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by tritium 9y ago
VPN services still put us on the run, so to speak. As an optional, externalized behavior, those who choose to employ VPN tunneling will enjoy an additional layer that buys them some time, for some of their activity. But if one were trying t
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by tritium 9y ago
The difference between random corporate people and random people is slim, and usually little more than the incentive of the paycheck as a token to turn a blind eye, and focus on a limited abstract task that lacks a value greater than the to
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by tritium 9y ago
I see that you have your own opinions, and that you’re emotionally invested in them. The basic premise of your argument is that this is the best we can do for now, so that should be acceptable. Not unlike claiming “If you can’t create a pai
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by tritium 9y ago
Oh, ha! Awesome! I was killing time on my phone, without full debug options, and from the looks of the site, I figured maybe they were being extra cute.
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But... I... I just want to know the answers. That reset quiz button... It’s... Why?
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Before I start trusting random people running mesh nodes to provide me with internet service, I’ll need to see a clear demonstration of some kind of defensive posture for trusting traffic in such a situation. After all, I think some lessons
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by tritium 9y ago
The 2014 ebola outbreak is, I think, really, the closest we’ve come to this kind of true fear ( since 1918 ) of a fast-acting deadly illness, capable of killing within days, and frighteningly accidentally infectious. I can’t speak to much o
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by tritium 9y ago
True. However, depending on the manner of licensing applicable to a given project, one might be forced comply with aspects of the protection a given license affords. So then the choice leaves one working with intellectual property controlle
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by tritium 9y ago
This intimidation tactic fails to intimidate. Many of the subjective “us” remain recalcitrant.
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Is there any reason you’d advocate writing “ typical ” software?
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The problem with “contributing” to a project that belongs to someone else, is that your contributions might be handily ignored, no matter how incredible and wonderful they may be. And so, often, the only recourse to such an outcome is to ro
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by tritium 9y ago
No thanks. I'm not interested in the manipulation of perception. I'd like a progress bar to actually report on progress. If you can't do that, don't feed me bullshit blinking lights, and pat yourself on the back. Just te
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by tritium 9y ago
Depends, what does ELI5 mean? When an electron, seated at the edge of a crowded-with-electrons valence band in a semiconductor, gets excited and jumps over the energy gap to the otherwise empty conduction band, it leaves beh
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by tritium 9y ago
Hacker News downvotes are to be ignored as pedantry at best. Imagine the level of discomfort inflicted by my comment, and that should correlate well with the amount of discomfort the HN frowny face is truly worth. Maybe it's taste is c
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by tritium 9y ago
If only they would have simply written " gamma ray " instead of γ-ray, but I suppose there are the bandwidth savings to consider...
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by tritium 9y ago
And that's just it, isn't it. Siri is just a name. A cartoon. The reality is that at a minimum, it's an organization of profit motivated people trying to listen to you. Maybe Apple is controlled by nice people today, but how
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by tritium 9y ago
Let's dispense with the facade. Younger employees typically do more for less, and are sought for their energy, flexibility and/or willingness to entertain new ideas, and not necessarily because they invent the new ideas. It used
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by tritium 9y ago
Hardly anyone uses wired ethernet... Au contraire! Anyone familiar with wi-fi security knows better than to trust the flimsy authentication protocols, and even flimsier application layer implemntation of the user interfaces that con
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by tritium 9y ago
The ban puts manufacturers on notice, but in reality, devices are becoming so ambiguously advanced from a technical perspective, that " smart " is not an adequate adjective to describe all that myriad use-cases and features that r
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by tritium 9y ago
DongleGate™ arguably started (and was likely internally fomented) with this edition of the MacBook Pro. This was the first MacBook Pro to exclude an ethernet port, and when Desktop Support at my company handed it to me, I looked at it and
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by tritium 9y ago
Well, in an extremely primitive and minimal sense, the (appropriately named, especially in this case) Brainfuck language is Turing complete, providing an adequate window into hypothetically any programming tasks a programmer might wish to a
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by tritium 9y ago
"catching up" and "falling behind" Within the context of this article, the thing gained or lost is capacity for Scientific Research , and the article suggests renaming an NSF report. It is not a statement abou
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And to clarify further: Normal activity with no coffee (or caffeine?) represents the common risk factor “ 1.0 ” as the control group. People who claim to totally avoid this psychoactive stimulant (but naming brewed coffee specifically), and
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by tritium 9y ago
So I notice that her brain has been scanned and a careful analysis has been performed to detect differences relating to the areas she exhibits strengths in, and also the biological roots for some of her struggles. It sounds like it was part
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by tritium 9y ago
So, what your saying is that you're okay with it dropping bombs at all, as long as it's over there, but not on Europe, because Europe is special. (if not for this imagined hazard, would everything suddenly be okay?) Meanwhile, pol
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Not that questioning this premise should expect to surface an answer to any of these questions but... Would such a joke's lineage be perceptible or readily recognizable? Would anyone notice or remember who made the last/next itera
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by tritium 9y ago
There were a couple of violations in that episode that I remember instinctively grasping when I originally watched it as a new episode when it first aired. I had been eagerly anticipating the episode, based on station promo spots that had t
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by tritium 9y ago
The Guatemalan Insanity Pepper episode was the first “ bad ” episode to signal decline in quality, after which good episodes were absent, if not extremely rare.
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I think knowledge transfer is hard, because teaching requires time for neurons to reorganize or maybe fix themselves in place, in order to properly cement a retainable fact. It’s just a quirk of the human condition that amounts of memory pe
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Given that most of the chemical processes of neurology are halted by rendering the usual liquid soup of metabolism completely inert, any rememberance of dreaming or sensation is going to occur in the transient periods of going under or comi

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