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by hollasch 3y ago
As per usual, I'm mortified more by the clowns "on my side" than by those I'm opposed to. This comment is really a threat to those of us who take the pandemic seriously? We need to censor/downvote positions opposite
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by hollasch 3y ago
Ice in a tray freezes from all sides since it's not insulated. And indeed, the ice from your tray is crystal clear on the sides, with the cloudy ice at the center of the cube. In an insulated vessel, the sides and bottom remain liquid
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by hollasch 3y ago
I move hundreds of thousands of my dollars around between financial institutions just using text.
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by hollasch 3y ago
Chrome uses APIs from google.com, Edge/IE use APIs from bing.com. This amazing discovery was in headlines in 2010. A more interesting blast from the past is the practice of capturing the search phrase in your browser sent to a competin
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by hollasch 3y ago
And if Bing is the engine to provide keystroke-by-keystroke word completion, that's not a leak — it's an API the browser uses.
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by hollasch 3y ago
The UUID scheme uses random digits. The article states that 19 random decimal digits (about 63 bits) yields a collision probability of 96%. More digits lowers the probability of collision to 0.0003% at 25 decimal digits (83 bits). So yeah,
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by hollasch 3y ago
A random-number scheme provides a way for any entity to generate an identifier without collaboration (this is why GUIDs are so popular). Your scheme, yes, provides a way to assign guaranteed unique identifiers, but at the cost of a centrali
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by hollasch 4y ago
Today the planet bears the load of over eight billion autonomous agents grabbing training data from all the other agents. This intellectual thievery must stop.
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by hollasch 4y ago
See https://shapecatcher.com/ .
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by hollasch 4y ago
A patent is a contract between the government and the inventor. The government grants a protected monopoly over the patented invention. In exchange, the inventor turns over all details of the invention to the public. The primary purpose of
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by hollasch 4y ago
I've seen systems at Boeing that understand CAD drawings semantically, like how arrows work and what regions are alternate views of what other regions, and whether a drawing is of the nose landing gear or the flap control, all based on
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by hollasch 4y ago
YES. I have seen layout prototypes for this kind of thinking, and they're magical. It's not trivial, but will come more and more into reach. All of visual layout delivers a spatial visual language that all humans understand. We kn
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by hollasch 4y ago
If you disable JavaScript while browsing but recommend that people install mobile apps, that's kind of like forbidding pocket knifes in a war zone.
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by hollasch 4y ago
That's a very good observation.
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by hollasch 4y ago
You are assuming that we can alter our speed, which isn't true. Our speed through spacetime is c. If you are at a fixed point in X,Y,Z, then your velocity is c in the direction of time. You can change _direction_ in spacetime, but you
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by hollasch 4y ago
A Tesla Model 3 has energy storage of less than three gallons of gasoline. The reason the range is so good is that regen yields a lot of additional range. In this test, however, towing or hauling long highway distances eliminates regen, sev
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by hollasch 4y ago
And who do you imagine would do the arresting bit on behalf of the Delaware court?
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by hollasch 4y ago
We've adopted Markdeep as the format for the _Ray Tracing in One Weekend_ book series, and have been very happy with it. https://raytracing.github.io
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by hollasch 4y ago
Finally, a ray of light in the fight against HTTPS.
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by hollasch 4y ago
Everything on Earth is currently moving at about 30km per second (over 100,000 km/h). So first you need to boost it out of the Earth's gravity well, then you need to decelerate it to near zero from 30km/s. It's easier to
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by hollasch 4y ago
It would be very interesting to include this data on the various salary sites.
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by hollasch 4y ago
I will be very happy if one day I open up Inkscape and I'm not presented with a virtual sheet of paper as my starting point. I find it extraordinarily off putting to have to pretend I'm going to print out the end result.
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by hollasch 5y ago
Increasingly, American political parties are most interested in seizing and wielding power, and I feel like most citizens are occupied with surrendering and assigning that power to their preferred political party. How in the world did we ge
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by hollasch 5y ago
Hah! I identify as [Republican] but the people running on [Republican] platform are really dumb and their opponents are insane/dumb in other ways. There’s no good options to vote for.
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by hollasch 5y ago
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Pixel art and avatar images are not NFTs, any more than a title is a car or a house.
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by hollasch 5y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "unfettered access"?
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Canada Asks Banks, Exchanges to Block Crypto Accounts(cryptonews.com)
1 points by hollasch 5y ago|0 comments
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by hollasch 5y ago
Looks like more ammunition for the right-to-repair movement.
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by hollasch 5y ago
The moderator there has shut down all conversation about this topic, so putting this possible workaround here. The mod simply responded "doesn't work", but I'd love to hear more details from someone who's experienci
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by hollasch 5y ago
I took the time to post a possible workaround (selecting a year that mimics 2022 for calendar and leap-year status), and was promptly shut down. Apparently the moderator figured there was nothing new to discuss about the issue. Must be fun

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