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by dpwm 5y ago
UK Police are interested in finding non-exculpatory evidence and securing convictions. Computer forensics usually means software bought from a vendor and operated by a technician sometimes with no deep technical knowledge beyond the tool th
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by dpwm 5y ago
> It's not more complicated than bruteforcing a WPS PIN or WPA2 password. In the UK a prepaid SIM is normally linked to you in some way.
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by dpwm 5y ago
There was an idea going around education circles that type in comic sans was easier or even easiest for those with dyslexia to read. The claims struck me as a bit unlikely, but helped explain its widespread adoption in higher education beyo
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by dpwm 5y ago
One of the more surprising combos at university was Physics and Music. That was the degree, and the numbers were similar to those doing Computational Physics.
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by dpwm 5y ago
> The broadband industry funded the fraudulent creation of about 8.5 million of those, while a 19-year-old college student submitted 7.7 million, and the remainder came from unknown but spurious sources. The article doesn’t explicitly sa
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by dpwm 5y ago
> Your comment clearly shows that you haven't read the article. This was my first thought. Then I thought about it some more, and became persuaded I was wrong. I definitely did read the article. According to the explanation in the
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by dpwm 5y ago
Thanks for writing that up! I had no idea about paged.js and it’s pretty close to what I was looking for.
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by dpwm 5y ago
Thanks for posting this. I was actually just today looking for a solutions to render a website as a PDF, and didn’t get as far as puppeteer – which is probably too heavy a dependency for my use case, but is still nice to know about. Does an
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by dpwm 5y ago
I was surprised not so long back to find out just how much of the proprietary 3D market that Autodesk held. It seems like they own pretty much all of the big, studio-oriented 3D packages I had heard of from 10-15 years ago. > Autodesk i
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by dpwm 5y ago
> So, as long as you ignore the formatting they presented it with and decide to read it without it, you can come to a different conclusion? No. It reads that way with the formatting they provided. You can’t take that paragraph break out
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by dpwm 5y ago
Well put. It’s taken me the last hour to realise that it really is refreshingly transparent. To me, it’s like the distinction between offence caused and actually showing some genuine reflection as to why there might be offence caused. This
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by dpwm 5y ago
I think we’re mostly in agreement. The ban is clearly the trigger, and it’s pretty transparent. > For all you and me know, said review will say their processes are just fine which I would personally disagree with but it could happen. Agr
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by dpwm 5y ago
> Not once do they talk about getting the ban removed, instead they talk about figuring out why it happened and how to be better at having research done being ethical. I feel as if we’re discussing two different statements. > The rese
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by dpwm 5y ago
> The research method used raised serious concerns in the Linux Kernel community and, as of today, this has resulted in the University being banned from contributing to the Linux Kernel. > We take this situation extremely seriously. I
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by dpwm 5y ago
I’ve read and re-read that statement, and it seems like the ban is the focus – not what led to the ban. I get that they may not know anything, but there are other ways to word that without admitting liability, making it seem less like the f
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by dpwm 5y ago
It seems a fair discussion point, even if you don’t agree that the payoff is worth the effort. I don’t read it as a negative thing, and for me <500kB seems reasonable. Page size is an aspect of design – even if many websites are sufferin
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by dpwm 5y ago
Could something like purgecss be effective with removing unused bootstrap classes?
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by dpwm 5y ago
If the .wal file is not backed up, then any information in it will not be backed up. Depending on the settings for the WAL, this can be quite a lot. You would need to do something like the VACUUM INTO trick described above if you want to sa
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by dpwm 6y ago
Oh wow, thanks for that. I’m new to .NET and didn’t know anything about Source Generators. That seems to be a pretty interesting feature. I followed the link to the F# suggestions and found https://github.com/fsharp/fsl
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by dpwm 6y ago
> Ah and don't expect Code Generators to ever support F#. What sort of Code Generators are we talking? I ask because I have a very early alpha project that does F# code generation using Fantomas. Apart from an (uninvestigated) sligh
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by dpwm 6y ago
> Assuming appropriate licensing For such customers the mere fact it is free would make the licensing questionable. Consider a service like unsplash: what vetting can there be that the people who upload actually hold the copyright? Do un
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by dpwm 6y ago
> Getty has already demonstrated that it is willing to sell free works to people who don't realize they can get it for free (legally). It seems plausible to me that there are some customers whose legal teams would be very uneasy ab
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by dpwm 6y ago
I rarely go on aggregate review scores, but instead on the worst reviews. I read the text of these reviews. Sometimes the reviewer had unrealistic demands. If this worst case is acceptable, I proceed. If it is a choice between competitors,
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by dpwm 6y ago
About four years ago, when I had a low end Android phone, some kind of "make the screen white" app was really useful. I remember the play store being scary but I think there was something in fdroid. I am not so sure on this, but I
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by dpwm 6y ago
> I guess some pro palestinian posts may have strayed into the antisemitic territory? My understanding is that any pro-palestinian posts can be labeled antisemitic under the IHRA/EUMC working definition of antisemitism (as adopted
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by dpwm 6y ago
You don't really have to squint too hard to see crises of overproduction. I very much doubt that Claire Fox is an accelerationist.
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by dpwm 6y ago
> > CPGB-ML who are full on tankies > It remains astonishing that a number of these people did a full 180 turn to right-libertarians and from there to Brexiteers, eventually leading to Claire Fox, apologist for the bombing of Manch
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by dpwm 6y ago
My first encounter with the SWP was at a stall outside a university building. They didn't seem shouty, but I remember asking questions and getting vague, half-thought-out answers. Then about ten years later, I met a couple who were ex
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by dpwm 6y ago
Under floating point we have two zeros, so we can have RELU'(+0) != RELU'(-0). Hence, I propose: RELU'(-0) = 0 RELU'(+0) = 1
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by dpwm 6y ago
Thanks for an interesting rabbit hole.

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