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by initplus 5y ago
Perceptual hashes are specifically designed to be resistant to minor visual alterations.
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by initplus 5y ago
It’s so it’s easy for jounos to copy paste the press release. You see it a lot with politicians also.
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by initplus 5y ago
One thing that they do not seem to be taking advantage of is how specialized many of their communities are. It seems primed for letting advertisers target to specific audiences, but as a user I don't really feel like the ads I get are
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by initplus 5y ago
The trouble in Haskell is that an operator like %%@~ is just an arbitrary name. In languages like K or APL, the combination of symbols is the actual definition.
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by initplus 5y ago
Well the trouble is that it makes developing detection nearly impossible. And the line where the law is crossed is fuzzy. Say you use an AI classifier, at what accuracy is validating the results of that AI a crime? 50.000001%?
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by initplus 5y ago
This reads like a failure of the NCMEC, and the legal system surrounding it. It is insane that using perceptual hashes is likely illegal. As the hashes are actually somewhat reversible and so possession of the hash is a criminal offence. It
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by initplus 5y ago
I understand that there is potential a conflict of interest involved... but Unity's customers also want an improved product. It's a competitive disadvantage compared to unreal that they don't dogfood their own product. Direct
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by initplus 5y ago
It's tiring seeing so many people imagining solutions to transport that look like "Cars, but...". Cars are large and cause congestion, even if you make them autonomous. They need to be stored when not in use, which requires t
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by initplus 5y ago
Why is it a liability? It’s how every other commercially licensed engine was built in the past. Unity is actually unusual in that respect. See id, valve, unreal, crytek.
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by initplus 5y ago
Police have run bait car programs, and youtubers have run successful bait package schemes... Don't see why this couldn't be scaled up to a large number of bait packages at pretty low cost... you just need a small GPS tracker embed
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by initplus 5y ago
The whole country is structured so that verification by foreigners is next to impossible: Foreign journalists cannot freely report from within the country. If the government does not like your reporting, you are forced to leave the country.
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by initplus 5y ago
Depending on your database, it may be worse than just shorthand syntax. I encountered once a DB (that shall remain nameless) where replacing this syntax with the actual JOIN keyword resulted in dramatically better query plans everywhere it
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by initplus 5y ago
GraphQL is stiff competition, in the sense of "stiff as a corpse". Yes, it has the words "query language" in the name, but that's where the similarities end. In GraphQL, you can select fields of JSON objects, option
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by initplus 5y ago
Copyright holders have complete freedom to license tehir work under any terms they like. I believe it's actually legal to sell commercial use licenses for GPL'd code for example. Or to switch licenses for all future releases. You
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by initplus 5y ago
Article says that some reclaimed land was filled with literal dumped trash in the past. “At worst, they are made by throwing some dirt over the top of a pile of garbage, and building more city on top of it”
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by initplus 5y ago
There is a large culture among C++ users of distributing pre-compiled binaries of dependencies. See every Linux distribution, or the MSVC ecosystem where sharing precompiled .dll's is the norm. In this context ABI breaking changes are
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by initplus 5y ago
Rule of three is such a common C++ concept though, I would be surprised if anyone with more than a few weeks experience with the language is still running into such issues.
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by initplus 5y ago
Building from source doesn't have to be inaccessible, if the build tooling around it is strong. Modern compiled languages like Go (or modern toolchains on legacy languages like vcpkg) have a convention of building everything possible f
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by initplus 5y ago
CMOV is slow because x86 processors will not speculate past a CMOV instruction. They do speculate past conditional jumps, so those are more performant. This same property makes CMOV useful in Spectre mitigation, see https://llvm.
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by initplus 5y ago
I guess the question is how much typesetting do you want to stick into unicode? It works OK for emoji because the results are always simple: it's just another individual emoji, with the same size & characteristics as the original.
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by initplus 5y ago
It's a problem everywhere, from bad KPI's to public policy. We have a bias towards metrics that are easy to measure. It's much easier to measure large effects on a single metric, than small effects distributed over a wide ran
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by initplus 5y ago
These results are incredibly frustrating. Google should de-rank these autogenerated tech troubleshooting sites. Yes, I clicked the link because it exactly referenced my issue. But it's not helpful to just see the same 5 tips copy paste
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by initplus 5y ago
Crypto is really exciting for new entrants to the finance space. In traditional finance all water has been wrung out, but in crypto relatively unsophisticated versions of strategies like arbitrage can be quite successful. Traditional financ
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by initplus 5y ago
Tether as an organization operates with no transparency, and has a toxic symbiotic relationship with exchanges. I'm certain that Tether has backroom relationships with major exchanges - Tether provides liquidity to exchanges in the for
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by initplus 5y ago
Outsourcing to budget contracting houses in India is a very different experience to hiring individual remote employees from overseas.
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by initplus 5y ago
MTP is an absolute dogs breakfast. I've had multiple experiences of issues on the device side causing the entire explorer.exe process to crash! Explorers handling of the MTP protocol is not resilient to badly behaved devices, would not
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by initplus 5y ago
I was an old school die-hard Firefox user back in the day, have since switched to chrome... I want Mozilla to succeed and fight the browser monoculture. I'm just not really sure what the "killer feature" to bring users back i
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by initplus 5y ago
I have been hearing people saying this for over a decade now...
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by initplus 5y ago
Tether is acting like a bank, that's the problem. A completely un-auditable bank with a history of shady behavior. If a bank has 0% reserves, the books say 0% reserves. Tether has no books.
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by initplus 5y ago
I do wonder to what extent Tether has a symbiotic relationship with large exchanges, and what the loans are denominated in. It's easy to imagine how issuing loans denominated in USDT would be attractive to Tether. And that debt can be

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