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901.
by smcin 2y ago
Depends what you mean: wrt. Vastaamo, if he had simply contacted the company and not crossed over into extortion, he was doing something potentially white/grey-hat hacker by exposing they had almost zero data security and were violatin
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by smcin 2y ago
Previous HN article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40210229 "Court hands Kivimäki 6-year prison sentence in historic hacking case"
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by smcin 2y ago
Yes, Amazon had it as a stocking-filler a few Christmases ago at $4. The card version is fast and requires no board, so can be played with kids aged 8+, on a restaurant counter/ park bench/ bus/ plane/ whatever. There is
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by smcin 2y ago
> * RS 101 art. 8 RS 101 Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation (1999) Title 2 Fundamental rights, citizenship and social goals > Chapter 1 Fundamental rights > Art. 8 Equality https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/
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by smcin 2y ago
"X media controlled by [private companies based in] X" has obvious antipatterns too, it creates oligarchs and tests how pure govts are abut enforcing competition legislation viz. takeovers and monopolies, also some markets have le
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by smcin 2y ago
> But if you don't get virtual points as appreciation [unpaid contract labor]... then sharing knowledge is not your main, but secondary goal. Your main goal is the recognition. It's false dichotomy to parse out components of
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by smcin 2y ago
That's not happily-ever-after. > That author later posted a video to Instagram explaining that it wasn’t the adult content in the files but rather “Google thought I was spamming people.” Apparently, sending the same doc to scores o
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by smcin 2y ago
What's a good paper that measures the total net effect including costs, chemicals, environmental effects?
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by smcin 2y ago
> given we have cars on the road now delivering passengers No we don't, only local roads, not fare-paying passengers on freeways, not in NorCal. In Phoenix AZ they are still testing self-driving on the freeway on employees, not fa
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by smcin 2y ago
... mention it on a UK forum, European forum or any forum?
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by smcin 3y ago
No, your facts are very scrambled, you were incorrect about the 2/12/2008 vote that passed it 68-29-3, there were 14 roll-call votes on that bill, not one. Saying "Hillary did vote against the bill" is totally wrong abou
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by smcin 3y ago
Sokoban puzzles have a discrete set of actions, typically 8 (move U/D/L/R ; drag U/D/L/R), on a discrete grid.
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by smcin 3y ago
I want to see an optimal (2P) speedrun with Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails. As a fun proof. There are two players working together; also it has more degrees-of-freedom than a Sokoban.
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by smcin 3y ago
Look on the bright side, the AT&T logo already looks like the eye-in-the-sky. Or the Death Star. Hardly needs any reworking.
915.
by smcin 3y ago
> When Congress presented a bill to grant retroactive immunity to AT&T, both Obama and Clinton paused their presidential campaigns. They flew back to DC to cast their Yea votes and protect AT&T from any possible accountability.
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by smcin 3y ago
https://archive.ph/IMAW4
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by smcin 3y ago
Who will inform the turtles they are no longer needed?
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by smcin 3y ago
What are the fastest ways to find telltale signs you missed?
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by smcin 3y ago
"For a short period in 2023, the person in charge of OpenAI's $175 million startup fund, Jacob Vespers, appears to have been completely fabricated."
920.
by smcin 3y ago
It seems like the same economics of tweaking the size of the fee for returning a rental Tesla uncharged, which is a flat $35 fee ($25 for Hertz Gold Club members) [0] vs the much higher rental cost ~$60-200/day [1], then most customers
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by smcin 3y ago
> For example, she had to walk in the cold (Maine) from her hotel to her car... Equivalently, she chose a hotel without chargers, or without enough chargers. How much extra time and money would it have taken to find a hotel with/
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by smcin 3y ago
Ok I was trying to help you communicate "8-bit CPU which had 14 registers, no RAM, tiny EPROM, no persistent storage/disk/SSD". And you were doing function calls.
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by smcin 3y ago
> Spellcheck was once considered AI No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation. Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. Originally it was simple heuristic-based against a dictionary (localized, maybe also allowing
924.
by smcin 3y ago
That can still be a legit description as long as there's some learning capacity in the loop, and that can slowly be automated. Legal informatics is one such domain, there can be use-cases that are very domain-specific, and some high-va
925.
by smcin 3y ago
'2716 EPROM' was a 16K (2kb x 8) EPROM. Which customer/sector was your project intended for?
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by smcin 3y ago
This CNN article hs a list of previous Taiwan earthquakes, magnitude, location, deaths and injuries, but not depth: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/asia/taiwan-earthquake-tsunam...
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by smcin 3y ago
Shallower earthquakes cause much more damage (on the surface), esp. if near densely populated areas; also depends greatly on how earthquake-proof structures and buildings are. Today's one was 34km deep/21 miles. 1989 SF (Loma Prie
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by smcin 3y ago
Umm the SFGate article was sloppy about everything, that's specifically why I wrote "Del Norte County, the northwestern tip of California; also Humboldt County." Not Muir Woods, Marin County (close to ILM), the county just no
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by smcin 3y ago
Yes, but the ZX Spectrum membrane keyboard and the PLA scheme for sensing one keypress among each set of five keys, also dropped keypresses and forced you to type really slow.
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by smcin 3y ago
'Full Metal Jacket' was shot in or around London (urban scenes), with countryside scenes in Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire. Kubrick was reclusive and refused to fly. The link I already gave ab

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