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by vilda 14y ago
"for sexist men, exposure to sexist humor can promote the behavioral release of prejudice against women" Am I reading it right that this makes the study irrelevant? Isn't it like "for violent men, playing violent games makes them violent"?
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by vilda 14y ago
It's fair so say that those girls are authors of that t-shirt. It was they idea. And they are not dumb at all - they are editors of Webandphp.
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by vilda 14y ago
Java UUID.randomUUID() is OK: "The UUID is generated using a cryptographically strong pseudo random number generator."
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by vilda 14y ago
Depends on implementation - always read docs. UUID type 4 is random and does not follow standard rules for UUID generation.
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by vilda 14y ago
Why is it that you'll always get the worst posible review by a non-paying customer? This is a common observation - less the user pay the worse and less objective the feedback is.
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by vilda 14y ago
Batteries heats up during discharge. I wouldn't worry about that. Starting a gasoline engine in cold is a different story - there, the battery is required to provide energy far above their normal working conditions.
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by vilda 14y ago
That's a chicken and egg problem. Electrical charging stations are far cheaper to build than gas stations. At least until there's enough electrical cars to require an upgrade of the whole infrastructure.
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The Full Story Of How Facebook IPO Buyers Got Screwed(businessinsider.com)
1 points by vilda 14y ago|0 comments
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by vilda 14y ago
.io TLD is more and more geekish...
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by vilda 14y ago
Isn't there a catch in job position names? I heard that the term Software Engineer is used broadly in Google. Thus a higly-paid Manager in IBM is Software Engineer in Google...
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by vilda 14y ago
The bottom line is more interesting. If I hire professional lawyer company, I would expect their results to be perfect with respect to the law. Why are lawers sending abviously bogus claims/demands? Shoudn't it fatally hurt their reputation
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by vilda 14y ago
Out of curiosity, I often read gender/green studies mentioned in mainstresm press, published by various NGO. I am constantly horrified how misused statistics is. I believe that most of these studies are written for a specific purpose and ma
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Apple logo and the golden ratio(gold3nratio.tumblr.com)
3 points by vilda 14y ago|1 comments
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by vilda 14y ago
Note that this is not actual sexual assault. Sexual assault must be committed without consent. However Assange had consensual sex. The definition of rape in Sweden is badly broken.
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by vilda 14y ago
Question is how well peer-reviewed the code is before deployment. Facebook is handling a lot of personal data about their users. Security vulnerabilities may not harm Facebook as much as their users.
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by vilda 14y ago
When first transistor was invented, they haven't thought of microcomputers or mobile phones. Whey would not imagine CAD systems or modern biomedicine. When first microscope was constructed, the author did not and could not know anything abo
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by vilda 14y ago
Another great interview, 5 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nMD6sjAe8I
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by vilda 14y ago
I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AttBk-Kt3C0 Looks like it's been mirrored to avoid automatic detection.
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Why Do Startups Fail(processanditeration.tumblr.com)
1 points by vilda 14y ago|0 comments
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by vilda 14y ago
Fair to say the number of architectures increased since the introduction of C...
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by vilda 14y ago
For the newest, most efficient panels, it's about 5 years.
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by vilda 14y ago
It's even worse - Angela Merkel responded in parliament that missing nuclear power plants will be replaces with NEW power plants on fossil fuel. The problem with photovoltaic is that it needs 100% backup in traditional power plants.
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Apple Changes Siri’s Embarrassing Nokia Favouritism(techweekeurope.co.uk)
1 points by vilda 14y ago|0 comments
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by vilda 15y ago
Why not accept a special header similar to "Strict-Transport-Security"? Let it be X-False-Start and for following requests False Start would be enabled for that site.
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by vilda 15y ago
The biggest danger in asymmetric warfare represent "stupid" weapons - ballistic or hand-launched RPG weapons. Misleading camouflage helps you here.
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by vilda 15y ago
Branching. A simple feature everyone is trying to avoid, but sometimes it's like am open door from golden cage. Guava is the "from inside out" project presented as "take it or leave it". I would not personally beat Google because of their a
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by vilda 15y ago
It's fair to mention that maintenance of your infrastructure on AWS is far from negligible. This is not unique for private clouds. Especially given certain unpredictability in instance and EBS performance.
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by vilda 15y ago
Apparently, Google forces you to log in if you are using mobile devices - Android/iOS. Works on desktop without log in.
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by vilda 15y ago
Neither in the article nor it the paper they mention cycles in references. Does it solve it in any way?
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by vilda 15y ago
he asked me what I'd do on an architecture that didn't have a square root or a divide function My answer: I'd change the hardware

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