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by sigsergv 5y ago
This article is not actually about denialism, it's about propaganda.
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by sigsergv 5y ago
Work 8 hours a day. Find a school and learn social dances. There are much more fun and positive emotions in social dances than in any other physical activity.
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by sigsergv 5y ago
I need to periodically check gmail spam because almost all legit emails from small business (order confirmations, support requests etc) with dedicated email server fall in there. I explicitly mark them as not Spam but it's still not wo
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by sigsergv 5y ago
They use just seven words out of ten so if you rearrange words properly you could get much better results.
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by sigsergv 5y ago
Statcounter counts traffic from their web analytics service installed on ~2m site. And more generic question: all those traffic analytics services rely on javascript modules and if majority of firefox users block them, all this data is heav
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by sigsergv 5y ago
It's time to introduce new management title — Child Protection Officer.
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by sigsergv 5y ago
RDF and other semantic tools died (sort of) because of very pragmatic reasons: it's extremely expensive and semantic data are hard to collect and validate. AI that make “almost right” predictions and costs much less is enough almost fo
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by sigsergv 5y ago
I've recently bought SanDisk Cruzer Blade USB Flash Drive 128GB and it's cool in all senses.
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by sigsergv 5y ago
Deutsch explained quantum theory in his Fabric of reality book. Not every aspect but basic concepts are presented really well.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
I'm sorry, I didn't find that info in discord channel.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime-text_build-4101_amd... https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime_text_build_4101_x64... https://download.sublimetext.com/sublime_text_build_4101_mac..
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by sigsergv 6y ago
I use a lot ssh tunnels of all kinds, they are very for mapping local/remote ports to remote/local servers: database sockets, http ports etc. Combined with proxy.pac you can seamlessly access different remote resources from the br
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by sigsergv 6y ago
I recommend chocolate Lindt Excellence 99%, it's so intense that you literally cannot eat it fast, bite small pieces and enjoy.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
Google Maps data for most parts of Russia are very inaccurate. Even in cities there are ghost roads, missing roads, missing buildings and so on. Sometimes it's very annoying because some taxi operators use google data and some places j
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by sigsergv 6y ago
Until they drop real phone number requirement signal cannot be considered secure.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
> but even changing something minor in Gmail or Google Docs impacts orders of magnitude more people, using the product in such a huge number of environments -- phones, tablets, PCs -- in every language and every corner of the world. Then
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by sigsergv 6y ago
There are some very valid points there: improve documentation or test. But others are not: refactoring (this should be done explicitly, with proper testing and approvement from management), dependency upgrade (the same reasons).
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by sigsergv 6y ago
Yep, but one can type slower and cannot type faster, so it's a kind of backwards-compatible system.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
I prefer typing, writing is so slow. And there is also very important aspect to me: when I type I cannot draw anything and that's great because usually I can't decipher drawings I made while writing with pen and paper.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
Unless those underlings are H-1B visa holders and cannot leave.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
> So now it's not just apps and services, they're killing off brand recognition. I don't understand it. Well, that's fine, next manager now has chance to improve brand recognition and impress top management.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
I failed some tests because I pressed wrong button. It's something not related to music, I've never been able to play games with QTE, and this looks much like those QTE I loathe.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
There is one huge weak point in coding teaching: almost none of places where kids could publish their works. I'm not talking about simple code snippets but something bigger like real desktop, web or mobile application. There are some n
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by sigsergv 6y ago
To some extent, yes. Some fact checks are obvious lies of course, falsified to disprove initial claim (talking from conspiracy theory supporter's side). It's really complicated topic.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
Yes, they often refer to “facts” that cannot be proved or disproved. You cannot question conspiracy theory because every your claim will be opposed with just created new one. You reason (logically), they think up a new claim. It's poin
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by sigsergv 6y ago
"Hillary Clinton runs child porn ring" — is not a fake data, it's a Russel's teapot, you can't fight it with reason. And marking as a fake is a bad move because it inflates notion of “fake”.
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by sigsergv 6y ago
Natural language is so opaque term. You need to establish context (vocabulary, relations, rules) if you want to pass some information to another person. The same phrase could have different meanings in different context. And from this point
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by sigsergv 6y ago
“However, by the end of the 1960s, computers with led screens had become relatively mainstream.” What? Sixties? Anyway, I've read a lot of materials about readability and some authors provide very different recommendations. A lot of su
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by sigsergv 6y ago
Is it possible to inspect those shadow APNs without rooting?
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by sigsergv 6y ago
There are also old smoke detectors that contain alpha-emitting americium. https://www.epa.gov/radtown/americium-ionization-smoke-detec...

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