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by gdavisson 4y ago
The problem is that you have to go examine (dig/dive/whatever) the potential sites to get real feedback -- otherwise, you're just training the model based on your own prejudices about what good sites look like.
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by gdavisson 4y ago
That's the problem, though. What's a "more realistic valuation" for something that has no intrinsic value?
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by gdavisson 5y ago
You're using the wrong burden of proof here. You're assuming it's safe until proven dangerous, while the FAA is (properly) treating it as dangerous until proven safe. Take the recent 737 MAX debacle as an example. Its MCAS ha
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by gdavisson 5y ago
These are from the PANGO lineage designation system ( https://www.pango.network ). They're based on the inferred phylogeny (i.e. family tree) of the various variants. Variant B.1.1.529 ( not BA.1.1.529 -- that's a mista
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by gdavisson 5y ago
Also http://v4.ident.me and http://v6.ident.me if you want to check a specific IP version. Unfortunately, leaving off the version prefix (/subdomain) doesn't work.
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by gdavisson 5y ago
Agreed; none of the analogies I've seen are really close. I have a couple of attempts: Analogy 1: the reporter got a letter from DESE, and noticed that there was confidential information printed on the inside of the envelope. Analogy 2
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by gdavisson 5y ago
AIUI the European usage of this band only goes up to 3.8GHz (see https://www.everythingrf.com/community/5g-frequency-bands-in... for example), but the FCC auctioned off band space up to 3.98GHz. Aircraft altimeters use
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by gdavisson 5y ago
Why do you expect the partial protection from omicron to be greater than the damage caused by omicron? While it's looking significantly less dangerous than delta (though even that isn't completely certain), that doesn't mean
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by gdavisson 5y ago
That doesn't seem like a good idea. We won't have any solid data for a while, but it's likely that the immune escape works both ways. Just as immunity due to vaccination against/infection by other variants gives only lim
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by gdavisson 5y ago
A server may store the password hashed, but in a password-over-TLS flow the password is received by the server in plaintext. It is only encrypted on the wire (& the network stack). Look at all the places in a standard authentication
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by gdavisson 5y ago
The risk of death if you get polio is much higher than COVID, but the probability of getting COVID is much much higher than it was of getting polio. This makes the overall current risk if dying from COVID roughly 100x the overall risk of dy
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by gdavisson 5y ago
> It’s not like covid is polio. You're right, it's not like polio. In 1952, the worst polio outbreak in US history caused 3,145 deaths and 21,269 cases of paralysis (of varying levels) (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by gdavisson 5y ago
Why would that be the case? Shutting down nuclear plants doesn't increase the production capacity from renewables. For a given renewable production capacity, there's a fixed amount that has to be made up from non-renewable sources
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by gdavisson 5y ago
Ignoring the legal and accounting details, the basic idea is that macOS is something that Apple includes with each Mac computer that they sell. If you don't own a Mac, you don't own macOS. If you own a Mac and some other computer(
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by gdavisson 5y ago
The vaccines (of all types) aren't somehow an alternate to our immune systems, they're a way to boost our immune systems' response. And yes, they do make the immune system significantly more effective in responding to COVID i
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by gdavisson 5y ago
Unfortunately our immune systems aren't that great at dealing with COVID-19. This has been extensively tested over the last year and a half, with the result that well over 4 million people have died (so far).
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by gdavisson 5y ago
It's not that macOS doesn't trust you, it's that macOS doesn't trust the programs you're running. Specifically, it doesn't trust the programs to do what you want them to, and only what you want them to. And i
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by gdavisson 6y ago
I agree with almost everything in this guide, but it has a couple of recommendations that create new problems (while solving others): The nullglob option ('shopt -s nullglob') makes things like 'for f in .txt' work righ
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by gdavisson 6y ago
That implies you should put a space before the # in the root prompt, because it's not recognized as a comment delimiter if it's in the middle of a "word".
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by gdavisson 6y ago
It's not a matter of welcome vs unwelcome, it's a matter of global & persistent vs local and transient. Or, to put it another way, the larger your sample size, the better the signal-to-noise ratio is. So a single-month anomaly
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by gdavisson 6y ago
There are three kinds of programmers: 1) Those who number lists starting at 1. 1) Those who number lists starting at 0. 2.5) Stan Kelly-Bootle, who proposed a compromise.
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by gdavisson 6y ago
I'm pretty sure "garden" is being used in the British sense, roughly corresponding to "yard" in American English.
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by gdavisson 6y ago
A friend of mine was reading a C&H book (probably the same one) a while back. Suddenly he ran to the bathroom, and there was a flush followed by gales of laughter. He was in his thirties.
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by gdavisson 6y ago
I'm not that familiar with the relevant systems, but this was before plug-and-play was a thing, and moving drives around wasn't a minor operation. Mario mentions a similar option in the article: "Another solution might be to
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by gdavisson 7y ago
Here's a video of three flat-Earthers discussing (arguing) about it with three round-Earthers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yvvq-9ytE . They appear genuine, and remind me quite a bit of the anti-evolutionists I som
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by gdavisson 7y ago
Seconded. Here https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/378942/cant-initia... is an example of what can happen from not checking for errors after a `cd` command. Summary: "sudo find ... -delete" ran in
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by gdavisson 7y ago
IIRC Apple used to do something like this on their installer DVDs (back when they shipped the OS on DVDs). The Mac OS X installer was on an HFS+ volume pointed to by an Apple Partition Map (which would only be recognized by Mac OS X and the
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by gdavisson 7y ago
Satellites at higher orbit will be visible longer after sunset, both because they'll be in sunlight for a larger part of their orbit and because they'll be visible (above the horizon) to observers further away. The train is curren
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by gdavisson 7y ago
This article starts from a completely wrong premise: a beneficial mutation is not a decrease of entropy in a closed system. There's no closed system involved. Organisms are not thermodynamically closed, because they take in both mate
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by gdavisson 7y ago
"Other issues" is what worries me most about this as well. We now know that MCAS is safety-critical, so it's going to be reviewed, but what else got missed/minimized during the design and review process? The fact that Bo

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