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by mikorym 7y ago
I am the type to rejoice in cynicism. But, I have to say that I don't see the screen phenomenon as necessarily a bad thing—time spent in contemplation is time spent alone. I am a person too that likes to spend time outdoors, so maybe w
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by mikorym 7y ago
Yes, I think that is the main limiting factor.
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by mikorym 7y ago
> and timezone information (+0300) > to filter only the commits by one person get the local time of that commit and aggregate it by hour when the commit was make So these are all in local time of the computer doing the commit, if I am
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by mikorym 7y ago
I would hope that Africa would be, too, but it seems like that is a hope for the future.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I like the charity-starts-at-home approach. I don't know how people do this in first world countries, but in developing countries is relatively easy to find a cause.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I was thinking this exactly. How much would that kind of advertising cost? And the money essentially goes to their customers rather than an advertising agency.
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think that if Amazon does ship these (and it seems some already did) it's actually pretty neat advertisement for them. Any publicity is good publicity, right? I wonder how much an advertisement campaign with this amount of buzz usual
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by mikorym 7y ago
So my question is this: is PGP itself to blame or are people basically saying, "Don't use PGP unless you know what you are doing." I don't really know what concrete advice the article gives for me personally. (The only t
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by mikorym 7y ago
First of all, if you are signing something and want to prove that you are the author, then PGP will allow you to do that. If you want to encrypt something and prove you are the author, PGP will still allow you to do that. Does the author me
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by mikorym 7y ago
I know this is tangental, but it fascinates me that you could hold a stock that pays <5% dividend yield whereas the bulk of the economic impact is wages, salaries, business with other companies, etc. The assumption that your stock price
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by mikorym 7y ago
> the paradox of choice What do you mean by that?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Did you know that recently it was shown (on HN I think) that Magic: The Gathering can simulate a Turing machine as well (but the cards you need make it difficult to pop up in a match).
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by mikorym 7y ago
Are these commercial plantations? And what is the biodiversity in the forests?
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by mikorym 7y ago
Personally. Spend a lot of time on a topic and choose a small amount of things. Don't let the list of things you want to learn grow too larger before things are ticked off.
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by mikorym 7y ago
> It'd be easier to reverse engineer the rendering engines in popular PS2 games and to simply port them. What do you mean by that?
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by mikorym 7y ago
I can answer partially for the South African context. Our state owned entity Eskom pushes the prices up every year and in theory this should make solar power both residential and large scale more attractive. First off, battery theft in SA i
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by mikorym 7y ago
I know that this is for 64-bit on the new Raspberry Pi specifically, but would the Pi 4 be able to run a Playstation 2 emulator?
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by mikorym 7y ago
We wrote a toy Oberon compiler in second year computer science. I think it was really useful as an exercise, but it was time consuming and this contributed to me dropping computer science due to the work load and practicals counting more th
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by mikorym 7y ago
Even if it's 20 percent or more it won't make much of a difference. The table is rediculous to start off with. Almost all of the particulates are due to "resuspension" which is literally the wind / slipstream create
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by mikorym 7y ago
Sounds fantastically Japanese.
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by mikorym 7y ago
> Even so, 85 to 90 percent of toxic vehicle emissions in traffic come from tire wear and other non-tailpipe sources, which electric and hybrid cars still produce. First of all, this person meant to say "particulates" [1] and s
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by mikorym 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but is it possible to use Rsync with Dropbox (or Box, G Drive, OneDrive, pCloud, Mega, etc.)?
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by mikorym 7y ago
A viable alternative (if you don't have qualms with this instead) is avocado farming. Depending on climate (i.e., such as colder regions) the net water use can actually be similar (or say 2:1) when switching from eucalyptus to avocados
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by mikorym 7y ago
Sorry, here is a reference (or just google sealed bottle garden since 1972): [1] https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/06/18/80-year-old-man-ha... .
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by mikorym 7y ago
This topic is relevant in South Africa as well. More than 100 years ago, many of the indigenous forest were deforested to make way for pine and eucalyptus plantations. The former is less than ideal, but the latter is even worse. The water u
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by mikorym 7y ago
I think there is a different argument being made. The Russian nuclear program has suffered a lot of potential and actual nuclear catastrophes due to questionable safety standards and protocol. I think that nuclear weapons is a different top
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by mikorym 7y ago
Are you also saying that an ECC public key necessarily provides those details that may remain private with RSA?
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by mikorym 7y ago
So, to be Devil's Advocate, does libsodium also provide an RSA implementation?
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Unless I am stupid, these are all implementation specific problems (e.g.: bad key selection, bad key size selection, exploits due to coding errors, etc.) and this does not tell us anything new about prime number factorisation. If this assum
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by mikorym 7y ago
There were two Boer Wars and during the first one they largely wore red uniforms. But yes, the history intertwines with the other British colonies, but at the time of their conflict with the Boers they had not at first switched to Khakis. A

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