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by dustfinger 2y ago
It is possible that they are asking for more money because: 1. few people pay with cash and the company must handle those transactions differently for those few people. This may be seen as an unacceptable inconvenience and may cost the comp
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by dustfinger 2y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_cryptography#Applicatio... > One example of a public-key protocol is given by Khalil Shihab. He describes the decryption scheme and the public key creation that are based on
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by dustfinger 2y ago
> that could be useful in cryptography. See related Neural Cryptography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_cryptography
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by dustfinger 2y ago
> despite that massive inefficiency holding it back I assume you are referring to the size of the genome. Has anyone been able to prove that it is causing an inefficiency? Maybe it isn't. In classical computer programming languages
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Oh, I completly miss-read the word "Exonerations" as executions. Thank you for correcting me.
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by dustfinger 2y ago
> It would be a terrible legacy for all of us to be associated with executing an innocent man based on a rush to judgment and bad science. We must prevent Texas from making a tragic, irreversible mistake. I believe that this statement is
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by dustfinger 2y ago
> one of the things that came out of 2020 was that nobody appears willing to control the police While I don't agree with that statement, I will clarify that I was using the term "police" to encompass all agencies in both U
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Yup. I am on #emacs channel at liberachat. People are trying to find an admin to revert and lock the page. No point in reverting without an admin because the vandal just edits it agian.
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by dustfinger 2y ago
It is still being vandalized. Trying to find someone that can lock the page for now.
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Looks like someone deleted the wiki article and replaced it with an insult to hn and a racist slur. This is currently what I see when I navigate to the linked article: > hn sux, pjals is probably in love with autione. niggers all. If the
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by dustfinger 2y ago
> We should not give a sneaky, deceptive and manipulative person this much power over our future. I think this should be applied to our government. In my opinion, it is a failing in the structure of our government that those running the
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by dustfinger 2y ago
If it is only feasible to accelerate low mass objects to the speed of light, no matter the level of technological advancement, then it might be the case that highly intelligent and technically advanced beings have reduced the mass of their
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Assuming a fast reliable internet connection, how well does an overclocked raspberry pi 5 perform when video conferencing using popular conferencing applications such as zoom, google meet, ms teams and the like?
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by dustfinger 2y ago
> without any of the accountability that mainstream media has with regards journalistic integrity and veracity of content. I wouldn't assume that mainstream media has any journalistic integrity or veracity of anything. Watch several
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Where did you get that number from? Do you have links?
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by dustfinger 2y ago
> evolve random two-wheeled shapes into cars over generations Where I come from, we call two-wheeled automobiles motorbikes. Very cool simulation though!
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Some alternatives not mentioned here that I am aware of are Mnemosyne Proj [1] and org-drill [2]. I have only ever used anki though. I am going to try org-drill because anki has over 40 dependencies I would not need to compile if I just swi
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by dustfinger 2y ago
It wasn't meant as bullying and certainly wasn't seen that way back when I did this. It was mischevious practical jokes that people laughed at. The world we live in now is not as happy of a place. I feel bad for youth of all ages
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Oh man, does this bring back memories. I loved BackOrfice. I installed it on the network at the University where I was a student. I had a friend call me on a payphone from a vantage point where he could view the layout of the computer termi
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by dustfinger 2y ago
I have no significant knowledge of how TOR works, so I might be off the mark here. Perhaps one incentive is that by running your own node, you can utilize it as an entry or exit node for your own activities over TOR. By controlling either t
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by dustfinger 2y ago
Consciousness Explained [1] absolutely filled me with wonder during my university days. [1]: https://www.amazon.ca/Consciousness-Explained-Daniel-C-Denne...
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The Hungriest Black Hole Ever Found Basically Eats a Whole Sun Every Day(sciencealert.com)
1 points by dustfinger 2y ago|0 comments
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by dustfinger 3y ago
No problem, and good luck!
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by dustfinger 3y ago
Thank you for those links, I played around with the first two and they are well done. I hope you enjoy the muds, we have been using tt++ with a custom script to split up channel conversations from the main story line thread. tt++ is a nice,
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by dustfinger 3y ago
> If ie those 'salts' are naturally occurring in atmosphere in already reasonable concentration (ie I am sure few atoms of uranium are roaming around me currently, but sure as hell I hope its just few and apart) and they just l
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by dustfinger 3y ago
Thank you, I am starting to play around with this library. I am also reading up on workflow engines vs finite state machines.
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by dustfinger 3y ago
I will do some reading up on the different techniques being used. I am just at a low point in my trust for companies at the moment.
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by dustfinger 3y ago
> The NCM said it does not use any harmful chemicals in its operations. “Our specialized aircrafts only use natural salts, and no harmful chemicals,” the organization told CNBC. How many times have companies been wrong about the harm che
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by dustfinger 3y ago
Thank you, I will read up on this today. If you have any resources that you thought were a particularly valuable read, please don't hesitate to drop the links here.
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Ask HN: Best Event-Driven Finite-State Machine Learning Resources
3 points by dustfinger 3y ago|4 comments

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