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by vlz 5y ago
This is the correct differentiation. One possible selection mechanism of evolution is selective breeding. Others are predators, changes in the habitat etc.
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by vlz 5y ago
I‘m not sure. The article only says, that tenured personnel is dispersed among other departments. This seems to imply that these people simply cannot be let go, because they are tenured. (But one wants them to go and their positions might n
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by vlz 5y ago
A detailed analysis of Metroid II connected with a moving personal story. It fairly hihglights the games many qualities as well as its negative aspects. It does that by taking the game world very seriously. As someone who loved this game an
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by vlz 5y ago
There is ICU Normalization which supports different "Normalization Forms". After two strings, which differ only in a look-alike character, are both normalized according to the same form, they (might/should, depending on the f
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by vlz 5y ago
But of course other exploits (e.g. in your webapp) might lead to "running user code" where you didn't expect it and then the mitigations could prevent privilege escalation, couldn't they?
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by vlz 5y ago
Friedrich August Wolf is a German Classical Scholar who argued in his 1795 "Prolegomena ad Homerum" that there might be no single author. Gottfried Herrman seems to have argued the same just from the textual structure of the works
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by vlz 6y ago
https://every-layout.dev But thanks for the reminder! I meant to have a look at that.
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by vlz 6y ago
This article from the same site has pictures and also a cutaway of a transatlantic sub. http://www.hisutton.com/Narco%20Subs%20101.html
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by vlz 6y ago
> Thus the history of the names emphatically reflects cross-cultural competition for power and control, but in a very complex way. In an informed view, it is hard to see ‘Anglo-Saxon’ as inappropriate to the contexts to which it has been
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by vlz 6y ago
It should be noted that this is a wrapper around React Native.[1] I am a bit in doubt if one can use Vue Native knowing only Vue and never having to learn any React. [1]: https://github.com/GeekyAnts/vue-native-core sa
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by vlz 6y ago
From the article: > In practice, we pay everyone hourly based on their role. The range varies from $50 (customer support) to $250 (Head of Product) an hour. > Recently I standardized our rates world-wide > We also have an “anti-ove
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by vlz 6y ago
https://sci-hub.st/10.1089/cyber.2020.0049
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by vlz 6y ago
> Any word on whether they track blood oxygen levels? They do. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwilliams/2020/09/09/fitbi...
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by vlz 6y ago
True, but if the hashed password is compromised, the user‘s other accounts with the same password might remain safe. So it‘s not about protecting one single account but protecting the user.
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by vlz 6y ago
> the wealthy absolutely emit more carbon then everyone else Probably true, but probably not proportionally so. If you are 10x, 100x or 1000x as wealthy as me, you are probably not emitting 10x, 100x or 1000x more carbon than me. This ma
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by vlz 6y ago
Kuhns distinction between normal and revolutionary science might be interesting to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Science
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by vlz 6y ago
You are not alone. All my evidence is anecdotal, but in the last year, I sat in at least two meetings with younger devs proposing to use and older devs cautioning to use GraphQL. I'm sure it has its uses (API with multiple frontend cli
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by vlz 6y ago
> This is a great tool to teach kids programming! One would think so! It was taught at our school (didn't take the course myself, about 15 years old at the time) and I only remember my classmates complaining, that it was boring. Som
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by vlz 6y ago
> someone else must be given a low rating to balance that out, even if they don't deserve it I wonder how this kind of thinking starts. Is there any rationale for this?
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by vlz 6y ago
There is a german film "23" about two hackers in the 80s. It is said to give a good impression of the hacker culture of that time, but also has cold war and conspiracy theory themes. It is based on real events, though it took some
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by vlz 6y ago
What does "DM" mean in that context? (Went to wikipedia, but their suggestions like Death Metal and Dance marathon are probably not it ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DM )
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by vlz 6y ago
This seems to be the context: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-...
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by vlz 6y ago
> Seems like a good use case for linking to their respective GitHub mirrors https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/master/net/cert/x5... https://github.com/mozilla/ge
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by vlz 6y ago
You might be thinking about the "cornerstone". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone
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Angela Merkel’s Scientific Background Could Save Germany(theatlantic.com)
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by vlz 7y ago
> I think I've read something about reusing paper as well in medieval time. This mostly happened with parchment, not paper, but otherwise you are right. It is called a palimpsest.[1] Sometimes the writing under the writing can be re
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by vlz 7y ago
From the article it seems that you can just create a free account and query your own name. > In order to test whether or not the data belonged to PDL, we created a free account on their website which provides users with 1,000 free people
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by vlz 7y ago
I don't understand this distinction. Is the reason that they are not testing the frontend itself? Would it be if they were only responsible for the API? Can't you end-to-end test an API?
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by vlz 7y ago
PCA probably means Principal Component Analysis, if anybody wonders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis
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by vlz 7y ago
BEM seems to be "Block Element Modifier"[1] if anybody wonders. [1]: http://getbem.com/introduction/

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