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by nvrspyx 4y ago
The point originally made was that RSA couldn't practically be used because of how complex the math is to do by hand. So, the parent is pointing out that the Caesar cipher isn't a counterargument. In other words, the "incon
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
The film rights are owned by Sony. As part of the deal in relinquishing some creative control to Disney for the MCU, Sony also has exclusivity to Spider-Man centric video games (e.g., other games, like Midnight Suns, can use Spider-Man as
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
When I was young, I had a few scratched PS2 games that wouldn't play. Some advice on the internet was to put toothpaste on the CD, gently rub it in small circular motions around the CD with a paper towel, then rinse it off. Perhaps I&#
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I've never heard the "splinting" explanation before. I've been told that it's the body's way of prioritizing the routing of plasma and red/white blood cells to the damaged area for cell repair and immune r
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
Considering the capital P in NumPy, I've come to assume that the Py is meant to be pronounced as in Python, thus "num-pie"
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
Or we could just go back to license keys as proof of ownership. Blockchain doesn't really add anything but complexity here.
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I also think it's over the top and I'm a year or two shy of being a zoomer. Although, I guess being a millennial is considered old by many now. I just wish developers would make mobile UIs consistent with the OS. The Apollo Reddit
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> In your example, the positive correlation between the dose of the antidepressant and the probability of suicide still exists in the data. Of course it does because the confounding factor of depression severity wasn't controlled fo
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> There's a reason Apple's preferring on-device processing: user privacy. Is that the actual reason though? My personal impression has been that it's a combination of reasons that benefit Apple. The increased user privacy
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I should add that it's much more nuanced and complicated than how I've explained. Along with determining if a functional connection is excitatory or inhibitory, you need to ensure its direction as well because functional connectio
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I won't speak at all on Neuralink, but you don't necessarily need to stimulate that deep into the brain directly . You can piggyback off existing functional connectivity between that deep area and an area closer to the cortical s
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> There is no such thing as a confounding factor for a correlation. Sure there is. As an example, let's say there's a positive correlation between the dose of some antidepressant and the probability of suicide. There could be a
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I used Ubuntu Mono for awhile, but I'm now a fan of both Cascadia Code/Mono (depending on if you want ligatures) and SF Mono, although the latter is a pain to install on non-macOS systems because you have to unpack the .dmg file a
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> We haven't been doing science for very long. Again, this comes back to your definition. Many would disagree in that science has existed for, at least, as long as recorded human history because an actual tenable definition of sci
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I won't pretend to understand the limits of Safari on iOS, but having the storage amount be based on the capabilities of one's device and not on the amount of actual storage available on it is a poor user experience, especially so
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
But both of those qualifiers exist on continuums and where an experiment lies on them is subject to opinion, so there's no singular threshold. It means it would depend on the person reviewing the experiment whether it's "syst
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> No feature they offer requires a native app. Maybe not Twitter, but I don't see how Spotify's offline downloads would work through the iOS browser. Also, Spotify started as a native desktop app. The web player and full transi
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
This was true for my undergrad, but my graduate program demands almost all of my free time, including weekends. Although, this may mostly be due to a drastic change in field of study from the two (social science to computer science) where I
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
It's being discontinued in the Middle East in December. https://www.carscoops.com/2022/10/toyota-ending-production-o...
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> GitHub Issues, the product/feature, is clearly defined and encompasses things that deserve discussion, debate, or dispute. Except that GitHub Issues originally only encompassed bugs. Labels weren't added until later that allo
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I think one of the main problems is that a surface-level argument can easily be made that user engagement represents the quality of the user experience (i.e. "users that spend a lot of time in the app clearly like it"), despite fa
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I wouldn't call those metrics arbitrary, they're just trying to measure something different. It's no longer measuring user productivity, it's measuring user engagement. It's no longer how quickly a user familiarizes
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
Nitpick: In their first report, they label the research as neuroscience research, but it doesn't investigate anything related to neurophysiology. This is psychology research. There's nothing wrong with this being psychology re
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I've stuck with my early model FJ Cruiser. It has such a unique, rugged aesthetic and I'm still upset that they discontinued it. I dread the day that I have to replace it and probably deal with a lack of an all-tactile interface.
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease. While most are prophylactic, it's not a requirement to be considered a vaccine . Vaccines are not &quot
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
Agreed. IMO, the real crux is whether you have the inclination to write down what you're taking notes on verbatim. In fact, I think it comes down to one of the following: 1. If you have an inclination to write things down verbatim, whi
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> The Cobalt Authors originally maintained a port of Chromium called H5VCC, the HTML5 Video Container for Consoles, ported to each of the major game consoles, designed to run our HTML5-based video browse and play application [read YouTub
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
I like Joplin, but it's a poor experience on iOS. Besides the material design theme feeling out of place, scrolling is weird/slow compared to other iOS apps, including webpages in Safari, and there's no gestures, so I have to
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
You can visit some of the libraries (listed below from [0]) and request access to most of the archival collections, but you won't be able to borrow anything from either. Note that [0] also applies to the free visits (7 days per year) a
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by nvrspyx 4y ago
> By default, getting to this event preview screen requires only 1 click. And it’s 2 clicks to open the edit view (which you can do either in a new tab or a separate floating window). Phew. I was a bit worried that tab support was going

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