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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> Now the only Adobe product most of us at work have is except Acrobat Reader. [I think you didn't mean 'except'] I haven't had an installed copy of Adobe Reader on any computer I've used in the last 15 years.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> The problem is how compensation works in streaming. That may be ONE problem. I think a more serious problem is that small venues are closing. It's partly gentrifcation, forcing residents into neighbourhoods that were formerly indu
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
...so they use "exotic" custom components. Not that the controller board on a washing machine is particularly exotic; it's made from standard components. But each model of washing machine has it's own controller board, s
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
"In soviet Russia, party comes to YOU."
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> are they in the process in reducing the lifespan so their products are replaced every couple of years? My experience: swan-neck kitchen taps all now seem to be quite different in design from one-another. To replace a washer, you have t
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
TFA describes Electrolux as a mid-range manufacturer. I guess that's about right; their products aren't cheap "break-on-day2" crap, but they're not up there with Miele and Bosch. Electrolux is a Swedish company that
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> Or is there something in the password method itself, that is inherently weak? Your 64-character high-entropy password might be safe; other users on your system might baulk at memorising/typing in 64 random chars, and choose a less
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> And nothing happens. Good luck. Some people have different experiences.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> (which are notably not the same as crawling) Is that a distinction without a difference? I think the robots.txt RFC was addressed specifically to crawlers ; so technically "ad hoc" requests generated automatically (i.e. by r
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> What exactly is Perplexity doing here that isn't okay that people don't already do with their local user agents? It's in the title of TFA: they're being dishonest about who they are. PerplexityBot seems to understan
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> you have to comply with every last letter Cite, please. Perhaps regulators in diferent countries take different attitudes; in the UK, it's very soft-touch. Only the most egregious, repeated flouting of the regs attracts a penalty.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
TFA is difficult to read; because the author, having argued that "defamation" should include true but harmful remarks, proceeds to use the word "defame" as if that term included truthful utterances. E.g., concerning Till
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
I think this is very interesting. As an expert, you can ask an intelligent layman to interrogate you about some idea you have, or some essay you've drafted. To answer their questions, you have to be clear, explicit, and avoid jargon. T
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Yes; mine does that too. Have you ever tried to use one of those TTS systems? They can just about read standard international English; anything more interesting, like someone's name, and they fall back to spelling-out the letters.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> because it's a baseline that every phone, smart or dumb, has My phone is an IP phone. It doesn't do SMS. Did you mean "mobile phone"? > No need to have an email address I'm pretty sure that more people have
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
HMRC also seems to require an SMS-capable device for 2FA. Using the HMRC website is a soul-destroying adventure through severe speed-bumps, short session timeouts, and 72-hour delays. It's the epitome of awful, large-scale British publ
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
OK, so: 1. I think I only got one grid that was unsolveable. 2. That was my first grid. 3. I was only playing with addition. 4. I completed exactly one round. Because the "unsolveable" grid was my very first, I may well have pre
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Nice. I encountered a couple of screens where there was no correct answer available; MN=2, and there were no 1s on the grid. I suspect my 6-year-old granddaughter would protest.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
It was published in 2006.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
Thanks; interesting. Sounds like it's mainly to do with cryptanalysis and key-exchange.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> It just seems like this is bound to be useful. If (a) it's hard to find cycles in a graph, and (b) it's not hard to construct a graph with a cycle, that sounds to me like the makings of a trapdoor function that could be usefu
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How to Spot a Deepfake(theguardian.com)
5 points by denton-scratch 2y ago|3 comments
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
How many other cathedrals/shrines are not "on" this line? If the surrounding countryside is peppered with shrines to St. Michael, then any line you choose to draw would pass through/close to a number of them. That is:
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> If you’re storing doubly linked lists in a DB you’re doing it wrong. This was my reaction on finding that TFA's key example is a doubly-linked list. I've never implemented any kind of linked list in a database; nor have I eve
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> space debris removal and recovery I'm sceptical about the idea of space debris removal. Sure, you can remove/recover a spaceship; but you can't practically remove trillions of pieces of hypersonic gravel. So it seems to
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> only people who are good at studying go to university. I think this is arse over elbow; the purpose of an undergraduate degree course is to teach you to study and do research. The "research" done by undergraduates isn't
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> the original server-side (probably IMAP) message no longer exists. Doesn't Outlook rely on the Exchange mailstore? It's a long time since I was near to Outlook and Exchange, but I thought the Exchange mailstore was some kind
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
As far as I'm aware, he's never participated in a Lord's debate, nor voted on a motion.
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> I think of them as portable private spaces for crowded environments. I used to enjoy opening a broadsheet newspaper while standing on a crowded tube. Nearly as much fun as stabbing fellow commuters with a brolly. > Also great for wr
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by denton-scratch 2y ago
> appliances that exist for which I have to manually set the time I've never owned an electric oven that could configure its own time. Anytime there's a power cut, I have to do some crazy dance - which usually involves digging

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