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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Completely agree - being outside academia has apparently made me ignorant to a lot of the pitfalls to actually posting said solutions. Makes perfect sense when put this way. I also really appreciate the response from the author. I forget th
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
As a non-seasoned complete outsider, I thought this part of the article was somehow being dryly facetious or sarcastic or something. Kinda good to have somebody to provide context, actually.
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
> Please do not ask me for solutions to the exercises. Even if you are [an] instructor, I will say no. That's kind of a bummer. I like to be able to check my answers when teaching myself things. Am I somehow alone in that?
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
For a moment I was briefly surprised, but then I remembered the company in question. No way that was accidental.
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
"Scholarly consensus" != authorship. Everyone had a scribe actually do the writing in that day anyway is my understanding. Is there a symbol for the squiggly equals sign?
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Anyone know of any commercial solutions for this that don't involve e.g. having to disassemble the book and feed in a stack of pages? Ideally something on Amazon but "prosumer" lever stuff is good too. I would love to have di
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Couldn't find any mention of a 3rd party security assessment? Open source doesn't necessarily guarantee security though I'm really glad to see this is open source. Given macOS's security track record - especially with
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
I daily use the exact same setup for all three, but with the Android equivalent. ...so it's not like this app is unheard of, per this thread's parent comment. Super odd that they didn't include it haha
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Didn't Portlandia do this a few seasons ago?
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
I (used to?) own a student license for Parallels Desktop circa 2012, though it may have expired by now. In my experience, I could see no major differences between their solution and, say, Virtualbox. There were some Mac-specific features li
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Beat me to the comment.
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Appreciate the clarification. Almost picked it up from context, but was still a little curious (searching the internet for an contextual acronym is never efficient)
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
I remember seeing a similar, slightly-less-semantically-awkward title being posted recently. Something along the lines of "Not Exercising just as bad for you as Smoking"
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Please avoid posting unsubstantiative or potential "flame baiting" content to HN per the guidelines.
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Still wouldn't stop 1x1 pixel image tracking, which I can only assume they're doing alongside other cookie syncing techniques.
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
Anyone looked into potential privacy implications? I understand my current carrier can potentially deduce things about my habits in the unlikely event that they were so inclined, but Alphabet et al seem to make a not insignificant portion o
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
This does kinda sound like something off the Dollar Menu, though.
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
I believe the thing you're missing is known colloquially as 'antivirus'
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by _underflow_ 8y ago
I'd really like to see this technique applied to remastering e.g. songs from vinyl records. Similar to that project to colorize old photos with a GAN, but in audio form. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1845