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by nitrogen 5y ago
Ruby is one popular example of a language with a truthy zero. This is to allow the use of truthiness to detect the presence of a value (as long as the value isn't false ), even if the value is zero. Say I wanted to allow an environm
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by nitrogen 5y ago
At what point does reading unencrypted radio waves on open-use frequencies become an invasion of privacy? If the transmitter is inside a house, and the unintended receiver is outside, that seems pretty clearly a violation of privacy.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Oil is not naturally occurring on the surface of the earth. If it didn't naturally seep out of the ground, humans never would have discovered it and started using it. See this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I suspect the "Atmos" name is being used beyond the context of object-based (i.e. video game like) audio. At least on my Android phone, it just sounds like a bit of EQ and some cross-stereo mixing.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
You're comparing micrograms per liter in water to micrograms per deci liter in blood. Those are very different things.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This article won't load -- just a headline and picture is visible. Is there another source?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Maybe they used TPM when they meant HSM
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Think about it - the "scalper" isn't going to buy something that they can't sell on, they'd just lose money that way. The only reason they can sell something on is because they created an artificial scarcity of th
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by nitrogen 5y ago
You could start by encoding the deltas using variable length encoding, so a 0 delta could be as little as 1 bit. But anything off-the-shelf should be able to compress this type of data well.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Why does it spread in the first place? Because half the country feels disenfranchised. You can't solve that problem by further disenfranchisement.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If we could mail a free test and free mask to every registered USPS address once a week we could end the pandemic if people who are anti-vax are not anti-test.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Suppressing the visible symptom of a cultural problem -- Parler, YouTube videos, whatever -- doesn't solve the cultural problem. It just means you don't have to look at it if you don't want to. People are still rolling coal
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There are companies (at least one anyway) that make rapid testing panels that include COVID, plus a dozen plus other respiratory diseases, in a single test that is profitable at $200 and costs $20 in consumables. I heard that they disabled
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by nitrogen 5y ago
very different workload from what Ruby is generally used for. Ruby is generally used for a lot of things, including scientific computing. I'm using it to process sound and make videos about sound, for example. Audio processing isn&
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by nitrogen 5y ago
the concept of an "anti-vaccine activist" is puerile and absolutely should be banned. This type of categorical banning from public discussion never works. It just creates martyrs. There's an object lesson they sometimes do
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This is a tactic and works largely the same regardless of what narrative is being weaponized. Indeed, just look at how "carbon footprint" came from the oil industry. I left behind a conservative religious upbringing, but never
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The latest Windows update won't install for me. It pops up an error saying "Uninstall this app now. It is not compatible with Windows 10." Yes, it says "now," in command form. And the app, VirtualBox, works just
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by nitrogen 5y ago
SETI@home and Folding@home at least provided intrinsic value from their computations. It'd be nice if we could have a coin based on protein folding or climate simulations or something.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
SETI@home: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home That was distributed computation, but all the data was coordinated and stored centrally.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
No streaming site will ever have licenses for the bizarre remixes of video game themes, or the Sesame Street theme, that made their way around Napster. More than the music, though, Napster had chat rooms where you could get legit recommenda
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Yes, for example if Myspace, Facebook, Google+, and all the open alternatives had all been interoperable, it would have been less likely for one of them to become a monopoly on the friends/wall/timeline segment.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Quite a few, I'd guess.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Thanks!
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I would love to know the secret to changing someone's mind on this This guy seems to have a pretty good track record: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis One thing that helps is just exposure to countere
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by nitrogen 5y ago
By sheer coincidence, I've been working on a couple of videos that explain analytic signals using 3D animations from my own animation engine, and why they're useful. I hope to upload the first one in the next week. A link to my c
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by nitrogen 5y ago
They're referring to this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity Obscurity can be a layer, but it can't be the only layer, and in general systems (such as web servers) need to be desig
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by nitrogen 5y ago
But it's not about the money, of course :) Privacy, for one thing -- I don't think I'd ever want an unknown third party in the vehicle with me when I'm taking someone or myself to or from an unscheduled medical visit. Th
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not you personally, of course. But I would have thought that the risk of the rumors this kind of pressure being used as a weapon by competitors, if nothing else, would have come into play to minimize this type of undue influence.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There's also the mouse+keyboard vs pad thing for FPS games. You can get adapters for older consoles that will convert mouse+keyboard input to control pad input. I haven't used consoles in years, so I'm not sure if they&#x2
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Someone else mentioned doing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634631 Even if they turn on HDCP, you could just get a low-lag monitor and point a camera at it.

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