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by wzdd 4y ago
I understand that having ADHD would make this more diffcult, but I have found it helpful to use the feature on my phone (iOS, but presumably Android has similar) which limits the total amount of time I can use a particular app every day. Wh
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by wzdd 4y ago
Love the simplicity of the circuit with the daisy-chained uart lines and the use of a time-to-live counter to determine the target so you don't need to give each one an ID.
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It seems like you have written quite a few comments engaging with people here in an attempt to demonstrate that, by your own data, a difference in maternal mortality of 1 in 100 000, when comparing a single American state to a single Europe
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From that link (which is a blog post by the researcher): > there's a cleverness and tightness of expression in Dennett's actual answer that's missing in the blander answers created by our fine-tuned GPT-3. I found this a v
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by wzdd 4y ago
We can only confidently dismiss this hypothesis if we would expect that lives saved due to a decrease in pollution would be noticeable over a two and a half year span. This seems unrealistic because air pollution tends to cause injury over
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> How does a supermarket knowing my personal shopping habits negatively impact me, in concrete terms? Target notifies teen girl's father that she is pregnant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012&#
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by wzdd 4y ago
I do like the way they let you choose any combination of four blockers by setting individual bits in the last octet of the DNS server address.
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by wzdd 4y ago
The quote at least contextualises "premature". As it is, premature optimisation is by definition inappropriate -- that's what "premature" means. The context: a) gives a rule-of-thumb estimate of how much optimisatio
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by wzdd 4y ago
"Users might get phished" is not a binary. Some people will always get phished. However the more obvious that you make it that you're getting phished, the fewer people will get phished. The current scheme apparently does not
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by wzdd 4y ago
It's the instruction at $98ED which is being substituted, because Game Genie codes use 15-bit addresses with the 16th bit implicitly set.
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by wzdd 4y ago
I bought one of these recently, and it's amazing how powerful it is given that it's a toy. It sits on the bus between the CPU and the cartridge, so you effectively get to change up to three bytes of program text / rodata* on
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by wzdd 4y ago
It looks like that filter does an exact comparison ignoring whitespace. To be more effective it would need to ignore things like variable renames and trivial transformations (for(;;) becoming while(true) or whatever). In other words we&#x27
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by wzdd 4y ago
Yes, I wrote my own service after Maciej (very politely, this is not a criticism!) asked grandfathered-in single-payment Pinboard users if they would consider a recurring payment. It's a simple Python / Flask app which runs on a h
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by wzdd 4y ago
> You can't make teenagers sleep more by changing the number on the clock. As a matter of fact, the article cites data from Seattle and Denver which shows that teenagers slept more after schools in these areas changed the number on
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I'm not really convinced by the "intentionally inaccurate" arguments (if they want to deceive, then surely they could also just serve a fake PDF to Googlebot). But I suppose it's reasonable to assume that restaurants wou
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Even if we accept that it's just about the names, it's a weird mea culpa. Obviously they knew the names, because they accidentally printed them. So what they're apologising for is making it so obvious that they knew the names
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by wzdd 4y ago
This is a pedicab service. A cynic would assume that Pedal Me is mandating this (and thus putting their drivers at risk) because passengers are more nervous about taking a service where the driver wears a helmet and they do not.
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by wzdd 5y ago
> I recently wrote to delete all the VAX/OS2/DOS/Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions. That commit 10a766eb you linked to appears to have significantly more than removal of those archit
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by wzdd 5y ago
Contrary to what you wrote about T. gondii definitively not being sexually transmitted between humans, the article links to several studies which postulate exactly that. The paragraph is: > Since reports that T. gondii can be a sexually
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by wzdd 5y ago
IMO a better, though more complex, solution would be to keep the frame delays as specified in the GIF, but to disable GIF looping if the sum of all frame delays was less than 10 ms. That way you get the one good use case (>256 colour gif
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by wzdd 5y ago
Douglas Adams did a great parody of this genre in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul: > "Gilks!" he said. "Your smart-alec suicide theory. I like it. It works for me. And I think I see how the clever bastard pulled it off.
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by wzdd 5y ago
A loophole is useful in the scenario that Google wants the good PR of being seen as as privacy-focused by restricting location tracking, even to itself, but still wants to collect as much location data as it can. That said, I don't bel
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by wzdd 5y ago
Is that true? It seems like screen readers would benefit from knowing the difference between Ohms and Omega, particularly if the surrounding text is in Greek.
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> You pay with attention, and the service trades some of that attention to an advertiser in exchange for regular currency. This is a very superficial take. You obviously don't just pay with attention. You also pay with actual mone
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This is incorrect (which is lucky, because it would both be extremely unreasonable and impossible to enforce). You can only be fined if you are driving so slowly that you are causing an obstruction. Citations: NRMA: https://www.m
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I think that this passage and various other parts of the book are a particularly English form of understated humour, where Babbage is playing up his public perception as a frustrated genius in order to add a little levity to what might othe
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This specific usage comes from a foundational paper on the philosophy of mind by Thomas Nagel titled "What is it like to be a bat?" and was made popular by David Chalmers in his writings on the "hard problem" of consciou
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I don't understand the riddle at all. The neighbour "cast light out onto the street and in to the windows of the neighbouring houses". In a very real and obvious sense, the neighbour's light is no longer theirs at that p
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> it took Apple many years to come out with a mini model Apple has always had a mini model, they just haven't named them as such. For example, the iPhone 8 (2017) and the iPhone 13 Mini (2021) are almost the same size (incidentally
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Per the paper ( https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202013714 ) the importance of this finding appears to be the discovery that hFwe-Lose concentration has greater predictive power for patient risk

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