christophclarke

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Writers Guild of America Begins Strike(reuters.com)
2 points by christophclarke 3y ago|0 comments
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by christophclarke 4y ago
This reminds me of CGP Grey’s “Digital Aristotle”, which actually references both Khan Academy and A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer https://youtu.be/7vsCAM17O-M
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The C4 model for visualising software architecture(c4model.com)
2 points by christophclarke 4y ago|0 comments
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by christophclarke 5y ago
Snapchat also having issues refreshing
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by christophclarke 6y ago
Tom Scott has a great video about the issues with electronic voting, chief among which is a lack of trust and understanding by the general public of how electronic voting would work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNj
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by christophclarke 6y ago
On the other hand, however, the outcomes of a breach are vastly different. An individual who fails to secure their information is liable for only their information. If a "big-tech" is compromised, they are liable for everyone&#x27
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Louisiana State Representative Suing Website for Anonymous User Data(wbrz.com)
1 points by christophclarke 7y ago|0 comments
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by christophclarke 7y ago
>>> I’ll proceed to give them a two minute tour about what you can do with tmux. After that they’re either hooked and want to try it themselves or they tell me to go away with my ancient neckbeard tools and just use iTerm2. FYI, iT
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by christophclarke 7y ago
This seems to play very well with some of MIT CSAIL's research in training robots to be able to manipulate objects they haven't seen before. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9U8X6I1vow [2] https://a
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Jack Ma Is Leaving Alibaba(news.yahoo.com)
3 points by christophclarke 7y ago|0 comments
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by christophclarke 7y ago
It seems like they're selling ASICs. It would be useful in something like an embedded system where you train a model beforehand, deploy it, and then let it go. On top of speed improvements, they're generally more efficient, so som
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by christophclarke 7y ago
"1,300 people were eventually killed, and 350,000 were displaced. That was a result of our leak" - Julian Assange https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/aug/01/julian-assange...
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by christophclarke 7y ago
Crimes committed against the United States are seen as crimes committed in the United States. This is an issue of sovereignty, as there is no (for most intents and purposes) higher, international court to pursue the case in. Therefore, the
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by christophclarke 7y ago
Yes, this is the entire premise of extradition treaties. If you conspire to commit a crime in a different country, you are potentially able to be sent there to be put on trial. As to whether or not those laws are just is a separate issue.
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John Paul Stevens: DC vs. Heller Was “Court’s Worst Decision of My Tenure”(theatlantic.com)
4 points by christophclarke 7y ago|0 comments
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Correct, cities in Virginia are independent [1]. Falls Church, for example, is an independent city, and has the governing power of a county, but is not in and of itself a "county" [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by christophclarke 8y ago
~/Code/ L python/ L project1/ L ... L dotnet/ L web/ L work/ L ... ~/Documents/ L school/ L Spring2019/
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Computerphile did a video recently giving a 10,000 foot overview of Reed Solomon codes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRMaEAFLE0
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Here's a video of one of his prosthetic arms in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrWckNLgshc
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by christophclarke 8y ago
There was a discussion on the HTTP 203 show about the JAM stack as well, which talks relatively quickly and briefly about concerns when deciding whether or not to implement a JAM stack vs other architectures. https://www.youtube
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Internal combustion engines operate at about 25% efficiency (per this paper, page 54) https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/5764... Coal power plants operate in the range of 34% efficiency
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by christophclarke 8y ago
The issue with the Kyoto Protocols (and most multilateral agreements) is that there is no recourse from the international community for leaving the agreement. The only enforcement is for members, and there is no penalty against not being a
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by christophclarke 8y ago
I assume learning to build interfaces in Javascript allows you to port that skill to both the desktop environment (via something like Electron) or web environment through a browser.
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by christophclarke 8y ago
RE: Conference Speeches There's a channel called 'Coding Tech' that conglomerates talks from a variety of conferences.
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by christophclarke 8y ago
But in slack emoji, you have to modify the universal standard for the workspace in order to add those emoji, and now you're back to where you started. The whole benefit of Unicode is that anyone anywhere can see Unicode on any device t
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Interesting to see social media platforms finally starting to be (somewhat) more accountable to their users. Their motives are a dichotomy. On one hand, their revenue comes from advertisers, so they must be attractive in the "metrics,&
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Link to a post on ACM Queue about the benefits and ramifications of automating as a habit: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3197520
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Civil Rights Act extends protections to "protected groups" As of now, does not include sexual orientation (as far as I can tell), although other bodies have interpreted sexual orientation to be protected (Equal Opportunity Employm
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by christophclarke 8y ago
GitHub repos here: https://github.com/NervanaSystems
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by christophclarke 8y ago
Here is the source of the animation (looks much nicer, and interactive) http://metrocosm.com/animated-immigration-map/

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