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by nanis 6y ago
The reason for my assumption is the explicit statement: > The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger ... which seems to imply pretty unambiguou
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by nanis 6y ago
Looking at > He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a g
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by nanis 6y ago
This is such a lazy headline and article. For more than 1,000 years, war between Turks and Greeks has been a real possibility. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Greece and https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
814.
by nanis 7y ago
Thank you for the correction.
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by nanis 7y ago
Thank you for correction. Voted your comment up.
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by nanis 7y ago
I haven't read the full report, but, the PoC[1] and the explanations I have seen before seem to indicate one has to be on the "local" side of the cable modem to run the exploit. That is, it doesn't seem like this is expl
817.
by nanis 7y ago
It doesn't seem to be feasible using this vulnerability: > Cable Haunt is exploited in two steps. First, access to the vulnerable endpoint is gained through a client on the local network , such as a browser. (emphasis mine)
818.
by nanis 7y ago
Some time ago, I got curious about the sources of data in the period where humans were measuring temperature using thermometers. When we talk about predictions from fifty years ago matching today (also I read the linked article and I didn&#
819.
by nanis 7y ago
There are uncountably infinite real numbers and countably infinite rational numbers, so we cannot represent all of them using a {0, 1}^n where n is a finite number. No matter which numbers you can exactly represent, there will always be unc
820.
by nanis 7y ago
You have to dig really hard to find out what the specific problem was. It turns out this was the fix: def read_gaussian_outputfiles(): list_of_files = [] for file in glob.glob('*.out'): list_of_fi
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by nanis 7y ago
> Medicare's reimbursement rates are already higher than every other developed nation. The idea that it doesn't pay enough is, frankly, bs. Medicare's reimbursement rates could just as well be published by Gosplan. If you
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by nanis 7y ago
Ah, Malthus, what have you done?!
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Lessons from Pinocchio: Cues to Deception May Be Highly Exaggerated(journals.sagepub.com)
1 points by nanis 7y ago|0 comments
824.
by nanis 7y ago
The title of this post sounds far more definitive than what the linked content says. > A mass die-off of seabirds in the Bering Sea may be partially attributable to climate change, ... > A reduction in food resources before entering m
825.
by nanis 7y ago
Well, the first computer on which I wrote programs was a ZX-81[1]. The 486 DX4-75[2] with 4 Mb memory, however, helped me learn C using DJGPP and later build my first Linux kernel (on Debian 1.1), browse Gopher and WWW sites, read newsgroup
826.
by nanis 7y ago
> I do all my development with 128MB of RAM or less, because I enjoy that sort of challenge I remember being excited that I was able to splurge on a 486 with 4 Mb RAM.
827.
by nanis 7y ago
I cannot unsee this. My eyes are going to hurt for a while from the moving background.
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Firefox: Actions internal to client, instead of fetching from normandy-server(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
8 points by nanis 7y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 7y ago
I am getting it from the simple fact that when I looked at Normandy related settings a unique ID and an API endpoint screamed at me ... Let's assume the explanation given here regarding Normandy's endpoint is legitimate. Why am I
830.
by nanis 8y ago
>> Is the existence of a back door method of updating Firefox preferences something that will be disclosed to users? > It will even be documented for them: That sounds like you do not think the concern is warranted. I've used
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by nanis 8y ago
This is the first I hear about Normandy[1]. Firefox has been my main browser for a long time, only because I could use uBlock origin. Now, all of a sudden that is disabled, and with the recent version they got rid of my ability to always pr
832.
by nanis 8y ago
Intel's update: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28673/SSD-S4510-S4... Microsoft: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4499612/intel-ssd-d... > Note There is no
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2011-2019 San Francisco Human Waste Reportings(openthebooks.com)
1 points by nanis 8y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 8y ago
> But even now, he says, “an important message is that all of the athletes showed better function than a normal person off the street, which supports the message that exercise is good for hearts.” Or people with good hearts become athlet
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by nanis 8y ago
$ perl -MO=Deparse -e "Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1." 'division'->Illegal('zero'->by('at' / 'tmp' / 'quine' . line'-&
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by nanis 8y ago
Of course it is. This is only news to people who think being able to use a couple of Python libraries makes them a "scientist" of some sort. See also instrumental variables[1]. Oh, sorry, I forgot, who needs all of the thought tha
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by nanis 8y ago
OMG, if no one ever traveled anywhere, there would less CO₂ emissions. Also, if we decided use nothing other than aspirin and penicillin, health car expenditures would be so much lower. If we all lived like pre-industrial revolution serfs,
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by nanis 8y ago
> So every company is therefore a monopoly on their products since competitors can’t sell them? Yes. It has a monopoly over its product. In terms of whether we care about their monopoly power, two things matter: 1. Whether they are close
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by nanis 8y ago
This article seems to be written with the assumption that there is always a unique equilibrium. In most interesting instances, there are many. However, a set of cognitive limitations seems to cause people to focus on models with a unique eq
840.
by nanis 8y ago
If you are calculating means, variances etc using the textbook formulas, you are doing it wrong. Don't just add up a bunch of floats and divide by N to calculate an average. Don't use random people's high school homeworks for

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