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by jmt_ 5y ago
Totally agree. Something I find myself thinking/saying more and more is "don't underestimate what you can accomplish with a $5 VPS". Maybe a little hyperbolic, but computers are really fast these days. Elastic resources
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by jmt_ 5y ago
I used RStudio to work through problem sets, textbooks, and ideas constantly during my time as an applied math student. My concentration was stats, but still found RStudio invaluable for pretty much every math class I took. I say RStudio sp
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by jmt_ 5y ago
In the particular case of Instagram as GP mentions, I'm guessing the devs don't go off of user agent since curl's default user agent is "curl/<installed version num>". Even if they are going off user agen
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by jmt_ 5y ago
I'm not in the loop - why is China concerned about speech synthesis software?
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by jmt_ 5y ago
Agreed. Reminded of a classic: "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months" - Fred Brooks
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by jmt_ 5y ago
That's what I'm thinking too. Why would Visa invest anything in crypto if they don't think they can reasonably control and benefit off it? Risk assessment is at the very core of Visa's company and I cannot imagine they w
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by jmt_ 5y ago
But can Bitcoin eliminate the Fed and have any meaningful impact on the US financial system if the big actors of such a system are steadily centralizing and controlling it? How would Bitcoin be able to change anything if its "enemies&q
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by jmt_ 5y ago
It seems CipherTrace provides security/compliance/etc services similar to that of a traditional bank but for cryptocurrency? Will cryptocurrency effectively end up becoming just another currency/security traded and managed by
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by jmt_ 5y ago
Does anyone have experience using something like Obsidian as a sort of lab manual for software engineering? How do you structure your notes? What gets written down? I use Obsidian and the note of the day plugin which uses a template that ha
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by jmt_ 5y ago
Genuinely asking - has Hacker News seen a good Substack submission? I've only seen low quality posts from that website posted here.
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by jmt_ 5y ago
You're right, everyone is doing that to some degree at some point through out their life. But consider that there exists people who feel they need to dress better just to get the basic respect they deserve. In the case where someone ca
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by jmt_ 5y ago
But poor people hate feeling like they have to change their appearance to get the approval of the privileged classes. Feeling like you have to visually and verbally code switch to get "better" people to respect you just feels bad.
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by jmt_ 5y ago
I'm talking about the case where a person doesn't get to "choose" to act poor. The poor person doesn't get to choose to think other than what is affordable, where someone with more money gets the choice to thinking
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by jmt_ 5y ago
Spot on. Every time I wear "fancy" clothes I'm constantly worrying that everyone is pointing at me thinking "we know who you really are, you're poor and don't deserve to be acting this way". This is despit
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by jmt_ 5y ago
"...virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that already has one of many types of virtual keyboard
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by jmt_ 5y ago
"Clubhouse saw about 922,000 downloads globally in April, a 66% dip from 2.7 million installs in March and a surge of 9.6 million in February, a Sensor Tower spokesperson shared with Insider." A graph would have been handy, but I
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by jmt_ 5y ago
Mainly a Gen Z thing I believe (speaking as a member of said generation). Many people my age see their phone numbers as being more private information that should be given to those you trust, so may not want to give out to someone you just
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by jmt_ 5y ago
Where are you renting a VPS for 2.99$/mo? OVH?
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by jmt_ 6y ago
Spot on. I see people talking about learning COBOL or not, but as you say that's not so much the point. You really need to know how ancient mainframes work. A programmer can pick up the basics of COBOL soon enough, but understanding th
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by jmt_ 6y ago
I would also assume companies/banks hiring COBOL programmers are more interested in candidates with years of experience with the language, since opportunities to build and grow with COBOL seem pretty slim outside of legacy maintenance.
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by jmt_ 6y ago
What did Aimee do?
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by jmt_ 6y ago
I've had better luck with fractional scaling on Windows over Linux. Can be hit or miss if any given Linux application will handle fractional scaling well, but the desktop environment (KDE Plasma on Ubuntu) does fine with it.
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by jmt_ 6y ago
On a side note, randomservices.org is a great resource. Used it as a reference often through my statistics undergrad.
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by jmt_ 6y ago
When it comes to math at least, I think the key is finding the balance between symbolic and lexical representation. Some ideas are far to "wordy" to not use symbols. Some ideas have far to much depth to just explain with symbols.
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by jmt_ 6y ago
Not that I'm supporting asexual erasure, but sayings like the quote in GP are usually fairly general. Statistically, there are much much fewer asexual people than not, so in general it may hold but that's not to say it holds for e
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by jmt_ 6y ago
Usually the approach is to use a headless browser. The headless browser instance runs purely in memory without a GUI then renders the website you're interested in. Then, it comes down to regular DOM parsing. A common library that I enj
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by jmt_ 6y ago
I agree that dedicated news services could provide higher quality content in their domain. However, one thing I enjoy about monolithic news sources is being exposed to stories and happenings I might otherwise not know about. That's wha
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by jmt_ 6y ago
Right, looks like you could choose to distribute an editable version of a script or a compiled version: https://superuser.com/a/14765
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by jmt_ 6y ago
Yep, plus the configuration of the laptop could possibly be of value. Depending on how it's setup, you could see the AD domain name, naming pattern of usernames and domain computers, setup and names of network drives, group policy sett
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by jmt_ 6y ago
Learning CSS selectors and HTML structure, inspect element and the other dev tools builtin to your browser, and something like BeautifulSoup (for static/non-JS heavy pages) and Selenium (JS and other complicated pages) is pretty key im

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