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by mbq 13y ago
And if you try this, you will usually get light segments in places where triangles forming some shape meet (due to antialiasing and overall hackery).
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by mbq 13y ago
SVG has `symbol` and `use` for reusing stuff: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/struct.html#SymbolElement
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by mbq 13y ago
I'm only pointing out that this _may_ mean that the archives were compromised regardless of the fact he heroically shut down the whole thing.
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by mbq 13y ago
This is something promising: http://www.peerageofscience.org/
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by mbq 13y ago
So he did surrender the keys -- this makes his business shutdown move substantially less heroic that everyone thought.
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by mbq 13y ago
SE community mod here; SE devs are good old delete-nothing guys, they collect everything ever posted and a lot of metadata. Likely in good faith to fight spam, but bits are bits.
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by mbq 13y ago
> It’s literally off the chart! -- I hope they are better at writing JITs than making visualisations.
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by mbq 13y ago
Actually all modern browsers and standalone interpreters like node.js have a JIT compiler for JavaScript; and while Java's bytecode is still not a machine code and is also JIT compiled by the Java "virtual machine", both lang
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by mbq 13y ago
NoScript (;
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by mbq 13y ago
Thunderbird+Lightning (for calendar and contacts). Or Claws mail for a "pro" (rough but very fast and functional) solution.
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by mbq 13y ago
A mixture of array and functional paradigms; writing efficient code in R requires basically the same type of thinking like in APL or J/Q/K and friends. Historically, R is a sort of a Scheme-based implementation of S, an earlier la
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by mbq 13y ago
Certainly more than two, with R being probably the most popular due to a familiar syntax.
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by mbq 13y ago
I wouldn't submit such thing without checking how the accuracy changes when the phone is relocated, when the desk is changed or even when a different specimen of the same keyboard type is used. But I strongly agree that the sensor acce
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by mbq 13y ago
IMO the only useful thing about A.edu is that they have a good position in search engines and give you an information about clicks -- so it's like Google Analytics for your papers and profile. The rest is sadly either cumbersome or red
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by mbq 13y ago
... from a company working for the NSA. (;
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by mbq 13y ago
This 500MB/s a merged stream when using all cores, I got like 140MB/s on one (from my answer in the SO thread you linked). And I'm not ranting, I'm just crying over a lost opportunity. Nowadays you must spend time to thi
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by mbq 13y ago
When I first learned about RDRAND I was thrilled because I naively assumed this would be just a hardware RNG with direct link to the CPU register vector capable of delivering randomness with a speed of cache hits or better. This would be an
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by mbq 13y ago
Indeed: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-...
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by mbq 13y ago
Oh no, SEM.
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by mbq 13y ago
They already have your data on Dropbox and iCloud.
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by mbq 13y ago
Some strong solvent and a microscope? =)
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by mbq 13y ago
There was at least Nokia 3650 with something like I-C; I must say I liked its layout but Nokia never continued it.
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by mbq 13y ago
Public keys belong to keyservers. It will be rather "what is the fingerprint of you key?"
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by mbq 13y ago
Fun fact: this hotel, Vdara, and 20 Fenchurch Street 'fryscraper' were both designed by the same architect, Rafael Viñoly.
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by mbq 13y ago
Yeah, I smiled looking at first screen-shot of "overskeumorphic" iOS 6 which shows both flat-designed and double skeumorphic power level indicator (;
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by mbq 13y ago
Come on, MEGA is not about secure storage but about Dotcom being able to tell any copyright enforcement party that he can't tell whether bits he store are illegal or not (and thus keep his business running).
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by mbq 13y ago
Poor stat, cs and math look like a dark void without zooming-in; quite expected though, the arXiv coverage of publications in those areas is still pretty low.
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by mbq 13y ago
My favourite example is randomForest, probably the most often used implementation of Random Forest, one of the most popular machine learning method. And it is an R package calling C calling Fortran 77.
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by mbq 13y ago
The gov can kill you equally well with nuclear power as with bad food/water supervision, wrong medical policy (like inoculation strategy), chemical plants, mining operations, waste management, insufficient or corrupted law enforcement,
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by mbq 13y ago
90% of Europeans, even technically illiterate, have a mobile phone, which is even worse for privacy than the iternet.

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