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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
It's the other way around, most of the big universities charge international students through the nose to subsidise domestic students.
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Effect of disabling third-party cookies on publisher revenue [pdf](services.google.com)
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Ah I didn't actually follow the link to the github repo. I don't think that percludes pre-processing the input into something that needs no parsing, however, or to spawn a background daemon that prefetches everything in the right
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
The rule lawyer in me wants to spend the first run spinning up a background daemon that loads everything into memory, pins it there, and maybe even prefetches everything into cache as the subsequent runs perform basically a linear scan (you
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Haha I do, are you with CMU's Yang Jun Cheng? Can't really think of anybody else working on this that would know these names.
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
A lab mate of mine is actually submitting a paper on investigating why clock sometimes outperforms LRU very soon. The other benefit of clock is simplicity of implementation: you just have a pointer march around a ring buffer. I’m surprised
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Minnesota unveils new state flag design(bbc.com)
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
> Meta will scrape all available data about your account I genuinely don’t see the problem here. If it’s publicly available, why can’t Google/Facebook/Microsoft/etc scrape it? It’s like complaining that the wrong folks are
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
The new seal is also pretty cool. The objections, however, are not: > Denise Mazone, who was appointed to the commission by the Council on Minnesotans of African Heritage, said she didn’t see the state’s African American community reflec
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Minnesota new state flag design narrowed to 3 finalists(minnesotareformer.com)
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
> The much more significant antagonist for financially vulnerable young adults is the Federal Reserve and its inflationary monetary policy that has priced many out of ever owning a home The Federal Reserve doesn't control housing po
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
I'm continually surprised by the political influence held by the thousands of tiny banks in the country. I must applaud the people behind the Check 21 Act: it's the combination of a neat backwards compatibility trick (if you want
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Huh I never knew about the Han Unification project -- seeing as I only know simplified/traditional Chinese, I'm lucky enough to not have noticed any incorrect rendering in my daily usage. What's the intended solution for enco
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
I wonder what the remedies will be -- sideloading is already allowed, so allowing third party in-app billing? That seems to be the actual thing the juries said -- that Google used their dominant position to do anticompetitive things, among
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Not so sure about the tar part, but the append-only nature is actually really well-known: look up log-structured filesystems, where all operations append to the log and GC comes to clean up stale data later. I’m in the middle of writing a
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Command and Control. The server that issues instructions to the malware.
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
The article doesn't actually explain anything about L4S other than "make latency go lower". Here's the actual RFC: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9330.html This is the first time I've heard
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
I would've preferred an auction; institute a cap of x entrances/day, and run an auction the day before to efficiently allocate the limited slots to those who are most willing to pay for it. Last-minute entrants who will need to ge
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Based on this reverse engineered client here: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush
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Native iMessage for Android – No Apple ID Needed [video](youtube.com)
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Or 4) they switch to E&Y/PwC/Deloitte for their next audit, and all of KPMG's customers do the same in fear of the same thing happening to them
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
> The Department of Correction :currently charges 12 cents per minute, and most county sheriffs charge 14 cents per minute — forcing cash-strapped prisoners, or their families, to spend $2.40 and $2.80 for a 20-minute call in addition to
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
The FX spread is fixed at around 25-50bps for Mastercard/Visa due to a settlement long ago. The foreign transaction fee is an additional charge on top of that, usually 3% of the gross transaction volume in USD. The banks don't con
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
I'm confused; if you can predict the output, then isn't it by definition not secure? Or is the seed so hard to brute force that it's equivalent to breaking the underlying cryptography.
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
There's one big scenario where PRNGs are good: reproducibility. I have a lot of tests that are deterministic given a seed, and if the test fails then I can grab the seed and replay the test. CSPRNG is designed to be cryptographically
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
macOS actually does better in this area of keyboardless software: you have https://www.homerow.app/ and https://shortcat.app/ . Not sure about linux, but I would imagine that there's probably something
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
> Apple's agreements limit "feature competition" within peer-to-peer payment apps, including prohibiting existing or new platforms from using "decentralized cryptocurrency technology," the complaint said. > Th
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
I think redundant infrastructure makes sense in dense urban areas for fibre, but probably not stuff like water and sewage. I've read many proposals for introducing market pressure into natural monopolies, but I haven't been convin
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Rural electrification subsidies distort the cost of living in the middle of nowhere. This is the same problem as low-density suburban housing: the cost of their infrastructure far exceeds their taxes, so they're subsidised by urban cor
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by e63f67dd-065b 3y ago
Electricity has always had two parts: production and distribution. The problem with most places is that distribution is a natural monopoly: you don't want two or more lets of wires running to every house, so distribution monopolies are

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