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by dzdt 9y ago
Link goes to a scam warning page on android.
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by dzdt 9y ago
Yeah, if it was open source you know the first commit would remove the check for AMD hardware that removes optimisation.
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by dzdt 9y ago
From the union's perspective, success. The goal of a union is to increase the number and quality of union jobs.
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by dzdt 9y ago
Stackoverflow? Openstreetmap?
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by dzdt 9y ago
Exposing your friends to risk of rare or unknown side-effects for humor value alone. Awesome! /s
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by dzdt 9y ago
This isn't an "algorithm" the way people here are thinking. It is a risk formula. The thing it does is standardize which risk factors have been shown to be important. The inputs are: Age at current arrest Current vi
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by dzdt 9y ago
So this is at best exactly as secure as visiting wikipedia directly in a TOR browser? TOR itself operates by routing packets through a hidden layer so that the exit node which talks to the end site doesn't know who is the requestor, j
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by dzdt 9y ago
How about if Comcast charges Netflix more to be able to access you? [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/12/comcastlevel3/
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by dzdt 9y ago
Too bad we don't have a radar image! It would have been awesome to see the shape of this in Arecibo hi resolution dopler/delay.
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by dzdt 9y ago
I am genuinely interested in more details. Any links you can give?
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by dzdt 9y ago
What is the best 60-to-0 time for a road car? If traction is the limiting factor, you should be able to get very close to that same time in the reverse direction. Edit: the shortest 60-to-0 braking distance I find claimed is for a Dodge Vi
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by dzdt 9y ago
I only know details at the level of war story, secondhand. I may have overstated a bit. For sure there was a build process relinking in old object code for many years which no one knew how to reproduce. Possibly there was still associate
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by dzdt 9y ago
I once worked at a place which lost part of the source code for their giant mission-defining application. They spent a decade linking in object code for which there was no corresponding source code. The build team was very proud when they
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by dzdt 9y ago
Does putting a human in the loop make scraping okay? Can there be a button on the web page : "please click here to run a price check for one of your fellow travelers" that initiates a web page being fetched, attached to a round-r
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by dzdt 9y ago
The alphago paper contains a reasonable amount of detail, but not nearly enough to allow a true reimplementation. This should be described as "an attempt to reproduce" or such. It should be expected to differ in details, and qui
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by dzdt 9y ago
If you are serious about fighting climate change, what is the single most effective place to spend money? My guess is: education for girls in Africa. Why? Carbon emmissions per year come down to (energy use per person per year) (carbon emi
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by dzdt 9y ago
A more humored take on "Dread pirate Bezos" regarding presentations from an engineer's perspective came from Steve Yegge in 2001. You might remember this from when one of his rants that was supposed to be internal to google
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by dzdt 9y ago
Honk!
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by dzdt 9y ago
This reminds me of the grand C++ error explosion competition : https://tgceec.tumblr.com
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by dzdt 9y ago
For more detailed images of the stone, see National Geograpic coverage [1] or the University of Cincinnati magazine article (including micrographs of details) [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeo
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by dzdt 9y ago
This seems a slightly more upscale (but also less insightful) version of the classic analysis of "chum box" ads: https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
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by dzdt 9y ago
It is a part of their core product differentiation. They can get better performance and longer battery life by owning the hardware design and OS design and being good at it. Apple in particular understood lomg before competitors that batte
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by dzdt 9y ago
This. Suppose you want to rewrite. Your task is to create a new, cleanly written program in a new language that produces the same output as the old, slightly messy COBOL. It must work identically for all appropriate inputs. There is no
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by dzdt 9y ago
Isn't this solved by transparency? Each precinct publicly reports their results, then news agencies and data junkies independently verify totals. Combine with a paper trail and random audit on a statistically significant set of preci
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by dzdt 9y ago
And if the sum is 1, something REALLY bad happens? ;^)
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by dzdt 9y ago
News.google.com has long been my standard, but I feel like it is building a bit of a news bubble trying to recommend stories it thinks will interest me. And its recent move to show less detail per article on the page is also a step backwar
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by dzdt 9y ago
You trust the credit union with your money, but don't trust them with a fingerprint of your browser identity?
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by dzdt 9y ago
Computers have advantages in attention span, (lack of) fatigue, and reaction time. Potentially their performance could well surpass humans even without superior sensor abilities.
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by dzdt 9y ago
If a 10's of petabytes isn't enough scale to talk to manufacturers directly, I wonder what is!
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by dzdt 9y ago
I think the author may be making an incorrect assumption, that the recently published black-hole/black-hole merger was the "knock your sox off" detection leaked in August. LIGO scientists have a pretty clear understanding of

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