WorkLifeBalance

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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Beating macOS at gaming sounds like a punchline, that's just not impressive, macOS has only ever been an afterthought for gaming.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
In which jurisdictions is this deliberate circumvention of access controls legal?
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
> Is there a name for this type of fatigue Stress. (One of the smyptoms of)
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Stop trying to re-invent statistics. Use a box and whisker plot of latency. You quickly get to see the mean, the quartiles, and all the outliers and you get it in a format which is familiar and easy to understand. You can even plot box and
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
There's also microsoft's R-Open ( https://mran.microsoft.com/download ) which I've found is faster than the out of the box R since it supports better multi-threading of commands.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
That reminds me of this work (2009) by artist Ellie Harrison who made a vending machine which dispensed snacks any time the word recession popped up on the BBC news feed: https://www.ellieharrison.com/vendingmachine/
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
These may well work on some (cheap?) phones, I've had phones not display properly through polarized sunglasses before.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Specifying something as password hashing as (sha256? salted sha256?) without telling it to seems like magic to me. So to clarify, it's this password: declaration which tells the framework to hash the input? users dynamic
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Where is the definition of the password being hashed? The tutorial defines it as text: /* 'Users': collection { 'Password': text }*/ How does the platform know to hash that? Is it looking for magic p
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
How do you take this from here to the next step? Let's say I want to develop a multi user todo and I've followed the examples and now have some Users who log in entering a password. Someone points out that I shouldn't be stor
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Modern tests are delivered by computer and typically are adaptive. This means that as you answer questions correctly you get asked increasingly difficult questions until you get some wrong. This means that you aren't limited to asking
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
The difference between 99th and 99.99th percentile is 1.4 standard deviations, a common IQ test ought to be able to be accurate to that. Otherwise it couldn't measure the difference between 100 and 120 IQ (0 to 1.4z) which it clearly c
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Meta doesn't imply cycling, just that the best strategy may be a mixed strategy which involves randomly picking between different pure strategies. Instead of cycling, the meta ought to converge to a Nash equilibrium. With the right mix
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
It's a stretch to say it results in cheaters, people have been writing cheats since quakeworld.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
There's a better solution: Stop collecting and keeping personal data. I can't even read this article without using firefox reader mode to skip the cookie warning / prompt (this works for a lot of sites!). That's a choice
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Someone on here recently recommended uMatrix for this purpose and I find that a nice trade-off between usability and request blocking. It's an extension but given it's less opaque than a generic ad-blocker I feel more in control a
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Despite not working in infosec I tune into risky busisness (risky.biz) every week, it's a good round-up of the week without the overreaction you sometimes get from twitter and here in the immediate aftermath of a big leak or vuln.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
You say that as if github never has outages when the reality is, like any large service, it has frequent service outages. Just check the github status pages, there are orange level issues almost weekly and you don't need to go back too
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Are they wrong?
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
They all feed into the National ANPR Data Centre: www.npcc.police.uk/FreedomofInformation/ANPR.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Every petrol (gas) station has ANPR; which makes sense, you can't get too far before you have to fill up.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
VR isn't decent yet and won't be until it's comfortable enough to slap a VR headset on and watch a movie. That's comfortable both in terms of literal headset weight but also latency, resolution, sound, etc. When I sit do
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
When I first found notebooks I was amazed at their utility. The ability to quickly display algorithms and processes to a wider (potentially layman) audience is amazing. To be able to have a scratchpad and play around with techniques while k
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
XML without schema are a mess. XML with schema and validtion can be a joy to use compared to the untyped JSON world, but it's the lack of having to specify type which helps JSON remain popular. Given a choice between strong or weak typ
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
According to [1] windowing functions make SQL turing complete. Does this make SQLite turing complete or has it been turing complete before? [1] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
That doesn't bother me because actual opcodes are the least transferrable skill of the parts of programming they teach. Yeah, I'm not going to be able to go from the games straight into x86 programming but when I come across the i
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
No problem, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Article has been removed?
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
Hygeine OCD is only one small subset of OCD.
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by WorkLifeBalance 8y ago
1. What you've described as 'not "tracking" ' is tracking. It's not third-party tracking but you're still deliberately adding a cookie for the purpose of tracking users across your site. 2. Your privacy po

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