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by burke 11y ago
So according to that (or a quick skim thereof), it's not the overall colour temperature, but the intensity of absorbed light in the ~480nm range. In other words, dimming the screen should be at least somewhat effective.
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by burke 11y ago
At my school, it was made very explicit that you'd be immediately expelled for plagiarism (subject to appeal, IIRC, but yes: One strike.)
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by burke 11y ago
I haven't read any research on this, but this feels incorrect. If this is true, staring at red-tinged floodlight should do less to keep you awake than looking at a blue LED with masking tape over it. It feels more likely that this is r
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by burke 11y ago
(IANAL and I haven't even read the document) My interpretation of that has been to safeguard against a smaller country or two dropping out: For example, if NZ bailed at the last minute, the agreement would still hold between the other
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by burke 11y ago
But if you've done: "$(fgcolor red)red text$(fgcolor green "green text") what color is this?"... then it would have to model a stack on top of the actual underlying implementation, which does not have any concept of
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by burke 11y ago
Fun fact, making this suggestion is probably illegal in Canada.
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by burke 11y ago
I've found all the hate surrounding this practice to be pretty misdirected. As long as it's served over https, it's functionally equivalent to "download and run this random package installer!", which is generally to
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by burke 11y ago
Worth pointing out though, it's far easier to keep a github mirror of a git repository up to date and correct than from other VCSes -- so even though people wanting to send GCC PRs on GitHub will be disappointed, it's still a win
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by burke 11y ago
One would hope that the legislating body would be held to a higher standard.
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by burke 11y ago
This has been the inevitable end-state of TOR-based black markets for a while now. Neat to see someone has actually tackled it.
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by burke 11y ago
We (Shopify) use https://github.com/Shopify/ejson -- we store encrypted secrets in the repository, relying on the production server to have the decryption key. It's relatively common to provision secrets with conf
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by burke 11y ago
It's a fun thought experiment, but the illusion of self probably didn't just spontaneously arise in humans; it's much more likely to be an adaptation from hundreds of thousands of generations of natural selection for a more i
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by burke 11y ago
The salient difference for me here is that the brain has a holistic factor: Individual brain cells are not self-aware, or intelligent in any capacity. A whole brain is both. Individual humans in The United States are aware of both themselve
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by burke 11y ago
It's probably so that people don't accidentally publish something they intended to DM by tapping the spacebar twice after the command. It'd still imagine it should be allowed from a full keyboard, at least.
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by burke 11y ago
I'm ~2 light-ms from us-east-1, and my latency is 49ms. My latency is 11 times what it would be if there were a direct fiber run from my laptop to us-east-1.
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by burke 11y ago
Same experience here. For me it was two realizations: 1. Focusing awareness via meditation techniques is a great sleep aid. 2. When your mind is buzzing, it's because it thinks it needs to work through problems or solidify memories bef
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by burke 11y ago
It's quite clear to me that I'm addicted to caffeine. If it had carcinogenic effects even beginning to approach those of cigarettes, I would quit immediately. I'm pretty sure a lot of people have a similar relationship with c
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by burke 11y ago
Interesting sidenote: In Canada, our tax rules are of a similar complexity to yours. The CRA (~IRS) publishes this document, which makes it relatively easy to compute income tax and other deductions: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca&#x2F
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by burke 11y ago
Thinking on this again now, perhaps using a shorter key (I'm sure I would have chosen 4k RSA) would have helped. Regardless, I did find that connecting to 50+ hosts at the same time, most of them would hit my 3 second connect timeout w
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by burke 11y ago
For a little while, I used a YubiKey NEO-n as an OpenPGP smartcard, with gpg-agent running as an ssh-agent (so that my SSH key was only present on my smartcard). While great in theory, the authentication time made it totally impractical to
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by burke 11y ago
Somalia and Nigeria in particular can be challenging for Americans to get money to IIRC, but this is a problem that bitcoin may actually solve pretty well.
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by burke 11y ago
rkt is also written in Go.
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by burke 12y ago
Completely agree. I started playing two days after TBC came out IIRC, and stopped shortly after I hit the level cap in WotLK.
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by burke 12y ago
I played WoW a lot when I was in University. I find it really incredible how much nostalgia I'm feeling looking at these screenshots. I reactivate my account once a year or so just to fly around for a couple hours. I'm glad I can
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by burke 12y ago
You're right, of course. The problem is that inflationary cosmology did a phenomenally great job of explaining so many things about the universe, with testable and subsequently verified predictions (detailed predictions of patterns in
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by burke 12y ago
Weird. I guess I built a mental model that felt like it made sense. Turns out computers are crazier than common sense. Thanks for the detailed reply :)
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by burke 12y ago
It's necessary to share file handles between processes using TCP over UNIX Domain Sockets. I'm sure some other mechanism could be devised for that though.
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by burke 12y ago
This is kind of explained away implicitly by pages 6-7. Each node has its own quorum slice, and they tend to point upward to a set of trustworthy financial institutions, not entirely unlike DNS. i.e. FBA relies on a web of trust, not just o
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by burke 12y ago
Here it is in J: +/*:>:i.10 It's kind of cheating because J doesn't really do lazy evaluation of infinite sequences AFAIK, but I thought it was fun. EDIT: i. integer range *: square >: incremen
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by burke 12y ago
Yes, and the license could easily be construed to imply that your license is immediately revoked if you tweet "Facebook infringes on patents".

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