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by avnigo 5y ago
I considered building a tool to have running that would capture WiFi/Bluetooth addresses of those around in case of a burglary, but I figured most devices anonymize their addresses nowadays.
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by avnigo 5y ago
I recently came across the API issue too; from their page on APIs [0] > Goodreads no longer issues new developer keys for our public developer API and plans to retire the current version of these tools. I generally find that I trust thei
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by avnigo 5y ago
Do journals coordinate the peer review, or does that happen prior to the submission to the journal? I was under the impression it's journals that get the peer review process going.
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Solving Battleship with Approximate Bayesian Computation and Thompson Sampling(austinrochford.com)
4 points by avnigo 5y ago|0 comments
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by avnigo 5y ago
> ZyCoV-D, which is administered into the skin without an injection This is wrong. It is administered with an injection, just not a needle.
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by avnigo 5y ago
The article does not talk about the legality of submitting fake info, or more specifically batch submitting forms like that. As far as I can tell, it refers to a government website (I can't actually access the website from my location)
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Activist shares script to flood Texas abortion whistleblower site with fake info(vice.com)
37 points by avnigo 5y ago|20 comments
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What does it mean when a company says, “we do not sell your data”?(themarkup.org)
18 points by avnigo 5y ago|5 comments
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by avnigo 5y ago
So, what I understood is that universities are happy to reap the rewards from the research of their academics, but not help their academics financially to get their research done. It seems to me that some research areas may yield benefits a
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by avnigo 5y ago
I think the sentiment it was trying to get across is that many projects don't have documentation because the task of creating great documentation may seem daunting, so in a sense just saying at least have something. I'm taking it
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by avnigo 5y ago
Here's some information on Matrix too, I've only heard about it, but never looked into it or used it: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction
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by avnigo 5y ago
What you wrote reminded me of an article on the bike helmet paradox: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/the-bike-...
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by avnigo 5y ago
Interesting use of the example image, I wonder if Apple is thinking of iMessage on the web, after we've seen FaceTime for the browser. I wouldn't have thought it a possibility, but it's strange they used that example.
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by avnigo 5y ago
> Google [...] would reduce the pay of those who choose to work remotely or move farther from the office. Avoiding the office saves employees money — in commuting costs, for example I don't understand the reasoning behind this, and
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by avnigo 5y ago
I understood systemd-timers require you to set up a service unit (please correct me if I'm wrong), so I find it easier and quicker to just add a line to the cron table, especially for a quick and dirty script I want run every so often.
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by avnigo 5y ago
Great, thank you!
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by avnigo 5y ago
Link of 'Things you should never do' article for reference: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by avnigo 5y ago
I was wondering what the motivation behind this would be, and I guess this would make sense.
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by avnigo 5y ago
Here's the discussion on the article that may have inspired this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191639
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by avnigo 5y ago
Anyone know what logging/printing library exploit.py is using in that first embedded video?
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Domino Robot Trajectory Generation(baucomrobotics.com)
36 points by avnigo 5y ago|1 comments
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Zoom dysmorphia is following us into the real world(wired.co.uk)
4 points by avnigo 5y ago|0 comments
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by avnigo 5y ago
> However, the problem is becoming much more endemic lately, with everyone on the hunt for more data, more accounts, and a level of access to a computer that would make it seem like they’re using it as a giant bullseye for everyone on th
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by avnigo 5y ago
That's why we have the manual human reviewers, you see.
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by avnigo 5y ago
Veritasium talks about thumbnail and title experimentation on YouTube, and argues for the need to do so on platforms that surface up and recommend content to users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
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by avnigo 5y ago
I don't know what I was expecting, but those really are pretty maps! I was hoping for some more documentation apart from the usage examples, although those are much appreciated too.
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by avnigo 5y ago
Having a GitHub etc. you can share with prospective employers really goes a long way.
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by avnigo 5y ago
I've experienced HN to be highly anti-Bitcoin for some reason -- got instantly downvoted for commenting neutrally on it [0]. However, I sort of expected more people on here would sympathize with the Cypherpunk Manifesto [1] and band to
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by avnigo 5y ago
And they expect we'll just sit idly by and be surveilled? https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
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by avnigo 5y ago
This is really the biggest problem with Excel portability: feature fragmentation . While these new features seem exciting, I don't expect to use them anytime soon if I'm planning on sharing my work with others because it's n

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