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by lol768 7y ago
> The purpose of a university is research. They teach undergraduate courses so they can get more researchers to further academia. The university isn't interested in anything else. Sorry, but this assertion is so incredibly wrong. At
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by lol768 7y ago
> What can I say. My fellows did not cover AI, robotics or people management. Sounds like it's become a lot more of a practical degree in the last twenty years. Honestly, it needs to be. Employers are not going to be impressed with
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by lol768 7y ago
> The lack of appreciation of pure knowledge in this thread is truly saddening. If all you care about is getting a job, this question boils down to simple finance. If you want to truly learn, understand and engage in a topic, what can po
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by lol768 7y ago
For context: title appears to have changed from "U.S. opens national security investigation into TikTok" to "U.S. opens a national security review of ByteDance’s acquisition of Musical.ly".
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by lol768 7y ago
>No, thank you. Do any shoppers actually want this? I have legitimately never walked into a supermarket and thought "Gee, the experience today just wasn't as personalised as it could've been. I'll go elsewhere next ti
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by lol768 7y ago
>Given that Android exploits are far more common than iOS, I would expect they had one of those too. The Pixel was the only device that was not pwned in the 2017 Mobile Pwn2Own competition - the iPhone, running iOS 11.1, was exploited 4
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by lol768 7y ago
It supports PayPal: https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io/blob/master/src/main/j... And Revolut's business API: https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io/blob/ma
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by lol768 7y ago
Wow, this app looks really cool! The Mac variant is particularly pleasing to look at. I wonder if some design work could be crowd-funded.
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by lol768 7y ago
I can't really explain why, but looking at Avalonia's demonstration videos I don't like the UI controls in Avalonia.Themes.Default. They remind me of what you might end up with if you designed controls manually in e.g. a Flas
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by lol768 7y ago
> In case you didn't notice, Windows 10 is now a tiling window manager with virtual desktops, by default, if you just learn the new keyboard shortcuts. But it's not comparable to sway/i3 - not in terms of customisability o
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by lol768 7y ago
An interesting font, but can't say I'm a fan of the regular 'f' extending down below the baseline. The italic style is fancy, but honestly feels a bit ostentatious (in particular I don't like the 's') to t
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by lol768 7y ago
I'll be interested to see how they try to tackle this. Are they going to manually identify NSFW images? Scrape known-NSFW subreddits? Look at the Referer header? Can just see folks on Reddit using its own built-in image upload function
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by lol768 7y ago
> To be honest I've noticed that links to specific images (i.imgur.com/blah.jpg) get rewritten once they hit some specific traffic-threshold. I didn't realise they had a traffic-based condition that did this, too. Wow. Th
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by lol768 7y ago
>Costco controls the kind of shopper that shows up by tying a credit card (ie a credit check) to membership. Sure you don’t have to pay with a credit card, but you need to qualify for a good one to shop there. I don't follow this lo
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by lol768 7y ago
> Right, that's what I meant by code review in the first paragraph: internal review within the research group. Ah, I took it as code review during the peer review process (i.e. from reviewers). Unsure how realistic this would be.
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by lol768 7y ago
>Out of curiosity, do people in UK tip? Not in a fast-food restaurant, no. You'll often see folks in cafés help out and return their trays, but it's not a guarantee - and in some establishments it's not even possible for y
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by lol768 7y ago
>This speaks to a larger issue: if you write software for manipulating data as part of the production of a scientific paper, then the source code should be available for review as an attachment to that paper, and review of said code shou
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by lol768 7y ago
ASVS is a good idea, but it has forever lost its credibility for me after the following recommendation appeared in one of its published documents (2.13 I believe, level 1 ASVSv3): >Verify that account passwords make use of a sufficient s
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by lol768 7y ago
My undergraduate degree in CS covered Alloy, it was good fun to learn and solve problems with but I have to agree that the biggest pain point was definitely the limited documentation (even with access to the university's own resource
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by lol768 7y ago
>I've used Linux several times over the years and the hardware never totally works > Does the hardware actually work? Yes, flawlessly. Desktop with a GeForce GTX 970 (prop. driver) & AMD Ryzen 5 2600 & MSI B450M PRO-M2 V2
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by lol768 7y ago
>[Edit]: The replies suggest this is mostly still the case, people say it works flawlessly - except for [insert issue here] I count 7 or 8 broadly unconditional "it works fine" child comments. 1 "it mostly works", 1 &
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by lol768 7y ago
>If they’re going to be dicks about keeping it proprietary then maybe it’s time for someone to come up with an open alternative. There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code from Google (AKA Plus Co
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by lol768 7y ago
It depends on your Gtk theme, I think. If it's marked as dark, then Firefox will pick that up and apply the CSS accordingly. I use Yaru-dark. You can also force Firefox, via an about:config setting to act as if you were using dark mode
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by lol768 7y ago
>my standard response has always been "I'm sorry, as a rule I do not discuss personal details with someone who called me, since I don't know who you are" Amex got quite offended when I did this, and almost chastised m
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by lol768 7y ago
As will Linux/Gnome.
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by lol768 7y ago
>They don't bother most of the time to explain what is the issue or what's the fix. This - the vulnerability descriptions are usually incredibly poor. Snyk are bad at this too. What's particularly infuriating is when the d
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by lol768 7y ago
These reports are a a waste of everyone's time. There are 10s of completely meaningless CVEs being issued for each new deserialization gadget that someone finds and gets added to a blacklist designed to protect a known-unsafe use-case
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by lol768 7y ago
>it is apparently on by default Curious as to what makes you think this - I was under the impression you needed to explicitly call `enableDefaultTyping` to get this unsafe behaviour. The wiki page explicitly tells you not to do this with
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by lol768 7y ago
Seems like a pretty misleading title in this light, then?
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by lol768 7y ago
>The comparison numbers that Tesla parrots are between Teslas with modern safety features and in good weather conditions, and the entire rest of road fatalities, including motorcycles. Comparing similarly bodied cars in similar weather c

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