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by sirsar 12y ago
With a bit of tweaking, Anki [0] or another Spaced Repetition Software program will do just that. You can configure it to categorize your answers by how fast you answered them. Then it will make the easy ones less frequent. I used it to mem
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by sirsar 12y ago
> Instant Google-search for error messages. Now there's an idea. Does anyone have recommendations for getting a "professional developer grade" IDE to do that?
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by sirsar 12y ago
I believe this data directly disagrees with cancer.gov's dataset, overstating deaths from cancer. http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html
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by sirsar 12y ago
They are relevant because they control a large part of Congress.
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by sirsar 12y ago
P.S. If you don't like Chapter 1 of HPMOR, skip to Chapter 17. The writing style is toned down a little from that point, and there's an interesting use of magic in that chapter. If you don't like Chapter 17, give up. (If you
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by sirsar 12y ago
NSA for example. Any topic with "NSA" gets a very large hit.
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by sirsar 12y ago
For those put off by the first few chapters, I highly recommend you try to stick with it, or skip the first 10 chapters. This story starts out with a rather insufferable tone, but after that, it becomes a lot of fun. It's what the auth
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by sirsar 12y ago
You are mostly correct, but I'd like to make some clarifications. > they aren't passed on to those who are simply running the client to maintain the ledger. The word "maintain" is ambiguous here. When I run bitcoin-q
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by sirsar 12y ago
If by stable, you mean "decreasing steadily," then sure.
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by sirsar 12y ago
> But, most transaction costs (credit card fees) that I pay are already rolled into the price of things, so I don't benefit by purchasing them with Bitcoin. It's not common yet, but I have in fact saved money by buying with b
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by sirsar 12y ago
There are a few different programs that will do it, but it comes down to brute force, so the difficulty depends on the length. https://github.com/katmagic/Shallot https://github.com/lachesis/scalli
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by sirsar 12y ago
I'm not really a LoTR fan, but he got it first try on my play. The game report is interesting: http://imgur.com/5YRk8jv
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by sirsar 12y ago
> Can there be too much regulation, too archaic? Sure, but I can't see how that motivates sidestepping it entirely. Sidestepping lots of regulation is the only way to get around the archaic parts. There certainly won't be a r
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by sirsar 12y ago
> *it's trivial even for non-techies to circumvent hash-based detection I was under the impression that PhotoDNA was more than simple hashing - that it used an algorithm like Google's "similar images"
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by sirsar 12y ago
> Do you think anyone who is ready and willing to use encryption on Windows is incapable of switching to linux? Yes, because I know people who fit that exact profile. Just Friday I was talking to a person who had found TrueCrypt a few ye
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by sirsar 12y ago
Switching to Linux is a conceptual and time-consuming burden that the average consumer will not deal with. Widespread adoption of encryption can only be achieved by making it as simple as possible.
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by sirsar 12y ago
> Windows has good FDE now. Only for those running Ultimate or Enterprise edition. What's everyone else supposed to use?
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by sirsar 12y ago
This comment thread seems like a good place to test detectors on.
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by sirsar 12y ago
Would you mind pointing me in the direction of a good alternative? Thanks.
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by sirsar 12y ago
"Bitcasa’s proprietary block-level encryption..." This phrase does not inspire confidence.
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by sirsar 12y ago
Would you be bothered if someone followed you daily on the sidewalk, noting your paths? I would. Would it be any better if, rather than one person following you, it was one guy on every street corner, who collaborated to reconstruct the pat
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by sirsar 12y ago
Bitmessage does not use a blockchain. Rather, every peer receives an encrypted copy of every recent message, then attempts to decrypt it. Messages not intended for a specific peer are deleted from its memory after 2.5 days. This does mean
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by sirsar 12y ago
MessageEase[0] is remarkably similar. Instead of phonetic groups, it puts the most used letters in the easiest locations. With practice, I got my typing speed up to about 40 WPM on it, but I ultimately switched back to Google Keyboard due t
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by sirsar 12y ago
The planned update to Wheezy is important because it brings an update to OpenSSL. Updating OpenSSL on Squeeze is time-consuming and buggy, and a later version is required to run several software packages including Bitmessage.
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by sirsar 12y ago
I feel rather silly now, but... What does Flynn do ? The word "ops" is so central to the pitch and so ambiguous to me that I have absolutely no idea what the function of this software (it is software, right?) is.
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by sirsar 12y ago
In this area I find the writings of Eliezer Yudkowsky particularly insightful. Definitions are what he calls "disguised queries." When someone says "atheism is a religion" or "that's not art," they're
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by sirsar 12y ago
They seriously need an English-speaking editor, if the product is even real.
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by sirsar 13y ago
Chrome 33.0.1750.154 Windows rejects it with the "Check for server certificate revocation" setting enabled.
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by sirsar 13y ago
LabVIEW is concurrent by default; control flow is done by linking the outputs of one function to the inputs of another. This makes writing concurrent loops ridiculously easy: just put two loops next to each other. I rarely use it because or
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by sirsar 13y ago
This should be taken with a very large grain of salt. Firstly, its author, Mircea Popescu, has a long history of not being the most trustworthy character, and often deliberately incites flamewars. I say this not to discredit the arguments i

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