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by jdiez17 6y ago
I wonder if the cash-by-mail payment option creates some kind of legal liability for Mullvad. If it suddenly became very popular, I would imagine the financial authorities would be rather unsatisfied with "oh, we receive a bunch of cas
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by jdiez17 6y ago
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling
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The same deep legal trouble applies to individuals sending manipulated photos, though. And if you are a criminal who wants to obtain a fake passport, it's probably not out of your reach to use social engineering to convince your photog
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> The government on Wednesday backed a law requiring people to either have their photo taken at a passport office or, if they use a photographer, have it submitted in digital form over a secure connection So photographers are still able
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by jdiez17 6y ago
Sure, but there may be a reason why non-sinusoidal sound waves cannot exist in practice. For example, if I try to generate a square wave by applying +5V and -5V to a speaker, the diaphragm does not move instantaneously so the resulting pres
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by jdiez17 6y ago
As far as I know, any arbitrary waveform can be represented by an _infinite_ sum of sine waves, and approximated by a finite sum of sine waves. However, I don't know if you can assert that a sine wave is the only fundamental building b
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by jdiez17 6y ago
The Roam paradigm (which may be thought of as a digital version of the Zettelkasten method, but not the same) does significantly reduce the friction of writing thoughts down, and you can incrementally make your knowledge base richer by edit
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by jdiez17 7y ago
The mystical style mixed with computing subjects reminded me very much of aphyr's excellent "technical interview" series, which I very much recommend if you enjoyed the OP: https://aphyr.com/posts/340-rev
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I also deployed a Jitsi instance and was surprised how easy it was. I have two questions for you: 1. Do you see high CPU usage when there are multiple conferences with a few participants happening simultaneously? 2. How did you set up confe
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by jdiez17 7y ago
I work in a field related to mechanical, electrical engineering and firmware, and I not only think it’s definitely worth the effort to dual boot (I only use Windows for SolidWorks and some other instrumentation programs), I think it’s compl
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by jdiez17 7y ago
Just curious, how do you handle non-HTTP(S) traffic to applications? You said applications get dedicated IP addresses (I assume v4 and v6). Not having the ability to multiplex an IPv4 address (e.g. if I deploy an application that accepts co
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by jdiez17 7y ago
I see, thank you. I must have clicked that link to sign up for a developer license, but somehow I don't remember being offered to download the thing. I feel silly now, but that was pretty confusing.
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Yeah, now I understand your question. Reading the blog post made me think it would actually be a full implementation of the Wolfram Language for free. So I was curious and signed up for a developer license. I got to the confirmation page,
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by jdiez17 7y ago
Mathematica is basically a programming environment for the Wolfram Language. You can think of Mathematica as a desktop version of Jupyter Notebook for Wolfram Language.
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by jdiez17 8y ago
I don't understand your assertion that unmodified Linux does not work "as well as on any desktop" on Dell laptops. I'm typing this on an XPS 13 9343, running the mainline Linux kernel from the Arch Linux repositories, an
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by jdiez17 8y ago
Take a look at Thermomix[1]. It's a food processor with a heated bowl and built-in scale, and the range of foods it can cook is surprisingly wide, given some help from the user. You can cook chicken dishes, lasagna/moussaka, steam
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by jdiez17 8y ago
Can't most (or at least, many) of these BLE fitness bands act as music controls for smartphones already? I know that every smartwatch under the sun does this, and since it's just a software feature, I feel it's such low-hangi
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by jdiez17 9y ago
Generally, the FDA (or the government body responsible for certifying medical devices) does not conduct code reviews in the sense of looking at the code and trying to find bugs. The way it works is: the manufacturer of a medical device asse
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by jdiez17 9y ago
The link next to the bird icon is sircmpwn's Mastodon profile, not his Twitter account.
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by jdiez17 9y ago
You do need to trust the validators in a PoS scheme, but with PoW you also need to trust the majority of miners.
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by jdiez17 9y ago
Same way as in a proof-of-work blockchain. Miners (validators) receive the transaction fees plus some number of coins per block that is included in the chain, but instead of anyone being able to mine a block (and thus requiring a very high
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by jdiez17 9y ago
From the submission agreement ( https://studios.amazon.com/help/submission-agreement ): > You will have no right to compensation in connection with the exploitation of rights you grant under this Agreement. So, why wo
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by jdiez17 9y ago
Ah, I see. Yes, that is definitely a smarter way of doing it.
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They must have changed the response code, because I'm getting HTTP 200 on all requests $ curl -I https://permanent-redirect.xyz/pages/1515222320 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 15:07:09 GMT Ser
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by jdiez17 9y ago
Here's a quick-and-dirty script to find "the art" (I haven't found it yet, if there is anything to be found): https://gist.github.com/jdiez17/db4f87fc4dad7b0d855017358bf4... Of course, by publishing
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Since the firmware updater is a Python program, you can audit the source code by looking at the relevant directory in site-packages before you accept. If you're really paranoid you can set up a periodic script that sends you an email i
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Here's a list of broad fields within scientific computing that you can dig into: * Numerical simulation: writing code to solve physical models (fluid dynamics, material stress, etc), optimizing them for a given goal * High-performance
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I agree with your description of web development work, I would personally find it very difficult to do that professionally because of the lack of rigor and blasé attitude to software quality. However, web development is not the only way you
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Owlstone Medical | Cambridge UK | Onsite, full-time | Instrument Control Software Developer The work you'll do at Owlstone will be at the intersection of electronics, physics, chemistry, computer science, and data visualization. Owlsto
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Anaconda could easily host their own pip index if they wanted. You only need a web server with `autoindex on`.

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