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by wang_li 5y ago
>- Force the project onto GPL3 Pretty sure this isn't allowed. The terms of GPLv2 allows the recipient of the software to modify and distribute the software under terms of GPLv2 or later. The software isn't public domain, someo
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by wang_li 5y ago
Many people avoid a lot of taxes on their w-2 wages by not earning much money. They never develop much personal human capital. They don’t acquire specialized job skills. As a country the US should be more concerned about the fact that sixty
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by wang_li 5y ago
You say AI, but this is just a database with a weird query language. The fact that it has to be trained on massive amounts of code and can only regurgitate variations of snippets of the training database back makes it quite clear that there
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by wang_li 5y ago
If we could solve the type 2 diabetics it would reduce the number of people living with it by 90%.
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by wang_li 5y ago
>While one can increase their chances of developing diabetes later in life with poor diet choices (called Type 2), many people are born with diabetes. (Type 1) 90-95% of people who have diabetes are type 2. It's largely a lifestyle
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by wang_li 5y ago
An encrypted hdd/ssd will help of someone steals your computer, removes your drive, and tries to read it from another computer in order to bypass your passwords. It won’t do shit for ransom ware. Ransom ware runs as a user land program
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by wang_li 5y ago
You might be thinking of the C64. The apple II disk controller and drives didn’t have a cpu. It was actually famous for this.
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by wang_li 5y ago
> The author says that lots of measures were taken not to wake people up in the middle of the night, but that despite those efforts 3 people were. It's pretty presumptuous to assume calling in the middle of the night is a problem as
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by wang_li 5y ago
Good one. I do hope people recognize that homeless people constitute less than 1% of Americans. By contrast 60% of tax returns filed by Americans have negative net tax rates. They literally contribute nothing to the running of the Federal g
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by wang_li 5y ago
>reeks of hypocrisy and being mad because Joey got a cookie and you didn't. You mean because Joey took his allowance and bought the supplies for a lemonade stand, took the money made from that to buy the ingredients to make cookies,
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by wang_li 5y ago
Congress does this as well. They pay out millions in sexual harassment claims to staff and they never name the people involved. What should happen here is the technician should be named, there should be big billboards put up in whatever tow
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by wang_li 5y ago
/dev/zero is perfectly fine for modern high density drives. If the drive in question is MFM or RLL from the '80s or '90s, then absolutely go bananas with 53 different bit patterns. But otherwise zeros is effective for na
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by wang_li 5y ago
Dogs should be treated like guns and other weapons. If a person gets a fine or jail time for shooting someone, a dog owner should get the same if their dog bites someone. If my gun would be taken away if I rubbed it in someone's crotch
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by wang_li 5y ago
> then you can filter by those characteristics without the automated process being "based on the physical characteristics of an individual's face" -- you'd just be filtering on a DB column like any other. A case agent
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by wang_li 5y ago
Depending on how you read the specific text of the statute, I think they banned the usage of electronic mug shot databases. >"Facial recognition" means an automated or semiautomated process that assists in identifying, or verif
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by wang_li 5y ago
Bought a 55” tv from Amazon. The UPS driver came a knocked on my door saying, “it’s very large, please help me bring it in.” I went out with them to the truck where the tv was sitting on the pavement. Helped carry it to my house. Driver lef
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by wang_li 5y ago
The sun is slowly warming. In only 100 million years it will be too warm on earth for plants to perform photosynthesis and everything dies.
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by wang_li 5y ago
There are many blood tests to measure things that are not indicative of a chemical intrusion except in the loosest sense. Blood sugar, stress (cortisol), and vitamin d (blood chemistry changes directly influence by electromagnetic effects)
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by wang_li 5y ago
Sidewalk is very low bandwidth. I doubt anyone is going to use it for piracy so as to be able to create reasonable doubt.
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by wang_li 5y ago
If I'd just collected enough ransom to retire and never work again, I'd also put out a press release announcing I was out of business and someone seized all my shit and etc.
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by wang_li 5y ago
Nano has 128 Maxwell cores, which is the GeForce 900 generation. The Xavier MX, for 4x the cost, has 384 Volta cores. Dhewm3 on the Nano pulls 34 FPS at 1280x720. On the Xavier NX it runs at 88 FPS. On the pi4 it runs at 7.5 FPS. On a pi3 a
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by wang_li 5y ago
From the link: >[ZFS] was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, This is deeply ignorant. I feel that Linux has been handicapped by the fact that many developers have never done any serious enterprise administration and th
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by wang_li 6y ago
> especially since usually nobody attempts to attack it. Don’t tell the folks at UMN, they’ll look at it and think, “OMG! It would be so easy to cut with an axe. Such a massive security vulnerability. Bet I could write a paper about this
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by wang_li 6y ago
"It's just a prank dude!" Legitimately these folks have some kind of personality defect. They observed something that everyone already knew and then decided to act on it and pretend they were doing something interesting and n
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by wang_li 6y ago
> For there J+J vaccine, it's also a 1 in a million risk, but just of getting the clots, not dying. Your denominator could be wrong when you factor in the attributes of the individual considering the shot. Are the blood clots appear
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by wang_li 6y ago
This is a jira/gitlab problem. They should recognize the page requires authentication, get that auth, then take you back to the page your browser requested.
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by wang_li 6y ago
The no particular fitness of purpose clause in nearly every EULA you’ve ever clicked through is literally that.
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by wang_li 6y ago
There’s no research going on here. Everyone knows buggy patches can get into a project. Submitting intentionally bad patches adds nothing beyond grandstanding. They could perform analysis of review/acceptance by looking at past patches
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by wang_li 6y ago
This is no better. All it does is increase the size of the research team. You’re still doing research on non-consenting participants.
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by wang_li 6y ago
If, instead of being a streaming platform, twitch instead baked cakes. Would you still say they can exclude anyone they want for any reason? Or would you say that you’re limited in the choices you can make once you engage in public commerce

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