jcranendonk

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by jcranendonk 7y ago
Context: kitboga[1] is a streamer on Twitch.tv who makes a living of wasting scammers' time. He uses voice modulation and a variety of tools (such as a fake banking website) to increase credibility in the eyes of the scammers he gets o
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by jcranendonk 7y ago
Those are Unicode 'curly' quotation marks in UTF-8 encoded as CP-1252. More information here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2477452/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC-...
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by jcranendonk 7y ago
My take on this: if we want vision ML to succeed at recognition in the same way as humans, perhaps we need to pre-process and present visual information in the same way as the human vision system? As far as I'm aware, we get a lot of i
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by jcranendonk 7y ago
Eh, I'll get to it later.
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by jcranendonk 7y ago
> not verifying and going with your gut ...which is exactly what "arguing from a position of ignorance" means. Once you attempt to verify medical advice (in good faith) you are no longer ignorant.
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by jcranendonk 7y ago
That is a ridiculous straw man and I'm pretty sure you are aware of this. At some point, there is trust involved. You balance the credibility of authentication guarantees based on the level of trust required for the transaction you&#x2
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by jcranendonk 7y ago
Not to belabor the point, but... "copyrightable".
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
You never know when you might need some new fork handles.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
Finally, we'll be able to tell people to go Duck themselves while in polite company.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
1password actually supports password generation of the 'correct horse battery staple' variety, bypassing this issue entirely.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
It may help in the moment, but any action that reinforces the (faulty) belief that your obsessive thoughts are relevant and worth paying attention to will worsen OCD over time. The right approach is to teach yourself to be OK with the uncer
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
Containerization doesn't strike me as a common feature of an init system.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
What it really comes down to is that the Challenger exploded due to man's folly in exploring outer space. /s
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
I don't have the patience to actually play DF, but I always love reading people's play-throughs.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
Your own opinions with regards to depression are factually incorrect.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
I like go as a language, but its lack of package management is the single reason I no longer use it.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
Water is pressurized. However, it is not compressed. That's an important distinction.
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by jcranendonk 8y ago
> all people with power and wealth are forced to take some anti-self-deciet drug But who would force them?
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by jcranendonk 9y ago
Why do people care about affiliate links? Serious question.
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by jcranendonk 9y ago
Are you extremely surprised at this, or not at all? Just from context, I can't quite decide which it is.
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by jcranendonk 10y ago
And a Real Programmer™ makes salsa.