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by grkvlt 11y ago
Here's some negative anecdata on this: our company (a smallish startup, doing open source application management in the cloud) has an awesome management team, and we ask every engineer to give a short talk, with slides, about some rele
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> As the germans say: "Keine Bange, der kocht auch nur mit Wasser" Meaning? My high school German and a bit of Google translate give me "Don't worry, he also cooks with water" or something similar? Can anyone (na
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by grkvlt 11y ago
But telephony has always been band-limited to 3 kHz, even in the 'good old days' of analog lines. Voice quality over a transatlantic link compounded that with delays, static and fading. If you needed high quality audio over the
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I found this after looking at http://jackschaedler.github.io/handwriting-recognition/ - it's a collection of similar interactive essays, using tools like D3 go visualize mathematical and other abstract concepts.
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Explorable Explanations (Curated interactive essay collection)(explorableexplanations.com)
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Hang on; Imposter Syndrome would mean that you would come across as a fallible, non-expert, since you believe yourself to really be an imposter. Do you really mean something like the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is sort of the opposite of I
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by grkvlt 11y ago
OSX was alleged (by Apple, even) to use PDF as the display language, but Quartz just has an object model that maps very nicely to PDF, making PDF transformations and export very easy.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Wait, over 50ms is high latency now? That's less than transatlantic traffic delays, for example. I think you have to be in the actually noticeable (say 250ms plus) range to count as high.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Presumably by studying geology, then thinking a lot about the oil formation process, and working out where to find some before anyone else. Then, you can negotiate to obtain value for your knowledge of the location...
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Full-screen on one monitor should still allow normal operation on the other. And even allowing another full-screen app on the other monitor(s). It's ridiculous to waste a monitor displaying my desktop background when I'm running s
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I think his point was that accelerators have the same problems: it used to be that 18 month's ago's accelerator is obsoleted by today's due to Moore's law. This is no longer true, so todays accelerator is as good as the
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> RL follows relativity. There is no equivalent in GoL Of course there is an equivalent of relativity! There's a fixed, ultimate speed-limit (i.e. c) of once-cell/time-step. It is not possible to transmit information faster tha
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I started reading it, and put it down almost immediately. The 'technical' aspects of the book are half-understood gibberish. I would expect it would just annoy or even enrage any hacker with its inaccuracies, misconceptions and ge
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by grkvlt 11y ago
That's not how LSD works.
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Occams razor suggests the latter, i.e. it's all in your mind. Unless you can get one of the beings to factor some huge number for you, of course. - http://www.ayahuasca-info.com/data/articles/paralleldmt.pdf
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by grkvlt 11y ago
What's the title of the story?
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by grkvlt 11y ago
From the reCAPTCHA site itself: > reCAPTCHA offers more than just spam protection. Every time our CAPTCHAs are solved, that human effort helps digitize text, annotate images, and build machine learning datasets. This in turn helps preser
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Sure, but the point of a CAPTCHA is to pre-emptively detect the user as a human or computer. Waiting until the account sends a boat-load of spam, and then saying 'must've been a computer, let's disable the account' doe
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by grkvlt 11y ago
I do love the SF-86 form. "Please list all acts of terrorism you have participated in, in an attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States: Nature of act, Dates from and to" and that sort of thing. I wonder if anyone wh
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by grkvlt 11y ago
And then your crime goes from (mere) 'computer misuse' to 'espionage' or even 'treason', with the exciting penalties they draw. I don't think anyone with half a brain wants to go down that road, particular
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by grkvlt 11y ago
So, you're suggesting it was one of the many other atomic bomb tests carried out in 1945? The article (and other related information I've read in many sources on the Manhattan projects) is pretty clear about the connection. Fall
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by grkvlt 11y ago
We used Airline in Apache Brooklyn, and found it really easy to use. A lot of the jclouds team have contributed, and the code seems high quality. I know there are open PRs which are a few months old, so it obviously needs a bit of love and
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Heh, looks like the author fixed this [1] and it now uses the technique you suggest, based on issue #22 [2] which restates the same thing as your comment, basically chaining everything together with `&&` in a single `RUN` entry. [1]
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Of course you don't need to know how to write shellcode, or have in-depth knowledge of anti-debugger reversing tricks, to write a very useful and robust security policy for an organisation, or manage a global incident response team. I
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by grkvlt 11y ago
So, I still can't actually try it out to see if it's useful, then? Thanks...
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Yes. I have a plugin that disables rendering of text in my browser, and all I could see were the images. How do web designers imagine they can get away with this?
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by grkvlt 11y ago
> A few years later when half the bad guys in the world seemed to be using AX.25 and cheap ham gear Also, note that this awesome research was paid for by the NSA via their sponsorship of the lab and Cray machine. I assume because FSK de
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by grkvlt 11y ago
No, the italics aren't helping... Although this probably says something about how easy it is to fail to notice word-doubling errors?
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by grkvlt 11y ago
So, you want to defraud your employer? Why not just be straight-up and give the actual requirements, and then you know you'll be happy with whatever is purchased, since it'll meet them?
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by grkvlt 11y ago
Actually, that LinkedIn facial recognition app sounds awesome. I have trouble putting names to faces at large events like tech conferences, and it would be great to have a subtle 'This is Bob, the CTO of WhateverCorp, you have a meetin

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