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by norswap 7y ago
I assumed that tails is normally invisible and must be logged into using some secret handshake at boot time. Otherwise it's pretty silly, even if the partition is wholly encrypted.
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by norswap 7y ago
I think the point is to make a decoy OS that you can boot into if forced to unlock your laptop. Running on Tor would be highly suspicious. The point of running this on Tails is to prevent the use of forensic tools inside the decoy OS to une
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by norswap 7y ago
The situation is now so silly that some people are circumventing the system by copyright claiming their own videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieErnZAN5Eo This enable them to at least get some of the revenue of their v
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How to Break YouTube (Copyright Claim your own video)(youtube.com)
2 points by norswap 7y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 7y ago
Numbers don't mean much. You don't have confirmed cases if you don't test. The same is true pretty much everywhere however, not only the US. You'd have thought we would systematically test people from at-risk region, bu
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by norswap 7y ago
You seem to think poorly of Signal, but you don't give any reasons. What are they?
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by norswap 7y ago
Well I agree they should think about it before taking the position. This does not seem to me incompatible with the idea that not paying your TA a living wage is shameful. I also think most of the strikers did think about it. But if the oppo
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by norswap 7y ago
On the whole, fair point. In particular, the article talk about supply line disruption. Rebuilding your supply lines means you can't use the existing ones, and that's certain not to be cheap either.
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by norswap 7y ago
The PhD wage situation in the US is simply shameful. I applaud the resolution of those who still go through with it. In Belgium, PhD are paid salaries that are competitive with entry-level programming positions (though under what you can ge
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by norswap 7y ago
That at least isn't true in terms of the Chomsky grammar hierarchy. You can have both angle brackets operators and delimiters in a CFG (context-free grammar). It might be a limitation of their parsing tech (e.g. LL(1) would have that i
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by norswap 7y ago
With all the crufty layers now being built on top, perhaps a new simplification is now needed? On the other hand, it would take quite a lot of effort to reach a parity of capability for a new OS these days.
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by norswap 7y ago
And no comments :'(
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by norswap 7y ago
Considering how much money went into the making of the real Tesla, is that really something these big auto-makers could have afforded?
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by norswap 7y ago
What really puzzles me: what do they gain by us using their app? Certainly it is marginal and can't offset the user/revenue loss from alienating users??
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by norswap 7y ago
I'm surprised big GPS users like Google haven't already fixed this on their apps as post-GPS corrective step. Another example of caring little and doing the job so-so :/
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by norswap 7y ago
I wrote something in that vein, in which I defend checked exceptions (in contrast with unchecked exceptions): https://norswap.com/checked-exceptions/ > Summarized: people don't want checked exceptions because t
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by norswap 7y ago
The article isn't very precise, but my understanding was that the run some kind of machine learning based on past data. Adding in the more recent data changed the predictions dramatically. So it's not an issue of versioning (I ass
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by norswap 7y ago
What a load of bad faith from Apple to argue "against waste". Their latest Macbooks only have USB-C slots, meaning one now needs to discard perfectly good USB-A/HDMI/Thunderbolt (the last one being a port that they were
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by norswap 7y ago
I'd understand avoiding a city that has these policies, but avoiding the whole country because of bigoted decisions in other municipalities strikes me as strange thinking. It's not like every Polish person is in support. If you
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by norswap 7y ago
Good points. Personally, it's a bit puzzling to me why the ML community ran with Python and why there isn't a popular alternative for Ruby. It's very capable in terms of making DSLs. My hunch is that the number-crunching libr
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by norswap 7y ago
It would be better if it showed how much each of the top 100 packages consumed when installed alone (along with their dependencies), as well as how much weight they single-handedly contribute to the 100-package-install total size (i.e. depe
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by norswap 7y ago
Well one easy point is that rubygem doesn't allow easy local installations. Heck it doesn't even allow specifying all your dependencies — you have to use Bundler for that. More anecdotally, I've had bad experiences with upgra
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by norswap 7y ago
What are the issues with NPM? (genuine question) From my (admittedly not super deep) experience with multiple package manager (Maven, Gradle, LuaRocks, Ruby gems, the abominable circus of tools they use the Python environment, ...), I found
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by norswap 7y ago
Is it me or is it so weird that this "OS" (Linux distro) made by a laptop seller (admittedly, with a nerd clientele in mind) has for top selling point bundling a tool to manage your tensorflow installation? Also mentions of blockc
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by norswap 7y ago
So, this is an interesting exhibit. When people complain about postmodernism, this is what they are complaining about. Personally, I strongly disagree, though of course there are plenty of huge obstacles in the way, most of them bake in our
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Poker App Postmortem(lesswrong.com)
1 points by norswap 7y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 7y ago
Don't you automatically "receive/gain" the new currency upon a hard fork? Or am I misunderstanding these words?
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by norswap 7y ago
I think it was a typo and he meant 60 days without carbohydrates.
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Black Progress(rs.io)
2 points by norswap 7y ago|0 comments
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by norswap 7y ago
Can't the brain structure be affected by the hormones being taken?

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