jonchang

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by jonchang 8y ago
In co-op games, quarterbacking is where a player dominates the game by telling all the other players what to do, making strategic and tactical choices for them. This means that really only one person is playing a game, making it less fun ev
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by jonchang 8y ago
Congrats to all the maintainers and contributors! I was unaware that the Mojave headers package is not officially supported, according to this comment from an apparent Apple employee: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew&#x
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by jonchang 9y ago
Sure, but that's only if you actually trust the non-profits in question to do actual good with unrestricted grants. Consider the example of the UNH librarian who ate frozen dinners and vending machine burritos for decades and donated h
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by jonchang 9y ago
To be completely fair, in this case the senior author is designated as the author for correspondence, so I'm not surprised that the Times only contacted the senior author. The author contribution statement also suggests that the co-lea
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by jonchang 9y ago
They work great in slides and figures if you are studying taxa that are sufficiently covered by the emoji set.
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by jonchang 9y ago
> Rainwater collection is more nuanced than this article suggests. Water that runs off a roof of a building isn't "wasted." It typically drains into an aquifer or a river. Doesn't the article address this nuance? &quo
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by jonchang 9y ago
No, it's basically a content blocker like Adblock or noscript.
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Certificate Transparency Update for Developers(facebook.com)
1 points by jonchang 9y ago|0 comments
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by jonchang 9y ago
It's not much of an argument to say "well, it's not really that rude". Is it generous and gracious to communicate with people despite their rudeness? Sure. But should it an obligation, particularly for an open-source m
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by jonchang 9y ago
Why is it necessary for people to be polite in the face of rudeness? Especially when the person expected to be polite is volunteering their time for you? To enlighten the polite people who have not insulted Homebrew maintainers: the issue w
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by jonchang 9y ago
It is justified, both in the citation and the actual text. The ARD dataset is driven by self-reporting from various local agencies. The fact that the FBI's SHR data and the ARD dataset have a mismatch (that is, there are police-related
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by jonchang 9y ago
Can you point to exactly where you believe the analysis becomes inaccurate due to the researchers' purported bias? I found the analysis quite clear and the paper was even more illuminating. If your issue is with the "final" 1
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Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive(robert.ocallahan.org)
441 points by jonchang 9y ago|300 comments
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by jonchang 9y ago
This is disingenuous. I assume you’re referring to the safe browsing service, which is run by Google and protects users from phishing and malware sites. In Firefox the requests made to Google's safe browsing are sent using a completely
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by jonchang 9y ago
Instagram can record video posts and Messenger can make video calls, both requiring microphone access. In either case the recording is obvious with a red bar for microphone access in the background, like all other iOS apps.
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by jonchang 9y ago
Please articulate your concerns with this. Is it because it's copyrighted? I think most open source software is under copyright; but the license (MIT in this case) grants end-users certain rights that can be revoked if that license is
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by jonchang 9y ago
Yes, this is what I was referring to when I mentioned "massive additional organic nutrient input". Unfortunately the authors experiment design isn't sufficient to show that this is the case since again there are other factors
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by jonchang 9y ago
This is what the authors hypothesized in the paper. They don't test it though so the causal link between orange peel acidity and forest restoration has not been established.
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by jonchang 9y ago
The company was going to build a multimillion dollar plant (1997 dollars) to process the waste. Instead they just gave away a bunch of land they weren't going to develop anyway. Also just because you own some land doesn't mean it&
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by jonchang 9y ago
If you read the original study there's a bit more going on than how the article portrays it. In particular, this site was host to invasive grasses, and after the orange peel input the site was flourishing with native species. Simply in
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by jonchang 9y ago
The original paper is here: https://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/rec.12565 The original site was heavily degraded and was host to mostly a single species of invasive grass, introduced by ranchers for pasture. This invasive grass
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by jonchang 9y ago
One cautionary note with this study is that the methods employed (ancestral character evolution) do not permit the inference of trait values that fall outside of the observed range of extant variation. Adding fossils can significantly impro
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by jonchang 9y ago
Well, the text is free so you can just read the article... Though most of the paper's studies are based on observational and survey data, which is typically where the 'correlation is not causation' criticism is most effective
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by jonchang 9y ago
This is probably a better link than the original.
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by jonchang 9y ago
I think the eventual goal is to rewrite the backend in Rust, and to make that available as a library to other applications.
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by jonchang 9y ago
Not to be too snarky, but tons of other operating systems have these kinds of "features". The most prominent example is in macOS and Linux with file names starting with a dot being hidden by default.
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by jonchang 9y ago
It's called "Screen Curtain" and it's been around for a long time.
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by jonchang 9y ago
I always used Jackson's broken-stick method for determining the number of dimensions to retain. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/1939574/abstract
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by jonchang 9y ago
Well, VR films are a different medium, and I would expect that VR filmmakers would have to work harder to get the effects they want. This would necessarily result in relinquishing some amount of control over what people can see -- which is
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by jonchang 10y ago
Doesn't that suggest that there are other attacks and exploits that the CIA potentially has that weren't leaked?

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