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by dpwm 6y ago
> We've reached the point where the American left is afraid of the idea of free speech. Debating the merits and demerits of free speech surely has to fall within free speech. From what I've seen, free speech often gets raised a
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by dpwm 6y ago
Google did something similar with a targeted terms of service update – I believe it was agree or close your account. I suspect that this transfer is going to be consent-based to avoid non-compliance in the handful of cases cases where they
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by dpwm 6y ago
It appears that the FX-CG50, which has a color screen, comes with Python[0] . Still nowhere near the display you would expect on an entry-level mobile phone, but then probably doesn't have the same power draw either. [0] https:/&
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by dpwm 6y ago
And in many cases will be bought as a developed product with public funds.
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by dpwm 6y ago
Apparently this is not what has been breached. From the article: > no BioNTech or Pfizer systems have been breached in connection with this incident and we are unaware that any study participants have been identified through the data bei
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by dpwm 6y ago
I came here to say the same thing. There have also been many stories recently about bad state actors trying to gain access to research, citing only UK / US state. It is interesting to see South Korea included in the list of countries
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by dpwm 6y ago
> rule #1 should be not to collect data you don't have a safe way to process. GDPR or not this shouldn't even be collected. My understanding was that the law, at least in England, required for this data to be collected and reta
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by dpwm 6y ago
There may be other reasons why people are not following this: > Due to Covid distancing measures, the court made five spaces available to members of the public, in a gallery with a total of 36 seats. Communications from the court repeate
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by dpwm 6y ago
> Q: If someone robs a bank to get money to fund terrorism then does that crime become a political offence, and should that person be immune from extradition? Robbing a bank is a crime against the bank. You can be extradited for that. Th
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by dpwm 6y ago
Some readers may be interested in Craig Murray's coverage of the extradition "hearing" [0]. The hearing, to be decided by a judge, has apparently been set up to conclude that Julian Assange is to be extradited to the US. The
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by dpwm 6y ago
Espionage is a crime against the state. Just like treason or terrorism, the very definition of the crime and its interpretation is by the entity that claims to have been wronged. Crimes against the state are widely abused by despots for sil
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by dpwm 6y ago
I ran into this last week with a UK bank. I was offered a CSV file. What I got was a CSV file with excel formulae in it. I actually wanted a CSV file – preferably without having to resort to sed to strip out excel formulae.
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by dpwm 6y ago
I'm currently reading Punished by Rewards. So far I would say that Punished by Rewards is broadly consistent with how you describe Drive. Alfie Kohn acknowledges that where the work is low skill, very dull, requires little collaboratio
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by dpwm 6y ago
Blender is way better since 2.80 imho. I have been an a blender user since about 2005. I find 2.80 improved the UI considerably. For me it was well worth the little effort I had to put in.
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by dpwm 6y ago
Part of the problem is that the education is left to less reputable corners of the web. There is quite a lot of anecdotal evidence of the damage that can be done by abuse of internet porn. I could add to that. But we have those with credent
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by dpwm 6y ago
> a huge sponsoring program that saw universities flooded with their hardware This is really important, and I don't think people quite realise the scale. I was doing a Physics MSc in 2012 and it seemed that almost everybody in compu
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by dpwm 6y ago
I just checked on the linked Compiler Explorer session [0], and if you take out the -m32 then GCC does indeed use divsd instead of fdiv. [0] https://godbolt.org/z/py3Dw0
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by dpwm 6y ago
My understanding is that in this case it's GCC's optimizer evaluating the expression at compile time in a way that gives a different result to if it's done at runtime. EDIT: GCC gets it wrong with -O0 (when it's evaluate
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by dpwm 6y ago
Came here to say the same thing. When I see these submissions – pro or anti-CCP – and I see the discussion that results, I'm inclined to flag them. Such stories are not good material for HN, and the submission guidelines make that clea
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by dpwm 6y ago
I don't usually like programming books. I am usually easily overwhelmed by them and I find that they are at the wrong pace for me. This weekend I read most of the Rust book without much effort and found it really helpful for getting up
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by dpwm 6y ago
Naive answer: if lawmakers disapprove, they can just ban companies from helping people counter mass-surveillance efforts.
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by dpwm 7y ago
Two years ago I felt the same way. Then I ran a mail server for our small family business. And of course, we had DKIM, SPF and DMARC. At first, everything was great. Then we started having bizarre deliverability problems to a growing provid
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by dpwm 7y ago
I haven't used roam, but the screenshots made me wonder if there might be some overlap with TiddlyWiki, "a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information." TiddlyWiki can be as simple as
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by dpwm 7y ago
Is there a way we can verify that they're doing that?
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by dpwm 7y ago
> The difference is that there is no certificate authority vouching for each participant in a video call's identity, so you would need to do independent identity verification if you want to ensure that the call is secure, which some
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by dpwm 7y ago
Thanks, I hadn't realised that. Looking into it, it seems PGP creates a shared symmetric key and then shares that key using public-key, which does seem like the most obvious way to do it. [0] https://superuser.com/quest
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by dpwm 7y ago
Is E2E encryption desirable for video chats with >2 participants? Let's say I'm talking with two other people: is there a way to do E2E encryption without having to send out the same stream twice? edit: Just realised a common k
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by dpwm 7y ago
Don't forget the other direction: the people who die due to the shortage of ICU beds. There will be uninfected people who die that in normal times would have survived. Only the excess deaths will allow us to have a true comparison, but
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by dpwm 7y ago
I think they're talking about the 2nd-derivative of the cumulative deaths. As they can (presumably) only increase, the first derivative is >= 0. The second derivative tends to zero as the cumulative deaths flattens off. Edit: Now th
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by dpwm 7y ago
I've seen very little coverage that really uses the term exponential in a way that suggests those reporting know the implications of that. I've seen one plot with a logarithmic y-axis, and that was in the Guardian some time ago. F

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