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by pdkl95 8y ago
> block internet entirely from the TV That may work with current TVs, but system-on-a-chip vendors have offered devices with LTE/etc baseband processors for several years. The only reason the TVs are still using your internet co
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by pdkl95 8y ago
(edited and fixed after accidental early posting. edit2: added URLs) > does an ad being shown next to something objectionable transfer some of that negative sentiment to the brand? Yes, it does because the negative sentiment will be adde
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by pdkl95 8y ago
When I tried using aria2 to work around the throttling you mentioned, I noticed that simply using aria2 at all (no parallelism with -j/-s) fixed the download rate. The primary difference was the User-Agent header; the standard youtube-
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Technically-minded people are used to systems that are at some level logically consistent. A common misconception is that the same rules apply to politics and social or political power[1]. Laws and politics are not logical, internally consi
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Most people got over it, but it's hard to estimate if people actually "got over it". Looking at the behavior of the people using the site afterwords probably doesn't include[1] the people that left. In Q&A at the e
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> High contrast, color-coded buttons take less time to mentally digest. I agree with this strongly and recommend using high-contrast features and color wherever it can assist in rapid recognition of important UI elements. I remember bein
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Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen (2013)(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 8y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> they're about to Digg themselves into a amusingly-recursive grave "You'll get over it" > All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep This is fundamenta
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> it totally removes the ability of a random citizen witness to capture evidence The police/etc have the same problem. > putting the power of deepfakes in the hands of ordinary people is going to make everybody a less credible wi
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Tense – English Has No Future(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 8y ago|0 comments
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Double Dabble (ft. Prof. Brailsford)(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 8y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 8y ago
(ack! accidentally submitted early; major edits included with this header) The hypothesis about how the "anti-" prefix is being parsed is interesting; deploying some type of updated (probably machine learning) ranking algorithm wi
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by pdkl95 8y ago
One of the most important talks I've ever seen is Richard Cook's "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"[1], in which he explains the fundamental abstract mechanism that causes the normalization of deviance. [1] http
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Who is going to spend a week doing a doc review to buy a phone? There are algorithmic methods available for estimating reading time. Taking 80% of that value (or whatever) could then be used as a conservative lower bound for how long
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> We realized this is not limited to U2F / FIDO and developed a generic proxy that allows to forward any USB device exposed to WebUSB to a remote system. ~sigh~ It's really depressing to learn that reality was much worst th
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by pdkl95 8y ago
They could even be adventurous and offer multiple downloads with different extension bundles. These would be easy to implement; because extension bundling already exists as "collections"[1]. Something like: - Standard Firefox with
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by pdkl95 8y ago
The problem is not any particular hosting service such as GitHub, it's that the pointer in your paper ss relying on a single point of failure. There was a bit of drama several years ago when Megaupload was seized and shut down; various
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by pdkl95 8y ago
This is one of the reasons the concept of informed consent is necessary in medical an other important situations. Life is complicated, and a lot of harm can be done if important questions understood incompletely, hastily, or even not unde
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> you also need to take into account all the folks who lost their jobs permanently Another group that needs to be taken into account is the younger generation that is having problems even starting a career. My sister graduated from unive
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by pdkl95 8y ago
You should try binding UP/DOWN to history-search-backward and history-search-forward[1]. Adding this to your ~/.inputrc "\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward enables search
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> shows how poor most non-web debugging and logging Nonsense - web programming is inherently tied to the browser, which severely limits debugging and output options. > The ability to mix and match data types and presentation format is
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> What's the best way to circumvent this? Is it even possible? 1) Get rid of the misfeatures that allow the problem to exist. Change the browser to never send headers that leak information by design (Referer, Cookie, Etag, User-Ag
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Note that we don't explicitly set [enum values] to be powers of two > return 1 << static_cast<underlying_type>(o); Relying on default enum values to and automagically converting these into power of two bit masks is
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> That user won't see any benefit that day, that week, and maybe never; I will benefit from this even though I don't use Chrome (or other Google product/services). Reducing traffic manipulation by middleboxes and elimina
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Yes, which is why I really like the idea of proactive enforcement with random expected-to-be-ignored tags/parameters. I'm arguing against the idea that leaving out the last part of this for (item = params->head; item; ite
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Anybody that doesn't want to introduce crashing/fatal bugs that disrupt productivity? Skipping checks[1] and making assumptions about input[2] is an irresponsible disregard for basic security. This is about basic programmer compet
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by pdkl95 8y ago
>>LaLiga does not access the audio fragments picked up by the device's microphone, as they are automatically converted into binary code on the device itself. LaLiga only accesses this binary code Audio fragments are a "bin
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by pdkl95 8y ago
REM cannot be strictly necessary because I don't get any REM sleep (or so little it's difficult to detect) due to severe sleep apnea (AHI=148). Three different sleep studies (using two unrelated labs+doctors) produced very similar
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Additionally, the author has also posted some astonishingly impressive Infinifactory projects, like building and delivering 10 "Anti-Javelin Point Defense" units in 48 cycles[1] (yes, that's assembly and a long-ish transpor
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Opus Magnum – Automated Puzzle Solver [video](youtube.com)
43 points by pdkl95 8y ago|3 comments

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