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by lixtra 8y ago
Isn't it a copyright infringement to pick up some radio signal, reassemble it to pictures and publish them?
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by lixtra 8y ago
Leaving a blocked lane early reduces the storage capacity of the road. In slow traffic/traffic jams the rule is to use all lanes possible until very close to the blockage. If you break that rule the jam becomes longer and could affect
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by lixtra 8y ago
> Pijul is the only version control system based on a complete mathematical theory of patches. [1] Can someone please provide a link to that theory? [1] https://nest.pijul.com/ EDIT: This? https://arxiv.org&#x
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by lixtra 8y ago
Open access was just one example. While I'm all in all very happy with the current ethical standards, it's worth to point out that in the past science was significantly advanced by transgressing the ethical standards of the time (
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by lixtra 8y ago
> Ignoring ethical standards compromises the validity of any evidence and resulting claims... Unfortunately this logic is flawed. Ethical standards are a moving target not the same as scientific standards (also a moving target). For the
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by lixtra 8y ago
Type <Esc>:qa! to exit
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by lixtra 8y ago
Try to turn it off and see what happens.
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by lixtra 8y ago
To me, McKinsey is so many layers away from the actual problem that I find it difficult to single them out. The main responsibility lies with the doctor prescribing the medicine. Then with the company that pushed and produced them, then wit
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by lixtra 8y ago
If I spend 8h looking into some software, basically paying 1000 USD consulting fees, does this create an attached interest?
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by lixtra 8y ago
There is also Snakemake[1]. I did not decide for myself yet if I prefer it over make. [1] https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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The day the electricity ran out(translate.googleusercontent.com)
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by lixtra 8y ago
This may be an argument for PhD positions that include teaching vs pure research. For me it psychologically good to have constant successes in teaching while seemingly not advancing in research for months. Of course the load shouldn’t be hi
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by lixtra 8y ago
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is a beautiful read. You easily find the PDF but once the latex source was available as well - in case you want to reformat for e-book reader: https://web.archive.org/web&#x
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by lixtra 8y ago
> If you want a really good domain, you can end up paying 500EUR per year for it. Can't you transfer it to a different reseller in the first year? You should be able to switch resellers with your domain. In worst case, you can start
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by lixtra 8y ago
At least some semicolons where added. But the author is open about its heritage: https://github.com/kevinschaich/mintable/commits/master/scri...
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by lixtra 8y ago
Since the author appears to iterate one million times a calculation of constant a and b, I would expect a perfect compiler to compute x only once at compile time and then also compute sum_x so that there is not much else to do.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I wonder if Germany will have any industry left in 50 years. The German Green Party (projected to get 20% in the next election) leader recently told in an interview that excessive electric energy can be stored in the networks[1]. [1] https
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by lixtra 8y ago
But this is easy to do. Just embed a version number (or hash) in the form. If after submitting the version to be changed is not the same as in the form, then you know there is a conflict.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I love how they are able to calculate the impact on GDP up to two digits: GB -5.86. It clearly shows that at least on person in the creation of the article was pretty clueless.
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by lixtra 8y ago
> Rust recently had an integer overflow in str::repeat permitting a buffer overflow. In case someone is interested of the details, like I was: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-10008...
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by lixtra 8y ago
After reading the README twice I still don't know what it does or if I could have any need for it. What about a more concrete exmaple in the README? The demo is more speaking. And the tool looks actually interesting. How about: W
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by lixtra 8y ago
> As is so often the case in Rails, it's set up to be nice and simple for a hello world example but little more. This is just wrong. Rails works very well for 90% of the situations. When it stops working that’s great news: You’ve wo
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by lixtra 8y ago
Is "Docker D un (beta)" the intended page title?
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by lixtra 8y ago
TLDR: Devices that create TLS and SSH keys just after boot when there is not enough entropy.
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by lixtra 8y ago
RTFA: > If you live in the rest of Europe: please contact the ministers working on the Copyright in the Digital Single Market directive. We'll update this page with more information as we get it.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Anthropocene extinction. I'm sure the ecosystem will finally stabilize with a fraction of current amount of species. It so far always did in the past. EDIT: I did not make up the term. The term Holocene seems to be more current (but al
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by lixtra 8y ago
> you can use an alias that downloads and executes the script every time: > alias sshenc.sh='bash <(curl -s https://sshenc.sh/sshenc.sh)' I wouldn't expect this from someone with a cryptography backg
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by lixtra 8y ago
Do the messages automatically get wiped? Typically you don't want to keep the keys in your message boxes in case they get hacked in the future. For this reason I use something like read then burn[1,2] for passwords. [1] https:/&#
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by lixtra 8y ago
Between favorite and discuss there should just be a "cached" link going to a paywall-free and reliable copy.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I wish you were right. But so far the winner takes all effect and commercial benefits pushed most things to big companies. Even the archetype of decentralization, email, is being pushed to big players by spam control.

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