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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
"For all of you out there who have ever had to deal with the warp from hell, remember that there is something healing in finally controlling that which would not be controlled, something triumphant about making something from total cha
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
Apple are usually careful not to announce new hardware until it's just about ready to ship (with the occasional exception cough AirPower cough ), but in this case (assuming the report is correct) I suspect they'll be making an ex
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
"Colour has three dimensions" is a fact about human anatomy, not physics.
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
My favourite example comes from the development of the modern picture of the formation of the solar system, when it was suggested that giant planets often swapped places during the early days of this and other planetary systems. This idea (
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by captaincrowbar 6y ago
There's a good reason why Apple aren't making the small form factor phone lots of you are asking for: logistics. The new SE requires very little new manufacturing capacity. The case and probably battery are from the iPhone 8; the
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
Obviously it should be called C+=2.
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
Now that's taking social distancing seriously.
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
Collision attack: Find two different messages with the same hash. [First] pre-image attack: Given a hash value, find a message with that hash. Second pre-image attack: Given a message, find a different message with the same hash.
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
900 AD is the date that was taught in NZ schools for most of the 20th century, but these days it's considered much too early. Studies from various sources - archaeology, genetics, and careful analysis of Maori oral tradition - are larg
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
Non-fiction I read this year: Michael Benson - Space Odyssey - The detailed story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. If you're a fan of the movie, or of Stanley Kubrick and/or Arthur C. Clarke in general, you should read this
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
It’s amazing how much the output of Serious People pontificating about AI is coming to resemble that of the AIs themselves.
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
I keep wondering if the person who came up with the name was a Charlie Stross fan. Stross's Laundry Files novels feature a hybrid magical/technological device codenamed Scorpion Stare. It's a weapon rather than a surveillance
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
What's the point of this? If you can't download something without knowing its hash in advance, then you can never download a new version of Chrome or anything else, so why do you care whether one is available?
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by captaincrowbar 7y ago
The SEC isn't a lawmaking body; its job is to decide whether somebody is breaking the law as it stands. So there is no question of "before it was illegal" or ex post facto law here: the question is whether cryptocurrencies (o
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
There's no interaction with Gatekeeper there. An executable you've built yourself will just run normally (assuming it has the x attribute of course). OK, quick lesson in how Gatekeeper works: When you download a Mac app from the w
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
"Currently, if a user tries to run your software it simply won't run, and the user has to know to go into system settings and manually give it permission." No, you don't need to go into system settings. Just right-click
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
“Oh my god! The engineers are revolting!” “You’ve worked here all these years and you only just noticed that?”
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
What is life? A forkbomb implemented in hardware.
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
>What are journalists concerned with? The fear that AI might learn to write journalism, or at least clickbait, better than they do :)
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
Composition determines density. A rocky planet would block less light than a gas giant planet of the same mass, because it would be denser and therefore smaller.
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
It's regularly detecting exoplanets down to slightly less than Earth-sized now, so assuming the orbits happened to be aligned the right way to make transits detectable at all, it should be able to detect all the planets except Mercury
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The AI revolution has spawned a new chips arms race(arstechnica.com)
3 points by captaincrowbar 8y ago|0 comments
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
For a moment there I thought McAfee must be starting a new cryptocurrency called the Crypto Shilling (accompanied of course by the Crypto Penny and the Crypto Pound).
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
"I'd guess that this is more due to the popularity of GitHub among potential contributiors to these projects." Doesn't that support bmsleight's point? If Github is more popular than NotGithub, even among the develo
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
"You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform..." https://qntm.org/calendar
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by captaincrowbar 8y ago
Breaking Bad/Twin Peaks crossover confirmed.
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
"Strong bayesian priors" is just another way of saying "high-redundancy signal".
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
Well, I don't think the article was really aimed at actual cranks (who are, more or less by definition, immune to this kind of advice). It feels more aimed at scientists, or people of a scientific turn of mind, who may have found a gen
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
If you're on a Mac, just open the PDF in Preview and then Save As to a different file name. This gives you a PDF visually identical to the original (with TOC, selectable text, etc) but with no protection.
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
I got 4/5 (background: C++/C# programmer who sometimes works with SQL queries). The one I got wrong was the first one; I thought the query optimizer would be smart enough to spot that the date function could be turned into a range

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