knodi123

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by knodi123 13y ago
Toxin is a buzzword that I use to tell when someone is easily deceived by woo-woo fake science. The idea that anything processed in a factory is full of "toxins" and anything from nature is "healthy" is an irritating and
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by knodi123 13y ago
He could have made his donation anonymously, but instead, he chose to do it publicly. His stance against gay people is now a part of his public identity. That was a conscious decision on his part. One of a CEO's duties is PR, and if
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by knodi123 13y ago
Interesting aside: The word "robot" comes from slavic "robota", meaning drudge work that a serf is forced to perform for his lord. It's funny that the word has evolved to mean "something which frees us from dr
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by knodi123 13y ago
My grandparents did indeed work their asses off. And in china, people are now working their asses off. But robots are only going to get better; this process has already started and is having a huge impact. Manufacturing is only going to g
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by knodi123 13y ago
An intern? Don't pat yourself on the back TOO hard... ;-) I once sped up an intern's code by just deleting a 30-line function, and doing nothing else. Doofus didn't realize our language had a highly optimized built-in sort
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by knodi123 13y ago
google now's voice recognition has worked offline for a while now
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by knodi123 13y ago
With regards to netflix, it's not always the last mile that's the problem. Specifically, Netflix's ISP has an agreement with your ISP, which says essentially "You know what? We send and receive a lot of data. How about
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by knodi123 13y ago
Wonder how comfortable this is? If it's designed to go up against the skin, then I imagine sprue marks (or whatever the 3d printing equivalent is), and material texture, would be a BFD. PS, kudos to the designer for being willing to m
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by knodi123 13y ago
*except in cases where you borrowed that money to pay for your education
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by knodi123 13y ago
Where do you think survivors could possibly be? A mysterious tropical island, lost in time and space?
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by knodi123 13y ago
No, that would be an incredible, revolutionary, first-of-its kind feature. You'd see it trumpeted all over every single piece of concept art and advertising. There's absolutely zero chance that the first color e-ink display woul
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by knodi123 13y ago
Absolutely not. 1. The dynamo would take up too much room 2. Pinching a tiny metal shaft is ergonomically awful 3. have you seen the tiny wind-up flashlights? they're huge, and they require quite a lot of winding, and that&#x2
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by knodi123 13y ago
No - one of the main points of a hash is that it is non-reversible. Also, if you had a short string that could be expanded into the larger key, then what you really have is a short key to a slightly different crypto system, which is less se
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by knodi123 13y ago
I'd also like to see someone assess the economic impact of terrorism on these hyperloop proposals. Isn't that an incredibly juicy target? Hundreds of miles of tube, but bad guys only need to blow up one piece to cripple the tube
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by knodi123 13y ago
I have a great little password manager that doesn't store them reversibly. Sure, sometimes it's hassle to wait a few hours while it brute forces one, and sure, there's a temptation to use shorter passwords to make that step
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by knodi123 13y ago
"the new zealand developer who discovered this flaw"??? It's just a settings page. I've been using this "flaw" to retrieve saved passwords that I forgot for ages. Before this feature, I used to have to use au