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maaaats
12y ago
You forget one case: Here, the server will never know the content of the encrypted data.
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maaaats
12y ago
Were you the host or the client in this download?
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maaaats
12y ago
Why didn't you ask that question, then? A general concept with many uses is useful for many, and would have stayed.
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maaaats
12y ago
It is highly upvoted because many people have found it useful. Contrary to your question, it's a question with many uses. > That's not covered many other places? (...) > There's probably 100x more C# information than e
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maaaats
12y ago
Some of these questions lack context. For instance the one about neural networks looks fine now, but you should have seen how the asker behaved..
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12y ago
Well, I've had issues with pg_dump's standard format. It can't be directly used to restore a db, one must manually set it to dump a .bak or something else.
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maaaats
12y ago
> Sponsored by Google Right next to your citation.
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maaaats
12y ago
It's hard to make $200/hour for 8 hours a day. You will have overhead eating much of that away. Like time not spent working directly for a client, or lease for renting your office. So one can't compare those hourly prices to
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12y ago
One part of this I've never understood: I'm often told that I shouldn't buy or enjoy helium balloons, as it's a waste of important helium. But such a balloon costs almost nothing, if helium is so scarce and so important,
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maaaats
12y ago
Same here. This would also allow one to "delete" the user by changing the username to something non-identifying.
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maaaats
12y ago
Honestly, this adds nothing new to the discussion. "Everywhere" with no data to back it up.
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maaaats
12y ago
I could never get used to the weird placement of the fn button, to the far left of the keyboard. Many other laptops also have this, it's a dealbreaker for me. All shortcuts I know fall out, and even with long use I can't really ge
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maaaats
12y ago
> The last 4 Windows based machine I owned crashed when I close/move/sleep/awoke it/plugged in another display What century was this? I could understand one model having these issues, but 4? I think you embellish.
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Sony wants to sell you an overpriced memory card 'for premium sound'
(theverge.com)
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12y ago
It's from a comment [1] to a discussion yesterday. So many probably already know the context of this. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9065375
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12y ago
> This is ugly and pollutes your history graph across branches. After all, a merge should only occur to merge a finalized branch in. >> This sounds like a completely arbitrary rule to me. I just don't get why people try so
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12y ago
Sorry, meant my key, the one I use to connect with and have added the public part of to numerous servers.
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12y ago
What about "personal" private keys? I find it a hassle to add new keys for every device to each host I ssh into, so I usually just end up copying them from device to device..
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maaaats
12y ago
Plea bargains is such an odd and dangerous concept. It can be misused heavily. "This petty crime has a max sentence of 10 years, if you confess we will give you 2" may trick even innocent people into confessing.
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maaaats
12y ago
> a decent read that touches on a lot of good points. Too bad the title is really off-putting. Sounds like any clickbait website, not a good journalistic piece.
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12y ago
> As dislikable as the tweet's content is Did you read the article? By thinking for a few seconds, the point of the tweet is obviously not racist. Not a smart tweet, in retrospect, but. Here's her explanation from the article
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12y ago
I thought the same. Publishing small JS libs is easy, just drop a Bower file and register it. For maven I need to build it, sign it, get access to a central repo (can take days) and then finally upload it. Of course, this means that the qua
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12y ago
For a quadcopter you need very fine control of the rotors, making a combustion engine hard to use. So then you will need to do combustion -> dynamo -> electricity -> electric motor. A helicopter is controlled in a completely differ
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12y ago
Thanks for your contribution to the discussion.
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12y ago
> A lot of people seem to be saying you must complete an engineering degree to call yourself an engineer In many countries, it's a protected title. So yes, then you will need to have an engineering degree.
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12y ago
But if the master/upstream is changed, the feature branch must be updated again (manually).
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12y ago
And if something break down while there, it is no way to get support.
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12y ago
There already is, actually. I read the paper a while back. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxFI3NHtT8 Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2598248
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12y ago
We use Socialcast where I work. Works pretty well. Lots of channels for various stuff and interests. For instance technologies and sports.
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12y ago
But what is "AI"? Once something in AI gains traction, it quickly becomes part of the standard computer-science-toolkit. For instance, programmatically tuning some variables can be considered a standard task, either with some brut
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