break out of, maybe things will change. Apple actually supports this: "When you give a test to y
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by asperous 7y ago
Disclaimer I am not a medical scientist: but I'd like to understand more about how they found the participants. It strikes me that people who perform meditation might be different than whatever controls they were able to find. The fact
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by asperous 7y ago
How else could they do it though? They'd have to telling drivers they can't work or scheduling them, otherwise there'd be a flood of people chilling in their cars waiting on rides and being paid by uber. The "gig" e
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by asperous 7y ago
What matters more then operations is customers. Operations just makes amazon a low cost leader and in that regard sure. But Shopify can beat Amazon through the platform of independents providing more selection and brand connection that may
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by asperous 7y ago
If you look up "how much I make on youtube" videos you can see creator's dashboards to give you some evidence. The answer is that it varies vastly depending on audience, county, topic and advertiser's interest. "$0
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by asperous 7y ago
> What they should do is collectively take their content somewhere else. The problem is the economics won't be any better anywhere else. Youtube is the way it is because of all the many stakeholders (viewers responding to clickbait,
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by asperous 7y ago
Python has a compiler without dropping into C (cython).. but it's mostly used these days for glue code between c and Python, or for small bits of code that need extra optimization. There is also Rpython and pypy
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by asperous 7y ago
"as a path to AGI" anyone else disagree with this? Creating a highly efficient compressor seems very much not AGI
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From what I understand psychiatrists are one of the highest paying professions
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by asperous 7y ago
Video game engines often have plugin systems like this that listen for hooks or events and can act on them. It does make extremely complex things a bit more simple. But the chart in graph 1 still applies, often when adding new functionality
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by asperous 7y ago
I'm not big into politics but my understanding is these click bait bills are drafted and thrown out on a weekly basis. The purpose of these bills that will never pass is so when people try to get re-elected they can say things like &qu
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by asperous 7y ago
People this with problem I feel like are avoiding the core problem. You can schedule this task and put it on your calendar and let the person know. Or if you don't have time, let them know. If you are consistently over-allocated you ne
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by asperous 7y ago
The current headline seems to imply more than what's actually happening. What's happening is when google hears "ok google" the recording is saved and may be manually reviewed for ML training purposes. The problem is hear
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by asperous 7y ago
In those rare occasions in sublime text I select all, cmd+k, cmd+u. If I was typing all-cap constants, I just type the variable in lowercase and use the autocomplete feature
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by asperous 7y ago
There's probably an ideal system down the route of more high tech, but in the real world they would never be implemented perfectly. As complexity increases so does room for security issues. I don't see the problem with striking a
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by asperous 7y ago
Reminds me of: https://www.gislounge.com/map-traps-intentional-mapping-erro...
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by asperous 7y ago
According to [1] it's both, but it makes the problem worse for people that fall into it. [1]: https://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/addiction.pdf
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by asperous 7y ago
What other cryptocurrencies are trying to solve is making transactions anonymous and hidden by default. You can hide your identity and tumble your coins to achieve both in bitcoin if you know what you are doing. But there are plenty of stor
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by asperous 7y ago
My undergrad capstone was working on this project, specifically looking into if researchers could use imagery data as a way of answering research questions quickly. I found that they they prefer to just use the raw data. It was actually pre
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by asperous 7y ago
Their FAQ is a little confusing because it implies the replacement is Amazon Prime Video.. but it makes sense if you know that the history of these products was a way to submit scripts to Amazon. I tried both tools and the StoryBuilder seem
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Amazon Shutting Down Storywriter and Storybuilder(studios.amazon.com)
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by asperous 8y ago
Archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20190406050632/https://www.reddi... https://archive.fo/V3vsK
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by asperous 8y ago
Makes sense, Visa isn't a bank per se so they don't want to carry the default risk and make worthiness decisions. I wonder what the split between Goldman Sachs / Apple is.
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by asperous 8y ago
There's also the revenue on interest for people who keep a balance (often 10-30% apr). I don't know how much would go back to Apple after the default risk, but its something to keep in mind for unit economics.
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by asperous 8y ago
I think the attack looks like, two transactions at the same time, one sending to exchange or merchant, one sending elsewhere (back to owner). Keep orphan chain open long enough for merchant to send goods or exchange to payout. Then release
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by asperous 8y ago
iPhones already have this feature if you hold your phone up to your ear. There is a microphone in the back of the phone near the camera that phase cancels out background noise from the input from the front mic.

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