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by jackpirate 4y ago
And the next step after this epiphany is that you still have to remember to take the phone with you places, not to leave it behind, and worry about it getting dropped in the toilet by a toddler. Not caring this tool still has a lot of bene
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by jackpirate 4y ago
Do you happen to have a link to the proposal I can see and share with a class? I'm teaching a few lectures about some "weird" stuff this semester, and this would be a great example.
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by jackpirate 4y ago
Then computer security. Unlike the internet or jet engines, these have not panned out as foundational research (except perhaps for some of HIV) In what word is computer security not a foundational topic? There's lots of reasons to c
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by jackpirate 4y ago
These exercises are writing mathematical proofs that basic machine learning algorithms behave correctly. They are "pen and paper" not because you are manually solving a large equation that a machine would normally solve, but beca
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by jackpirate 4y ago
I believe you are incorrect. According to wikipedia: > The Lindy effect is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thi
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by jackpirate 4y ago
My work brings me into regular contact with DPRK IT professionals, for example by [teaching open source sotware]( https://izbicki.me/blog/teaching-open-source-in-north-korea.... ) or [teaching proper web design]( https:&
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Poll: Do you write indexes or indices?
2 points by jackpirate 4y ago|1 comments
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by jackpirate 4y ago
indexes
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by jackpirate 4y ago
indices
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by jackpirate 4y ago
other
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Fixing North Korea's KCNA Webpage(izbicki.me)
2 points by jackpirate 5y ago|0 comments
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by jackpirate 5y ago
You may as well argue that the government should be subsidizing new Marvel movies The US government actually does subsidize Marvel movies pretty heavily by giving them free/extremely cheap access to military equipment and personnel.
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by jackpirate 5y ago
Isn't the whole purpose of this style of writing to define terms like "top level control group" and "CAP_SYS_ADMIN" for those people who don't already understand what they mean?
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by jackpirate 5y ago
That's a good solution for future code, but not for past code. For example, lots of past code makes the assumption that current_unix_time+1 second > current_unix_time which won't be true when the wraparound happens.
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Google search mispronounces Knuth's last name(google.com)
1 points by jackpirate 5y ago|0 comments
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by jackpirate 5y ago
You can find a reasonably extensive set of passages from the pre-400AD famous Christians about how the genesis story is supposed to be interpreted allegorically and not literally on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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The surreal bureaucratic world of FOIA requests(medium.com)
2 points by jackpirate 5y ago|0 comments
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by jackpirate 5y ago
> And don’t say the alternative is a perfect utopia where bombs only get dropped on bad people. The alternative is that bombs don't get dropped at all. That means less US hegemony and more need for non-military solutions. Those al
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by jackpirate 5y ago
NSF has an explicit requirement that all funded grants have not just strong "intellectual merit" but also "broader impact". The NSF webpage states > Such outcomes include, but are not limited to: full participation o
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by jackpirate 5y ago
I don't understand why car manufacturers haven't just started remanufacturing some of their older (say 2010) model cars that don't rely on so many computer chips. I'm sure there's lots of costs to retooling their f
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by jackpirate 5y ago
As someone who teaches python+sqlite in an intro to cs course, I can't disagree with this statement more.
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by jackpirate 5y ago
Your link claiming China is threatening a nuclear attack on Japan doesn't even mention nuclear weapons, directly or indirectly. China has a "no first use" policy on it's nuclear weapons, and therefore has publicly commit
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by jackpirate 5y ago
I'd love to read more about this if you have a source.
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by jackpirate 5y ago
What's the difference between Ireland and Cuba? Both are small countries dominated by a nearby power and both are highly Catholic. Yet somehow Cuba managed to make it work with the Soviets. It's true there's differences be
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by jackpirate 5y ago
I would imagine the word "nerd" in litnerd is a bit of a putoff to the student population you're targeting. Is that not the case? Or are you also trying to get them to embrace that word as positive?
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by jackpirate 5y ago
That makes sense, but that seems like it's a problem with any machine-unique id, not just the MAC address. Is there some specific reason MAC addresses are a worse choice than (e.g.) CPU serial number?
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by jackpirate 5y ago
we gain immunity in the sense that we no longer accept every image as representing absolute truth GPs whole point about body image is that, as a society, we don't have that immunity. Basically no one has a healthy ideal of what a go
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by jackpirate 5y ago
> 3. turning the microphone on Most people are surprised that speakers can be used as microphones by "running them in reverse", and so you also need a hardware switch for your speakers to maintain privacy.
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Teaching open-source software in North Korea(izbicki.me)
171 points by jackpirate 5y ago|103 comments
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by jackpirate 5y ago
I recently stumbled upon this old article about NSA communications that feels very contemporary even though it's nearly 40 years old. I guess I knew that the NSA was doing these things way back then, but I didn't know the NYTimes

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