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by ilammy 5y ago
So many comments here refrain, “They should have asked for consent first”. But would not that be detrimental to the research subject? Specifically, stealthily introducing security vulnerabilities. How should a consent request look to pres
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OpenSSH's randomart was too visually indistinctive for me so I've patched it to draw TrueColor images of cats. I wanted to actually seed a GAN to generate consistent images, but that turned out to be too much of a bother so I&#x27
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by ilammy 6y ago
This was one special hell for me to use NSDateFormatter to actually tweak the way dates are formatted, emulating the system clock with some extensions. It's nice to know that someone at Apple is working on throwing more brimstone into
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Big Sur’s Broken Clock(eclecticlight.co)
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Everybody will read it as «пидора» which is highly obscene swearword for [a certain F word HN doesn't allow to utter]. You can't even write that with a straight face, let alone speak it out loud, definitely banned for use in mass-
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Remember when “Fedora × Raspberry Pi” was blessed “Pidora”, to much amusement of their Russian-speaking userbase? There were also calls for renaming, but apparently they kept the name.
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> So it breaks all of the morphemes? Not really. TeX uses Knuth-Liang algorithm which does not do any morphological or semantical analysis. You basically feed it a corpus of words, it learns substrings that contain word breaks more oft
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Yeah, they just use coal somewhere you don't see it.
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You can see the same thing in Russian and other slavic languages, for example, where you can use "-о" to convert an adjective into concept noun (of always neuter gender). For example, "добрый" (masculine adjective "
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> people also thought garbage collection was impossible in a systems language until Rust solved it Only if you understand "garbage collection" in a narrow sense of memory safety, no explicit free() calls, a relatively readabl
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> when [...] asked for proof of success Never heard of it. But I can show you proof of work – as demonstrated by the papers – or proof of stake.
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> If there was a way to avoid it You can: move to a shack in the wood, be self-sufficient, don't use society's benefits, and hence don't pay taxes. Otherwise society is interested in baby taxpayers, regardless of who&#x2
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> over whom they were already far ahead When you're ahead, get more ahead. Wouldn't hurt you if the opponent is still losing more.
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If the network has been designed for this in the first place – why shouldn't you be able to? With Gridcoin you can participate in a number of eligible BOINC projects [1] and get rewards for computing on any of them. The network can add
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> Debian successfully packages a ton of Python software, notorious for its complicated dependency graphs. Has been for decades. But that's what I'm talking about. Suppose there is no software in Debian that uses a Python dep
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> In theory, salaried positions pay you for adding value, not for your time. A significant part of salary is basically payment for availability : for that when you need to do a specific job, you already have a person hired and onboard
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> things seem to have devolved into grabbing things from random github repos Devolved from what ? I believe from software not having any dependencies unless they absolutely must because adding dependencies is such a royal pain. Softwa
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I imagine why would Ubuntu developers do it like that: to 'fix' the 'broken' build systems which do not respect CFLAGS.
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> Why do you think we have pilots in airplanes? For a number of reasons. First of all, to act as a backup, assistant, babysitter, and replacement for the autopilot in modern planes. Exactly what GP says: to cover up for missed edge cas
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It survives because GPL forces it to be performed in the open, in a cooperative manner. This is not the case with browsers. Both Linux kernel and web browsers are arguably too huge now to be even maintained entirely by a single organizati
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> or contemplating the consequences What those consequences be if the society does not punish people for that? (where “punishment” isn’t necessarily prison time) You can’t bring back dead people to life, unfortunately. For some other c
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Bitcoin can be used for making transactions on the Bitcoin network, and to store information permanently on the Bitcoin blockchain. Here are examples of applications. Industrial applications of gold as imaginary as those applications of Bit
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This reminded me about Kovrigin's chronicles , a story by Vadim Shefner that I read as a kid. It's somewhat musing on the soviet research atmosphere and all, but the background there was that a man invented a way to turn water in
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> You can survive without working, although your existence will likely be miserable. Miserable, but—be relieved!—short. Because you will die without food, and shelter, and the other things which you can't magically summon from nothi
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Technically , you can avoid depending on Perl and Go (which are used to generate some assembly code) but you still need C++ toolchain to build most of the BoringSSL. It is still possible to [make Mundane] link against system's OpenSSL
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Time for some shameless plugs! Themis [1] has been doing this “hard to misuse” thing for quite a few years. It has major focus on interoperability: supports a dozen of languages, with Rust among them, across all major desktop, mobile, and w
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> For extra jollies, only decrypt it on the client. Uh... How does that work if you need email address to send email to the user? If only the client is able to decrypt the addess, you will basically have to wait until the user connects
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> Fiat currency has no intrinsic value itself Fiat currency emitted by governments has intrinsic value: you can pay taxes to the emitting government with it. That's its ultimate value. In the same vein, some cryptocurrencies have
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You can fight spam by refusing to federate with servers which are often spamming. That acts as a deterrent for servers to host spam since they'll lose participation. However, this only works if there are enough of other servers to fe
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> As an individual negotiating compensation with a company, you are at a structural disadvantage: the company does this all the time, and (lacking a union to negotiate on your behalf) you do this rarely. This is exactly why a common ad

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