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by trendia 10y ago
Serious question: What would Comcast do that would cause that? Would they give you a higher proportion of bandwidth when you first subscribe for internet service (and checking speedtest.net), eventually reducing it to give way to other new
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by trendia 10y ago
Unfortunately, Chromebooks will struggle with the engineering crowd, where software like ANSYS, Matlab, AutoCAD, etc. are required.
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by trendia 10y ago
You wouldn't literally mutate the AST, you would rewrite the code so that it performs the same output but using different code. Suppose there is a function y = f(x). You would write a different function g(x) such that g(x) = f(x) for e
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by trendia 10y ago
This struck out at me: > There are objective measures of code similarity that can be quoted, like the edit distance between abstract syntax trees ... If this became the primary legal metric, then programmers who stole code would change t
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by trendia 10y ago
Well I bet I can guess what Silicon Valley billionaires will be doing within a decade!
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by trendia 10y ago
You have to take the class to find out!
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by trendia 10y ago
Sometimes excluding nation states from your threat model gives you a blissful ignorance. After all, proper computer security protocol isn't going to protect you from being disappeared.
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by trendia 10y ago
The creepiest part of that incident is that after weeks of no communication, the bookseller "wrote" an email to his daughter saying that he is alright and not to worry about him.
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by trendia 10y ago
Activated carbon can remove some, but not all [0]. > part from the commonly studied perfluoroocta noic acid (PFOA or C8) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), eight additiona l PFASs were evaluated: perfl uorobutanoic acid (
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by trendia 10y ago
The new Charge costs more than the old one and doesn't have a GPS. Now I have to run with my phone on me to get accurate location data. They're regressing.
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by trendia 10y ago
It goes farther than that in my opinion. I would be willing to ocassionally take an Uber Pool, which costs more than a bus but less than a taxi. That whole market (of ride sharing) did not exist previously in the US. (It has been pretty com
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by trendia 10y ago
Robert Shiller (who authored this review) has an excellent Coursera course called "Financial Markets" [0]. It gives a broad overview of many important facets of the economy. [0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/
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by trendia 10y ago
My understanding of that event is that protestors were starting fires and the police arrested 230 people near the incident. Of those 6 were journalists. I think that's somewhat different than police targeting journalists for their view
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by trendia 10y ago
This will go great with my other books I haven't read!
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by trendia 10y ago
The sender sends it to multiple devices, each with a different key. I know that Signal messages can be sent to mobile and desktop at the same time, and it is seamless to do so. The sender does not even know that they are sending it to two d
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by trendia 10y ago
I am not sure, but it could be that the arts programs have a different acceptance rate than the engineering programs.
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by trendia 10y ago
The data show quite the opposite: the degree matters more than the institution. An engineering degree from a top 50 school has a higher return than an arts/humanities degree from a top 5 institution. http://cdn.static-econom
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by trendia 10y ago
Well, now that we know it was really Goldman Sachs who stole code, I'm sure they'll let this programmer free and immediately arrest the offending employee at GS!
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by trendia 10y ago
I use SIMDPP [0], which allows you to explicitly write SIMD instructions in a portable way. See the documentation [1] for the available commands. Specifically, I write code to be used on both x86 and ARM systems. > libsimdpp is a portabl
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by trendia 10y ago
I remember feeling pretty awesome because my TI-89 could solve most integrals and even some differential equations. Towards the end of my education, Wolfram Alpha came out and would not only solve those equations, but also show step-by-step
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by trendia 10y ago
I would hope the DOJ would have to prove intent, that is, that they turned down applicants specifically because they were a particular race.
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by trendia 10y ago
Many people outside academia assume that researchers receive some sort of financial benefit when their paper is distributed, read, or bought for $35 on Elsevier. But in fact, the publishing companies receive money from both the researcher
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by trendia 10y ago
That's not entirely true. Consider the metric "Yearly Income" which has been consistently measured for decades. It is a proxy for "Total Compensation" but isn't exactly the same because the latter includes heal
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by trendia 10y ago
Authorea looks cool, but you should probably disclose in the comment that you are associated with it. You might even get more attention to it that way, too.
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by trendia 10y ago
... unless you have a Nobel and a diagram named after you.
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by trendia 10y ago
Yeah this is obviously intended as stock footage. It's not like CNN said, "The FSB let our photographers hold the camera at a funny angle of their screen to get this awesome picture." It's more like, "This is what w
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by trendia 10y ago
Airlines should offer a flight service where you pay a heavily discounted fare up front but you don't know when it will fly until a day before. For instance, you would pay $250 for a flight tfrom LAX to JFK, and they would put you wher
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by trendia 10y ago
I can understand why it's a newsletter rather than a blog. Receiving weekly emails would keep reminding people of new content so they wouldn't have to remember to check the blog.
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by trendia 10y ago
A lot of customers are going to assume that zero knowledge means no cleartext data is ever stored. I assumed it, and I'm no newbie. This seems to be an abuse of the motte and bailey kind: they use a word which everyone believes means o
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by trendia 10y ago
What happens if nearly all retail stores had this and you got caught shoplifting. Are you no longer allowed to shop in public? Is thee a time limit, say 1 year, after which they should let you shop again?

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