mattcoles

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by mattcoles 4y ago
Let’s say you use a “plus” formatted email, I.e foo+github@gmail.com Then when you receive spam/unsolicited marketing emails, you can see to which email the spam was sent, and therefore which company sold your data. This suggests the o
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by mattcoles 4y ago
I understand that curtailment is needed to incentivise private businesses to invest in wind when the output and demand can’t be correlated, but if the government owned the wind farms then it wouldn’t matter if we wasted right? We could just
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by mattcoles 4y ago
He didn’t achieve 2MH/s on his MacBook. That was the authors estimate of what you could achieve on a multi-GPU setup, it was only around ~1KH/s on the MacBook.
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by mattcoles 7y ago
They do have stuff inside them though, so I'm not suggesting they make it heavier but having the required electronics does take up space that can be otherwise utilised.
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by mattcoles 7y ago
iGeneration is a long established term for Gen Z. This author among many others claims to have coined the moniker but has done so since at least 2006. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Generation_Z
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by mattcoles 7y ago
I don't know if it's just me but hamburger menus that appear/disappear on hover seems very frustrating to use for me, it's especially obvious on this where the font size is so small. I find it fiddly to delete/mark
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by mattcoles 7y ago
70?
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by mattcoles 7y ago
What do you like about it? For general use it seems as if it'll be something that makes no difference to my day-to-day usage of my computer other than a warm fuzzy feeling that the underlying protocol is "right".
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by mattcoles 7y ago
Highly recommend the book 'Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts. This article touches on the search for an immutable self but it doesn't quite make the leap that there isn't one and that the advice to "be yourself&qu
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by mattcoles 8y ago
To keep your account secure, turn on Javascript?? If anything is making your web browsing less secure, it's JS. I don't particularly care that Google isn't letting you sign in without JS, but the message is just plain wrong..
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by mattcoles 8y ago
That's pathetic... it's such a shame Twitter intentionally crippled their API because the platform is so well suited for 3rd party apps
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by mattcoles 8y ago
How can it hit the rate limit error so quickly? From the output in my terminal it is really slow...
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by mattcoles 8y ago
In what way is the article not scummy as hell? You shouldn't waste Jenkins server time with this...
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by mattcoles 9y ago
Anyone had any luck with Firefox on any system?
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by mattcoles 9y ago
Haha, it was just the attitude I'm seeing suggests that we're somehow at the behest of Mozilla engineers and we just have to wait, but that's one of the great benefits of open source, we really aren't. And I haven't
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by mattcoles 9y ago
Since Firefox is open source, instead of just waiting for Mozilla engineers to get around to it, couldn't someone just open a pull request?
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by mattcoles 9y ago
From what I can tell they used verbal & numerical reasoning tests, which does to some degree fit a definition of intelligence. It doesn't measure anything well rounded about a person and it makes me pretty uncomfortable to think th
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by mattcoles 9y ago
In what way would it noticeably differ from the LLVM IR then?
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by mattcoles 9y ago
If you have a Mac, Textual is a great IRC client although their upgrade policy is a bit frustrating, in that upgrades don't seem to be free for life, only discounted.
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by mattcoles 9y ago
I wouldn't recommend Icarus Verilog, it's not a very good simulator. You're much better off downloading either the free Altera/IntelFPGA copy of Modelsim or using the free version of Xilinx's Vivado. The DE10 Nano i
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by mattcoles 9y ago
This is a false equivalence. I think it's much more like, Person A is a nazi and killed someone after being indoctrinated by violent nazi rhetoric, therefore we should stop allowing violent nazi rhetoric to be spread. And even then it&
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by mattcoles 9y ago
In the same way that some days I am happy and other days I'm sad, doesn't mean that my mood is choice.
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by mattcoles 9y ago
Good to know you can steal money from these employees with a handshake.
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by mattcoles 9y ago
If you use Vim, you can `set list` and set the `listchars` to something useful for you.
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by mattcoles 9y ago
I think it's important to think about power dynamics, if you're in a position where you have authority/power/control in any way over that person it's not appropriate for you to be asking them out, pretty much period
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by mattcoles 9y ago
Is there a way to swing this in a way which this is not contributing to an already exploitative and (primarily) sexist industry? I also fail to see how such a system could combat abuse of those working either.
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Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says(theguardian.com)
340 points by mattcoles 9y ago|198 comments
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by mattcoles 9y ago
> While the ICO found the deal to be illegal, it has no plans to punish the Royal Free or DeepMind. What the hell? Why do we let Google get away with this.
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by mattcoles 9y ago
Again, the ARM benchmarks/demos recently are very impressive but there is no way they'll be able to match the higher end Xeon's, if for no other reason than you have to do x86 emulation. I think they'll definitely be abl
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by mattcoles 9y ago
This is nowhere near the end of Intel, performance desktops and servers will still be running Intel processors for many years to come, ARM simply cannot match the performance - despite how impressive that demo video might look. Intel was al

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