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by shawnz 5y ago
Isn't that backwards? The great filter is meant to explain why we don't see extraterrestrial life, so finding it would be counterevidence for a great filter
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by shawnz 5y ago
It's not as simple as just scaling the UI to the size of the screen though, because the UI elements should be bigger at the same screen size if the scaling is higher. That's why, like you mention in the article, you'll be a
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by shawnz 5y ago
But in those cases you'd expect the user to manually adjust their scaling settings, which wouldn't be respected if following the author's advice here.
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by shawnz 5y ago
> This isn’t often relevant for games, but, if you need to check how much things would have been scaled if you weren’t DPI aware, you can call GetDpiForWindow and divide the result by 96. If you aren't scaling up text and UI element
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by shawnz 5y ago
A strong strategy seems to be to always aim at the steepest possible angle.
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by shawnz 5y ago
Some blockchain technologies are highly centralized, but even then I think it's more like an "active/passive" configuration than a truly centralized system. If the system goes wrong, it's still easy to move to a dif
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by shawnz 5y ago
It probably wouldn't result in an attack (unless you were dealing with a really sophisticated attacker), it's just necessary for correctness. Which is also true of all these examples: for example, people won't appreciate havi
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by shawnz 5y ago
Sure, maybe it does not literally send a substituted SQL string, but in order to send the parameters "separately" from the query, do they not still eventually get concatenated into a single binary string of some form to be sent ac
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by shawnz 5y ago
That sounds pretty terrible, do you have an example of some docs which demonstrate that practice?
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by shawnz 5y ago
The article doesn't explicitly say the words "outputting SQL to the database engine", but that's because the focus is on XSS attacks and the part about SQL injection is just an aside. Clearly it's what they were try
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by shawnz 5y ago
I interpreted the message as not sanitizing inputs at the point they are received, a la PHP magic quotes. Instead, escape at the output (the output to the database engine).
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by shawnz 5y ago
See also this Twitter thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/TylerGlaiel/status/14762756247465...
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by shawnz 5y ago
It was only supported in mac OS Yosemite (2014) and removed in Sierra (2016).
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by shawnz 5y ago
> i always loved the simplicity of inetd. it was both self describing and inclusive. you could write an internet service without any knowledge at all of sockets and learn about the system by simply looking at it. You could achieve the sa
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by shawnz 5y ago
As I understand they got rid of the option to log in with your Apple ID in the newest versions of mac OS.
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by shawnz 5y ago
See also: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
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by shawnz 5y ago
Why should age of account be factored in at all? What does it prove?
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by shawnz 5y ago
The OP's argument about radiation degrading materials should apply whether or not it is a fission reactor, shouldn't it? And the page I linked does show some fission reactors which have been used in space as well.
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by shawnz 5y ago
They should be brought up together because coal is in common use today, nuclear is well equipped to replace it, and nuclear uses about one million times less fuel than coal does to fulfill the same demand.
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by shawnz 5y ago
What about RTGs which are common in space use? See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_system...
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by shawnz 5y ago
Why would this impact the colloquial meaning of "green" in any way? Do people usually adapt their informal language to be consistent with EU regulations?
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by shawnz 5y ago
If it's combining information from multiple shots or multiple camera sensors, isn't that more like sensor fusion than "guessing"? I think calling it guessing is an uncharitable interpretation of what's happening.
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by shawnz 5y ago
As far as I understand the goal of using ML augmentation in camera phones is to capture what the eye sees. It's to compensate for the limitations of the hardware which on its own is not able to produce a true-to-eye result. You seem to
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by shawnz 5y ago
There's already a way superior solution for that use case, already in common use today: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel
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by shawnz 5y ago
It looks like they are also creating a "groupByToMap" for that reason. See: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping Property keys can also be symbol objects and it seems like that's supported by
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by shawnz 5y ago
There are many unpatched vulnerabilities that could be exploited just by downloading a file, for example CVE-2004-0209 or CVE-2005-2122
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by shawnz 5y ago
Admittedly I'm using an adblocker and didn't notice the latter problem, which sounds annoying. But I don't see why the former is a problem on its own.
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by shawnz 5y ago
I am approximately 30 if that's what you meant. I think a 0.001% success rate is pretty good for revolutionary technologies and I'm glad to have those successes. I think it is wrong to downplay the importance of the failed attempt
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by shawnz 5y ago
Has that actually been demonstrated? I don't personally feel fatigued by medical advancements which ended up not panning out. In fact they make me feel hopeful about the future and glad to exist in a society where such research is even
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by shawnz 5y ago
Is it really such a big deal for them to build hype around a potentially promising medical advancement? What's the downside of this kind of reporting? Even if the drug fails, maybe it will spur more research into similar candidates

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