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by joconde 5y ago
> Unless you’re trying to also use it as an immigration ticket to a 1st world country, if you can’t make it to a top school (top 20 for US, 5 elsewhere), don’t bother. Every qualified person I've heard talk about this said the oppos
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by joconde 5y ago
> Using it for actual production code makes about as much sense as writing production stuff in bash, you can do it but you're just making things harder on yourself for no good reason. Even Ruby is a bit better, but these days there&
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by joconde 5y ago
> HTTPS can mitigate some of that, just like it can for VPNs, but the site you're going to is still very much visible. Not in a sense that defeats privacy, since the exit node doesn't know the sender. With Tor and HTTPS, no Tor
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by joconde 5y ago
What traffic does it log exactly, and who logs it? As I understand Tor: - the exit node knows the second-to-last node, the cleartext data and the destination, - each intermediate node knows the previous and next nodes, - the entry node know
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by joconde 5y ago
If a program wants to perform a task in an async way without delegating it to an external program (like a database server or the OS' I/O system), it has to use threads, right? I think the point is that concurrency, for some tasks,
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by joconde 5y ago
> brakes completely failing while going down a hill heading towards an intersection I'm curious about how you got out of that one :) Handbrake?
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by joconde 5y ago
How do we avoid fallout in that case?
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by joconde 5y ago
Is this a The Expanse reference or did that name come from somewhere else? (I ask because I don't remember hearing that the proto-molecule came from outside the Milky Way)
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by joconde 5y ago
> Apple and Google have build their ecosystem in such a way that they have full power over these decisions, and now they are forced to use that power. They made choices that put them in this situation, sure. But how does the fact that it
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by joconde 5y ago
The most profitable choice for them is to stay in Russia and obey the government. They have no reason to leave or risk getting the same treatment as Google by disobeying.
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by joconde 5y ago
Then Google employees would start getting arrested, and whatever would be left of Google in the country would comply anyway, achieving nothing but the imprisonment of more people. Google Russia's employees don't have diplomatic im
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by joconde 5y ago
That seems to achieve nothing in practice. If Google and Apple leave Russia, then whatever replaces them will probably be even more compliant with the government. Of course, working in the country means paying tax dollars and "particip
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by joconde 5y ago
It's still out of reach of traditional search engines like Google, right? Stack Overflow and other forums have the huge advantage of being indexable by outside services.
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by joconde 5y ago
> I think Cheney was pulling the shots and knowingly and cynically ignored all of those glaring warnings, thinking they'd get maybe a small attack somewhere with a smaller number of US deaths Did he have so much control that he coul
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by joconde 5y ago
My bosses aren't aware that any of these things have been "proved". Some of us have anecdotical evidence that we worked more during the lockdowns, but that doesn't mean the managers are convinced of it.
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by joconde 5y ago
I interpret "celebrating" as remembering something in a positive way. We're just indifferent, he's one of a few dozen important guys we heard about in history lessons, and that's it.
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by joconde 5y ago
As parent comment said, it's part of the background. I've probably seen these bridges a hundred times, yet I don't remember the Ns.
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by joconde 5y ago
I don't know if the tinnitus part can be solved, but sleeping on the side is definitely not a problem. I'm talking about moss earplugs that are entirely contained inside the ear, not over-the-ear earmuffs.
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by joconde 5y ago
> I can get at best around 6 hours of sleep and has become my norm as my neighbors can get loud early morning. Have you tried earplugs? They changed my life on days where people decide to be noisy, which is every other day here. I don&#x
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by joconde 5y ago
Do apps add their own types in that system? Otherwise, I have a hard time imagining a set of base data types that could usefully represent things like OpenOffice documents, geo-referenced geometrical feature databases, and the thousands of
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by joconde 5y ago
I imagine that the effect is so small that it's negligible. Wouldn't an entire forest block more wind than a field of turbines? And forests aren't known to have that kind of effect. Solar panels are also on a tiny fraction of
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by joconde 5y ago
> If social stigma is no longer an issue, Who said that? It's probably becoming less of an issue, but it's definitely not disappeared.
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by joconde 5y ago
This has got to release energy similar to a meteroid impact, right? Do we know if there was any chance of side effects on the Moon and/or the Earth? (e.g. slight changes in orbit or mass, debris in space, etc.)
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by joconde 5y ago
> Anecdotally, in the startup where I worked there was one summer in 2017 when 3 white women (a significant percent of the women in the office at the time) all suddenly came out as non-binary and asked to be called they/them. If tha
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by joconde 5y ago
Exactly. Transphobia often leads to trauma after getting ostracized by one's peers. I've never seen evidence of "wokeness" being nearly as nasty. You don't get bullied or singled out for not being trans.
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by joconde 5y ago
The average car driver doesn't risk passing a deadly virus to every single other driver they pass that day. Crashes don't kill that many people compared to the number of kilometers driven each day.
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by joconde 5y ago
Alternative explanation: there have always been as many transgender kids, but they hid it because they knew they'd get bullied by everyone, including their own parents.
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by joconde 5y ago
The laptop boots, the key goes into RAM, then the OS asks for a login password. I don't see a simple way to get the encryption key or log in without the password. Unless cold RAM attacks got much easier recently, I don't see where
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by joconde 5y ago
TPMs enable hassle-free disk encryption, with no additional passphrase to enter at boot; I love that. It also prevents people from seeing me type the password (even better on Macbooks with a fingerprint reader, where I won't have to ty
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by joconde 5y ago
Why would it be impossible for a government or large cloud company to control all the nodes in a QKD system? In that case, they could rely on the physics to detect eavesdropping. The problem for simple customers is that they can't be s

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