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by sesqu 14y ago
Keep in mind that an empty notebook is not the same as an empty book, nor is Moleskine famous for being affordable. Moreover, full notebooks are among the most expensive types of books.
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by sesqu 14y ago
On point three, that confused me for a moment when reading. It would help to lead by specifying that it's an inequality.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Beyond the problem of not counting votes as contributions (the knights of /new should be rewarded), I feel this scheme has a major downside in using the Wilson lower bound: namely, it rewards quick comments. It's well known that the number
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by sesqu 14y ago
I don't know what the best practices are, but some crackers definitely do do that. And yes, the added processing is generally too large for non-cracking applications.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I think it's a fine question. My thought process is roughly "Okay. Which language? Is it null-terminated, random addressable, or mutable? Do I get compiler errors or unit tests? Should I buffer manually? Do I have a signature? Can I assume
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by sesqu 14y ago
Surprisingly diverse interests, considering the huge bias in the dataset (public quora profiles). Well worth reading, though I was left wondering about the inverse probabilities.
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by sesqu 14y ago
That's what I was thinking. Originally reCAPTCHA had the control word be a scan as well, which meant that an attacker had to beat their OCR. Now that the control word is computer generated, the system has devolved into a regular CAPTCHA tha
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by sesqu 14y ago
If I were to guess, I'd guess that the attitude results from conflicts with other crazies. There are still a lot of feminists who demonize men and derail, for example, and the MRAs have to confront them instead of ignoring them. Those sorts
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by sesqu 14y ago
Yes, in this case I really did feel it necessary to call you out for being an exclusionary apologetic. Being considerate to others includes not punching ugly people. Being considerate to others includes accepting other people in "your" publ
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by sesqu 14y ago
I agree that you can't go videotaping people in semi-public areas without someone getting annoyed, and that you can't take up pitchforks after hearing only one side of a story. But beyond that, I think you're being a jerk. You criticize his
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by sesqu 14y ago
If there were to be a legal dispute, surely actual patents and research papers would be the documentation you crave, and not an after-the-fact, sole author web page on a very loosely related topic?
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by sesqu 14y ago
Yes, that was mentioned in the TFA, because it was done by the same guy. Did you not read it?
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by sesqu 14y ago
Oh? So how do I use it to detect which box model to use in my CSS? How do I use it to detect whether I can use gradients? And if you're just thinking about javascript, I've ran into a few text manipulation functions that always returned "no
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by sesqu 14y ago
By my count, it's very sparse - only 0.003% occupied. I suppose the initial size declaration could make it dense, but then it would use a considerable amount of (virtual?) memory. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Safari to test that.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I ran a simple test with Chrome 20: var a=new Array(4e9); for (var i=1; i<a.length; i=Math.ceil(i*1.0001)) a[i]=new Number(i).toString(); a.sort(); The speed suggest that this sparse string array is not sorted with a quad
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by sesqu 14y ago
Downvoting is disabled for very new comments and for replies to comments you've upvoted, iirc. Editing is disabled after a "reasonable" time. I don't think replying is ever disabled.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Death estimates from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster tally up to about 120. Five workers, 15 people that died in the evacuation, and a hundred future radiation deaths (of which there have so far been none). Chernobyl is still the worst nucle
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by sesqu 14y ago
Hotlinking isn't actually a big problem these days, or at least I don't hear anyone complaining about it. A bigger issue is people who take the comic, remove any watermarks, and then upload it somewhere else. I don't know why they remove th
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by sesqu 14y ago
Exactly that is what is forbidden, by my reading. From the press release: Therefore, even if the license agreement prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the resale of that copy. As to copyright, it merely
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by sesqu 14y ago
While I do agree that false positive and false negative are better names, they do have one shortcoming in comparison: Classical statistics suffers from the inference problem, where instead of "tested positive for presence" you have to say "
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by sesqu 14y ago
A quick Internet search tells me the expression predates the implement of violence, and as such is likely to refer to the swinging of an actual cat. I have previously encountered references to swinging cats for entertainment or medical purp
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by sesqu 14y ago
I've heard many an anecdote in support of this, except with the addendum that after a few years of grumbling and increasing in value, they do leave and on bad terms.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I'll admit that I was mainly reminescing about hardware from the previous decade when writing that. But the general point of "windows officially, linux maybe" remains.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I know what fonts, colours and relative sizes I want things to be. This is only tangentially related, but a few years ago I set up my web browser to default to white on black. Big mistake. I promptly found out that about half the we
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by sesqu 14y ago
That's exactly what jsilence is saying. Energy from the grid is so incredibly cheap that you're using it without a second thought on things you would never consider doing without a grid. It could go up hundredfold before becoming expensive.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Nokia did have a head-on crash strategy in following up Symbian^3 with MeeGo. I wasn't involved in that space, but it looked potentially survivable to me, especially as a means to steal away developers from Android.
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by sesqu 14y ago
It's true that the computer components themselves have good support, but that doesn't yet extend to many printers, smartphones, gps devices or suchlike.
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by sesqu 14y ago
I hate the wizardly control panel, incidentally. Just the other day, I was trying to remove a device. After maybe five minutes I decided it's not possible, until some time later accidentally finding the right button to press. It's very much
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by sesqu 14y ago
Interestingly, Finnish had no word for pink (it was called light red, though a case could be made for roosa ). There is one now ( pinkki ), but that's a loanword from English.
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by sesqu 14y ago
Fair enough. But your point markers are almost half the size of the hex. That makes color the principal difference.

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