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by sesqu 9y ago
This article is about (mathematical) application. They applied Kim's algorithm to find all rational solutions to a particularly hairy equation.
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by sesqu 9y ago
I've seen this argument before, and it annoys me. In particular, to satisfy the second property, there is no need for a multiplication - simply assert the property. This yields the Mean Absolute Deviation error function, or E_1 in the
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by sesqu 9y ago
I can't give you specific examples, but I occasionally google news stories trying to find sources, followups, or more information - only to be flooded with more copies of the exact same news story. And that only goes for stories I have
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by sesqu 9y ago
Or you know, throwing people into prison for manslaughter or drug possession. The thing is, that only works in fairly narrow circumstances, but is a common strategy regardless.
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by sesqu 9y ago
I would assume "mu" was meant as in the Greek letter µ.
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by sesqu 9y ago
The author acknowledged as much in the footnotes: > If you really tried you could probably find Diana’s Twitter from these. You would then be a hacking genius, binary flowing through your veins, and have a CVE number assigned to your per
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by sesqu 9y ago
> 4. They end up setting up a fake page to phish their friend An important part of the story was that the phishing attempt failed, but was followed up by a spear-phishing attempt that was eventually successful.
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by sesqu 9y ago
That sounds an awful lot like the Global Liberal Conspiracy. If they don't even have a common ideology, how can they be said to follow the teachings of any cleric?
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by sesqu 9y ago
Replace "the west" with "globalism" and "islamic" with "evangelical", and you'll see a comparable sentiment in the US.
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by sesqu 9y ago
> Gulenist group did the coup attempt Has the government provided convincing evidence of this? I know Gülen was immediately accused despite not being in the country, but I don't know of any evidence of his audience being involved be
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by sesqu 9y ago
This feature's audience is the marketing crowd.
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by sesqu 9y ago
Because the gameplay is so poor, my experience was that it ignored my actions and presented consequences that didn't match them in the slightest.
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by sesqu 9y ago
Why? The only reason XP came up was because Microsoft went out of their way to patch it themselves.
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by sesqu 9y ago
Windows XP is a red herring. No one uses it anymore, and WannaCry didn't even successfully spread from that version of Windows. Windows 7 is the new holdout, and people aren't eager to swallow 10.
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by sesqu 9y ago
I potentially disagree. I think the impact of social media's reward cycle is major, but not directly on the user's identity - rather, I believe it causes significant feedback into non-algorithmic filtering (and from there to the a
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by sesqu 9y ago
IIRC it's because the Ubuntu screen locking is tied to screensavers. I can't remember how I solved it for myself, but it involved invoking a much baser system to lock the screen.
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by sesqu 9y ago
Assembly is a job, but that job pays minimum wage. The skills required are trivial.
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by sesqu 10y ago
I spent a minute looking at the results of that phrase on ddg, and got a hit on the book in question. While it's not a direct quote, a search of the book finds this line: > On the one hand: We set limits to reason , preventing it
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by sesqu 10y ago
I tried using this just the other day to find a faintly-remembered old news article about a topic currently in the news. I spent maybe 15 minutes getting nowhere, but noticed that googling for something hypothetically like "tower -trum
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by sesqu 10y ago
I remember taking Ng's course soon after having taken a similar course. While his offered insights were occasionally useful, I found a number of them distracting, especially when they differed substantially from what I had learned in t
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by sesqu 10y ago
I don't think social sign-on is that big of a problem. It certainly makes it easier to comment on news stories, but if you're spending the effort to create thousands of social profiles already, what's a few more e-mail regist
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by sesqu 10y ago
Disincentivizing taxes are usually very profitable, because they're targeting goods that are considered overly desired. Their effectiveness is not too clear, but it is commonly accepted that they do reduce consumption. For example, a r
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by sesqu 10y ago
It seems you need to manually implement tail recursion.
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by sesqu 10y ago
Clean Links is a plugin that strips the utm-like trackers, affiliate codes, outbound redirects, window.open, and some other relays from links.
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by sesqu 10y ago
Yeah, backdoor usually means that the device accepts credentials from a third party, and not sending them reports. I suppose you could interpret this "backdoor" as third-party access to the data, rather than to the device.
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by sesqu 10y ago
DX1 is surprisingly empty and small when you play it today. There was a lot there that isn't in the newer games, but a lot is also missing.
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by sesqu 10y ago
The YouTube Plus add-on has an option to turn off YT autoplay, as well as a number of other quality-of-life things.
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by sesqu 10y ago
Well, media players and help sections are decent use cases for popups. Opening external links in a new tab is also great. I've even played some browser-based games that used popups to minimize chrome, enable alt-tabbing and force a coo
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by sesqu 10y ago
No, since the text used code semantics. A better solution would be to introduce a few more formatting options, such as attributed and unattributed quote blocks.
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by sesqu 10y ago
The basic idea is that all things don't remain equal. Some of the differences that can and do dominate frequency differences are the microarchitecture, resulting in machine instructions that aren't comparable even if both processo

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