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by eric_h 8y ago
I flew on the Concorde once. I didn't hear any sonic booms ;)
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Call Apogee and Say Aardwolf (2016)(joesiegler.blog)
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by eric_h 8y ago
+1 from me as well. Great for storing literally anything sensitive, syncs flawlessly across devices (I currently use dropbox to sync the vault, but it supports other options & they have their own syncing/account system (that is not
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by eric_h 8y ago
> DE-CIX, our IXP, donated bandwidth to us, and we have transit also donated from Packet Host and WebAir. What is the incentive for them to donate bandwidth/transit to you? Your non-profit status? Do they get something else in retur
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by eric_h 8y ago
Wisdom of the crowds works well for counting jelly beans in a jar, not so much for finding answers to much more complicated questions.
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by eric_h 8y ago
"But this professor frequently shouted down students or used ridicule to make people regret raising their hands" Pretty much the definition of a bad professor, IMO.
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by eric_h 8y ago
I tried it myself without benchmarking and it felt much faster, but actually timing it shows the original renderer was about 1.5s faster. Fascinating. I'm guessing the original renderer drops frames.
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by eric_h 8y ago
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but isn't the technology to detect fake video in fact part of the process of generating it? I was under the impression that these deep fakes used an adversarial network, thus, the better the detection o
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by eric_h 8y ago
> fictional movies affect our thinking about real events A creative writing instructor of mine many years ago told a story about watching Saving Private Ryan with his grandfather, who was on the beach at Normandy for the invasion depicte
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by eric_h 9y ago
There's an argument to be made that a process that allows more time for evidence to be gathered to stop the bad projects would generate a more net positive result. That argument does, of course, relegate the machinations of bureaucracy
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by eric_h 9y ago
> seem to permit a Confused Deputy attack I'd never heard the terms "Confused Deputy" or "ambient authority" before, but it sent me on a pleasant and informative internet security tangent. https://en.w
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by eric_h 9y ago
Holy shit. I knew about the custom audience feature (a company I used to work for used it to target existing customers with promotions), but I had no idea how many different companies have submitted presumably my email address to target me.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I was under the impression that literally anything goes on the left side of the @. It’s all up to the individual mail server
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by eric_h 9y ago
resident alien != foreigner I believe GP was referring to times s/he's entered the US on a visitor visa of some sort.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Fraud. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/nyregion/former-nyu-stude...
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by eric_h 9y ago
> The yelling "fire" thing is a WWI era anachronism that wouldn't hold today. Eh? Yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre is most definitely still a thing you could be prosecuted for, especially if someone died/
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by eric_h 9y ago
According to [0], it looks like you could even own the full auto military version (the M16). 0) https://www.sweden.org.za/gun-laws-in-sweden.html
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by eric_h 9y ago
Several. It was covered in another post by troy hunt: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-legitimisation-of-have-i-been-p...
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by eric_h 9y ago
Slightly more technical content but the description of how it works still doesn't go much beyond "machine learning techniques" That's an extremely broad brush for what I imagine is a much more specific technique or set o
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by eric_h 9y ago
Ah, didn't try in Chrome. Safari's my daily driver, I only use chrome for development.
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by eric_h 9y ago
This is a rather low content/high marketing post, but the idea is interesting. I'd be more interested in a description of how it actually works, but I guess that's FittedCloud's secret sauce.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Eh? I don't see any custom scrolling and swipe-back is working fine for me.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I have a desktop at the office, laptop and iPad at home and it's pretty amusing the way the messages between them do and don't overlap. SMS messages are the worst offender by far, but even the iMessages don't always end up on
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by eric_h 9y ago
It is almost certainly a degraded battery - the 6 still has plenty of horsepower for iOS 11.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Personally, every device I have (aside from my phone) has a different subset of messages on it. When they're on and near each other, they all get the same messages, but they definitely don't get everything all the time when off&#x
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by eric_h 9y ago
Whether the algorithms seem effective to you, as a single consumer of the advertisements, is irrelevant. Facebook ad campaigns most definitely work (though I'd imagine there's some variance of effectiveness based on what exactly y
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by eric_h 9y ago
> I have seen deer and possums by the side of the road Both of those have eyes that act as reflectors and you can see their eyes well before you can actually see the whole animal. This[0] suggests that the total time required for a human
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by eric_h 9y ago
The whole reason many people on here have been advocating for self driving cars is that they can see obstructions more or less perfectly in the dark with LIDAR. I am much more interested in what that sensor said. I'm reluctant to infer
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Whataboutism isn't new You are absolutely correct, however I would argue that it has only relatively recently entered the common HN lexicon. The vast majority (~675 out of 704^) of comments using it here in the comments are < 2
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by eric_h 9y ago
True, but ensuring that it is sorted out correctly is the cardholder’s problem, and occasionally quite annoying.

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