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by pshc 9y ago
Vsauce and other pop sci channels come to mind.
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by pshc 9y ago
Anything that fits within the error bars is viable if you ask me. Whatever works works.
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by pshc 10y ago
Hmm, idea... suppose you ran tempo/beat detection on some music, and then took its 1D waveform and chopped it up and arranged it in a virtual 2D space, lining up similar sections (e.g. choruses would lie side by side). Could you then g
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by pshc 10y ago
What are your thoughts on Fire Emblem: Heroes?
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by pshc 10y ago
I attended one of Jason's talks on taking control of your own data. Super inspiring. I went up to ask him a question after (and I never do that!) and went away satisfied.
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by pshc 10y ago
It doesn't sound possible for all but the most trivial diffs. An attacker would have to guess not only the exact commit text, but also its timestamp. And the only attack scenario I can conceive of seems pretty silly. Maybe I'm mis
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by pshc 10y ago
Unfortunately there's a lot of code out there that assumes commit hashes are case-insensitive and hexadecimal... I've written some myself. It'd be a hugely painful change.
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by pshc 10y ago
With regard to your first sentence, could you give an example of a specific way to hedge capital? I'm not sure I understand.
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by pshc 10y ago
It happened on mine.
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by pshc 10y ago
But if an in-transit plaintext password is leaked by CloudFlare, server-side encryption is irrelevant. (... that said, it's not like revoking sessions would impede a password-holding adversary...)
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by pshc 10y ago
Not all languages have equal wartiness. PHP and JavaScript are built on a swamp of inconsistencies whereas Haskell has a core axiomatic language. Scheme is fairly clean. C evolved in a different age and is fraught with undefined behavior.
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by pshc 10y ago
I don't think that's universally true, some languages are quite sound and logical at their core.
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by pshc 10y ago
Ah, you got me! Yes, it's the overall atmosphere, not just the productivity. The romance is admittedly a part of it. I'm not opposed to robots making coffee, but I also suspect that in a post-work world, I'd be a part-time ba
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by pshc 10y ago
Check out the counterargument by adrianroselli in the comments.
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by pshc 10y ago
Who are these sides specifically? The US Left and Right?
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by pshc 10y ago
Yeah, that's well put... I could go further to propose that the respectful exchange of ideas and dialogue is the antithesis of tribalism--of othering. I agree with you that politics are deeply intertwined with hacker culture. But pract
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by pshc 10y ago
> Ok, have at this in the thread and if you have concerns we'll try to allay them. Want to share your specific concerns?
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by pshc 10y ago
Tribalism is so toxic. I'm all for this. But for flagging purposes what's the boundary between a political/non-political story? EDIT: @dang in another comment: Let me clarify. The main concern here is pure politics: the conf
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by pshc 10y ago
The store will have video footage of everything... maybe their sensor AI will eventually distinguish between intentional and accidental spoilage.
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by pshc 10y ago
But I go to coffee shops for the productive atmosphere. I think baristas (and bartenders and sommeliers) will always have a place even in a post-work world.
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by pshc 10y ago
The point of a bar is to socialize, or at least have company. Otherwise why not buy a bottle and stay home?
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by pshc 10y ago
Yeah, all cashiers love working long hours for peanuts. We should keep them there so we can make small talk while they bag our food. Without checkout lines how will we meet other people? EDIT: Sorry for the snark, I feel bad. This is a real
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by pshc 10y ago
Amazon hates consumerism.
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by pshc 10y ago
You get a receipt. (hat tip Douglas Adams)
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by pshc 10y ago
Most professionals?
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by pshc 10y ago
Personally, my F key usage has been so infrequent (besides F5, once upon a time) that I can't reliably touch type them. I suspect most people are the same way, especially as keyboards have miniaturized and removed the 4-clustering.
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by pshc 10y ago
I can think of two non-technical reasons: as an explicit reminder to devs about side-channel attacks, and also to guarantee the key "random_padding" will never be used for anything else.
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by pshc 10y ago
Can you go into more detail with (1)? It's unclear to me how vector clocks could help with, say, a fast-paced FPS. The "small adjustment" might often be bringing a dead character back to life, if his bullet packet's vect
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by pshc 10y ago
Hey, nice post! Quite a detailed write-up and an impressively optimized video pipeline. I'm curious how much end-to-end latency you experience on average?
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by pshc 10y ago
Oops. I use a dock. Mine always does.

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