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by fao_ 7y ago
Some friends roped me into signing up to Instagram, so I did. I got to the sign in process and "an error occurred". I tried to login and it said "account does not exist", but I tried to re-sign up, and it said "This
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by fao_ 7y ago
Most of the "GDPR violations" are not actually GDPR violations. People get stressed out and worried when actually there is no legal problem. I think for the case of the GDPR it would count as publically available information (or t
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by fao_ 7y ago
sure, it's an easy fix, but it's one more hurdle to jump across.
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by fao_ 7y ago
> This is where my credulity was stretched. It's interesting and exciting when you first learn about it only if it breaks a rule you've long had in your mind and enables you to do more interesting things. It's still a new
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by fao_ 7y ago
This. Programming isn't difficult, you can teach it to an adult in a one-week course and I've taught the fundamentals (if statements, functions, loops) in a two hour session with multiple adolescent friends, the core concepts are
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by fao_ 7y ago
It's in the link - https://twitter.com/mdiep
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by fao_ 7y ago
> It was all very disingenuous. It was obvious to everyone, after 8 years of flames, that such a move would have been incendiary. Naftali played dumb only after he was called out on it. Have you considered that not everyone who forks som
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by fao_ 7y ago
I think the user is referring to the conflict of interest and the lack of interest in proper ethical conduct by one of the co-authors. If they won't follow generally accepted ethical guidelines, what other rules will they ignore or ben
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by fao_ 7y ago
Can you provide citations for your claims? The commentary in the github renaming issue from 2016(0) seems pretty jovial and has the tone of "oh, actually we should change that, oops" rather than "we WILL replace python!"
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by fao_ 7y ago
Suddenly I'm getting a throwback to the "Aaron A Aaron" scene from Hot Fuzz
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by fao_ 7y ago
I got that vibe from it too to be quite honest. It was mostly put there with an "it can't hurt to put it in" attitude, but it might be worth taking it out as I already have an article about it on my website. Hm, yeah. I don&#
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by fao_ 7y ago
Hmm, that's an interesting approach and I guess it's pretty common (and seems blatantly, embarassingly obvious in retrospect!). That gives me a lead to look at what the standard practice is, and also a rough phrasing to search for
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by fao_ 7y ago
Andrew Alexander Anthony Aadien Arthur? edit: I know this is nonserious, but hell, if you wanted to do that and you live in the UK, you only have to fill out a deed poll and get it signed by someone :)
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by fao_ 7y ago
Right, but these are projects I've done on my own time. My job history (because of prior burnout that I've recovered from) doesn't describe what I am capable of now, and the things I've done to improve my skill. How do I
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by fao_ 7y ago
I get why it uses LinkedIn, but that's not something that represents my actual CV or skill level. Most of the stuff I've done I don't really know (thanks to their abysmal and dark-pattern-based UI) how to put it on there in t
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by fao_ 7y ago
This actually seems like a game changer. Access to machine learning / developer rigs at incredibly cheap prices?
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by fao_ 7y ago
The image background on that webpage is extremely distracting
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by fao_ 7y ago
1) Probably not 100 hours but, terminator is very, very good: https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/05/getting-the-most-out-of-termi... The saving layouts feature is an absolute gem. 2) dmenu ( https://tools.suckl
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by fao_ 7y ago
It isn't that they needed to act in November. The virus was only taken seriously by the Chinese in December. However by mid-December no action has been taken by the US government. Only marginal action was seen in January, when it was a
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by fao_ 7y ago
You seem to be talking about the possibility that they overreacted though. That's not really the point. The point is that they did nothing . They took no steps to prevent the spread of the virus. The first, lightest, basic-fucking-s
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by fao_ 7y ago
> I mean, does depression even exist, or is it a psychiatric scam? I don't think anyone who's experienced it would be asking this question.
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by fao_ 7y ago
Nice to see another project from you! I remember you from the ludum dare a few times, but you kind of dropped off the map. Glad that you're still around and hacking on things :)
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by fao_ 7y ago
Why would you trust a company where communication is so poor, though?
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by fao_ 7y ago
Amazon profits off price gouging, though, because they get a percentage of the profits. And since price gouging isn't strictly illegal -- it's seen as a perfectly valid part of capitalism by the state -- there isn't really an
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by fao_ 7y ago
For further interest you might want to take a look at: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/somewhat.h... I altered a version of that ELF64 header for 64 bit, and then modified it to work under g
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by fao_ 7y ago
Ok so, it's been a year or so since I was buggering around with the ELF internals (I wrote a simpler header in assembly so I could make a ridiculously small binary...). Let's take a look at an ELF program. If you run `readelf -l $
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by fao_ 7y ago
In brief, most programs these days are position-independent, which means you need a runtime loader to load sections(?) and symbols of the code into memory and tell other parts of the code where they've put it. Because of differences be
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by fao_ 7y ago
You can do that in clang/gcc but you need to pass: -static and -static-plt(? I can't find what it's called). The second option is to ensure it's loader-independent, otherwise you get problems when compiling and running a
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by fao_ 7y ago
> , (5) concise. That rules out C (due to 1) That's interesting, most people I've started on C have found it easier to start out in that than say, Java, which has been on a hell of a lot of introductory courses for a decade now
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by fao_ 7y ago
> I can't imagine anything useful we'd be getting out of that experiment I uhhhh. People's ability to work and live is important. That's what we get out of it. People not starving or living in poverty is, surprisingly

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