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by x1798DE 10y ago
I said that my ideal temperature scale starts at 0C and ends at 100F.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I'm mostly happy enough with the metric system (though I feel like things might be nicer if we had started out using base 12 instead of base 10) in most areas, but I'm not sure I'm convinced about switching to Celsius. I very
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think it's generally not possible to un-open-source something. Once you release it with a properly open source license, that version is released with that license. Otherwise a single person could release something open source, wait f
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by x1798DE 10y ago
It's not a false dichotomy, I'm saying that some books need to be culled and that they need to make decisions about it. One of the metrics they have to use to make those decisions is what is being checked out and, like I said, reg
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't really know anything about stylometry or about writing chrome extensions, nor am I super comfortable in Java (plus I have many other things to do on my plate before this). If I were to do anything, I'd probably have to ful
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Well, ideally yes you'd just enforce an affirmative choice here, but I think the whole point of having an organ donor registry is for time-critical situations like when you can't find someone to ask or when there is not clear pers
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Ask HN: Are there any successors to Anonymouth on the horizon?
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> To me it does. How do you know? We don't even know if it's a they a him or her. It would be fallacious to reason about the soundness of bitcoin based on the person who created it anyway , given that you are not being asked t
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Says he was suspended, not fired. Also, he was deliberately messing with their metrics. Presumably they want to sell or otherwise discard books that no one is checking out in favor of ones that have useful and relevant information. By prete
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This seems like a perfectly sensible thing to do, honestly. If I were designing the system, I'd say that the default option is opt-out and that if you make an affirmative choice (yes or no) during your lifetime, that choice overrides y
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't know that people were seriously making money on most of the script kiddie shit that was going on on the internet back before ransomware and bitcoin and such (other than AV vendors), and yet it was rampant anyway. I imagine ther
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Why would you need to configure a proxy? When I used to read more blogs, I would just click the RSS feed icon in the URL bar, then it would generate a little bookmark folder thing in Firefox and blog entries would show up there. Seemed pret
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Presumably if you've cleared your cookies and you use an adblocker, their ability to reliably track your activity goes way, WAY down. In addition to the standard protections of the adblocker and privacybadger, I also generally set a fu
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by x1798DE 10y ago
"Women write better code" seems like an ill-defined statement to me, even assuming you agree on "better" code. Does that mean that the average woman writes code better than the average man? Does it mean that the average
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think techncially it's possible for certain operations using homomorphic encryption[1], where operations performed on encrypted data result in an appropriate transformation of the plaintext data, but I am fairly certain that's n
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Well, I'm saying the attitude of "be liberal in what you accept" is to blame for the fact that malformed documents are being emitted in the first place. A huge number of people will just hack away at something until it works
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I'm dubious on the value of reusable tote bags. For one thing, I pretty heavily re-use plastic bags that I get, anyway. I use them to bring my lunch to and from work, I use them as laundry and shoe-bags when traveling (to keep dirty th
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by x1798DE 10y ago
While technically an accurate description, I generally don't think of encryption that terminates at a service provider as "end to end". I usually think of end to end encryption in the sense of messaging, where it is encrypted
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This rule sounds nice, but you end up with a bunch of malformed documents out there because people emitting it never get feedback about what they are doing wrong. I think I've said this in another thread, but I think rejecting malforme
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by x1798DE 10y ago
If they're going to blow something up, why not a bus or a train or a bridge or a cruise boat or something? There's not so many people on an airplane that it's like it's your only opportunity to kill a lot of people. The
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> Start with a small praise and how the project had currently helped you. Even just a "Thank you for this awesome tool!" goes a long way. This might be good advice in general, I'm not sure, but I mostly see this as just no
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I feel like I would love to use this, but I would be worried about HR freaking out. I had a training before being allowed to interview people and it mostly consisted of teaching how to avoid questions that might inadvertently provide you wi
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I've personally never actually used any of the pebble cloud based services for mine, as I never trusted them with my data. I use GadgetBridge to pair it and manage the apps and update the time, etc. It's been somewhat limiting (GB
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by x1798DE 10y ago
If you're counting off seconds, you say the number of seconds that elapsed before your declaration: " pause one, pause two, ..." So when you get to 10, you have said 10 numbers and there have been ten pauses. The "you
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Yes, the symmetric key (generated on the fly) is in memory while the data is being recorded, this is the case for every encryption technique. In the public/private scheme, once the symmetric key is no longer needed, you discard it pe
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by x1798DE 10y ago
>If you reward the people who plagiarize over the people who actually did the work, there is no more motivation to do the work and the scientific endeavor as a whole suffers. But why is this more important in science than in any other fi
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This is obviously an insane thing do (most fields are small enough that you will expect at least one person from the original paper to at least read the plagiarized paper), but this seems untrue: > As you must certainly know, stealing is
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't think that's true. You definitely don't need a private key, you create a symmetric key from whatever randomness source you have, held in memory while you are using it to encrypt the data. The first thing you do is enc
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't know how inefficient it really is as implemented, I think generally you just generate an AES key or something, use it to encrypt the photo, then encrypt the AES key with the public key and flush it from memory. That's if y
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think the argument would be that if you write a non-standards-compliant unzip utility, in many cases people generating malformed zip files won't get any warning because the software "knows what you meant to do", then people

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