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by wswope 5y ago
He can say that, but the drugs have been around and extensively studied using every reasonable approach for many decades. Choosing to ignore evidence doesn’t make it not exist - he’s wrong according to a well-established scientific consensu
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Video has been done, and been around for a while, but IIRC the main barrier to long-term success has been the tendency of scar tissue to form around implanted electrodes (this is not my wheelhouse at all though, someone else can probably of
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by wswope 5y ago
Why so aggressive? Including signatures as a matter of policy on all public communiques from a government agency would be useful for validating legitimacy, as anything deepfaked (i.e. without a signature) would immediately be called into qu
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by wswope 5y ago
I’m not trying to @ you here, but… are you sure you really know? Cryptographic signatures offer gold-standard, definitive proof of authenticity/non-repudiation. “Trust of content”, as you put it, is the problem they solve.
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by wswope 5y ago
The OP means cryptographically signed for proof of provenance, not bundled with a scanned copy of a signature.
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> And I want to be clear that parsing a csv file with sqlite or MySQL is much more complex than learning “SELECT .. FROM .. WHERE” (with no joins!) when there is a tool like OPs that magically does the “parsing”. Sqlite CSV import: .mode
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by wswope 5y ago
I was originally making a snide joke (sorry) since it’s a popular form factor, and I can’t think of a better common option for 2x scaling than 4k 32”… but on review, I actually take your point on space efficiency, if we’re talking about it
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OH MY GOD. Thank you, sincerely, for the link!! I left out the hiring story because it sounds so apocryphal I was sure I’d made it up or was embellishing my memories. So much niche drama I’d completely forgotten about.
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by wswope 5y ago
> Botting in general was the wild west in this game from about 2008 - ~2014. There’s a weird, secret history around Runescape botting that I really hope gets told in full one day. Essentially, the biggest and best botting client from the
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by wswope 5y ago
Similar to your story, I learned how to program by writing Runescape botting scripts. Fast forward to today, and my hobby tech project for the past few months has been building a OSRS market-intel website for trading on the Grand Exchange.
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Yeah, who could ever imagine using a 1080p 32” monitor…
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That reference/learning page is a great resource! As for Pinecone itself, what are the main selling points as you see them for a simple application (e.g. comparing trigram-vectorized sets of strings) when compared to a home-rolled solu
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I’ve used quite a few different registrars over the years, and the only one that really stood out as bad was in fact GoDaddy (tacky UX* and dark patterns in registration flow). Most other big name services you choose will be fine; personall
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I took that approach on my latest Flask project and it’s gone quite swimmingly. The problem I ran into was that a lot of the ecosystem, and therefore documentation, blog posts, helper libraries, etc., are all written under the assumption th
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by wswope 5y ago
If you want to push back against the bureaucracy on this one, find a Firefox-only accessibility addon that can’t be used on their site, and play the ADA angle by sending a polite email mentioning that their negligent browser restrictions pr
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Apologies if it’s not what you had in mind, but the examples in the MPL docs are exceptionally thorough when it comes to showing off advanced features (though they can be quite hard to parse). https://matplotlib.org/stable&#
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by wswope 5y ago
In case this piques anyone’s interest in Cambodian history, I’ve really liked this podcast: https://www.shadowsofutopia.com/ . Good production quality, good depth of academic/scholarly research, and good presentation fr
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by wswope 5y ago
I’ve had a really hard time finding good guides for hardening VMs for malware analysis or processing untrusted inputs as you suggest - any guidance on learning resources?
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Great writeup! Just adding on: Other key differentiator between recreational and therapeutic amphetamine usage is the pharmacokinetics: Vyvanse is the best in this regard - it’s actually an amphetamine prodrug that gets converted to ampheta
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The places where pandas blows SQL out of the water are in exploratory data analysis and visual output. The exploratory data analysis part is mostly a product of composability and verbosity. Composability is hard to define succinctly, but an
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The sort of algorithm you have in mind is usually called a soundex (“sound-index”). Fairly confident order of performance would be PL/pgSQL > Lua > Python.
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He's literally been paid by Google and Facebook - see profile.
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> First thing it did was ask me if it could use my location. I said no. It then took me to a map centered on my current location! I don’t really care and only said no because I was prompted and default to better safe than sorry answers,
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He’s saying if you go in as an insured patient and get denied for a procedure by the insurance company after it’s been performed, you’ll get a bill from the hospital for the insurance-negotiated rate, not the uninsured cash pay rate. You ca
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I thought this was some expert-level trolling at first, but your post history suggests you’re acting in good faith, so: Blood types are categorized as A/B/AB/O because of the presence (or for O, absence) of protein markers on
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Scraping is a cat and mouse game that’ll vary a lot by site. I’m far from an expert and welcome correction here, but the two big tricks that’ll go a long way AFAIK are using a residential proxy service (never tried one - they tend to be qui
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The person you’re replying to is being needlessly condescending, but I suspect what they’re getting at is that having a mindset of “what possible undesirable/malicious inputs are possible from this web form?” really precludes this scen
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Tildes has been around a few years now I believe. I tried it in its early days, and checked it out again just now. Both times I’ve been impressed - it tends to have higher-quality comments and feel less… generally vapid that modern Reddit.
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I take your point that diagnosis is problematic. The [3] source you’re quoting is basically demonstrating that chronic exposure to a dopamine agonist leads to downregulation, which isn’t exactly surprising. The sentence immediately before t
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Honest question: do you have any credentials/qualifications in the ADHD-neuroscience arena? I ask because your sources don’t really serve your point, and are part of a broader body of literature that you’re not contextualizing: there’s

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