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by firefax 10mo ago
I play poker. I buy in for 500 and can make 1-200 a session. But a session is ~8 hours, so I stopped and use that time to study or work a job outside my field that has health benefits that is less fun than playing Texas Hold 'Em.
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by firefax 10mo ago
then how do we predict anything? (not being sarcastic)
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by firefax 10mo ago
>I definitely was not aware Spotify DRM had been cracked to enable downloading at scale like this. What's stopping someone from sticking a microphone next to their speaker? Slow, but effective.
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by firefax 10mo ago
I remember similar discussions back when it was called "machine learning". Sooooo... no. (Also, look at what the smart guys/gals who found this topic before me said about profits vs income etc.)
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by firefax 10mo ago
>Sadly so, students often associate their self-worth with research and academic achievement, so if things go south, for whatever reason, they are in crisis. A lot of people also are doing research they think will benefit the world, so it
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by firefax 10mo ago
>I can't help but suspect that sometimes it may be related to graduate school itself, which can be stressful and unforgiving, with minimal support, and where supervisors often hold both academic power over their students' futur
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by firefax 10mo ago
And?
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Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system(theguardian.com)
7 points by firefax 10mo ago|3 comments
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by firefax 10mo ago
>I'm sure ODT works well for many personal use cases, but can guarantee it will never see adoption in the legal industry. Microsoft Word is the only viable option for lawyers. The legal industry also uses MD5 to certify digital evid
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by firefax 10mo ago
You're not running it as a credit card, and it's not a credit card -- you can't do a cash advance on a gift card. But they sold ones that were accepted anywhere visa or MC is accepted rather than specific stores.
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by firefax 10mo ago
iCloud is overrated, it was not encrypted at rest for ages. I much prefer using Time Machine and keeping the passcodes in a PW manager, and maybe a safe deposit box as a backup.
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by firefax 10mo ago
I did this ages ago to build up airline points and take a nice trip to the EU. Back then, the trick was to get a generic Vanilla Visa or other prepaid credit card. A recent legal ruling meant they had to be run as a debit card for... reason
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by firefax 10mo ago
I've been doing all my personal notes etc that I want a rich text format in .ODT for decades now and don't regret it one bit. I do regret being overly paranoid in my 20s and not writing down my master passphrase to my personal d
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by firefax 10mo ago
>Countries that have nuclear ambitions but lack the capability have more than enough scientists of their own that could do it given the permission. Source?
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by firefax 10mo ago
>Ya’ll read too many conspiracy theories. What makes you think other countries were interested in recruiting him, specifically? I want to see the logic behind this assumption. You don't understand why a country without nuclear weapo
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by firefax 10mo ago
>He is a nuclear scientist so he might have been working for some country's nuclear program? Or "some country" tried to recruit him and killed him when he said no to maintain the (nonofficial) cover.
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by firefax 10mo ago
key exchange imo
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by firefax 10mo ago
> Also worth checking: comp.lang.* Usenet groups (surprisingly active) Do you know of a newbie friendly FAQ on how to access usenet in the modern era? >Reddit's niche programming subreddits (r/rust, r/golang) Even less
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by firefax 10mo ago
>I've read at least two articles authored by historians that thought this book was full of factual errors and misunderstandings. Feel free to provide these citations if you dislike the book >It may be good read, but don't ex
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by firefax 10mo ago
> Neither of us had prior experience developing mobile apps, but we thought, “Hey, we’re both smart. Great example of how perception and reality can differ vastly
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Frutiger Aero(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by firefax 10mo ago|0 comments
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by firefax 10mo ago
>Liquid Glass is now mandatory if you care about security. Sigh. Long live frutiger aero
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by firefax 10mo ago
Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police https://search.worldcat.org/title/39256274 This book going into extreme detail about the East German surveillance state. People tend to hyperfocus on the Nazis d
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by firefax 10mo ago
I feel like what's interesting to the technically minded will stay evergreen? (You mentioned Neuromancer for example) "A Brief History of Time" was one of my favorite books as a pre-teen beginning to wonder how the world work
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by firefax 10mo ago
I normally dislike LinkedIn but this might be a great example of something to post there if you have a lot of academic contacts.
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by firefax 10mo ago
I hate to be "that guy", but why do you insist on a phone? I used to have an EeePC back before decent mobile hotspot plans were affordable, I'd love to just use a dumbphone as a hotspot and do most of my computing on a small
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by firefax 10mo ago
How did you learn how to use AI for coding? I'm open to the idea that a lot of "software carpentry" tasks (moving/renaming files, basic data analysis, etc) can be done with AI to free up time for higher level analysis, b
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by firefax 10mo ago
I don't have kids and my family is abusive, so I'll probably find the homeless folks I used to vent to during COVID around the neighborhood and pay them to listen to another airing of grievances with pizza on Festivus[1]. [1] htt
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by firefax 10mo ago
>If I ever meet the person that invented lookbehind correction, I’m not sure I’ll be able to restrain myself. your comment reminds me of this comic from the 2000s that became a bit of a meme back in the day swap out "comic sans&quot
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by firefax 10mo ago
>They went up to $1.25 in '21 I think. It was extensively cover by the press. I'd love to see a citation on that, since I think you're mistaken -- there's plenty of things that are still a dollar, mostly stuff like

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