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by pps43 6y ago
First world problem. My check would bounce, therefore I would not have to retrieve anything (beyond bad check fee).
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by pps43 6y ago
Will probably see TACAMO relay aircraft with VLF trailing wire antennas.
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by pps43 6y ago
> if you judge everyone by (objective) standard tests That's why I don't like standard tests. When I was studying, entrance exams were oral. You were given three problems (chosen at random), had some time to solve them, then pr
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by pps43 6y ago
If that were the case, universities would not accept them at all. But they did, with a quota.
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by pps43 6y ago
On the bright side, we now have collections of "coffins" [1] - problems that have a simple solution that is difficult to find. Those were given to undesirable applicants to justify weeding them out. [1] http://www.tanya
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by pps43 6y ago
> Worried about the dependency changing? Lock the version. And get p0wned a year later when some security researcher finds a vulnerability in code that you don't even use, but pulled in as part of that dependency.
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by pps43 6y ago
Yet there is no visible shift in cause of death distribution. Cancer is still up there, successfully competing with cardiovascular diseases for #1 spot.
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by pps43 6y ago
Large banks are designated as SIFI (systemically important financial institutions, aka "too big to fail"). When they screw up, the government steps in and props them up with taxpayer's money. To those banks losses from lax se
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by pps43 6y ago
I'm arguing that Twitter is now critical infrastructure, like banking or power grid, and needs to take security seriously. If they don't do it themselves, they'll get regulation like HIPAA.
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by pps43 6y ago
In "2020 Commission Report" by Jeffrey Lewis, North Korea nukes the US because of one twit. This looks very plausible to me.
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by pps43 6y ago
Is bad security ok for, say, a bank or a nuclear power plant?
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by pps43 6y ago
Il-76.
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by pps43 6y ago
If I really push during my 5k run, pulse oxymeter shows around 85%. Not sure how much to trust it, as soon as I stop it climbs back up. Unclear if it's due to vibrations, or my lungs catching up.
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by pps43 6y ago
You need two LEDs (one visible, one IR) to measure oxygen level, but only one for pulse.
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by pps43 6y ago
You'll need at most a hundred rounds. There isn't that many deer around. Yet preppers hoard tens of thousands of rounds. If you want to be sustainable, get a crossbow instead.
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by pps43 6y ago
There are commonalities. I had some N95 masks since 9/11 and bought more after California fires. I did not anticipate COVID-19, but that stash still turned out to be useful.
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by pps43 6y ago
> by listening to Government advice I beg to differ. The CDC insisted masks don't work until April, the WHO until June.
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by pps43 6y ago
The ammo thing is strange. It's as if they estimate their probability of survival in a firefight by assuming their adversaries will be as accurate as storm troopers from Star Wars.
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by pps43 6y ago
This will open another can of worms (floating point errors).
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by pps43 6y ago
> more elegant and simpler Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but a loop is hard to beat as far as simplicity goes, and you don't depend on your compiler being clever enough to optimize tail recursion. If you need to traverse a t
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by pps43 6y ago
> Fibbonacci allows us to see that they have basic recursion understanding I see no reason to use recursion when asked to calculate Fibonacci numbers. A loop looks like a more reasonable choice that also avoids typical pitfalls associate
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by pps43 6y ago
One can expect the internet to eventually come back, maybe even in form of ham radio (in a post-apocalyptic world there would not be FCC to enforce ban on encryption).
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by pps43 6y ago
https://coinstop.io/products/billfodl
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by pps43 6y ago
I like the elevator bank analogy. You are waiting for an elevator. There are four equidistant elevator doors, all arranged in one line. Elevator #3 is out of order. Where do you stand? Turns out the answer depends on what you want to optimi
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by pps43 6y ago
Related to http://yosefk.com/blog/redundancy-vs-dependencies-which-is-w...
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by pps43 6y ago
> I'm not sure why people are math phobic Some people. There is a wide range of people's natural aptitudes. Some people are tone deaf, others can't wrap their mind around programming concepts like pointers, so no wonder so
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by pps43 6y ago
At work I have scheduled meetings with no agenda. If we have nothing to talk, it's a short meeting. But it turns out that there's almost always something worth discussing. Without such scheduled meetings people might not think it&
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by pps43 6y ago
Is there a way to contact this new unit? I have a bunch of links to clearly counterfeit products on Amazon. But something tells me that they might not be particularly interested.
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by pps43 6y ago
> he had discovered my real name and would reveal it in the article So it's an OPSEC failure. Why not learn from it and start a new blog under a different, better pseudonym, then avoid giving details that can get you doxxed.
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by pps43 6y ago
> PBS/NPR news broadcasts fairly objective For example, listen for ", without providing evidence" in NPR broadcasts. Notice how selectively it is used.

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