tomerv

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by tomerv 5y ago
Your original comment makes it sound like the main purpose of the small spoon is for cocaine - "Turns out it was for coke". But it's not "for coke", it's for stirring your coffee, and it's just that coca
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by tomerv 5y ago
Those all sound like urban legends. The coffee stirrers are for ... stirring your coffee. They look like a small spoon just because that shape works well for stirring the beverage.
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by tomerv 5y ago
If you generate randomly then, due to the birthday paradox, after generating sqrt(N) values you have a reasonable chance of collision. The birthday paradox is named after the non-intuitive fact that with just 32 people in a room you have &g
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by tomerv 5y ago
Isn't that only about separating government powers? As in separating Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. I just don't see the connection to non-government economical powers. Seems like a stretch.
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by tomerv 5y ago
In what way is this "the model America was founded to try to avoid"?
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by tomerv 5y ago
I'm stuck on the first few paragraphs. It's clear that the author is heavily biased again anything-that-is-not-culture, and therefore gives really bad examples for non-cultural solutions. It's easier to convince everyone you&
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Motion Sensor-Based Privacy Attack on Smartphones(arxiv.org)
1 points by tomerv 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 5y ago
Facebook images have such low quality, and posts tend to randomly disappear. I wouldn't use it as any kind of archiving tool.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Note-taking is very individual. I found out in university that the act of writing lecture notes helps me focus and remember. Otherwise my mind would drift. In fact, I soon realized that I should write my own lecture notes, even if I never l
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by tomerv 5y ago
I used to let spiders live freely in my house, until one time I wanted to go to bed at night and noticed dozens of black spots on the bed cover. I looked up and saw hundreds of tiny spider babies on the ceiling. From then on, whenever I see
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by tomerv 5y ago
They are, and I think that Spotify should work to ban them. If I'm listening to a podcast on Spotify, then presumably the podcast creator is already getting my money (indirectly, via Spotify) and therefore I should get an ad-free versi
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by tomerv 5y ago
The fingerings in the example in the readme are completely non-intuitive for me. I've played piano for a few years and never encountered such fingering. My guess is that the algorithm is optimizing for the wrong metric.
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by tomerv 5y ago
I just noticed that this kind of pop-up appearing is a trigger for me to close the page. I immediately get the feeling that I got the basic idea of that page.
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by tomerv 5y ago
The Cartesian coordinates can also be misleading, since even on foot you can't go in a straight line between any two points. There could be a fence in the middle. There's also a difference of height. It might take 10 minutes just
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How to manage architecture choices (in Python and in general)(slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com)
2 points by tomerv 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 5y ago
Yeah, it's really easy to get into an infinite loop with the various Microsoft login screens.
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by tomerv 5y ago
Funny that some of the advice in that thread is to buy crypto, when ~99% of crypto coins were mined in the last 12 months.
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by tomerv 5y ago
It doesn't really matter if the nazi reference was appropriate or not, using nazism as a comparison point is taboo for any kind of serious discussion. Once you compare anything to nazism you pretty much forfeit the discussion, even if
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by tomerv 5y ago
That could really be a great thing! The problem is that Mersenne primes are "sparse", i.e. there aren't many of them. Finding one could be like minting a new block, but it would be so rare that it won't be practical. For
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by tomerv 5y ago
Lots of things are "down the stack". The servers, the building they sit in, the electricity that runs the building, and the coal/water/solar/wind that produces that electricity. Should Twitter run a power plant? May
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by tomerv 5y ago
I wish something like that would be possible for me, but it isn't for 2 reasons: 1. Getting into writing flow (either code or documents) takes me a while. 2. It's so hot here for most of the year, that after walking outside for 10
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by tomerv 5y ago
Seems like Instagram should be on the hook here. They have a legal team, they have a license for the content, and they provide site owners with an easy way to embed content, but they don't provide the proper licensing for actually usin
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by tomerv 5y ago
I've had a $1.5/month charge on AWS that I tried repeatedly to track down but failed each time. Eventually I just let it run until I canceled my credit card.
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The Most Heated Tech Job Market in History: Advice for Software Engineers(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
4 points by tomerv 5y ago|2 comments
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by tomerv 5y ago
Comparing the amount of money seized by civil forfeiture to the amount of money stolen by criminals is like comparing the number of people in jail to the number of people enslaved by human traffickers. The institutional systems tend to be m
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by tomerv 5y ago
Yes, but the comparison is useless. Presumably, at least some of that civil forfeiture is "legitimate", i.e. illegal gains. So what are you actually comparing here?
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by tomerv 5y ago
All the major browsers support adding custom search engines. You just need to specify the URL template to do the search. The common format is to put "%s" as the search term. You can use it for any site, not just things that are co
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by tomerv 5y ago
FWIW, I got the reference. Maybe I'm old too?
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Eco-Fashion’s Animal Rights Delusion(craftsmanship.net)
2 points by tomerv 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 5y ago
> Is it to protect the vaccinated? This makes no sense, as the risk to the vaccinated well below the range we have accepted for decades. What is the acceptable range? Older people are still dying from Covid even after 2 shots. If a third

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