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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2019)(ccdatalab.org)
14 points by jryb 2y ago|8 comments
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by jryb 2y ago
I find the swift keyboard is better than the regular one, but good lord is the autocomplete terrible. It adds 's to words so often even when my finger never went close to the S key, it suggests "ang" as often as "and&qu
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by jryb 2y ago
I don't know how common my situation is, but I don't have any of those constraints. I have eza aliased to ls both on my daily driver and all of my work servers and it hasn't caused me a single problem.
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An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her(nytimes.com)
12 points by jryb 2y ago|15 comments
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by jryb 2y ago
Maybe try fish? Tab completion will suggest subcommands, and if you type - or -- and hit tab, it will suggest the available options with help text generated from man pages (example: https://flaviocopes.com/images/fish-s
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by jryb 2y ago
For scheduling, I just guessed at the weights - the interval to the next review just increases geometrically at a different rate for each difficulty rating. I'll probably run into ease hell issues but it hasn't happened yet. I tun
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by jryb 2y ago
Yes, it's an anki replacement. I found adding/modifying cards programmatically was a nightmare. I also wanted to add new features, like having ephemeral cards that disappear after a few reviews (the use case was translation of cha
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by jryb 2y ago
It's the first thing I go to when I have a "stupid" question. I also just use it to learn languages and math, and get clarification when something in my area of expertise is confusing. It's dramatically reduced my search
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by jryb 2y ago
There appears to be a new phenomenon where patient advocacy groups are able to pressure the FDA into approving medications for conditions with no existing treatment (I found out about this when reading the fact sheet that came with a medica
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by jryb 2y ago
Sure, but existing protein sequencing and synthesis technologies are severely limited. You'd lose so many orders of magnitude in scale, speed and cost that the increase in the number of characters wouldn't be worth it.
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by jryb 2y ago
You could easily have sleep apnea. You didn't mention caffeine, but the half life of caffeine can be over 12 hours. Even if you limit yourself to two cups of coffee at 8 am, you'd still have as much caffeine in you as if you had o
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by jryb 2y ago
While political identity certainly plays some role, a BEV is still a major purchase and people will take other factors into account. Is it really inconceivable that someone would want a car like the ones they're used to, except with a
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by jryb 2y ago
neovim allows multiple LSPs. In my setup the different sources show virtual text comments with unique colors for each lsp, one message after the other - I think this is default behavior but i'm not sure
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by jryb 2y ago
Even at 8 digits people could still use their birthdays. I think there's a tradeoff between PIN size and fraction of the population that will feel comfortable picking a number with no significance. I'd speculate that in a world wh
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by jryb 2y ago
When speaking Chinese, it says the tone number in English after each character. So "你好" is pronounced "ni three hao three". Am I using this wrong? I'm running `espeak-ng -v cmn "你好"`. If this is just how i
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by jryb 2y ago
There's nothing outrageous about predicting that a country with a very low fertility rate will experience population decline over time. The point of these predictions is to consider the consequences of maintaining current policies.
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by jryb 2y ago
At least for any defined set of layouts, you could infer what those other keypresses would be and compare their efficiencies. Still a compromise but it satisfies all the security issues.
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by jryb 2y ago
You don't need a keylogger. Just take some things you've written and count the characters. It won't be exact since it excludes rewrites but the distribution should be very close.
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War Stories(stimmel-law.com)
1 points by jryb 2y ago|0 comments
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by jryb 2y ago
Google Scholar really can't be beat. When you find a good review, start following authors of the references that look legit. You can also have alerts for new papers with keywords in the title or other sections. inciteful.xyz is also re
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by jryb 3y ago
Is using a host that doesn't do this not a possibility?
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First test of gene editing in babies(endpts.com)
1 points by jryb 3y ago|0 comments
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by jryb 3y ago
The engine failing isn't some random, unlucky event. Regular maintenance and inspection should prevent this. Whenever this happens to an airplane it's considered negligence - there's no reason why we shouldn't have the s
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by jryb 3y ago
There are two reasons I can think of why that wouldn't happen: first, there's no primer to even initiate the reverse transcription. Maybe you might get unlucky and there's something close enough floating around. But integrati
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by jryb 3y ago
What the article doesn't address is why there's no compensating effect from the people who like his antics. The two groups might be of vastly different sizes of course, but assuming this one survey from a single consultancy can be
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by jryb 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but this looks like a rebranded scientific method.
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by jryb 3y ago
Your point is broadly correct (not sure about disability though), but I think it overstates the danger of what will happen in practice. Yes, if you picked a random target and blasted away, you probably wouldn't have a good time. But an
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by jryb 3y ago
Easy fix: subspace-based sensors. If the other ship is transmitting in any way, or its engine produces visible artifacts in the subspace field, it could be detected.
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Ask HN: Is there a consumer phishing testing service for non-technical people?
4 points by jryb 3y ago|3 comments
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by jryb 3y ago
Yes, there was this recent paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04676-3 See also this review: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/PL00006261 They essentially propose that R

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