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by mormegil 4y ago
In the game of backgammon, there is an aspect of luck (the game is played with dice), but there is definitely an aspect of player quality. When a more experienced player plays against a worse player, from the point of view of the worse play
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by mormegil 4y ago
The Czech one is more of a Warsaw-Pact-level shit. :-) Here is a (originally secret) documentary video about MiG-21 exercise on the highway (in Czech, obviously): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoZGoaG9_w
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by mormegil 4y ago
Yes, that is not cool. By coincidence, a few days ago, I followed a link to an SO blog article, but the link was broken, I searched the article title on Google, which led me... to the same 404 page again. So I took to the great Internet A
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by mormegil 4y ago
While a great idea, how could this work so that it would be tolerant to publishing just excerpts of the full output or to ignore trivial edits (either way, it could be fooled easily, I guess)?
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by mormegil 4y ago
You might be interested in this review/discussion/polemic of a book on mostly this topic: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-san-fransi...
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by mormegil 4y ago
There is this piece of hacker lore, where a person discovered that he could not log in into a machine when standing. As soon as he sat, the login worked. After checking whether he is not standing on the keyboard cable etc., he discovered th
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by mormegil 4y ago
What about six years until the country gets liberated again? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_government-in-e...
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by mormegil 4y ago
Maybe on some supermodern cars (which probably won't open at all after the crash breaks a few computers in there). But in all cars I have owned, the safety switch was mechanical, not electronic. If it's working, you can lower the
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by mormegil 4y ago
149 hours , see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs#Transpor...
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by mormegil 4y ago
Have you tried to ask "show me the set of emojis which cannot be found by Google Search"? :-)
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by mormegil 4y ago
This is how it already has been in Java. It’s explained in an ancient Design FAQ document: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/colle...
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by mormegil 4y ago
I added Garmin support to Gadgetbridge (specifically, Vivomove HR, but I think at least the basics should work for more) in my development/experimental branch: https://github.com/mormegil-cz/Gadgetbridge/tree&
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by mormegil 4y ago
It is fairly common for banking apps to include various "RASP" (runtime application self protection) tools/libraries which scan for various syndromes of attacks, including whether the phone is rooted, any screen overlay is ac
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by mormegil 4y ago
Exactly. > Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victi
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by mormegil 4y ago
It's not a problem of git, but a problem of abstraction and modularization, isn't it. In principle, this is partly doable with Wikidata (or old-school templates), e.g. some information in infoboxes and country flags are retrieved
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by mormegil 4y ago
Watch out for patented technology! https://gizmodo.com/sony-wants-to-let-you-skip-commercials-b...
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by mormegil 4y ago
Re title-text: I think crossed swords would be a suitable symbol for the 2022 footnote...
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by mormegil 4y ago
Great memories! That was my favorite aircraft in LHX Attack Chopper! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHX_Attack_Chopper
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by mormegil 4y ago
A different view of basically the same topic by Noah Smith: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/yes-were-probably-in-a-rec...
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by mormegil 4y ago
This. The original argument is sideways. When contributing code, you claim to have written it yourself and you grant a copyright license to this work of yours. You don't claim the contributed code does not infringe on any patent. (Ho
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by mormegil 4y ago
There is more detail in the (Czech-language) presentation; the ongoing cost is in hundreds of millions CZK (~millions to tens of millions EUR) every year, the TCO for the whole time was in 2019 estimated over 9 billion CZK (~400M EUR).
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by mormegil 4y ago
The Czech taxation authority has the "Automated Tax Information System" as the primary IS. It has been running since 1993, it has a classic DOS text-mode interface and its maintenance cost is huge, which is completely fine with it
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by mormegil 4y ago
Your own what? Your own query? Sure; it's just a SPARQL query over the Wikidata data model. The documentation portal for the query service is at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/...
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by mormegil 4y ago
Oh, and more to the point: This is a role Wikipedia explicitly renounced, isn't it. When it became so big and the Google PageRank gave it high importance, the spam became unbearable so Wikipedia decided it needs to change the incentive
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by mormegil 4y ago
The "official website" links can be retrieved in a machine-readable way from Wikidata. E.g. a completely random silly example of official websites of embassies: https://w.wiki/5T3R
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by mormegil 4y ago
Exactly. I'm definitely not an IPv6 expert, but my (possibly wrong) understanding is that you'll never really get anything smaller than /64 (it's not a temporary thing during IPv6 roll-out). Sure, your assigned IPv6 bloc
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by mormegil 4y ago
How different in this regard is an IPv4 address versus an IPv6 /64 block? (And similarly, any bigger IP block belonging to an ISP.)
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by mormegil 4y ago
Yes, it doesn't necessarily follow, but it is indeed conjectured that pi is a normal number, meaning all digits appear with the same frequency, but it is not known yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
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by mormegil 4y ago
Yes, this is called WYSIWYS (what you see is what you sign) and I suffer whenever I receive a confirmation code saying absolutely nothing. However, when _you_ write the code to some trusted web app, there is that context, at least. But read
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by mormegil 4y ago
I _think_ you want a feature where the reader removes any margins in the document for display. Basically, a "crop the paper format" function. And... yeah, I'd want my reader to have that! (And my Kindle! When sometimes readin

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