iak8god

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by iak8god 9y ago
This is fascinating. Here's an article that mentions it: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.572417
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by iak8god 9y ago
I'll check it out. Thanks!
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by iak8god 9y ago
Can you expand on "mypy is a much better type system than Java"? I'd love it if that were true.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> if we are forced to stop using python 2, we'll probably need to switch the project over to Java. This is just silly. It will take at least 100x more effort to rewrite the project in Java than it would to upgrade to Python 3. >
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by iak8god 9y ago
I'm in similar situation wrt what I use python for, and suffered from the same apathy until quite recently. Man, it was really easy to switch, and completely worth it just for the little things (like UTF-8 as default encoding for str
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by iak8god 9y ago
For example? Not being snarky, just want to know what you'd recommend.
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by iak8god 9y ago
I don't think it's likely. The libraries are the real issue. It's not that they couldn't emerge, it's just that they're not likely to emerge out of the current situation.
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by iak8god 9y ago
I currently use Python much more than any other language and regularly advocate for its use as a learning language both for formal education and for self-teaching. That said, I don't think most of the below supports your assertion that
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by iak8god 9y ago
Explain?
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by iak8god 9y ago
This is a neat tool. I bought a license yesterday and finally got a chance to play around with it. If you're taking requests: I'd really love the ability to specify a script to run when opening Terminal. Both by specifying a locat
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by iak8god 9y ago
Thanks for posting these. I really like jigish's Slate[1] for this (maybe I'm just too lazy to switch) but sadly it's not being maintained, and I just noticed that neither is mattr-'s fork[2] as of this month. [1] htt
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by iak8god 9y ago
I was proposing a short fictional piece based on this premise -- not sure if you meant to respond to that specifically. In any case, it's speculative fiction: we put the story in a not-too-distant dystopian future where the laws and no
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by iak8god 9y ago
> [proving intent is] essentially impossible if you have a device that never contained sensitive data in any form. I'd like to see a short story based on this premise: man is arrested and tried for crossing the border with a brand n
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by iak8god 9y ago
That is the issue. I'd be more willing to try training my friends to contact me through other means except that, having recently moved to a new city where I knew no one, none of the people I currently spend time with IRL actually have
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by iak8god 9y ago
Not sure that's strictly Human Nature, but it's certainly the prevailing paradigm in this time and place.
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by iak8god 9y ago
> - Don't use Facebook's messaging or email. I'd love to not use FB's messaging, especially since they recently changed the email message notifications to say "you have a message. log in to see it" instead
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by iak8god 9y ago
Too late to edit(?) so self-reply. This shows the shrinking approach (and was a fun excuse to play around with octave-image): http://imgur.com/a/cM8TU
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by iak8god 9y ago
Unless that ~$10M bitcoin is a pretty small fraction of the individual's net worth, it sure seems like a good idea to at least sell half and put it somewhere less risky...
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by iak8god 9y ago
For BTC this is absolutely the case now. Other coins can't be mined with ASICs.
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by iak8god 9y ago
I've been poking around the last couple of days trying to figure out how likely one is to at least break even on a ~$1500 "investment" for the 6 GPUs and barebones components required to run them. My conclusion is: who the he
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by iak8god 9y ago
That's been true of Bitcoin for several years now. Even if you have free electricity, "very little" is a bit of an understatement.
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by iak8god 9y ago
I was imagining a solution that I think is equivalent to what you suggest. repeatedly shrink the object by a one (or small n) pixel margin. When there's nothing left, back up one step. You'll have one (maybe a few) tiny object tha
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by iak8god 9y ago
> That would give you the thickest part of the shape, not necessarily the center. But we're looking for the "visual center," defined in the article as "a point inside a polygon with as much space as possible around i
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Right, I'm sure the NSA doesn't currently take any effort to secure their trove of 0-days. This case seems to show that whatever effort they're making is not sufficient.
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by iak8god 9y ago
Well, hopefully they have backups, but the point of this statement is to reassure everyone that patient data has not been leaked .
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by iak8god 9y ago
If you do that, how do the images get from the x-ray machine to the radiologist for analysis? How do they end up as part of the electronic health record & accessible for future use? If you create an air gap and ask people to use USB sti
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by iak8god 9y ago
> Edit, because some google-impaired pendant will insist on a cite for common knowledge "pedant" :) Do you have a citation for "they hate us for us"?
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by iak8god 9y ago
> And they hate us for it. I don't know where you live. Who's "us"?
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> The concept of sitting in a class for months then writing one all-or-nothing exam was terrifying. They needed constant reassurances that they were keep pace. They wanted weekly testing and assignments. They also had serious reading iss
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by iak8god 9y ago
This is also not how it works: "Almost no one has a blue deficiency. Accordingly, nearly everyone can see blue, or, more accurately, almost everyone can distinguish blue as a color different from others." People with "red-gr

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