Giroflex

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by Giroflex 7y ago
It is, actually. Sometimes it's not visible but it's available in a neat JSON format if you view page source.
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by Giroflex 7y ago
> The results speak for themselves. The team set up the new camera on the 20th floor of a building on Chongming Island in Shanghai and pointed it at the Pudong Civil Aviation Building across the river, some 45 km away. The image right be
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by Giroflex 8y ago
As a bit of a layman, is there even any legitimate reason at all (other than a user installing it in their own machine for reverse engineering purposes) for anyone to install a root certificate anymore? I could understand it if it was a sma
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by Giroflex 8y ago
Yup, I was reading through thinking there was some major update to Kitty and was a bit confused when the page said it was only available for Linux and Mac.
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by Giroflex 8y ago
The key here is that this becomes easier as you do it. It's hard fighting off those few first thoughts, but I personally find that once I do, my brain is put into slow gear and fewer thoughts come up. This has an accumulating effect an
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by Giroflex 8y ago
Well, sometimes the average is 0, e.g. (-2 + 2)/2. And the whole point is that this is meant to catch unforeseen interactions as soon as possible. If you add a check it's no longer unforeseen, and it may easily slip the programm
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by Giroflex 8y ago
> You can think of it probabilistically. But probabilistically doesn't it make sense to skip insurance altogether? If insurance manages to turn a profit despite having overhead expenses (salespeople, infrastructure, lawyers, etc) an
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by Giroflex 8y ago
What about good old scp? scp file.txt user@host:/dest/dir/
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by Giroflex 8y ago
> * If I make some claim during class that is not accurate, the students - who, again, are all professional engineers in the work force - will eat me alive. This is interesting. I imagine that in high-level training for any industry this
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by Giroflex 8y ago
Never had any trouble with `pip install --upgrade library`. Not sure if there's support for upgrading all packages at once, though.
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by Giroflex 8y ago
>pip install library needs root Hmm, not really. It's actually advised against [1]. [1] - https://askubuntu.com/questions/802544/is-sudo-pip-install-s...
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by Giroflex 8y ago
> Even something as simple as installing a library is a conceptual leap for these people (why wouldn't the software just come with everything needed to work?). > Have you ever tried explaining the various python package and envi
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by Giroflex 8y ago
It's interesting how lifeforms can mold materials into shapes and states we'd otherwise never think of, or that maybe would even be impossible to produce. The strong silk some spiders make is another example. Leads me to think tha
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by Giroflex 8y ago
It is both terrifying and comical at the same time. This made it click for me about why the most productive times I have are also the busiest ones. I thought it was due to "inertia". That is, if you don't stop rolling, it&#x2
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by Giroflex 8y ago
So the perpetrator's thread has a lot of deleted posts which are invisible now. This link makes them show up again: https://www.removeddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/8825e8/thr...
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by Giroflex 8y ago
> If I could have a guided experience from an agnostic and trained professional I would consider trying them That would be the dream. I personally got curious about it and talked it over with a good friend and we read a lot about LSD. Af
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Tips for assessing the safety of a Firefox extension(support.mozilla.org)
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by Giroflex 9y ago
Was about to post the same. Ghostery for me reports 22 trackers on the website, 3 of which are from facebook, including the "pixel" tracker that is mentioned in the article.
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by Giroflex 9y ago
I actually had the same experience. I was scraping a large number of pages and upon profiling my script, I found out that bs4 was really slow. Changing the parser from the default to lxml helped things a bit, but I decided I would just try
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by Giroflex 9y ago
When I first opened up the Netflix mobile app and it asked me if I wanted it to show me notifications I thought "hey, that's nice, most apps just start spamming me without asking". I clicked "No thanks" and went on
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by Giroflex 9y ago
Sending to that new address would be public.
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by Giroflex 9y ago
It's different to copy/paste code from SO and to copy/paste code from an open-source project with a non-permissive license and remove/ignore the license. The controls to prevent developers from doing this sort of stuff i
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by Giroflex 9y ago
This articule just seems to revolve around some pretty skewed data. > Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer than Mark Zuckerberg. Became paper richer, which is really quite different. The "market cap&
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by Giroflex 9y ago
Well, why did you use all your Ether buying pictures of cats instead of a used car?
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by Giroflex 9y ago
To be fair, 600ms is a long time for what I assume is an analogy for a hashing algorithm. Maybe it would be a fun idea to have sensitive data encrypted in such a way that a part of the hashing algorithm involves solving a physical Rubik&#x2
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by Giroflex 9y ago
Are there any serious known issues on LineageOS for the OP3, other than the camera being weaker?
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by Giroflex 9y ago
> Since the official announcement of Chrome Headless, many of the industry standard libraries for automated testing have been discontinued by their maintainers. The prominent of these are PhantomJS and Selenium IDE for Firefox. Correct m
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by Giroflex 9y ago
> Bebop, a company Google acquired last year for $380 Million > When Google decided to bring Diane Greene on full time to run Google Cloud, they had to purchase her company in order to facilitate that Well, that's an expensive hi
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by Giroflex 9y ago
Not too many decades ago, computers were also prohibitively expensive and largely only available to corporations and governments. I don't think we can discard any possibility given the exponential nature of human advancement.
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by Giroflex 9y ago
The fact that it was indeed publicly available before 2007 kind of throws the whole thing out of the window, though. Even if it seems obvious, how are you going to prove that they didn't actually download the font or have the special W

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