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by danielvf 9y ago
No idea how this story got front page. In the end, after almost six years of torture, five of the eighteen men arrested were still alive and were pardoned, including Mann and du Toit.
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by danielvf 9y ago
He's saying - Sci-Hub is doing good, but breaking the US law. - The US law in this case is immoral, people don't like the law, and the law is bad for the country. - The US government is unable notice that these laws are bad, and s
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by danielvf 9y ago
Finland was neutral before, and only worked with Germany after a massive, unprovoked military invasion by Russia and essentially no help from the allies during the entire Winter War.
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As far as I can see, ctypes requires you to manually specify everything, rather than load it from the .h include file. This is even more work.
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by danielvf 9y ago
I do some embedded hardware work, and have tests for the C code in python vi FFI. It's also amazing to be able to graph out scenarios with inputs and outputs in Jupiter notebook. But I hate, hate, hate, cffi's parsing of include f
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by danielvf 9y ago
Most PHP frameworks these days are a horror show of overcomplexity, precisely because they are trying to write Java in a language that is not Java. In my crotchety, old man opinion, people have been trying very hard to make PHP like a blub,
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by danielvf 9y ago
Bingo! You got it!
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Cool guess! But that's still not it! (Though I have used this language's hot reloading features to win a faux stock market trading war, by being able to swap in newly written market making strategies on the fly) Here’s a hint - it
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by danielvf 9y ago
Nope! Smalltalk is a classy language. This is not regarded as classy language.
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There once was a language that compiled in milliseconds - you pressed a single button and your changes were instantly in front of you. What's more a clever separation of data and code meant that this instant reload would show your newl
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by danielvf 9y ago
Raspberry Pi Compute Modules don't have ethernet built in - that would require quite a non-standard networking system, wouldn't it?
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> Mathematicians vied to find the shortest method of unscrambling, which became known as God's algorithm. There's speculation that an all-knowing being could restore any Cube in 22 moves, but the shortest method discovered so
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by danielvf 9y ago
Yes, possibly legal. Still a form of economic sanctions though. It's not just that they don't require employees to travel there, they also don't pay for trips "This bill would prohibit a state agency from ... approving a
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by danielvf 9y ago
It's already going on! PROHIBITION ON STATE-FUNDED AND STATE-SPONSORED TRAVEL TO STATES WITH DISCRIMINATORY LAWS ( https://oag.ca.gov/ab1887 ) In effect, this law means that if any member of California government picks a
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by danielvf 9y ago
You are right - it's not apocalyptic. Particularly, since satellites in general are getting much lighter than they used to be (faster decay times, less mass in case of a collision, smaller target), as well as targeting lower orbits th
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That’s one of the key factors. It depends on the how high the orbit of the satellite is. For ones in LEO - below 350 km, months - 400km a year - 500km five years - 600km ten years - 700km twenty five years Etc. However, when a satellite bre
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by danielvf 9y ago
Erlang, while having many virtues, is simply slow. Once, I reimplemented in Elixir a toy data science tool I had previously built in node. Idiomatic node, idiomatic Elixir, both written for readability. The Elixir was approximately 100 time
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by danielvf 9y ago
Tldr- yes, unless you have them donate the prize money to charity in your name.
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No - it's more of an issue that there should two tools under US control, so that if one goes down, life goes on and nobody dies.
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There’s no way it’s true though. It’s simply not big enough.
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http://heavens-above.com First you’ll need to set your location, then click on “daily predictions for brighter satellites”. For your first time watching, look for ones brighter that 3.0 (maginitudes get brighter as the number ge
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by danielvf 9y ago
There's no possible way this is the brightest thing in the night sky - it's simply not that big, and most of the light that hits it will not be going towards you because of the facets. The only number I've seen puts it at 4.0
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by danielvf 9y ago
This is utterly, utterly overblown. The Space Station is thousands of times bigger and throws back a hundred times more light than this will. Every evening, for most of the populated world, dozens of brighter satellites than this go overhea
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by danielvf 9y ago
The story here is not as simple as the article sounds. The short version is Timothy Newman, the man who ended up dead, had armed himself with a gun, gone to Campbell's property with the intent of "adversely possessing" it, an
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by danielvf 9y ago
Reminds me of the statement issued by the Shining Path in Peru (who once killed everyone in village with machetes/axes, down to a six month old infant). They believed that "human rights " were an instrument of oppression, des
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For the details, maps, and photos: https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=242005
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Almost all of the discussion about this focuses on what Damore did/said. This is an interesting document because the lawsuit will be mostly about what Google did and said. This document this tells one side of that story. Importantly, t
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Here's a paper with the specific details of why P25 has troubles with reliability while encrypted: http://www.crypto.com/papers/p25sec.pdf "Because of the above-described property of the error correction mech
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There's no voice quality difference, if the packet goes through, that's true. The problem is that without encryption, P25 packets can handle a bit of radio noise and still be error corrected into usability. With encryption, in pra
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"Why (special agent) Johnny (still) Can’t Encrypt" https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Events/ISPAB-OCTOBER-2012-M... (Warning, slightly terrifying paper) P25 is very vulnerable to jamming, decrypting

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