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by xjwm 2y ago
Very easy to fool. For example, when it asked me "Which city is the capital of Australia?" providing the answer "the capital city of Australia" was judged to be correct. Same when asked about the author of a novel and
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by xjwm 2y ago
You're correct. My other phones were from my wireless carrier, and didn't support unlocking the bootloader, so I had to keep upgrading (over a period of years.) I bought the Zenfone to try to break that cycle. The old devices s
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by xjwm 2y ago
I just sent feedback to ASUS expressing my concern at the loss of bootloader unlocking. I have 2 perfectly good cell phones that are e-waste now, simply because the vendor stopped issuing patches, and the bootloader can't be unlocked
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by xjwm 3y ago
I guess we're here: https://xkcd.com/1425/
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by xjwm 3y ago
I've never been able to approach this book in text. I did listen to an abridged audiobook performance of Finnegan's Wake, and enjoyed it in the same way I suppose I would enjoy listening to a foreign language poetry recital.
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by xjwm 3y ago
So sad. Such loss. Wow.
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by xjwm 3y ago
The author of that post has a YouTube channel called Dave's Garage[0], and has video series that cover development of Task Manager, Space Cadet Pinball, and others. [0] https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzOb
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by xjwm 3y ago
The quote above is from the book 1984. I felt it fit.
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by xjwm 3y ago
>What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if the subject is actually conscious. All that matter is we (I), feel/think that it is conscious, or deserving of care and respect. The law of gravity is nonsense. No such law exi
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by xjwm 3y ago
lol. https://genius.com/Tool-faaip-de-oiad-lyrics
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by xjwm 4y ago
Interesting that the core is oversized. 640Km should be enough for any body.
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by xjwm 4y ago
Oh! Thank you. That makes much more sense now.
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by xjwm 4y ago
I've written code like this in C to create library functions that will be linked in to other projects, but where there is no 'main' function in the C file. Do people use C++ the same way, or is it best practice to include &#
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by xjwm 4y ago
Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
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by xjwm 4y ago
I've been sticking to old.reddit.com as much as possible, but hate all the new nags to switch. Using the mobile site ( https://i.reddit.com/ ) is another somewhat acceptable workaround.
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by xjwm 5y ago
Related: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
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VADM James B. Stockdale – On Courage [pdf](media.hoover.org)
3 points by xjwm 5y ago|1 comments
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by xjwm 5y ago
>Most students, 48 percent, claimed to be Native American on their application. I seriously have to wonder...is it possible that some of these applicants are confused about what the term 'Native American' signifies? E.g. confu
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by xjwm 5y ago
It looks like the program you are talking about, "Desktop Games," is still hosted on: http://www.gemtree.com/program.htm . No idea if it works on modern Windows or not.
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by xjwm 5y ago
More negative press for Boeing, which they probably don't need after all the 737 MAX issues. From the layman's perspective, I can't tell if Engineers have gotten lazy/complacent in their designs, OR if the FAA has gotte
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by xjwm 6y ago
Oshkosh? B'gosh!
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by xjwm 6y ago
"The revolution will be televised. It'll fade to black before out eyes. The black and white of static snow will blend into a single glow. And colors on the telescreen will flood our rooms in brilliant schemes. And everything
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by xjwm 6y ago
I just ordered one of these recently! Last week, I finished reading "The Cuckoo's Egg,"[0] about a computer espionage case in the late 1980s (great book, by the way.) Afterwards, I was looking up the author's informati
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by xjwm 6y ago
I don't really care for politics, but if anyone is curious, Biden's 404 tries to sell you a face mask. https://joebiden.com/notapage
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by xjwm 6y ago
Well, the entire theory of this paper seems to revolve around the reference[0] that asks "Can Electrons Act as Antioxidants?" Since Oxidation[1] is the loss of an electron from an atom/ion/molecule, it seems like the en
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by xjwm 6y ago
Looking at the linked article[0], it looks like this is the result of a broader investigation into any undisclosed foreign ties, but it that the Chinese influence has been disproportionately large. Lelling rejects criticism that the depar
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by xjwm 6y ago
> We're going to skip the McCarthyism and go straight to racial profiling I guess. Lauer said the fact that 82% of those being investigated are Asian “is not surprising” because “that’s who the Chinese target” in their foreign talen
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by xjwm 6y ago
Not a ton of stories, but there's some good exercises on how to exploit flaws in real world crypto on: https://cryptopals.com/
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by xjwm 8y ago
Visiting old.reddit.com/r/all seems to work around the signup popup nag.
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by xjwm 8y ago
This also assumes that as each step is solved, it doesn't require a continued human presence. I.e. if you develop electricity, the electrical plant needs to be automated and run itself without human (or computer) interaction. The law

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