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by finnh 3y ago
Based on the Blackwing paper the "Microsoft Surface Type Cover" hack seems pretty legit. They can gain login access to a Surface-with-cover by simply unplugging the cover and plugging in their evil USB device. That sounds like a
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by finnh 3y ago
I suspect Neal Stephenson has stopped composing on paper, given the precipitous decline in quality since Seveneves (or thereabouts; opinions may vary).
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by finnh 3y ago
> Match kernel + BSD userland + NeXTSTEP, how Jobs have anything to do with any of this? Is like purchasing NeXT in 1997 is a major technical achievement... Steve Jobs founded NeXT
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by finnh 3y ago
love this site! was surprised to see a couple repeats in my idle tapping
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by finnh 3y ago
That's a long page, but basically the answer is no. We don't randomly have a 61 second minute in "clock" units; instead we have a day that takes 86401 _real_ seconds but only the standard 86400 clock seconds. By way of a
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by finnh 3y ago
The text states that, but then in the Healing Examples section [0], the "m" in "filming" clearly spills over its left border line. Is that just a poorly drawn/incorrect example graphic? [0] https://github
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by finnh 3y ago
Similar to the shields in Dune, then.
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by finnh 3y ago
Thanks. I searched for this URL before posting, but didn't see the nytimes post.
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Sam Bankman-Fried: guilty on all charges(newsletter.mollywhite.net)
25 points by finnh 3y ago|9 comments
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by finnh 3y ago
stop using MS products, then?
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by finnh 3y ago
I greatly enjoyed "Geniuses at War", which describes the Colossus machines that were the immediate ancestors of the Manchester Computer. https://books.google.com/books/about/Geniuses_at_War.html?id...
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by finnh 3y ago
That was GP's point - that things are much better for engineers than people in academia (and perhaps science).
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by finnh 3y ago
that's a delightful autocorrect for "vicious"
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by finnh 3y ago
I loved Winterbells on Orisinal, looks like it's playable at a number of sites still.
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by finnh 3y ago
Good point, diamond-pattern dependencies can get hellish. In the past, rather than deal with shadowing etc, I've resorted to choosing versions of my major dependencies that use the same version of their underlying dependency (for exam
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by finnh 3y ago
This piece of advice hits me weird: > For crates where you don’t need or want new features, bug fixes etc, you could consider pinning their versions. It seems to me that you should _always_ pin your dependency versions. I'd go so f
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by finnh 3y ago
Isn't this generally because they didn't fire low performers one by one, but instead those people just build up and get laid off all together? It's a terrible pattern (firing known-bad staff is good for morale, layoffs are b
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by finnh 3y ago
Yeah I always thought that the construction of Gödel numbers was always the weakest part of the proof / the biggest leap of faith / the part your prof would just hand-wave as being a valid move. Of course once you get into Turing
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by finnh 3y ago
The eye tracking explanation is a good one, thanks. I think it supports my hypothesis by providing a possible mechanism of action. To your second point: yes, of course. But three weeks later it looks (mostly) the same but stops drawing comp
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by finnh 3y ago
I think there is a more functional and charitable read of this: not all of our senses are plumbed all the way through to our conscious mind at all times. small little hints (like minor changes in smell, relative humidity, maybe just pattern
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by finnh 3y ago
Odd that the first example looks buggy: while i > size result += a [i++] } Could be correct, but "while i < size" seems more likely...
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by finnh 3y ago
And I really, really doubt that competing mp3 players talked about "Mega Hertz", as this article's GPT-esque strawman puts it. Maybe they talked about "Giga Bytes", but I lived through that era and my recollection i
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by finnh 3y ago
oooof I'm imagining having to drive east on 90 to cross the Columbia at Vantage just to drive from Seattle to Portland... (many bridges would have to go down for this to be the only way, of course)
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by finnh 3y ago
There are per-API-call charges. It's just not per-byte.
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by finnh 3y ago
(thanks, fixed)
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by finnh 3y ago
Jordan is a famous gambler so it makes some sense that he would be morally offended by attempts to avoid payment.
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by finnh 3y ago
donated! thank you, Bram, for our beloved vim
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by finnh 3y ago
You just might enjoy Jumbo, a track off Underworld's "Beaucoup Fish" album https://open.spotify.com/track/3VIMS1p3sNifH0RQnmDf7s
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by finnh 3y ago
as a bonus, they make canned cranberry sauce visually appealing on the Thanksgiving platter :)
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by finnh 3y ago
so, you are a thief. congratulations

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