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by bede 3y ago
Title should be suffixed with (2005)
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by bede 4y ago
Thanks for this, I'm currently using both Duo to Microsoft authenticator, and the lack of firm reassurance about the backup mechanisms in each of these makes me uneasy. I'd frankly prefer a vault with a model similar to BitWarden&
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by bede 5y ago
The seatbelt is an excellent example since there are multiple mechanisms with varying observability contributing to its effectiveness. Even after discovering the dynamic locking behaviour, a naive yet inquisitive passenger remains blind to
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by bede 5y ago
As a legal layman, is this possible class action territory?
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by bede 6y ago
I do editable installs every day with setup.py – what is your point? Poetry is a very interesting third party solution to these issues, but not a best practice. Best practices matter in packaging.
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by bede 6y ago
Thanks, donated.
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by bede 6y ago
Core dev Larry Hastings [0] puts it well. The cost-benefit case for this complicated language feature is limited. "I dislike the syntax and semantics expressed in PEP 634. I see the match statement as a DSL contrived to look like Pytho
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by bede 6y ago
Homebrew and its excellent community was once indispensible on the Mac, but various pain points including this flakiness made me switch to (mini)conda for nearly everything, despite initial apprehension. There are some wrinkles and the reso
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by bede 6y ago
My guess is that this is somehow linked to iCloud device handoff, which does all kinds of questionable stuff [0] on e.g. device wake. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.10600.pdf
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by bede 6y ago
It has been my daily for several years on MacOS and is quite reliable. Lack of true chromeless fullscreen browsing is annoying.
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by bede 6y ago
Great work. This is easily among the most elegant Python plotting APIs for exploratory data analysis. Seaborn is a fantastic tool but I sympathise with the author's frustrations with it. Excellent documentation, but as others have sai
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by bede 6y ago
The global sequencing effort makes this reasonably straightforward to study. While the prevalance of different strains does vary geographically, new international tranmission events occur so frequently that most places have a handful of c
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by bede 8y ago
Fire is an interesting project that's great for testing and hacking. But for crafting Python CLIs from scratch, I fail to understand why Argh[0] doesn't receive more attention. My only frustrations are a missing default handler fo
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by bede 8y ago
Having recently persuaded my research group leader not to spend >£500 on Endnote licenses, this comment tickled me. It may even be the case that Endnote is now a largely functional piece of software, but its history is too exquisite an e
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by bede 9y ago
Perhaps the HN community could avoid sending pageviews to ostensibly homophobic [0], racist [1] and generally vile establishments in the future? I realise this article is none of these things, but it seems unlikely that there would not be a
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by bede 9y ago
I agree – it's interesting how one is initially drawn to, yet eventually tires of these sorts of plot styles. While Seaborn strikes a good balance, clear and simple monochrome plots never go out of fashion. This is just as much the cas
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by bede 10y ago
While on the topic of confidence intervals, has anyone encountered a package capable of generating multinomial confidence intervals similar to CRAN's MultinomialCI? I've yet to find a Python solution.
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by bede 10y ago
Perhaps LinkedIn will use fewer evil antipatterns now that its ownership has something resembling a reputation to uphold.
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by bede 11y ago
Is anybody aware of plans for a web API to allow reassignment of media keys? Clearly it would require strict permissions so as not to be abused, but it could be really useful.
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by bede 11y ago
I feel obliged to once again refer to Home Secretary Theresa May's on-record statement to a government committee only seven days ago: "The UK does not undertake mass surveillance". Make of this what you will.
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by bede 11y ago
Given that our Home Secretary recently stated that 'the UK does not undertake mass surveillance' to the investigatory powers government committee, I can't see this having any semblance of an effect (over here, at least).
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by bede 11y ago
> It might serve to partition search space for another more expensive algorithm This is what we're doing. We're working on approaches for performing nucleotide sequence alignment using approximate time series representations of
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by bede 11y ago
T-Mobile UK (now largely assimilated by the EE mothership) comprehensively denied the existence of an 18-hours-a-day 4mbps throttle placed on its unlimited plans [1] for several years before getting in trouble with the regulators. As far as
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by bede 11y ago
Self-tuning systems are inherently complex and opaque. Execution tends to be non-deterministic and irreproducible, and so the burden of testing is far greater. It takes some discipline to write elegant, loosely coupled code that is self-tun
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by bede 12y ago
Although many packages are still source only, Homebrew has an initiative for packaging (or 'bottling') larger tools into binaries for convenience. It can always be overridden with --build-from-source
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by bede 12y ago
Living in Manchester, this amuses me too. This discussion is very reminiscent of the debate over skeuomorphic user interfaces. As with the transition from physical interfaces to virtual ones, which has drawn interface designers towards the
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by bede 12y ago
Yes, this seems to be necessary for using Imagesnap with more recent Apple devices.
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by bede 12y ago
Yes – I had a good listen to a friend's Studio headphones in 2010. They were not bad and I understand why the sound appeals to some – I just thought they represented terrible value for money. IIRC they cost >£200 in 2010. This parti
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by bede 12y ago
Does anyone else feel that this deal tarnishes their perception of the Apple brand? I struggle to think of a brand of consumer electronics for which I have more contempt than Beats Electronics (and Monster Cable, who once manufactured all B
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by bede 12y ago
My favourite blog post of 2014. Thank you for sharing.

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