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by smithza 5y ago
Apple will probably say something to the effect of, "we didn't have to put anti-stalking technology in, and it works well for the 99% of use cases." The common stalker will not have the technical skills to build their own cus
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by smithza 5y ago
So China develops an Olympics app for the athletes and tells them they have to have it on their iPhones, yet with only cursory reviews third-party security analysts found it has malware baked inside. This is a high-profile app, something th
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Emacspy: Program Emacs in Python Instead of ELisp(github.com)
3 points by smithza 5y ago|1 comments
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by smithza 5y ago
I am sure that man has many hours of safe riding. It is always the 10 seconds of deadly and uncontrollable trauma that necessitates safety gear. Self-confidence is often the hubris of humanity.
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by smithza 5y ago
LTT did some manual testing of HDMI cables [0] in hopes of answering the last question of this article, "how do consumers know if a cable supports v2.1 features?" Does anyone know of other tests or more comprehensive data sets? [0
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by smithza 5y ago
> Such a position is certainly partisan Try patriotic, or more cynically nationalistic.
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by smithza 5y ago
You may have chosen not to subscribe to iTunes Match which is the feature which gives you access to Apple's servers to host all your songs instead of keeping them strictly local. At least that is how I understand it.
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by smithza 5y ago
I work at LM and most of my colleagues here do the 4x10. I opted for a traditional 5x8 because I have young children at home and found that being gone for 10.5-11 hrs means I don't see them during their waking hours. If I could afford
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by smithza 5y ago
If you negotiate with management to go from 40 hrs a week to 32 hrs a week, there is usually an expectation you will take a 20% paycut. Parent was saying that since income taxes are tiered, you will likely take a < 20% take-home paycut.
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by smithza 5y ago
Notice: The latter portion of the video is NSFW.
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by smithza 5y ago
It isn't about protection . It is about values and moral principles. Parents can teach children tools about self control and mindfulness about evaluating if things are good for them or not. Teens and young adults have to explore and f
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by smithza 5y ago
It would be VERY different if Facebook was not a free, ad-driven service where their sole optimization is engagement. If Facebook was a subscription service where users had 'timelines' (remember that Facebook era?), we would not b
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by smithza 5y ago
I will say emphatically that parents of teens are the most influential people in their lives, whether acknowledged or no. It is likely the case that parents will forever be the most influential people in someone's life and the position
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by smithza 5y ago
My H.S. English teacher taught the class that the "Waiting for Godot" title could well be interpreted as "Waiting for God". And that includes exactly what you say: a situation where people are waiting for something to h
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by smithza 5y ago
I cannot view threads or expand images or see people's responses to threads any longer. This does not compel me to sign up at all. Quite the opposite effect. Twitter is not the ideal place for long form threads anyways. *yes lets just
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by smithza 5y ago
For what it's worth, Apple claimed to find a _lower_ incidence of false-positives when it used pornographic images in its test[1] (which makes sense; images containing humans is probably more aligned with what the model was trai
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by smithza 5y ago
This is a false-positive rate of 2 in 2 trillion image pairs (1,431,168^2). Assuming the NCMEC database has more than 20,000 images, this represents a slightly higher rate than Apple had previously reported. But, assuming there are
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by smithza 5y ago
On The Metal is a great pod for hw/sw interface stories.
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by smithza 5y ago
The whole "companies get political speech through untold millions $$" makes lobbying more like a quid pro quo bribery system. Its fine that companies have a vested interest in how the gov't runs and policies are put forward b
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by smithza 5y ago
Cliff, if you ever read this, I have a computer science book club that could use reading suggestions. Thoughts? Anything from management to best practices ... we will be adding your seminal work to our list too :)
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by smithza 5y ago
They are the most subscribed to print/digital media source in the United States. Their market share is considerable and they have the reputation to bring in new subs. They offer college students free/heavily-reduced subs to '
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by smithza 5y ago
most browsers support <c-l> to hop the cursor to the url bar for searches or url entries
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by smithza 5y ago
And this is sidetracking the point that college-athletes being recruited with aspirations for professional sports view the college as a means to the pro-level job; college courses and the degree are not viewed as benefits but necessary side
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by smithza 5y ago
The poster said it was done in the App, not on the browser.
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by smithza 5y ago
I am very skeptical about the implications of this take. You paint this as "big data companies are actively lobbying/threatening politicians to enact legislation helpful for big data using their big data troves ." There are
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by smithza 5y ago
68 lines of code is pretty much arbitrary. It could have been far less, he just put it all to fit his poke ball pattern.
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Are the Black Keys Still Underdogs?(nytimes.com)
2 points by smithza 5y ago|0 comments
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by smithza 5y ago
I have made a point of using uint16_t, uint32_t, int16_t, int32_t, etc. to be explicit. Some don't like the look, but it is explicit and helpful for me.
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by smithza 5y ago
Okay, if anyone else after reading Accessibility needs to be implemented from scratch felt ashamed, raise your hands with me. SW engineers suffer from assuming everyone is like them and there are no corner cases. My Mom was recently sued
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by smithza 5y ago
I like that. It also reminds me of Fred Brook's second essay in the Mythical Man-Month. He elucidates that SW engineer's optimism can often be an issue with schedule. Too often SW engineers don't carry the humility that the

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