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by ccooffee 3y ago
For a secure communications app, the website is awfully light on details of that security. This could just be a mis-alignment issue (i.e. website aimed at "average users" who may find technical jargon a reason to avoid the app). B
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Submitting an article but substituting in a title to make the story about yourself goes against the submission guidelines [0]. The article doesn't have a particularly informative title, but piecing together the subtitle gives: "Te
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by ccooffee 3y ago
In non-tournament settings, every dollar you win at poker comes out of the pockets of another player at the table. It's truly a zero-sum game, as adding up the gains and losses of players at the table will result in zero. In contrast,
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Aside: does the phrase "grasping hand" have a particular meaning in robotics jargon? (Or is there a different reason to avoid that terminology?) To me a "gripping hand" is intuitively something that continuously holds an
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by ccooffee 3y ago
From reading through the supplementary materials for the paper [0], it seems that the authors are aware of this flaw and they found a way to make it hydrophobic. The approach they tested involved soaking the ceramic in a bath with a commerc
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I assume GP is referring to Title: "Over the Air, Under the Radar: Attacking and Securing the Pixel Modem" Summary/Slides: https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#over-the-... YouTub
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Dr. Blum is also a great professor for smaller undergraduate classes. I took his "theoretical cryptography" class, which was a semi-random walk through the history of creating and breaking crypto-systems. It was a small class (8-1
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by ccooffee 3y ago
The terms of the settlement[0-pdf] are kind of interesting. Drivers in New York City proper are entitled to $17/hr for sick pay. If I'm reading it correctly, that is also the minimum wage that drivers must be compensated at. Howev
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I wouldn't call that a final solution to the paradox, though. (Put on your tinfoil hats.) Maybe the Earth-Moon system was engineered. The solar system came together from a nebular cloud 4.6 billion years ago. The great impactor hypothe
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I'm amazed by this. Platform-independence _with the same binary_ is such a neat solution that would really have helped me at a prior job. Some corporate IT shops manage user machines with tooling that can't deploy software specifi
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I don't think, based on 20 minutes of internet research, that the job title "therapist" (with no modifiers/descriptors) is legally protected anywhere in the United States. But with the URL spelling using an 's'
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by ccooffee 3y ago
How is Twitter tied into this problem? The first reporting on the topic was the Al Jazeera English tweet, which used "killed". The second reporting of the topic was the Al Jazeera (Arabic) tweet which included the video and the Ar
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> It'll never happen, but if funding agencies like the NSF or NIH put strings on the funding like "100% must go to the PI awarded this grant" with accounting requirements, it would help remove some of the financial incenti
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I really don't like this assignment idea as anything more than getting used to the assignment submission and grading system. 1. What is it teaching? Comparator<Integer> is trivial to implement, and you're adding no requireme
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by ccooffee 3y ago
There are definitely people advocating one-way trips to Mars. Buzz Aldrin wrote "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration" (2013) pushing the idea of one-way trips and colonization by 2040. There are quite a few projects t
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by ccooffee 3y ago
"Cruise gives the cars cutesy names" is typical of fast turnaround journalism. The reporter doesn't have the time or resources to investigate the details to determine if this is indicative of a casual culture at Cruise. Inste
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by ccooffee 3y ago
From my limited understanding, web browsers were improved drastically by the creation of cross-vendor testing (e.g. Acid tests). I wonder if there is a way to do some sort of AV simulator testing that would allow us to test the different ma
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I've been in those situations. Your description here does not match my experiences at all. I _hate_ the vernacular of "fighting cancer". As a leukemia survivor, it wasn't a fight. You don't punch back. It's mor
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by ccooffee 3y ago
The laws and regulations around genetic information seem to be (intentionally?) easy to misread. Health and Human Services has a FAQ page[1] which states: > genetic information is health information protected by the Privacy Rule. Like ot
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by ccooffee 3y ago
In the fonts I use, I've never noticed a difference between hyphen/dash/endash/minus. But (as alluded to in the intro of the submitted message) some fonts will render it differently. I would not be surprised if various s
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by ccooffee 3y ago
The Arxiv[0] paper abstract seems much clearer and more informative than the linked article. In particular, it points to WHY the mass has been revised down so far -- there's seemingly a lot less mass at 19+ kiloparsecs (about 62,000 li
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by ccooffee 3y ago
When crypto is involved, I think of shady folks. If you use a crypto exchange to acquire cash and then purchase a Ferrari in cash, you probably will trigger IRS regulations that require the dealer to report a large cash transaction (>$10
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Without underlines makes the data even more hidden. The style looks nice and clean to expert users, but I don't expect any of my less-savvy users to actually find it. (Though I could be very off-base as I've never A/B tested
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I used to put exact time/date information into tooltips, thinking "the users that need it can find it without overloading the UI". I ended up undoing a lot of that a few years later when user interviews demonstrated that hype
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by ccooffee 3y ago
It's a VERY time-consuming process to do a thorough review of localization materials. I've spent multiple working days on single massive commits when working with an unreliable translation provider. I can absolutely believe that s
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Archive: https://archive.ph/20231008050640/https://www.wsj.com/person... Cited research: https://kenaninstitute.unc.edu/wealthinequality/wp-content/u... From the research paper
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Sorry, I was trying to make an almost pedantic point. I agree with you that deceiving the public is important to understanding what/why. However, the claim that "very large majority of the people were against it the entire time&qu
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I worked for a defense contractor when the mistargeted drone strike on Ahmadi occurred killing him and 9 family members (including 7 children). Based on internal information available at the time, there's a very good chance that the dr
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> very large majority of the people were against it the entire time I don't think this claim holds up to the evidence. Looking at opinion polls between 9/11 and 2003's invasion of Iraq makes it unclear that a "very la
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> Unless you're already sitting on FU money, I don't understand why anyone would spend more [than $50/yr on phone upgrades]. Among the people I know, there's more people living paycheck to paycheck and getting annual

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