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My first job at Microsoft was to make a system that could catalog the “contracts” or “extension points” installed in Windows. I’d define a category of extensions, such as a COM object registration and my program used normalized levenshtein
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The dream is a food prophylactic. Eat ice cream and decide that this particular meal won’t add calories.
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Very interesting idea. It’s been ages since I took chemistry but I’m not sure what to break down. Glucose is C6H12O6. If we imagined nanobots that could break this down in any way (disregarding latent energy) the most obvious compounds are
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This is huge, though I have practical concerns. With two five hour batteries, how critical will degradation be? Are these custom batteries that become the new insulin? How does this conflate with respiratory failure, which usually leads to
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Yes, I forget how much of this was because of forgeability and how much was because of the ambiguity of digital rights in America. Compelling someone to share a passcode was considered a 5th amendment violation but we collect biological sam
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I think this is a great idea as someone who should probably have called a few times. Silly Q though: Are all numbers starting with 9 reserved or will we need some people to give up their numbers?
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Under what moral code or axioms?? From what I can assume, your difference is on whether they’d harm others. I’ll assume your creed is libertarian, though there are multiple essays where respected libertarian philosophers have argued that li
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“Death by cop” is a form of suicide. Some will try to create a situation where the cop has no choice but to kill or be killed.
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Yes, but what’s the ratio that’s precise within 10^-60
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I like Go’s strategy. Consts have no type and are the only thing with implicit conversion. math.Pi is defined explicitly with a whole lot of digits and the type system can somehow do inline math on all those digits with full precision befor
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Mathematically speaking, Pi can’t be “simplified”, but I’m personally curious what ratio is Pi to the highest precision necessary to calculate anything tangible (the circumference of the universe to the Plank length). Practically speaking o
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I created a directory with alt+255. It was an unprintable character and showed up last in any dir listing. At most it added an extra new line. That’s how I was one of the only students whose apps didn’t get caught during auditing.
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Last I checked CA law (an ethics class), a computer permission setting explicitly does not grant actual permission to use a computer. Given that the TOS explicitly prohibits the use of the API for selling info to recruiters, it may be const
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Who else would sue? The EPA, which is currently headed by a self-professed climate change denier? I would be surprised if the NY AG didn’t run for president some day. They clearly seem intent on finding creative ways to do others’ jobs. E.g
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I think the point is that they use an in-house generic, priced at their normal revenue, to get a 180d monopoly and establish a second brand. This is all on top of their existing monopoly from the original patent.
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I only semi-sarcastically point out that our government doesn’t have the best track record in how it conducts R&D either: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
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I don’t think is binary, though they may be assuming Judaic religions. If you play with the conservative paths you can get asked if you’re Jewish.
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I think they’re using an interesting legal strategy here. They can use shareholder fraud to have legal standing to pull them into court, but the case prema facie rests on the acceptance of climate change.
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There’s a big gap between this and a one-time alert and/or annotation that can be pulled on the device by a service technician. Cutting off battery status just seems petty
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I actually saw a demo of this (plus more; it was a “universal remote”) at Cal Hacks a few years ago. They used a Myo for gesture recognition and the whole thing was really slick.
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I was brainwashed in Windows that the grit made me a better developer. They’d always say “a Windows X is an <other org> X+1”. They also convinced employees that if they ever left the org they’d never get back in because they’d lose th
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And yet Facebook offered $50k for retuning interns on their first year. This was 5 years ago when I was an intern manager.
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Sure, they can, but putting a small delay forces an arms race on how big a cluster you need to operate those parallel bots and how cheaply you can offer a cracking service.
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> but putting the entire concept on blast with erroneous history that can be corrected with about 60 seconds on Wikipedia doesn’t help the article at all. Nor does an entirely fallacious premise. ReCAPTCAH v3 is entirely transparent and
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I’m sad this didn’t include the mongo query language. My favorite Mongo WAT is the query {x: null}. It will return all documents where x: 1. Is not in the document 2. Is equal to the literal null value 3. Is a list that contains a literal
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Can confirm. I didn’t get my promotion till 2xEE and 4xSEE.
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> Google could buy a thousand biotech startups that are all doing innovative work trying to cure cancer and things like that, but that work has nothing to do with search engines or data centers Yet it has a lot to do with Calico, another
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Wasn’t it Domino’s who claimed to be a “tech company which happened to sell pizza”? If so, that quote says they should know better IMO
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Until the US switched to a “first to file” country like China.
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But if you didn’t had the trick, CPU intensive runloop ticks could create lots of small objects that were put in the pool because they had a 0 refcount as a function returned the value. That’s why we had the ability to write our own pools.

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