hairy_man674

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by hairy_man674 10y ago
The design is clean and free of clutter. Please keep it this way. Sadly, though not your fault, the rate of cumulative quantity of garbage output from news companies, and the general public is becoming a cesspool and the good stuff is getti
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Study: Social bots distort the U.S. Presidential online discussion(firstmonday.org)
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
"Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections,
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
In South Africa, our family troll past-time at parties was to re-label wine we brought. We used the same wine everytime (our personal favourite) and disguised it with some fake fancy label.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
That is an ok thing to desire. Personally, I would find living in a homogenous community preferable. I want a peaceful life, among reasonable people who moderate themselves. I am tired of conflict, and having to tolerate those who impose th
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Not ought but must . It's a fundamental concept in system security known as as Kerckhoffs's Principle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity The rationale is to allow anybody to audit
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
> “I’ve never seen a server set up like that.” Probably only uses Microsoft Windows Server 2012.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
> It feels like we’re often treating symptoms like problems Agreed. A just society requires that we assign positions on the basis of merit. But to obtain the skills and knowledge that constitute merit requires fair and equal opportunity
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Maybe I was wrong but here are the reasons for the condemnation 1. propagating falsehoods, or flaws in published work without correcting or refuting their validity, claims etc. by your strong admission that everyone knows of such work (wh
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
That in a nutshell is why I said Java is a horrible language. That said, people with a strong preference for a particular language are comparable to religious fanatics. A good engineer doesn't let language preference and emotional atta
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
... thereby exonerating Facebook from the racial discrimination imputed to its advertising problem. Are you really suggesting that platform providers are fully accountable for the abusive use of their services?
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Java? What a horrible language.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
I don't use FB (privacy concerns and commercialization of human beings) so give the interested source benefit of the doubt. So FB has made an oversight. The engineers and designers should do the politically correct thing here and add w
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Caucasians are a category that can be selected from that list too, right? So, the article lead should be ammended from: "Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.&qu
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Here is the ideal of what every site should look like: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com edit: Seriously, why does a site need to be like a fucking pop-up book?!
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
>keep the "secret recipe" to ourselves >Everyone will have a list like that You and/or your publishers are terrible human beings.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
As a former philosophy student, I disavow philosophy for its uselessness. Save for ethics and a few niche topics of inquiry where it has practical utility, its only function is to add epistemlogical detail to science's study of nature
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
On replication, this same criticism has recently been directed at physics, chemistry and biology, among others. [1] Psychology, with view to its practical (non-research) use has not helped me, but at least three people I know say they benef
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Related to biases are fallacies in argument as illustrated (in a less serious but instructive manner) here: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
In userspace this is generally true, and it sucks because "good taste" should really be an engineering determination not compromise to human laziness and mediocre slackers.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
A professor of mine in my first year of college gave a lecture on Determinism and Free Will. His thesis was basically what you described above: subtle yet gradual determination of how we think, believe what is important to us, what we buy e
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
I stopped using Facebook and mobile two years ago. I lost contact with people and discovered who my true friends who still wanted my company. I think it was the right decision. I also agree with you, and furthermore think that we live in th
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
> Seems like the kind of thing they'd do Forced to do by Microsoft C and C++ that mangle names.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
C has no such keywords. Why the need for this hackery? Curious also if putting that in a header and including it in a C++ program even compiles without leading to undefined behaviour...
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
The main misuse, again this is opinion based, is that it hides (obscures) the type of variable. If you have (say) a very large struct containing several member variables and functions, a programmer can be misled into returning it from a fun
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Any preprocessor definition that changes the language like that example makes C programmers rage. As a rule, typedef and macros and friends should be avoided for clarity and debugging (opinion). An actual example of this: The programmer who
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
Physically removed both front and back integrated cameras from my tablet. If the FBI Director is paranoid enough to cover his webcam then that is good enough reason for drastic measures... Privacy aside, I have an ugly face.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
The burden of proof is on you to prove otherwise, sir.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
ok sure, if you are freelancing then this applies. at a normal desk job you may be given a probationary period varying from 1-12 months. at AWS this is 12 months.
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by hairy_man674 10y ago
So we have CPython which has an ffi and a native implementation of the source interpreter. We have PyPy which is JIT for Python that emits assembly at runtime though not as successful Cpython for its support. The complexity class of this pr

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