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by seandougall 7y ago
Hey, at least those are immutable and memorable facts. Not great from the standpoint of adding security, certainly, but I'd rather have that than things like "who is your favorite band", which I'll have no hope of reprod
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by seandougall 7y ago
Agreed. I had a mixtape that my wife made for me back when we were dating in the late ‘90s, and it stayed on loop in my car tape player for years. To this day, my pitch memory of those songs is still about a half step flat.
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by seandougall 7y ago
You're right, I missed that your sin(x) example was talking only about a single component. However, cherry-picking a different reordering for each frequency component before doing an inverse FFT really isn't the same thing as play
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by seandougall 7y ago
That reasoning allows you to get any final signal you want depending on where you stop in the series, not on how you order the individual coefficients. Addition is still commutative. The parent comment was about every sound _and_ its invers
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by seandougall 7y ago
What forms of birth control spike estrogen? My understanding was that it worked by suppressing the natural estrogen spike that triggers ovulation.
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by seandougall 7y ago
> Then don't ask for a loan. Translation: Don't participate in the economy unless you're independently wealthy. Conveniently left out: Don't ever apply to rent a house or an apartment. Instead, buy a home. In cash, of
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by seandougall 7y ago
They certainly are, but I don't believe there's anything novel about that. What's (relatively) new is that they've discovered they can summon their own personal army in the form of an increasingly militarized police forc
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by seandougall 7y ago
That's fair, although it doesn't allow tokens to be revoked or to expire. For that you'd need to store at least some unique part of the payload you're signing, and then you have O(n) storage requirements again, right?
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by seandougall 7y ago
It seems like you're describing a specific use case that is different from what most readers think of when they see a post about cryptographic signatures. If the server generates the token, and all it's effectively doing is verify
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by seandougall 7y ago
> Any cocoa app use that much of memory. What gives you that idea? Lots of apps have cruft, but that's nothing to do with Cocoa. A "Hello, world!" in Cocoa uses around 13 MB, and the application bundle weighs in at 79 kB.
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by seandougall 7y ago
macOS's APIs and developer docs don't really encourage checking for cellular vs wifi the way iOS's do. So you probably do need relatively fine-grained control to get the same effect, as the vast majority of processes will ass
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by seandougall 7y ago
Back around the time this SE question was asked (2013), I was using an awesome open-source app [1] to tether on my iPhone. It was very easy to use, though you had to be able to compile and run it yourself, as there's no way it would be
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by seandougall 7y ago
Even if you figure the mule is expendable, you'd at least want the car to make it across reliably with the payload. I don't have a lot of experience in this area, but doesn't it seem a bit implausible that the car's elec
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by seandougall 7y ago
Published in 2013, but describes "the Apple internal iSight webcam found in previous generation Apple products including the iMac G5 and early Intel-based iMacs, MacBooks, and MacBook Pros until roughly 2008".
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by seandougall 7y ago
> Is it possible to turn the camera on and off very quickly? Not particularly. At least on my 2015 rMBP, using code that I wrote (so I know it's not doing anything extraneous), the light is on for about a quarter of a second before
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by seandougall 7y ago
If your old calendar includes holidays, you'd have to remember to ignore the ones that are based on rules other than the Gregorian calendar (e.g. Easter was April 21 this year but will be April 14 in 2047). Clearly those holidays are j
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by seandougall 7y ago
A custom URL scheme would at least provide an opportunity to confirm launching Zoom, even if Zoom itself didn’t confirm joining s particular meeting (which I agree it should).
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by seandougall 7y ago
Oh, yeah, I missed that. That’s patently false.
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by seandougall 7y ago
Ah, yeah, the flow for when the app isn’t installed makes particular sense (at least as a motivation for why someone would implement something so awful). Thanks!
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by seandougall 7y ago
> This vulnerability leverages the amazingly simple Zoom feature where you can just send anyone a meeting link (for example https://zoom.us/j/492468757 ) and when they open that link in their browser their Zoom clien
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by seandougall 7y ago
Does that mean poverty is not a problem worth addressing, because on average we’re a reasonably wealthy country? Is inequality not a problem, because on average we all have the same opportunities?
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by seandougall 7y ago
This was also relatively remote. If it had been, say, the East Bay, where there’s high population density and lots of older homes with unreinforced masonry foundations, the situation would look a lot different.
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by seandougall 7y ago
You got it right! (Though Pasadena is also in the SGV.) I felt it in South Pasadena, but it was very gentle; would have been easy to miss if I hadn’t been sitting still when it happened.
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by seandougall 7y ago
Our family vet said the same thing. At the time she was personally tracking seven cases of unexplained bladder problems, all of them in dogs who ate Blue Buffalo. This was at a small local practice, not a huge patient base. There are still
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by seandougall 7y ago
For an individual, yeah. Apple belongs to a number of standards bodies and consortia, though; when they deviate from an existing standard, they usually do do more deliberately than this letter implies.
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by seandougall 7y ago
> You can literally buy little plastic condoms for your e-cigs. That's both an amusing mental image and a pretty great idea. One that has no analog with hypodermic needles, so it's still a false comparison.
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by seandougall 7y ago
There’s a public health reason for that. How many people have ever contracted HIV from a used e-cigarette?
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by seandougall 7y ago
I'm convinced that type of spatula isn't designed to last anyway. Even if they don't break, moisture gets into the joint between the wood and the spatula and develops mold. Sometimes I've discovered this when the mold sp
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by seandougall 7y ago
Yeah, the NASA article says, "it will be the weakest of the last 200 years." It does not say, "it will last 200 years". Those missing words between "will" and "last" are rather crucial.
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by seandougall 7y ago
I want to believe that, but how do you evaluate models’ usefulness if you refuse to acknowledge facts and data, and just yell “fake news” when they point to a conclusion you don’t like?

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