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by dpwm 5y ago
I have a deep suspicion this will inevitably lead to head-in-the-sand as a service.
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by dpwm 5y ago
> The author of this paper suggests their xoshiro256 from the Xoshiro family[1] as an alternative. I found some discussion here[2] where it's suggested it has some fatal flaws as well, though I'm no expert. PRNGs are complicat
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by dpwm 5y ago
> I personally prefer using "regular expression" in the language-theoretic sense and "regex" or "regexp" for related concepts in programming languages and software. This is also what Larry Wall proposes: &gt
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by dpwm 5y ago
"hardmode" regexes do have important computer science implications: they can be matched orders of magnitude faster [0]. Demonstrating the power of a regex engine by solving a problem like this is interesting and very clever, but i
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by dpwm 5y ago
Not if you disable file conflict checking, as the author did. > As we used a lot of unsafe hacks (disabling dependency and file conflict checking, for instance) to get this to actually work, I wouldn’t recommend using this system for any
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by dpwm 5y ago
> Journalists do not coordinate news releases with their preferred candidates. No, they would never do anything like that: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
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by dpwm 5y ago
Editors vary. A good editor can take something rough and polish it, retaining the voice of the author. A bad editor can suck all the life out of the writing, never having noticed the author’s voice in the first place. It seems to me there h
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by dpwm 5y ago
> Someone like Brandon Sanderson has not only an editor but continuity staff to make sure his plot lines aren’t full of holes and timelines make sense. But he sells millions. I always thought that’s an important part of what an editor do
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by dpwm 5y ago
I went to a high school in the UK that had been built on an ex landfill site. I was only there for just over a year, but the methane alarm went off a few times then, resulting in evacuations. The school was relatively new, having allegedly
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by dpwm 5y ago
To be fair to the article, I could only find NTP in that use as part of a quote. But I agree – it’s an overloaded initialism.
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by dpwm 5y ago
I don’t think I’ve seen anybody insist curl | sh is fine from untrusted sources. In many contexts, curl | sh is an alternative to adding some kind of additional repository to install a third party package — and in most package managers this
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by dpwm 5y ago
I first heard about this from the pizza effect Wikipedia page: > The creation of jack-o'-lanterns from turnips (rutabaga) was a Halloween custom in Ireland and parts of Great Britain. Irish immigrants brought this tradition with the
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by dpwm 5y ago
Which countries don’t?
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by dpwm 5y ago
Nature will quite readily calculate the 2D Fourier transform and its inverse for us without the use of a digital computer. This is because lenses effectively do a Fourier transform at the focal point. With the right setup, you can apply fil
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by dpwm 5y ago
Even if you only order from Amazon, your experience also depends a lot on how Amazon have handled returns. I’ve had Amazon ship out returns they’ve processed where the item was supposed to weigh about 10kg, because it was a pack of 60, but
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by dpwm 5y ago
I have at least two ways of working on anything. One is the playful way that explores the problem domain. This does not feel so much like work. The other can take on a monotonous job at high intensity for days on end, satisfied there is no
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by dpwm 5y ago
It seems that Saudi Arabia or Bahrain’s regimes tend not to get called 'illegitimate', so 'not democratic' would not imply 'illegitimate'. I think it’s more like this: Governments the US doesn’t like very much
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by dpwm 5y ago
From the typeface’s Behance page [0]: > Cormorant is an original design for an extravagant display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage, hand-drawn and produced by Catharsis Fonts. While traditional Garamond cuts make for exq
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by dpwm 5y ago
Can second A&A. Used them for a business FTTC line and was very impressed.
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by dpwm 5y ago
> Not to mention what happens when some good-intending but ill-informed agency release an enhanced photo of a suspect on the run. The more interesting situation is when such "enhanced photos" are used in prosecutions. I suspect
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by dpwm 5y ago
It appears that the individual items are color-coded. If you click through to https://tosdr.org/en/service/182 , then you can see that Facebook has plenty of yellow items too. When I read the items that are listed
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by dpwm 5y ago
Absolutely, I agree now that I see it, and these seem like numerous innocent-seeming footguns just waiting for abuse. Add the not-too-far-fetched-seeming assumption that it’s fine to let the Internet define your environment variables, and i
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by dpwm 5y ago
Not sure how I missed that – it was even in the proof of concept in the message I replied to. Thanks for the help. There are multiple failings that don’t seem like a big deal taken in isolation: - The PYTHONWARNINGS and whole Warning Filter
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by dpwm 5y ago
Surely this is only a security risk if antigravity is imported? What cause would there be to import antigravity in a CGI service – or anything other than a terminal in which you could already execute arbitrary code? I am struggling to under
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by dpwm 5y ago
> It has yet to escape the ZeroVer versioning scheme and produce a “stable” API. Having worked with it over years, the API stability is there. Backwards compatibility is given very strong emphasis, , even with early versions. > Maturi
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by dpwm 5y ago
> You can work with results without actually having the results, e.g. before the results exist. This results in cool things like promise pipelining. It is very interesting how it can simplify interface design, and there are examples on t
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by dpwm 5y ago
This was at least an observed property of some modern reformers in 1929: > In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox.
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by dpwm 5y ago
The title of the page conveys more information, albeit in more words: > Sign-in on Android devices running Android 2.3.7 or lower will not be allowed starting September 27
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by dpwm 5y ago
Should we take the sometimes-overtly, other-times-covertly pro-Israel position of much of the western media with a similar pinch of salt?
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by dpwm 5y ago
I studied Physics, and I ended up doing some computational work around High-Energy Physics. All the postdocs I worked with received a lot of insane emails about crank theories. Many were more silly ideas, but some of the proposers had put i

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