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by somebodynew 8y ago
I find it bizarre that the compiler isn't more aggressive about this in C (versus C++) as it doesn't need to worry about special member functions. If nothing volatile is involved there's no reason to bother copying anything
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by somebodynew 8y ago
Is there some kind of asymmetry that prevents this logic from being applied with "older" replaced by other inherent physical attributes like race, or do you think that wouldn't be discrimination either?
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by somebodynew 8y ago
Firefox Focus and other ad blockers can be installed for use with Safari on any iOS device.
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by somebodynew 8y ago
The "simplicity" of tasks that mostly just require a lot of computing power was recognized over thirty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox > it is comparatively easy to make comput
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by somebodynew 9y ago
The best case with a clip-on lens is that image quality and light transmission don't get much worse than they were before. The only thing you can really achieve with something like this is a different focal length (or focus distance ra
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by somebodynew 9y ago
The dynamic range of small sensor digital cameras is so poor that it is impossible to judge whether or not she would have been visible to the naked eye based on the video.
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Ask HN: Could JavaScript be moved to a higher x86 ring than userspace?
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by somebodynew 9y ago
That's a fair point and a good example of why an outright ban is bad. I don't know if the administration intended to impact the term evidence-based medicine or if it's just collateral damage from a perceived abuse of the pref
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by somebodynew 9y ago
Maybe I'm letting my own bias seep in now, but I consider "transgender" fairly neutral and "transsexual" overtly negative and likely intentionally used to agitate.
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by somebodynew 9y ago
I would argue that in a biological context the primary problem with neutral uses of "diversity" is vagueness. If a report indicates that they "collected a diverse range of bacteria for study", what is it that's diff
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by somebodynew 9y ago
I probably need to preface this comment by making it clear that I'm against banning words and not a fan of Trump. Banning "fetus" and "transgender" is completely indefensible as they're fairly neutral words wit
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by somebodynew 9y ago
That charge would depend entirely on whether or not installing a root certificate can be considered "intentional" "impairment to integrity". I can't find any case law that would provide the interpretation for this,
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by somebodynew 9y ago
In this specific case (installing a root certificate) I would say it's not actually a CFAA violation because they're not "obtaining information", "defrauding", or "intentionally causing damage". You m
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by somebodynew 9y ago
The iOS Photos app can already do this. It scans your photos on-device with a subject classifier. I just said "Hey Siri, show me pictures of dogs in my photos library" and it successfully showed me (completely untagged) photos of
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by somebodynew 9y ago
...that expired upon death and could not be passed to heirs.
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by somebodynew 9y ago
They're using a near infrared camera which can't see much beyond what your eye can see except for TV remote LEDs and security camera floodlights. It can't see temperature unless something is almost red hot.
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by somebodynew 9y ago
It's amazing that it worked given that it wasn't intentional. The US was originally envisioned as a system much closer to the EU than the modern day US. Overreaction to the failures of the Articles of Confederation due to an overl
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by somebodynew 9y ago
If disabling JavaScript allows you to circumvent copyright access controls, you're right back where you started ostensibly violating the DMCA.
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by somebodynew 10y ago
Do you know what this process is called? This description makes it sound like the glass has to bend significantly under at most one atmosphere of (negative) pressure, which sounds strange to me. I'd like to read more about it.
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by somebodynew 10y ago
With the pace of advancements in gene editing and the availability of biology maker-spaces, I expect that we're soon going to find out that the "3D printed guns" issue of hobbyist biology will be simple cells like yeast modif
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by somebodynew 10y ago
It's only illegal when it happens to violate the definition of a machine gun in federal law (multiple rounds fired per trigger pull); there's no specific law about electronic triggers. The ATF has specified that electronic firing
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by somebodynew 10y ago
I find it odd that you refer to "Bernard" when he's almost universally referred to as Bernie, but simultaneously call John Bush "Jeb". I'm missing whatever the intended meaning of the way you wrote these names