syrrim

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by syrrim 6y ago
Author mentions in the footnote
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Should probably #define assert(x) to be ((void)x) for release builds instead.
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Instagram is dead simple as well, if you stick to the main feed and just posting photos. I've used instagram without touching any of the stuff discussed in the top-level comment.
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>the author has taken his whole huge blog offline Look again
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by syrrim 6y ago
Suppose you visit facebook via tor and log in. If you can be traced across the web, then your real name can now be attached to all your activity.
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Why not? There are many strange facts in the world. Some of them are even true. It is very difficult, when recalling a strange facts, to remember whether it was one of the true ones or not. So naturally, things we've heard will tend to
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by syrrim 6y ago
A very boring article. The thesis is potentially interesting, but fails to get any real attention from the author. The author proposes to investigate the negative social and political consequences of the framing of the 2nd law of thermodyna
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by syrrim 6y ago
They somehow managed to avoid any screencaps of what sorts of things people got banned over. No doubt it entailed reasonable question asking and familial conversation.
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by syrrim 6y ago
Science isn't about understanding how something works. It is, as you say, about generating and testing hypotheses. In the case of machine learning, those hypotheses take the form of a program and an associated criteria. The hypothesis
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by syrrim 6y ago
It was given to universities for free iirc
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I'm not saying the decision of which political candidates to censor should be cut and dry. Just that the decision of which elected officials to censor should be.
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Yes. Oh wait, were you talking about social media censorship?
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He wasn't elected because he had disagreeable opinions. If someone you disagree with is elected, then clearly their opinions are mainstream, if not agreeable.
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The GP specified elected official, not candidate.
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>If he is making the workplace less comfortable for particular groups of people Not just any group of people, naturally, but particular groups. Politics necessarily makes certain groups uncomfortable. A discussion of wealth redistribut
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by syrrim 6y ago
Couple more tips for those who /really/ want to slim down their html: - opening <a> tags close the previous <a> tag... but without an href they do nothing. Use them as if they were closing <a>s to save on slashes
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you could try something with mturk, I'm sure.
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>I don’t understand the free speech arguments here. It's pretty simple. Many people rely on youtube's platform to reach viewers. This is the case for youtube recommendations, but also for subscriptions. When youtube bans someon
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You don't know that. Italy had early travel restrictions, and had it very bad. Canada had no travel restrictions until much later, and has it better than (parts of) the US. That so many believe the travel restrictions were warranted se
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by syrrim 6y ago
An important part of the criticism is that the apps being proposed won't tell you who or where you had a contact, just that it occured anywhere. This leaves you with no capacity to judge the actual danger of being infected. An app bein
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by syrrim 6y ago
Create a custom font with your custom character in the private use area. Use the popularity of your font to demonstrate pressing need.
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by syrrim 7y ago
There's always the barbican approach: move grade 6 meters up
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by syrrim 7y ago
>99.99% for two tries would be a 1% drop chance Not per se. The drop chance for consecutive packets is likely correlated, such that if you know the first one was dropped you should increase your prior that the second one will also be dro
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by syrrim 7y ago
Shit, that's exactly what photoshop used to look like (photoshop 7)
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Failure to control for confounders.
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by syrrim 7y ago
"falsifying data" because someone disagrees with which data was excluded from a table.
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by syrrim 7y ago
As long as you earn more than a tenth of a cent for every email you send, you'll be fine. I don't think it's unfair to classify anything else as spam.
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They added && recently, apparently.
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And the people who eat cows, who can get beef for cheaper. And the people who eat things besides beef, for which demand is displaced. Of wait, that's everyone.
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by syrrim 7y ago
"Universal Basic Income" is a very confusing title. Obviously they would have to increase tax revenue. Fortunately, they have a good place to draw it from, since their citizenry just received a large windfall! In reality, most peo

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