chrbarrol

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by chrbarrol 3y ago
Does anyone have any examples of what the author is referring to as "sludge music"? I use Spotify a lot, and listen a lot of recommended songs and generally I haven't encountered much of this type of content to my knowledge.
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by chrbarrol 4y ago
How would you pay cash for online content?
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by chrbarrol 4y ago
I've heard that the Norwegian meteorological institute's website (and app) is popular with non-Norwegians for these reasons. https://www.yr.no/en
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
As far as I can see only the BBC article is claiming Twitter is trying to label bots as "good" or "bad". The actual system appears to be for linking bot accounts to real accounts (ie. who made this bot) or simply label a
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
It is true that hiding it for many years would make it less attractive for terrorists, however one could imagine another strategy where you wait 12 months before anonymously telling the authorities you did it, without telling them how. (Whi
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
Has there been any research on Prions as a bio-terrorism weapon? It sounds like you could infect thousands/millions and have a close to 100% death-rate without anyone noticing until many years after the contamination started. Imaging c
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
They also "bulk up" food products, for example introducing filler into meat products such as water and salt [1] such that they can sell a smaller amount of meat for the same price without the consumer noticing. [1] https:/&#
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
This is not sustainable for the clone bees right? Eventually a disease will evolve to target these bees or the victim bees themselves will evolve some countermeasure. At that point since they are all clones they cannot evolve a defense and
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
I agree Facebook events could be a lot better, but have you considered the possibility that Facebook simply does not see any reason to put resources into improving the feature? Instead of assuming some conspiratorial theory that Facebook is
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
So here is what I don't get about the "tether scam": I remember these worries about Tether not being backed by real cash being a major concern all the way back in 2018(?), if I remember correctly the worry was exactly the sam
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by chrbarrol 5y ago
I saw this plane while watching The Wind Rises and due to the unorthodox wing design I assumed it was never built in reality. Pleasantly surprised to know that it actually existed, even if it was not a viable aircraft.
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by chrbarrol 6y ago
I think I remember first getting déjà vu from websites with this style about two years ago. Fun that it is getting so overused now that more people are starting to notice. Below is a good article going into a bit more backstory on the style
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by chrbarrol 7y ago
Do you have sources for any of the claims above?
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by chrbarrol 7y ago
My first Apple product was a iPad Pro I got last year. I consider myself quite tech savvy, but the gestures was a huge pain-point when learning the device, to the point that it soured the whole experience for me: When trying to find the WiF
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by chrbarrol 7y ago
I don't know how common this is in other countries but in Norway we have a common system called BankID which is pretty much the de-facto way to identify yourself when applying for government services, bank loans or basically anything e
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by chrbarrol 7y ago
Afaik it makes perfect sense in a third-world country: There is no social security net so your only security is your children taking care of you when you get old / become unable to work. Probably there is a high chance some of these ch
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by chrbarrol 8y ago
Interestingly my company is working on something that seeks to solve the same problem. It is called Podium and was recently open-sourced: https://podium-lib.io/ While it is still under active development we are using it in
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by chrbarrol 8y ago
I was kinda disappointed when I realized when you search it seems to basically only do a simple image search (ala Google) and return the primary color of the individual images, as can be seen by hovering over the small icon in each color re
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by chrbarrol 8y ago
I felt that one addition could be "Many problems have trivial solutions, but they are of little practical value" 0 is often a trivial solution to many PDEs, but it is of little analytical value, so it is often discarded. In the sa
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Hacking in Android headset button support for Windows(roligheten.no)
2 points by chrbarrol 8y ago|0 comments
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by chrbarrol 8y ago
Too many teams I have worked in have way too little personal on-boarding in my opinion. At least with these presentations I know how the manager "wants" to present him/herself, if this turns out to be false, as you say, I&#x2
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by chrbarrol 9y ago
Here's what I don't get about this though, was there less meetings back in the early 2000s? I'm only 24 so I don't know, but if there is one thing I feel has been passed down from seniors as a software developer it is th
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by chrbarrol 9y ago
I was hoping to learn about word2vec by reading the sourcecode but am I right when I say this has nothing to do with word2vec?
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by chrbarrol 10y ago
Luckily it offers two: Software security and cryptography. I have taken both. Should also probably mention that I live in Norway, so my question applies more to the European job market. Though I am of course interested hearing experiences f
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Ask HN: How do you start a career in software security?
20 points by chrbarrol 10y ago|16 comments