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by rectang 4y ago
I would not. I avoid pasting PHI into source controlled files altogether.
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by rectang 4y ago
Is Copilot HIPAA compliant? It sends data to the cloud, so if you paste PHI…
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by rectang 4y ago
I’ve used a Prius as a heated camper, sleeping in the back. Doesn’t use much gas and it’s very comfortable. The motor comes on sporadically. Ever since, I’ve wished for a hybrid RV that was basically a gas powered generator putting power
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by rectang 4y ago
Indeed. The title of that 3Blue1Brown video is, “What is Euler’s Formula actually saying?” That “easy to remember” formula had been presented to me countless times. It only made sense once I stopped thinking about it in terms of repeated mu
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by rectang 4y ago
People told me that over and over but it didn’t help — because it didn’t make sense why repeated multiplication would cause rotation! Later in that video, we see a visualization of the rotation. I was able to grasp how the exp function cou
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by rectang 4y ago
The key insight for me on this topic also came from 3Blue1Brown, but in a different video: it’s that e^x is NOT best thought of as repeated multiplication, but instead as the function exp(x) = 1 + x + x^2/2 + X^3/6 + x^4/24 +
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by rectang 4y ago
See page 11: https://www.apache.org/foundation/docs/FY2021AnnualReport.pd... The core infrastructure team is paid, and that’s been the case since fairly early on — there’s too much work not suitable for a purely v
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by rectang 4y ago
> It feels like Apache is willing to accept code donations from anyone and is willing to attach the foundation's name to code that isn't widely used, actively maintained, or may just be abandonware. That’s incorrect. Project
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by rectang 4y ago
I do a lot of LaTeX note taking in Vim. Consider this a hyper-local optimization. ^_^
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by rectang 4y ago
I persisted with this approach for a decade. Enlightenment came when I let it go. Even after 10+ years of daily use, I never managed to make navigating via hjkl work naturally with my brain — I need “up” to be physically above “down”. So I
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by rectang 4y ago
The title has been editorialized in contravention of HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorializ
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The World Cup’s New High-Tech Ball Will Change Soccer Forever(fivethirtyeight.com)
20 points by rectang 4y ago|1 comments
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by rectang 4y ago
Is the maintainer is the only copyright holder? If not, and other authors have contributed under the AGPL, the maintainer can't switch the license. EDIT: I found this in the linked blog post: > I can change the license (or sublice
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by rectang 4y ago
No, because excluding commercial users is a field-of-use restriction, and you're not FOSS if you only offer a license which imposes a field-of-use restriction. Which is fine! Just don't call it FOSS.
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by rectang 4y ago
I enjoyed reading this quoteinvestigator article, but the conclusion it reaches credits Arleen Lorrance: > In conclusion, Mohandas Gandhi did write a pertinent passage in 1913 that expressed a similar idea, but the popular modern saying
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What Happens When Kids Have Access to NBA-Level Technology?(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by rectang 4y ago|0 comments
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by rectang 4y ago
Freedom of association is more fundamental than freedom of speech. If you can't stop the mob from shouting you down, your voice won't be heard. The foundational act of a Twitter alternative is to create silos where communities ar
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by rectang 4y ago
Unit testing is a means to an end: how do we verify that code is correct the first time, and how do we set ourselves up to evolve the code safely and prevent regressions in the future? Strong typing can reduce the practical need for some un
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by rectang 4y ago
> Pandas is another one. But at least if I write a transform in pandas it's straightforward to unit test it: create a DataFrame with some dummy data, send it through the function which wraps the transform, test that what comes out i
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by rectang 4y ago
OT... I used one of the Unicode bullets instead of a hyphen (◉). I understand what dang is getting at here — it's in the same spirit as stripping emojis (because otherwise we'd be drowning in them). I'm a past graphic desig
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by rectang 4y ago
I'm a software dev who's been bumping up against the data engineering field lately, and I've been dismayed as to how many popular tools shunt you towards unmaintainable, unevolvable system design. - A predilection for SQL, yi
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by rectang 4y ago
Code which is publicly viewable but available under a license which doesn't meet the Open Source Definition[1] is commonly called "shared source" rather than "open source". They aren't really confused about the
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by rectang 4y ago
You've just described why tracking provenance is important to avoid copyright infringement. It doesn't matter where you got it from, if it's infringing it's infringing. You can sue the infringing middleman, but that do
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by rectang 4y ago
I have this conviction that I ought to be able to code up crude audio DSP processors before I understand the totality of the theory. For example, every DFT/FFT explanation seems to start with complex numbers. I wish there was a resour
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by rectang 4y ago
How does one go about getting such numbers? Do a web search for "$BANK_NAME virtual credit card number"?
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by rectang 4y ago
It seems inevitable that slight changes of gesture or angle or rhythm would emerge in isolated signing populations, analogous to the way accents develop in isolated speaking populations.
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by rectang 4y ago
Ken M is the greatest internet pickleball player.
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by rectang 4y ago
Absolutist opposition to suicide no matter how prolonged or severe the suffering is right up there with torture as to why humans are by far the most savage and monstrous animal species. Lions slowly munching on their prey alive over several
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by rectang 4y ago
This is a sensational story and I think it's going to be hard for this individual to keep their identity hidden, even though I take it Farah doesn't want to name them.
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by rectang 4y ago
I agree. The AWS interfaces are poorly designed, difficult enough to use well that "mistakes" are statistically guaranteed to happen. It is laughable to hold those who make S3 buckets public accountable yet underplay the contribu

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