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by sacrosancty 3y ago
I think he's joking about the parent saying the name of that individual prevented the massacre.
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
Normal cities forego the revenue for themselves when they close parking spaces, so it's never free. If they payed those fees out of the billion dollars in advance revenue they got at the start of the contract, it wouldn't seem so
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
I'm surprised at people who can't imagine what's theoretically possible. I always assumed someone could identify my location from a photo if they tried hard enough, even many decades ago before I'd heard of geoguessing o
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
Those 18 bytes aren't the binary, they're just the command to call the program. Don't count it just as you wouldn't count the length of the filename and its arguments for a regular executable.
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
Before he was a right to repair activist, he was a complaining-about-Apple-making-life-difficult-for-independent-repairmen Youtuber, and before that, he was a showing people how he repairs computers Youtuber. He didn't just appear over
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
With some of these controversial topics, there always seem to be people who prefer disinformation over truth for the reason that the general public can't be trusted with the truth since it might motivate them to do bad things. The ques
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
You can detect it. You interview the student about their paper. If they don't know or understand what they wrote, then either they cheated or they may as well have cheated because they didn't learn anything. If you have enough mon
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
Yes. There's a power imbalance without accountability. Of course they're going to abuse it. This professor and his university are both clearly incompetent. Students shouldn't even have to defend themselves against a cheating
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
I experienced that and enjoyed electronics because I had far more power to create physical things that I found exciting. If you're into making gadgets and machines and robots and all that, computers weren't enough on their own or
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but copyright lasting beyond the death of the author is important so that near-death authors can still sell their work. It would be near-worthless to a buyer/publisher/etc. if it was abou
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
The concern is about the account that posted the videos being deleted along with the videos.
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
How is an executable permission more secure than a hidden .exe extension that also enables it to be executed by "opening" it, and is also hard to see by default?
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
America is blessed with a low population density (10% of India's) and lots of rich people who recently decided to live crammed together in cities. So there's more than enough spare property for everyone.
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
I think there are two kinds of environmentalist - the purist kind you prefer and the practical kind. The practical kind has the arguments that appeal to most people with things like "let's not run out of oil because it's usef
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
I do the last one and have never found a key on the internet but I have found cracks where they probably just decompiled the program and returned true from the function that checks the keys or some other simple bypass.
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
Who says any of the quadrants is aspirational? The author presents them as equally worthy, and why not? They're hobbies, not work. The whole point is to do what you enjoy. No need to feel bad for having a "bad" hobby.
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by sacrosancty 3y ago
That's pretty much USB3-A isn't it? High speed data is separate from power and low speed data. You can have connectors with just one or the other. Anyway, the world will be worse place with just incremental incompatible tweaks to
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Except it will be a complete dead end if they want to read some other instrument. We have no universal electronic interface for this sort of thing but human-like vision is a universal interface.
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
That's more your parents' job since a career or hobby as a mathematician is extremely niche. School math is really a foundation to enable you do to all sorts of other things, as well as being directly useful. You can go a long way
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
I think people are generally happy when such systems get repurposed, because the new purpose is likely to be something they're happy with when it comes. For example, in New Zealand, a car number plate tracking system that was only supp
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Because European people keep voting for their local parties that nominate these commissioners. Your complaint is ultimately with European voters for voting "wrong".
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Hopefully people will eventually see that the same way as they see a salesman saying "sorry, I forgot my uniform and business cards, but I really do represent XYZ insurance company, give me your money."
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Good. Human scammers already exploit these weaknesses in our personal trust models. Important things are already verified in robust ways. What we've had for the past 20 years is a gap between people's old fashioned law-enforcement
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Your PCA is awesome. The horizontal axis seem to go from people (high level nature?) on the left to physics (low level nature?) on the right, while the vertical axis seems to go from individuals and particles (small things?) at the bottom,
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
It's not transparent so it's easily abused with the victim possibly not even knowing they've been punished, let alone having any recourse. We saw that with Twitter shadowbanning people in ambiguous ways for political reasons
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
They're not though - the regulations keep getting stricter. Housing (building), for instance is expensive because the requirements tighten to match what people can afford. Remember when single glazed windows were legal? 2000 standard h
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
In the 80's, some western governments did that. People were unhappy but those economies did great. Eg. UK (Thatcher), and New Zealand (Rob Muldoon). Some of these businesses were just weird to be government owned - like a print shop. S
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
You're acting the opposite to the power you have. I think people overall act in line with their power. High rents means tenants are weaker and can demand less without being told "take it or leave it".
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
Isn't it the other way round? When rents are higher, how well maintained the house is matters less to tenants compared to the location and rent. But when rents are low, they have more freedom to choose a well maintained house. If you&#
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by sacrosancty 4y ago
With random timing, you're more likely to get one period that's long enough for the auto-exposure to correct it and see the face. Autoexposure takes time because it has to use a feedback loop to search for the correct exposure, so

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