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by tornadofart 4y ago
Erik Satie for "modern and intellectual, but also highly digestible". Arvo Pärt's "Alina" for "full of sadness, but also breathtakingly beautiful". Glenn Gould's interpretation of Bach's "da
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by tornadofart 4y ago
Traditionally, to be able to transport them in one trip, since most of the time, one person clears the table while the others remain seated. It's more an act of courtesy towards the person clearing the table, to save them a trip. Also,
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by tornadofart 4y ago
With LaTeX this is partly possible, there is a format for slides.
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by tornadofart 4y ago
I am interested. I think this idea deserves serious investigation. I also have a lot of ideas how you could make scientific methodology transparent.
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by tornadofart 4y ago
Maybe this guy should apply for a job at twitter as he obviously is extremely hardcore.
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by tornadofart 4y ago
1) Thanks for the interesting ideas exchange. 2) you force me to be more precise. you are right. Biometrics are not immutable. However, you as a user have only a certain amount of control over their mutability. Can't change the nose yo
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by tornadofart 4y ago
There is not only attack surface in the equation. I guess the basic calculation is something like: (attack risk x attack surface x attack damage) - (security costs) must be greater than 0. The damage you get when your security token is a pi
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by tornadofart 4y ago
creating 3d data from a portrait photo is not that hard... nor is setting up a camera anywhere necessary, to get your face's 3d data. My point is, the "secrets" (your face, your thumb) are out there in the open, and there a
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by tornadofart 4y ago
you have ten thumbs, that means 8.00000001 more than the average person, that's some high level of security there :D but you're right. I don't understand why face ID is supposed to be secure. Anyone can take and use a pictu
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by tornadofart 4y ago
Phew... not easy. It would depend on what "being a dev / programmer" means in your company. In real life, I think being a developer is also a lot about defining the problem space, and then the problem. Solving it is then almo
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by tornadofart 4y ago
If we can agree on 'knowing the difference between jokes and harrassment / mobbing' then I'm with you on this. It's all about context. 'Just a prank / joke' is too often an excuse for things that are
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by tornadofart 4y ago
All within reason, I assume? Or would you be OK with jokes about skin color and such? I'm not humoring you, I'm genuinely interested in your answer.
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I can almost quote verbatim what I commented on a HN thread about generated music. The same criticism applies. It might come across as arrogant, and I wish I wouldn't feel that way, but sadly I do. What is missing in this pieces of &#x
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by tornadofart 4y ago
These generated 'things' only pass as music if you are truly uneducated in this regard. I'm tired of people saying, as I've read in some comments here, that this will be our dystopian future. These generated pieces of te
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by tornadofart 4y ago
No problem. FYI I don't have anything against something "not useful". It's just that storage space on a phone is scarce for a lot of people because everyone wants you to install the app instead of going through their web
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by tornadofart 4y ago
I googled around and found out what your app probably is. FKeyboard? 1/ I could not find it on the google app store app on my phone. I only found it on the google app store website. 2/ when you read an article about your app, it
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by tornadofart 4y ago
anonymize the email, then. just the body of text with the explanations about your app. i don't even know what your app does. For youtubers: Ask one per DM who you think is a good fit. I don't know your app, so I can't recomme
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by tornadofart 4y ago
Uno can build for Linux desktop, while .NET MAUI currently does not support Linux
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by tornadofart 4y ago
Short answer: yes. Long answer: The problems with distributed systems are plenty and are only worth it if the distribution itself is a key feature, because for example your system has to scale for millions of users around the world.
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by tornadofart 4y ago
It's hard to say without an example of what you sent to a tech reviewer. If you want, post an example request here and I will give you some feedback. A lot of youtube / insta / ... tech reviewers only review your things if yo
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by tornadofart 4y ago
Impressive
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Agner Fog has written manuals regarding software performance. He also has a "links" section on his site which includes some forums: https://www.agner.org/optimize/#links
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I feel like this is related to game theory and the prisoners dilemma.
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Quasi-optimal means you can't prove that the algorithm will always find the optimal solution, though for all practical purposes, the algorithm will find it for over 99% of the time.
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by tornadofart 4y ago
That skill can be learned, in part, by taking OR-related business administration classes. Some supply chain management courses I looked into were about learning about standard problems (say, travelling salesman problem) and being able to fo
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by tornadofart 4y ago
Genetic algorithms are known to produce quasi-optimal results in a short time, if set up accordingly. They can be also applied to problems where constraints are very complex to explicitly formulate. Designing one is no picnic, though, and a
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by tornadofart 5y ago
There is no Nobel Prize in Economics. There is a prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, which is not the same thing. And for the "not STEM" = "lowball" thing... "no math" does not mean "simple". Read throu
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by tornadofart 5y ago
I feel you. The attempt from the article author to frame Hotz' comments as something deeply intellectual made me laugh. I don't dislike Hotz, it's okay to have opinions and to be passionate about what you do. But to put him o
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by tornadofart 5y ago
The generalization of "white people" is, to put it mildly, ignorant. The civil populations in Europe are mostly white and have been for sheltering the refugees of Syria, Afghanistan, Irak, etc., with tolerance and acceptance in mi
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by tornadofart 5y ago
The dragon analogy does not fit, imho. There is a moral difference between a society choosing who should die and an arbitrary built-in self-destruction mechanism.

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