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by failrate 5y ago
Show your bosses that their equipment is showing up on shodan if you want to freak them out :)
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by failrate 5y ago
I've used noise functions as good noncryptographic PRNG. E.g. Squirrel3 hash Fast and cheap with no apparent periods.
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by failrate 5y ago
My trick is to spend 15 minutes per day minimum working on the side project.
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by failrate 5y ago
Too bad, there's also the very useful Squirrel3 Noise Hash.
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by failrate 5y ago
Intuit's business model is making tax preparation easier. If tax preparation wasn't so deliberately complicated in the US, they would no longer have a viable business model.
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by failrate 5y ago
California offers the typical international option: they'll send you your estimated annual taxes, and you just jave to correct them if there's a discrepancy. This was supposed to be the default option for Californian state taxes.
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by failrate 5y ago
At no point in the first half of the story (ran out of time to read the whole thing) did I see the author using their own code review tool!
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by failrate 5y ago
Are they uninterested? Wouldn't you like to share with them?
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by failrate 5y ago
My kid and I both hate the invigilation trends in education, but he is far from broken/domesticated. Instead, it is inducing him to rebel against it. He is actively looking for ways to defeat this garbage tech.
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by failrate 5y ago
Meanwhile, a family of three flushes away enough urine each year to manufacture approximately 100 pounds of fertilizer.
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by failrate 5y ago
The dip in effectiveness is because unvaccinated people got infected, and the creation of variants is correlated with the number of infections.
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by failrate 5y ago
Are you looking for 100% effectiveness? That's not how anything in the world works. If I can reduce the probability of spreading infection, that is a clear benefit to society. If enough people reduce the probability of spread enough
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by failrate 5y ago
Vaccines reduce transmission rates for the variant for which they are developed. The wearing of masks for COVID had the unintended side effect of eliminating some strains of influenza. I don't read Reddit, and I take my media with a he
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by failrate 5y ago
You are making an extraordinary claim when you state that the vaccine does not prevent spread. Additionally, the flu vaccine becomes ineffective year after year expressly because of variant strains arising from unvaccinated people failing t
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by failrate 5y ago
Likelihood of variant strains depends on the infection rate. Reduce the number of infections and you reduce the variants. Talk to me about how near total vaccination rates are impossible the next time you contract smallpox or polio.
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by failrate 5y ago
Even if I assume that these governments are retaliating against each other in bad faith, the fact that we are still in the midst of a global pandemic would certainly give them the justification for their behavior. Once COVID became irrelev
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by failrate 5y ago
Explain to me even one downside of wearing a protective mask in public situations.
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by failrate 5y ago
This isn't the case where the actions of the group are harmless to me. Unvaccinated people and antimaskers are creating a more dangerous environment for me through their actions and inactions.
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by failrate 5y ago
Who said anything about holidays?
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by failrate 5y ago
Antimaskers and antivaxxers frequently talk about their "freedoms" in the abstract. Here is an example where I am concretely losing my freedom to travel, because a portion of the populace refuse to take basic precautions.
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by failrate 5y ago
Yes, the fed issues currency by fiat, but the actual resources consumed by this war probably account for the monetary price tag. Additionally, the money spent did not vanish in a puff of smoke at the end of a gun: it lined the war chests o
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by failrate 5y ago
I've used SonicPi on my old laptop for quite a while. It is quite enjoyable to just sit down and jam with it.
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by failrate 5y ago
I'm here to second that drinking the local water in a new place will loosen you up even if it is clean.
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by failrate 5y ago
Yes, and 2 is "I probably broke your favorite API."
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by failrate 5y ago
My dog bringa all of her bones to the same place in the yard, her safe spot. When she has devoured the marrow, she typically leaves the bone remnants behind.
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by failrate 5y ago
Intuit is to blame for much of our current US tax fiasco, as are politicians, and key to the bs is this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Norquist
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by failrate 5y ago
I enjoy thr Royal Game of Ur and even made my own board. One recommendation I'm trying to propagate is to use 4 "2-sided" randomizers instead of a 4-sided randomized for purposes of more strategic play (normal distribution v
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by failrate 5y ago
It would be a weekend project in this day and age to write a simple human readable to number compiler. Why were the developers so willing to continue working without improving their toolset?
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by failrate 5y ago
Good read. An interesting idea would be to have 3 good options shuffled up with 2 bad ones.
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by failrate 5y ago
It is what they are frequently trained on in school. That is one reason for it to be an industry standard.

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