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by kmote00 3y ago
Yes, and the bumblebee was up there pretty high too. You gotta wonder, what were they doing up there? Did they just get... lost? Just taking a nap in a thermal updraft?
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AI Can Crack Most Common Passwords in Less Than a Minute(homesecurityheroes.com)
1 points by kmote00 4y ago|2 comments
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by kmote00 4y ago
Eye-catching title and bold claim, but I clicked through on several of the "examples" that the author cites, and I couldn't find any experiments that actually substantiated the claim of emergent properties. Perhaps I am missi
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by kmote00 4y ago
Subject Matter Expert
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by kmote00 4y ago
I've used this website for years, for just that purpose. Can't believe it's still up, actually. https://chir.ag/projects/tip-of-my-tongue/
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by kmote00 4y ago
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) | Database/SQL Engineer | Onsite (Richland, WA) | Full Time | https://wrpstoc.com/ WRPS oversees one of the largest environmental clean-up operations in the world. We are lo
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by kmote00 4y ago
I was passed by particularly loud Harley just yesterday and was wondering this exact question (and had no idea where I could even post such a question). Thanks for the detailed explanation!
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by kmote00 4y ago
I kept expecting a Monty Python and skit to break out...
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by kmote00 4y ago
Guernica was the painting that first taught me to appreciate abstract art. Up until then, I had disregarded it as infantile and ugly. This was the painting the taught me that realism isn't always the best way to convey meaning and emot
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by kmote00 4y ago
"London bridges falling down." "Ring around the Rosie... and we all fall down" (refers to the Great Plague of London in 1665) "Rockabye baby in the treetops" (eventually sent crashing to the ground by storm win
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by kmote00 4y ago
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) | Database/SQL Engineer | Onsite (Richland, WA) | Full Time | https://wrpstoc.com/ WRPS oversees the largest environmental clean-up operation in the world. We are looking fo
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by kmote00 5y ago
Our grandchildren will never know what "High Noon" meant.
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by kmote00 5y ago
Unfortunately, that is NOT what the article states. DST (Daylight savings time) ENDS on November 5th (when we change back to what is called "Standard Time"). 2 weeks later, DST (not ST) becomes the law of the land. Which means, a
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by kmote00 5y ago
Off topic comment: I'm pretty sure "explicited" is not a real word, but you've convinced me that it ought to be. Perfectly clear what you meant. Can somebody add this to the dictionary, please?
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by kmote00 5y ago
Frustrating article. Suggests that somebody has come up with a way to cut jigsaw pieces differently to arrange a rectangular puzzle into a perfect circle. The solution is so simple that the shape of the pieces can actually be described and
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by kmote00 5y ago
Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) | Database/SQL Engineer | Onsite (Richland, WA) | Full Time | https://wrpstoc.com/ WRPS oversees one of the largest environmental clean-up operations in the world. We are lo
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by kmote00 5y ago
The lethal effects of the blast travel faster than the speed of sound [1], so, once you've heard it, I'm afraid, it's already too late. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_nuclear_explosion...
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by kmote00 5y ago
You are being a serious bro, Matt, and I commend you for it! But I would hate to see you get deluged by phone spam as a result. Please consider spelling out the letters of some of the digits in your phone number before it gets scraped.
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by kmote00 5y ago
Update title: this is from 2019
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by kmote00 5y ago
Someday in your future, you will jump in your car for an emergency drive, and the screen will say, "Updating. Please wait..."
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by kmote00 6y ago
> "When your work, and what you do to avoid it, become the same thing, that’s when the breakthroughs come." Perhaps I need to get a job here at HN to attain my own personal singularity.
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by kmote00 6y ago
Personally, I enjoyed it very much. I thought the essay itself was put together like a set of Penrose tiles: it brought together the disparate aspects of Penrose's iagination and thought-life as if they were polygonal shapes -- all dis
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by kmote00 6y ago
From the article: "His book, a finalist for the Pulitzer that year, was dismissed by many, including me. Ten years on, I regret that dismissal. Reading it now, The Shallows is outrageously prescient, offering a framework and language f
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by kmote00 7y ago
I work at a largish company (~2K employees, many of whom have been here for 20+ years). We have lots of information silos, and vast amounts of tribal knowledge exit the door with retirees every year. Recently we learned that StackOverflow o
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by kmote00 7y ago
Another writeup here: https://www.wired.com/story/xenobot/
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by kmote00 7y ago
I'm not exactly sure why this was posted here. But I'm glad it was. It introduced me to a previously unexplored trail of the internet. Craigmod writes like he walks: circumspectly. His delightful collection of stories ("diari
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by kmote00 7y ago
...which reminds me of the opening line to Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” (Tolstoy)
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by kmote00 7y ago
Assumption/Hypothesis: "Those individuals in a group of experts who make decisions that are most similar to the decisions of others also make the best decisions." "It has been shown time and again that experts who are go
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Best of the best: Who makes the most accurate decisions in expert groups?(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by kmote00 7y ago|2 comments
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by kmote00 7y ago
tl;dr: "Generally, whenever you need the derived class information in the base class, you are probably looking for CRTP."

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