nightcracker

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91.
by nightcracker 6y ago
No matter how you read a^b log(c), the multiplication is implied. The original confusion is whether it's to be read as (a^b)log(c) or a^(b log(c)). a^b*log(c) simply removes the implied multiplication, but it does not change whether th
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by nightcracker 6y ago
This is the standard way calculators have operated since forever. They don't evaluate a whole expression, they simply have an accumulator and you operate on it one step at a time.
93.
by nightcracker 6y ago
It doesn't. The multiplication is implied and it would have the same precedence as explicitly putting * there. So either both are ambiguous or neither is (and it isn't, the poster was just mistaken).
94.
by nightcracker 6y ago
That isn't just what's meant, that's also what's written.
95.
by nightcracker 6y ago
> I had that password for almost 20 years and bet it was uncrackable since they had stopped allowing less than 4+ digits ages ago. I'm sorry but this is the most absurd thing I've read in a while.
96.
by nightcracker 6y ago
A) Almost certainly not. No doubt phished/otherwise involuntarily obtained credentials end up in their database, and people that voluntarily contribute their credentials when pressured will lie about their contribution to the authoriti
97.
by nightcracker 6y ago
Probably someone contributed their credentials because they (rightfully IMO) felt the cause was justified. Later the uni found out, asked questions and the person just lied they were 'tricked'. Uni makes a police report and the po
98.
by nightcracker 6y ago
That is 361.1 million km^2 * 7.2m = 2.6 × 10^18 liters. Or a cube of side length 137.5km of water.
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by nightcracker 6y ago
It's hard to take a "data visualization framework" seriously if virtually all examples have unlabeled unmarked axes.
100.
by nightcracker 6y ago
API is web scale.
101.
by nightcracker 6y ago
New money v.s. old money.
102.
by nightcracker 6y ago
For context: I'm a computer science MSc student. The notation is easy to understand (and as far as mathematical notation goes, really quite tame). I don't know what a nearly shortest vector of a lattice is in this context, but I
103.
by nightcracker 6y ago
Reading technical papers that were typeset with A4 (or worse, US letter) in mind, and printing those in an A5 booklet does not make for a pleasant reading experience.
104.
by nightcracker 6y ago
I used to do that but my brain messes up "n." for replace, "n" for skip, whereas "." for replace, "n" for skip is really easy.
105.
by nightcracker 6y ago
Well, assuming you already have a plugin or mapping that makes * search your visual selection, it's similar. You'd have to do *, then N to back to where you just were, then cgn, type your replacement, and then n., n., n., n (skip)
106.
by nightcracker 6y ago
Yes, I am aware, but it's not nearly as flexible and quick. It doesn't allow me to in the meantime move my cursor around, switch buffers, undo, open/close a fold, etc. It takes complete control of your workflow to temporarily
107.
by nightcracker 6y ago
This has one huge shortcoming: when the next match is off-screen, pressing . jumps immediately to the next match and replaces it, before you had the opportunity to review whether you want that. To solve this I wrote a little plugin (that I
108.
by nightcracker 6y ago
The problem with CSV isn't that it's text based, the problem is that "CSV" isn't a file format with an authoritative description.
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by nightcracker 6y ago
This is (part of) why I use the zlib license.
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by nightcracker 6y ago
> It’s worth keeping in mind that just because a site reaches out to one or more of the big four tech companies, it doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily snooping or doing something nefarious. Many websites use fonts from Google Fonts, or h
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by nightcracker 6y ago
I think "Uitzichtloos lijden" is a term more emotionally powerful than "irremediable suffering" makes it seem. Maybe not legally, but in terms of what it conveys. "Uitzicht" is your view on the future. "Ui
112.
by nightcracker 6y ago
This should be straight up illegal and the companies sued to hell for. If I opened a site claiming to be a bank and accepting money on behalf of that bank, and keeping 20% I'd be behind bars for fraud in no time.
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by nightcracker 6y ago
At least in Firefox this doesn't appear to be true, at least not always. Recently I noticed that on my main PC, if I have uBlock Origin enabled, all network requests are delayed significantly. So I made a bug report on uBlock Origin&#x
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by nightcracker 6y ago
For what it's worth Comic Sans supposedly is an excellent font for dyslexic people. So at the cost of looking professional your content becomes available for more people (or that's what some believe - I don't know of any peer
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by nightcracker 6y ago
> Many real world systems are nonlinear (think physics models) Technically, only if you don't zoom in too far, quantum mechanics is linear.
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by nightcracker 6y ago
> But 0.001% of billions or users is still millions of accounts... Not that I disagree with your point, but even if we assume 50 billion accounts (6+ for every human on earth), 0.001% of that would still be 'just' 100k, not mil
117.
by nightcracker 6y ago
Here in the Netherlands most everything newly built is built with double glass.
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by nightcracker 6y ago
Can you pay attention to a video game for two hours, and during that time react to some important event within 1 second reaction time? I bet you can. Can you do the same when staring at a wall for two hours?
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by nightcracker 6y ago
> Put the backup encryption key beyond use other than in the case of a suitably agreed emergency (e.g. in the case of an agreement with another party, hand them the key). Like search warrants? We know those never get abused. > Then af
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by nightcracker 6y ago
> When developing ML models, you rarely train "just one". Depends on your field. In Reinforcement Learning you often really do train just one , at least on the same data set (since the data set often is dynamically generated b

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