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by fantispug 9y ago
There's a cultural divide here; many Australians do not consider gun ownership a "liberty" in the same way as Americans do because we do not share the same revolutionary history. If anything in Australia's history guns w
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by fantispug 9y ago
That's a very good point; even if it's possible to detect steganography of encrypted messages it's probably expensive to do so, especially in the torrent of digital traffic online. I guess it will only impact law abiding citi
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by fantispug 9y ago
This is a great analogy. Encrypted messages are used by both criminals and whistleblowers. Weakening encryption will likely help apprehend criminals and even create a chilling effect on criminal communications. It will equally help apprehen
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by fantispug 9y ago
If it's illegal to send encrypted communications it will still have an impact. If the source of any unapproved encrypted transmissions could be identified there is a good chance the sender could be apprehended.
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by fantispug 9y ago
It's not necessarily obvious if they're just tracking your behaviour on WiFi and making external actions based on that (approaching you in store, or sending certain promotions). I think a lot of people don't appreciate that y
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by fantispug 9y ago
If used this could be seen as a precedent for letting internet carriers do this. Even if you're paying for the connection it's still their network. While this is already occurs for content that is considered illegal, broadening th
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by fantispug 10y ago
For each of the 3 tests the training sets were classified with a biopsy, images were randomly seleced then blurry images were filtered out by a separate dermatologist. The ratios Benign:Malignant were 70:65, 97:33, and 40:71 respectively. T
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by fantispug 10y ago
Being methodical is good when your problem is intricate and well defined. Fast feedback won't be helpful in implementing a complex algorithm like a compiler or a numerical simulation (although I would argue it will help you debug it).
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by fantispug 10y ago
I have seen a production system (which is still live) using much like Joel's suggestion 2 - a Windows 2003 server that uses Excel to produce reports (inside an otherwise Linux shop). It's fragile, no one wants to touch it, it&#x27
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by fantispug 10y ago
Learning advanced mathematics without going to university would take an extreme amount of dedication, focus, and effort, but it's certainly possible. It's much easier with the resources available on the internet, and being able to
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by fantispug 10y ago
You're right, in the sense that the partial sums are always 0 or 1, so 0.5 away from 0.5. However the mean of the partial sums converges to 0.5 (this is called Cesàro summation). It converges "on the average" towards 0.5. How
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by fantispug 11y ago
Paywave/Paypass is about convenience, rather than security. It is less secure than chip and pin. Fraud was a lower risk to credit card companies in America because [1] they were better at detecting and preventing fraudulent transaction
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by fantispug 11y ago
This is interesting, but unfortunately the community looks stagnant; there have only been 5 edits and 1 new article in the last year (excluding the 2 edits I just made).
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by fantispug 11y ago
It is a Hausdorff space that is locally homeomorphic to the Euclidean plane, but not paracompact. Manifolds are usually defined to be paracompact because this implies the existence of partitions of unity which have many nice implications:
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by fantispug 12y ago
A lot of that, though, is actually loading LaTeX packages itself. TeX underneath is really very speedy; on my several year old laptop it can compile several hundred pages in around half a second (and pdftex takes around twice as long). I be
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by fantispug 12y ago
Evidence that it's trying to improve LaTeX macro programming? It's in the documentation. Evidence that it will be released any time this century? I have none of that. It looks like the last commit to the SVN was in January.
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by fantispug 12y ago
The commit graph ( http://wiki.patoline.org/developers.html ) shows commits every month from December 2011 to now.
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by fantispug 12y ago
Some effort is going towards this in LaTeX3 (see the experimental package: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/expl3 ).
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by fantispug 12y ago
That's great if people are viewing your resume online, but the print version looks very ordinary; there's a page break within a block, the format is dull (you even set a print stylesheet), and, for instance, the kerning is mediocr
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by fantispug 12y ago
Thanks! If it wasn't for this I would have given up on this site for being unreadable.