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by blindm 6y ago
If you are doing software engineering, Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework is worth a look. Considers complexity as one quadrant to deal with when making decisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_Framework
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by blindm 6y ago
I personally never liked the whole Nord ecosystem. I tried NordPass and encountered bug after bug and had to stop using it. The software seems kind of thrown together / shoddily made just to make a quick buck. They don't nearly pu
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by blindm 6y ago
And with Mullvad you can just make a one-time payment of EUR 5.00 if you need to use it for 30 days. No auto-renew crap / commitment to long subscriptions to deal with.
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by blindm 6y ago
Would be interesting to see how may people inadvertently employ Dijkstra's Algorithm on their runs/walks https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/dijkstras-shortest-path-al...
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by blindm 6y ago
> I remember seeing photos of some university - I can't remember where - that actually ripped up the old paths and paved over the desire paths, to great success. And when people do this: it makes the path a bit jarring since you int
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by blindm 6y ago
Well we assume any important Internet choke-point is used for surveillance. If I just started surveilling anything sent en clair my first stop would be Internet backbone connections.
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by blindm 6y ago
And what percentage of these users regularly encounter censorship, Internet infra shutdowns, or even surveillance? Every other day there are news articles pointing out the woes of the Great Firewall[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by blindm 6y ago
> Communicating the mapping of the code and the real world, as Naur describes, would have required us to document all these processes in meticulous detail. If we had tried to, I believe the result would’ve been multiple hundred pages des
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by blindm 6y ago
Why specifically India? Multiple nations should be adopting digital currency. Europe for example is pushing for a digital Euro[0] [0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleuro.en.html
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by blindm 6y ago
> Our world is defined by it, and yet we struggle to ever define it > German psychologist Gustav Fechner provided evidence that people prefer rectangles with sides in proportion to the golden ratio (if you’re curious, that ratio is ab
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Pirates, Crypto, and the Secret History of Windows Product Activation(youtube.com)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
> My decidedly Holocaust-centric childhood failed to instill in me hostile emotions toward Nazis, or anti-Semites generally. Stockholm syndrome?[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome I remember a l
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by blindm 6y ago
> High performance animation and interactivity Animations that jump out at you as you scroll always seem like a great idea, but are a misfeature to be avoided, since they distract from the content, and give across this 'trying too h
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by blindm 6y ago
> Could you explain why Signal users are more careful than email users? Sorry, I forgot to mention that phones are typically seen as more secure, and phones are the go-to operating systems that people use now, and are (usually) permanent
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by blindm 6y ago
Baking in automatic crypto to email is a lost cause, since email is not as straight-forward as let's say Signal, which only succeeds because it exists in a monoculture (iOS/Android). Email operates on 100s of different clients (an
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by blindm 6y ago
> I think the cat is out of the bag on this one You mean that stock market manipulation is now in the hands of normies who don't wear a suit-and-tie and are not your typical business mogul who has regular insight into stocks and lik
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Pirates, Crypto, and the Secret History of Windows Product Activation(youtube.com)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
There's also PPL going around registering the shortest handle they can find that is not yet taken by someone, and then selling them on the darknet as so called 'OG' accounts. You can get a four letter handle for $200 like `@n
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How to display Windows 10 build information on the desktop(addictivetips.com)
3 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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How to generate an audio waveform animation for your videos(vokal.co)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These researchers need to write algos to filter out all the noise
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by blindm 6y ago
I always wondered: how many of these tweets are just Justin Bieber fandom type posts, bots, spam, or other dross? Twitter is infamous for its bad signal to noise ratio. These researchers need to write algos to filter out all the noise
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Casual Effects – Computer Graphics Projects by Morgan McGuire(casual-effects.com)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
> do you have more info on the 'forever domain'? https://www.epik.com/forever/
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by blindm 6y ago
As much as I don't like using Google services, they do offer something I might actually use, as per the mention of 'offsite' offprem storage in the article: https://cloud.google.com/storage/archival/
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G Factor in Non-Humans(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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by blindm 6y ago
I'm sure it's easy to write a small script that spawns new tabs in the browser and opens several random sites from /newest. In-fact I am tempted to write a bookmarklet that does this. You could also code up something in Tampe
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by blindm 6y ago
> it's easier to just buy a domain and route * to your inbox There is the caveat of the domain getting into the wrong hands, if you look long enough down the road. What if you die, or simply can't afford to renew the domain wel
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Power Query or SQL Server? Which, When and Why(sqlservercentral.com)
1 points by blindm 6y ago|0 comments
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RSS Feed Generator – Create RSS Feeds from Any URL(rss.app)
4 points by blindm 6y ago|1 comments

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