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by tobiasSoftware 7y ago
Yeah, that's what I was afraid of and I think I got lucky. The big thing for me is that I don't use eBay much but I'm getting married soon and my fiancee is moving a very far distance and she will need eBay to get decoration
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by tobiasSoftware 7y ago
There's a few different reasons: First, reading about similar experiences didn't make me optimistic. It seemed like 50/50 between getting someone who would help and someone who would tell you that the case is forever closed w
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by tobiasSoftware 7y ago
I recently had a similar experience with eBay, though it got resolved: -I had an old eBay account that was closed through inactivity -I wanted to buy some headphones so I decided to create a new account -When I went to eBay it had already g
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by tobiasSoftware 7y ago
No, Spot II is still Spot II, but Spot I should be Spot.
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by tobiasSoftware 7y ago
The problem is that the usefulness of primes comes from the ability to break down a number into a unique set of primes, and including 1 as a prime defeats that usefulness. While your understanding of primes is an elegant idea, in sciences,
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by tobiasSoftware 7y ago
This sounds like a version of the birthday paradox. The chance that two Skittles packs are identical is very small, and the chance that a Skittles pack is identical to at least one pack in a large group is still small. However, the chance t
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
Simpson's paradox is about a data conflict between an overall view and a more specific view. For example, in the kidney stone scenario, say you find treatment A is more successful overall and treatment B is more successful in the speci
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
While I agree this article isn't about rot, the definition of rot I'm used to is more about how knowledge of a product becomes lost over time without any active developers, so it becomes harder and harder to switch back to active
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
That and "We don’t need any more computer languages." I admit I'm biased though as I'm writing a new computer language. But I believe I have found several interesting innovations. I would agree with both of these as rule
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
Oh I wasn't thinking of that kind of terminology, thanks for pointing that out. I was using online as someone who is at a distance and can only try social engineering, brute forcing, and looking for re-used passwords (much more common,
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
Having a complex password that I use for everything allows it to be nonsensical. Mine is actually based off of a phrase (an idea inspired by XKCD) but the words have some dropped characters and it includes a name (so instead of correcthorse
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
I haven't hit a length issue, it's not super long though. If I need to do a variation, I write it down with the simple password. The main two variations are that it requires a number (which I don't have in the complex passwor
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
I've never been a fan of password managers, but I've found a much better way than paper: 1. Create a complex password to re-use everywhere. Memorize it and don't write it down. 2. Create individual simple passwords when you n
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
I'm writing a software language that has 1/0 = 0 as well. In my case, I am experimenting with several ideas, two of which are no runtime errors and no exceptions, so everything is either a logic error (aided by multiple return val
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
FYI, one of the authors of the study, Andrew Diamos, is a popular twitch streamer, CarlSagan42. He streams a lot of Mario levels created by people that are often puzzle or troll levels. During his stream he'll talk a lot about science,
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
The other big question is about the cost side of it. True UBI claims to be able to not be that costly, as it will enable the shut down of all monetary forms of welfare. The resulting unemployment of those employees working welfare related j
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
One of the big differences between the experiments that Finland did and actual UBI is that UBI is supposed to replace all kinds of monetary welfare. It sounds like the experiments in Finland failed because of the cost, but it's really
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
Neither, they mean total stars you can count if you look all around the night sky. The article says that it's about 9000 stars total, but then the ground blocks our view of the half of the stars that are on the hemisphere on the opposi
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by tobiasSoftware 8y ago
While I have not, I have made an interesting realization. I used to like being a night person and hate being a morning person. My like of being a night person comes from rare nights where I feel alive working on projects and it's amazi
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by tobiasSoftware 9y ago
The way I explain this to beginner programmers is that there are three types of equals in math and programming: The math "=" means "these are equal" The programming "=" means "make these equal" The pr
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by tobiasSoftware 9y ago
There needs to be a push for a nominal fee (even if it's one dollar every ten years). This would allow the big companies to have their copyrights as long as they want (which isn't okay but good luck with that), while putting 99% o
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by tobiasSoftware 9y ago
Getters and setters are confusing because there are no reasons to use them for small projects, like what you would build in a college course. Software becomes exponentially confusing the larger it becomes. In addition, one piece of software
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by tobiasSoftware 10y ago
Used to agree with that, then a friend got Risk Legacy which has a 15 game campaign. It took us a couple hours the first night just to go through the rules, but it was one of the most fun experiences of my life and we all bonded from it. 4
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by tobiasSoftware 10y ago
As someone who is a huge fan of the Cities and Knights expansion: The expansion is a huge expansion to where the entire game changes. What I like about it the most is that instead of cities getting a second of a resource, they get a new typ
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by tobiasSoftware 11y ago
As a believer in Weak AI the Chinese Room argument really gave me more understanding of my position. His argument is based on the concept that interpretation of symbols is not the same as the understanding that we do. As an example, say tha
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by tobiasSoftware 12y ago
As I understand it, "Zero, one, infinity" is not about what numbers should be coded, it is about what numbers should be hard-coded. The concept is that if you have a number other than one of those three, then as the author says it
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by tobiasSoftware 12y ago
Was just reading the reddit thread and Jordan posted a picture of a transfer of $25000 to Andrew. However the details were not blacked out properly, you could see the address easily and could probably figure out the account numbers given a
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by tobiasSoftware 12y ago
American here, what Dalek_Cannes said was correct, but to add to that, we have a system to change the underlying views. These are called Amendments, and that is how we changed the underlying view to allow everyone to vote. The difference be
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by tobiasSoftware 13y ago
Just try saying "my favorite language is _" and you'll see what he's saying. I tried that once, on a thread about favorite languages I added a comment saying, I use these languages for these things, thinking I might ge
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by tobiasSoftware 13y ago
I think they are mainly charging for ad free playback. I've been putting up with the ads and they tend to be very annoying. There was one for a while where they would outright yell "Trojan Man" and talk about how thin and ple

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