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by runarb 4y ago
> If you and I are both estimating the value of a good, if our estimates > are close it's one thing and if they are far apart it's another. Are > rounders losing because their estimates are less accurate, relative their c
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Kristian Köhntopp explains utf8mb4 in MySQL(blog.koehntopp.info)
5 points by runarb 5y ago|0 comments
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by runarb 5y ago
> This consideration is key, even when Akamai servers are hosted in the EU. Is the fix as easy as that Akamai creating a subsidiary in the EU? I am in the EU and use AWS a lot, but I am not a customer of Amazon Inc. Instead, it sees this
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by runarb 5y ago
For some more context: https://www.protocol.com/reddit-powermods-war This list is at best deeply misleading; those subreddits often have dozens of moderators.
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by runarb 5y ago
Thus robots are not meant as a replacement for virtual learning, but as a way for students to follow the normal education when they are temporarily away. For the last two years, I have been taking an MBA, and my school had thus robots. When
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by runarb 5y ago
> What significant benefit is gained over using a small robot called a “video camera” in the classroom to film the lecture? The robot in the picture is a No Isolation AV1. It allows the pupil at to do a little more than a video camera. F
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by runarb 5y ago
> The opening question remains unanswered. > It have been argued that "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headl
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by runarb 5y ago
Use a bicycle lock: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7097101.stm
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by runarb 5y ago
That website blocks European visitors for legal reasons. Archive.org link to get around it: https://web.archive.org/web/20210516204113/https://ktla.com/...
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by runarb 6y ago
Looks like it only work on desktop. (“Request desktop site” in Chrome mobile works).
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by runarb 6y ago
Another example: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192115/Robbers-dis...
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by runarb 6y ago
> This sounds like they're amateurs, sending 10 at once. > Other nations do that probably one by one to stay under the radar. It depends. For example Mossad allegedly used 26 persons when assassinating Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh: https:
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by runarb 6y ago
> Apparently he was given an experimental antibody treatment earlier today? Anyone have any more info on that? According to my local newspaper it is REGN-COV2: https://www.regeneron.com/covid19 . It appears to be a synt
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by runarb 6y ago
There are some scenes in the movie The Day After showing the mission I believe these plans flyes: https://youtu.be/jlPEBROvR9w?list=FLrpVP7xy6WjESfTl1-XV-hw&t... The US used to have one or two airborne at all times duri
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Most Technical Debt Is Just Bullshit(louwrentius.com)
5 points by runarb 6y ago|2 comments
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by runarb 6y ago
> I imagine it's to protect children from the Elon Musks of the world. Hade to look that up. He apparently named his son "X Æ A-12": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52557291 . Will probably c
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by runarb 6y ago
I have found it funny that Douglas Crockford apparently gave IBM this exception: "I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil." (for JSLint, which JSHints was forked from): https:/
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by runarb 6y ago
One way to quickly find out what underlying provider a metasearch engine uses is to search for "my user agent". You will then normally see the user agent of the crawler in the result snippet. Doing this on DuckDuckGo: https:&#x2F
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by runarb 6y ago
I use Googles dns 8.8.8.8, so this must be something else.
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by runarb 6y ago
Same for me. I do get an DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN in Chrome, but other archive domains like https://archive.vn/f7HSw works.
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by runarb 6y ago
> 500 tons seems WAY low. Yes, it sees "460,000 tons of materials were moved from the US and southern Canada to the Arctic by air, land, and sea" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line#
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by runarb 6y ago
Russian intelligence was also able to counterfeit an app used by Ukrainian artillery forces to track them: https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2016/12/22/russia-u...
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by runarb 7y ago
Probably using SleepyHead or OSCR: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjd4w/im-possibly-alive-...
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by runarb 7y ago
I am giving Portable-VirtualBox some love. It is an open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a USB stick without separate installation. A lot of issues with Windows 10 is unresolved: https://github.co
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by runarb 7y ago
> When the AI malfunctions, are we going to shut down > entire classes of vehicles until the problem is confirmed fixed? Yes, a malfunction AI would have to be grounded, just like for example the Boeing 737 MAX is now.
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by runarb 7y ago
> This kind of event can cause transmission power outages. We did have a power outage in the middle of Norway at 17.26 CET (UT +1 hour) yesterday: https://www.nidaros.no/trondheim/bakklandet/strombrudd/fler
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by runarb 7y ago
My managed ElasticSearch cluster did go down despite being multi az.
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Why Can’t AI Beat Humans at Angry Birds?(thenewstack.io)
1 points by runarb 7y ago|0 comments
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by runarb 7y ago
Fun fact, in my language "Texas" means crazy: https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/yall-norwegians-...
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by runarb 7y ago
The Unabomber retrieved pubic hair from a public restroom to plant as a false clue in one of his bombs[0]. 0: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-05-05-980505...

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