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by atdt 5y ago
If you're using emacs as an IDE, what advantage do you get from using LispWorks over the free alternatives like SBCL?
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by atdt 5y ago
The person or persons, at the NRO or whatever other clandestine agency, who championed this donation, over what must have been very considerable hand-wringing about the consequences of giving this technology to civilians, are very fine peop
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by atdt 5y ago
You can take an online test for aphantasia (the VVIQ, or Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire) here: https://aphantasia.com/vviq/
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by atdt 5y ago
It's astonishing that searching for a file name by substring across a file system is still not instantaneous on most systems. On my laptop (a 2GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5), `find / -iname ' quux ' takes 2 minutes to find
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by atdt 5y ago
Forget Y Combinator -- come build the next great surveillance start-up at the IDF's Unit 8200, the world's greatest hacker school and incubator for mass surveillance start-ups. With generous subsidies from US taxpayers, Unit 8200
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Proposal for a Performance Team(make.wordpress.org)
1 points by atdt 5y ago|0 comments
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by atdt 5y ago
By default Git keeps inaccessible/orphaned objects for two weeks before they are garbage-collected.
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by atdt 5y ago
It used to be slightly faster in Python 2, because True could be reassigned, so its value had to be loaded and checked with every iteration.
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by atdt 5y ago
Regulation E does not waive consumers' liability for unauthorized transactions; it merely limits the amount of liability. The liability limit increases sharply if the consumer does not report the fraud within 48 hours.
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by atdt 5y ago
There are billions of people who are adept at using cell phones but have never owned a personal computer. Some of them can afford Apple products, but may not have thought they needed or wanted a different form factor before this year. Apple
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by atdt 5y ago
Individual contributor. A software engineer who does not manage.
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by atdt 5y ago
Only Quebec.
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Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment(meta.wikimedia.org)
88 points by atdt 5y ago|56 comments
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by atdt 5y ago
How long did it take you to go through the program? Any advice / regrets?
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by atdt 5y ago
To echo a comment I made a couple of months ago: "why not simply..." is a way of thinking out loud and providing an opening for someone more knowledgeable to explain what is being overlooked. It makes for interesting threads.
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by atdt 5y ago
How?
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by atdt 5y ago
I read that sentence as applying to security-critical software. i.e., I don't think the author would insist that Quake II be rewritten in Rust.
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by atdt 5y ago
I can't load the article, but I found this piece published by the Times in 2019: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-de... It describes Broeksmit as "an unemployed rock mu
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by atdt 5y ago
It looks like Python libraries are somewhat over-represented here because they credited every library in the Python dependency graph, but didn't do the same for dependencies in other languages. For example: lxml depends on libxml and l
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by atdt 5y ago
By my count, six of the sixty projects cited were initiated by the amazing Armin Ronacher (aka mitsuhiko), whose genius for designing and implementing clean, intuitive library interfaces has, for the past decade or so, been a boon to the wo
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by atdt 6y ago
Speaking of IRC and the Gulf War, I remember reading somewhere that the US Army was using IRC and at one point it was used to coordinate airstrikes. I don't have a source for this, and it certainly sounds fantastical, but maybe someone
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by atdt 6y ago
It's a way of thinking out loud and providing an opening for someone more knowledgeable to explain what is being overlooked. It makes for interesting threads.
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by atdt 6y ago
Frustratingly, support for Google Photos in rclone is handicapped by the limitations of the Google Photos API: you can't download Photos at original resolution. This is documented on your second link.
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by atdt 6y ago
https://mashable.com/article/damian-lillard-hulu-deepfake-co...
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by atdt 6y ago
Public shaming can be remarkably effective and does not preclude legal action later on if shame itself is insufficient.
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The Troublesome Twelve Circle Problem(demonstrations.wolfram.com)
2 points by atdt 6y ago|0 comments
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by atdt 6y ago
His answer to "what do we know so far?" is that "the most impressive research" was an experiment with no control, conducted by a start-up, which then published the results on their company blog. OK, next.
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by atdt 6y ago
Fischer Random Chess (aka Chess960) is meant to address exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess It has a large online following.
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by atdt 6y ago
Bluffing would be very risky, if turned out the attacker really was a high school kid, or the exploit was trivial. I am inclined to believe them.
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by atdt 6y ago
You can rewrite responses from upstream servers and omit the parts you don't like, like ads.

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