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by yodon 3y ago
Deciding to spend the next ten years to life in prison is not usually as good a way to respond to adversity as it sounds in the abstract.
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by yodon 3y ago
Yup, someone edited the title. Personally I found the other link more interesting.
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by yodon 3y ago
Also discussed in a recent article[0] by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Haige. [0] https://digitalfrontlines.io/2023/08/20/technology-will-not-...
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International criminal court will now prosecute Cyberwar Crimes(wired.com)
2 points by yodon 3y ago|1 comments
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by yodon 3y ago
If you enjoy this sort of history and haven't read The Cuckoo's Egg[0] yet, you're in for a treat. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona...
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by yodon 3y ago
From the second sentence of the article, The Craft of Experimental Physics, by P.M.S. Blackett.
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by yodon 3y ago
I've been using beautiful.ai to make slides. I like it, but it takes control over font size, and does so poorly - it frequently chooses a font size that is just too big for the space, in which case it blots out the text with an error m
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by yodon 3y ago
I'm not able to find a copy online but the 1933 book this article discusses is truly amazing. Full of techniques for fabricating all sorts of things. If you consider yourself a maker you want to read the book.
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by yodon 3y ago
Reading the text didn't help much > The heresy implicit within is the premise that the user, not the system, gets to define what is most important at any given moment Calling that a heresy is about the most arrogantly flawed stateme
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by yodon 3y ago
Title of submission ("33% of gamers are disabled") is fraudulent. Not the title of the article, not a claim made in the article, not a factually supported statement about distribution of disabilities among gamers.
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by yodon 3y ago
I too really love C#. That said, C# biggest weaknesses IMO are all around a lack of proper const-like markup. Given that TypeScript (another language by the same designer) exhibits similar weaknesses, I've always interpreted it as an i
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by yodon 3y ago
Is Zachary's Pizza in the same category? (I seem to recall being told there was something unusual about their structure but I can't recall the details)
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by yodon 3y ago
Agreed. You want to be able to do a blink comparison. The animation is just a distraction. That said, a bigger problem is that, without having read your comment here, I doubt I would have noticed there was an option to see changes in the im
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Yes, you can measure software developer productivity(mckinsey.com)
1 points by yodon 3y ago|2 comments
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by yodon 3y ago
It's incredibly difficult to get people to deplane according to any particular planned method, at least in the US.
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by yodon 3y ago
Reducing passenger loading and unloading times (also called "Turn Times" in the industry) is a surprisingly hard problem that has been and continues to be heavily studied. Field studies watching actual passengers loading actual pl
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by yodon 3y ago
>how the alleged throttling is somehow so much worse than... One difference is transparency. In the prior administration NY Post case, twitter leadership responded to the issue, acknowledged that the company made a mistake, and both pled
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by yodon 3y ago
>I bet rightwing sites had this issue under former management. If Twitter's previous administration had been doing intentionally bad things as your baseless assertion implies, Musk would be posting the code or database tables and sh
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by yodon 3y ago
Everyone remembers the PET for its iconic industrial design and chiclet keyboards but mustn't forget the integrated "mass storage" cassette tape player and recorder visible in the other images on that page. I had a whole supp
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by yodon 3y ago
> “The breach consisted of unauthorized access to the LetMeSpy website’s database, downloading and at the same time deleting data from the website by the author of the attack,” the notice reads. "Good guys" don't usually d
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by yodon 3y ago
The HN algorithm heavily penalizes disagreement in the belief that topics which cause people to fight with each other are bad for the behavioral norms that enable HN to have better discussions than other similar sites (not perfect discussio
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by yodon 3y ago
Wow. Your description of Time Travel Debugging plus Edit and Continue working together sounds amazing. Definitely want to try that some day. I suspect the side-effect/impure-function-call detection JetBrains has built here will be key
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by yodon 3y ago
From the Hacker News guidelines[0]: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." [0] https:/&
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by yodon 3y ago
Thank you. I've been puzzled by that name for literally decades. I always assumed it was a *nix pathname joke about ./ and couldn't figure out why the order was reversed.
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by yodon 3y ago
You may not like the branding but any other metro region would kill to have the density of startup activity that Hayes Valley is spawning right now. Obviously most of these startups won't make it long term, but some will, and the conne
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SemanticDiff Now Available for GitHub(semanticdiff.com)
2 points by yodon 3y ago|0 comments
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by yodon 3y ago
Search only returns usernames not content? Total fail.
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by yodon 3y ago
Huge missed opportunity in this tool to actually answer the "wtf degrees?" question. Fahrenheit temperature degrees are based on concepts of angular degrees (just as Centigrade is based on concepts of slope). Many people know the
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by yodon 3y ago
The key is to make sure you're reading books by Landau and Lifshitz. Landau was more the famous as a theoretician, Lifshitz was the better writer. That said, these are definitely books to read when you're in the mindset of studyin
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by yodon 3y ago
Great site. Minor nit - the book "The Dictator's Handbook" is listed twice in the books section.

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