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by sowbug 3y ago
My HA breakthrough, to borrow a basketball term, was switching from a man-to-man defense to a zone defense. I used to think, "I want this motion sensor to turn on that light," and added equipment to do exactly that. Reconfiguratio
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by sowbug 3y ago
You're absolutely correct, just as you'd be correct to observe that these 256 bytes require a fairly complex software platform running on fairly complex hardware. And all these things, including us, operate within the fabric of th
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by sowbug 3y ago
Stuff like this makes me believe that the entirety of life really could be encoded in DNA. I've read that if you gzipped the human genome, the file would be about 4MB, which intuitively seems too small to represent a human. But if this
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by sowbug 3y ago
"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success."
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by sowbug 3y ago
You assume a perfect implementation of the backdoor. Even if the cryptographic part were well-implemented, someone will accidentally ship a release build with a poorly safeguarded test key, or with a disabled safety that they normally use t
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by sowbug 3y ago
> I mean what am I paying them for? The reimbursement right that the insurance company has is called subrogation. The basic idea is that whoever was at fault shouldn't be better off because the injured party had insurance; otherwi
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Slashed Zero(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by sowbug 3y ago|0 comments
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Testosterone gel eliminates the audience effect(psypost.org)
1 points by sowbug 3y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
Chinese depends on a similar language feature. You might have "two 隻 dogs" but "three 本 books" because books and dogs have different measure words. I believe this is more important in Chinese than English because Chinese
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by sowbug 3y ago
"The statement that P=NP is [...]" (true or false) The article uses the concept of irony and the word "because" as examples of fairly sophisticated next-word predictors. You can imagine others that require even more unde
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by sowbug 3y ago
"before you work out all kinks and merge the staging branch back into main" Working out all kinks on an isolated branch is very hard to do. You need to integrate to hear the screams of the team you never expected your change would
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by sowbug 3y ago
That's right. It's important to be able to reproduce released builds with minor patches, and branches are the right tool for that job. But resist the temptation to fix that CVE on the release branch and then upstream it, because t
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by sowbug 3y ago
Your local repo is the equivalent of the development branch. Yes, that means you don't collaborate with others on development branches, or go for weeks committing only to a branch. If you save up a bunch of work, dump it on the main br
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by sowbug 3y ago
Thanks for doing this! Interesting to watch the change in tone as well as content over time.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Any website can track any browser, even wget and curl. That's just how it works. Think of the Men in Black mind-eraser. You're in a mirrored room with someone and have a conversation with them. You flash the eraser. And now you ca
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by sowbug 3y ago
The incognito warning has always said that websites can still track you.* Point (b) won't be helped much by letting people know that Google is also a website. * https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+&
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by sowbug 3y ago
Visit EFF's Panopticlick to learn more. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
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Most streamed music had fewer than 1k plays in 2023(djmag.com)
1 points by sowbug 3y ago|0 comments
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by sowbug 3y ago
As the expression goes, "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."
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by sowbug 3y ago
You can group these kinds of "errors of personality" to help understand why they might or might not bug you. First: actor intentionally disrespected someone. Speaking in a movie theater, especially after being shushed. Using the l
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by sowbug 3y ago
No. Hence my comment.
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by sowbug 3y ago
I know this is more of a hacker tool than an end-user product, but I wish more Bluetooth keyboards used their USB port not just to charge, but also to become a wired USB keyboard when plugged in. It's rare to need a wired keyboard, but
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by sowbug 3y ago
You might want to read the Bitcoin whitepaper. There is zero ambiguity in the situation you describe. That is the essence of the proof-of-work (or proof-of-stake, take your pick) solution to the Byzantine generals problem.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Your original question was about price. Institutional demand in an asset generally reduces its open supply. That should affect the price.
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by sowbug 3y ago
Futures ETFs own no Bitcoin. Spot ETFs would.
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Authy is shutting down its desktop app(theverge.com)
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by sowbug 3y ago
I'm reminded of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect when I read the comments that express outrage at how technically easy it is to have longer recordings from the microphone that your employer has installed at your desk that automatically rec
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by sowbug 3y ago
When I was a kid, well before the internet, one of the three TV networks would play a movie on Sunday nights. Even if the movie were old, it was intoxicating to know that all my friends were watching exactly the same thing at the same time,
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by sowbug 3y ago
In my first year of law school, my criminal-law professor often mentioned that a fundamental value of the US justice system is to "punish bad acts, not bad people." I took my professor's statement on faith, but 30+ years late
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by sowbug 3y ago
What penalty was appropriate for people who engaged in miscegenation in the United States before June 12, 1967?

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