danpat

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by danpat 9mo ago
It can be achieved with a zero-knowledge proof - there are many schemes, but in essence, they all allow you to prove something (e.g. your birthdate, validated by a government agency), without revealing who you are. You can prove to a third
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by danpat 1y ago
> And you will never know code as well as a reader and you would have as the author for anything larger than a very small project. This feels very true - but also consider how much code exists for which many of the current maintainers we
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by danpat 2y ago
Or shard it - divide your objects up based on some criteria (hash the name of the object, use the first N digits of the hash to assign to a shard), and distribute them across multiple redis instances. Yes, you then need to maintain some cl
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by danpat 3y ago
To add another anecdote to this thread, a few years ago, I picked up an old Consew 226R compound walking foot machine to do canvas work for a boat. That machine was a beast once I tuned it. Fast, powerful, smooth, quiet, and with a servo
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by danpat 3y ago
> but why would you expect that from it? If you understand what it is doing, then you don't. But the layman will just see a computer that talks in language they understand, and will infer intent and sentience are behind that, beca
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by danpat 4y ago
You always have the option of creating a map style and using Mapbox's Raster Tile API - although that does mean you probably can't dynamically adjust your raster images in time for a request to be served. How are you using the Sta
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by danpat 4y ago
It's possible, but not without security implications: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-0-rtt/
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by danpat 5y ago
My company is in a similar situation - have large teams in several eastern European cities (primarily Minsk), and a few long-term remote teammates in Ukraine. A couple have fled (from Kyiv) with children, others are worried about being con
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by danpat 5y ago
Economics has also already given us lots of information on how much money people are prepared to sink into transportation - the owners of the self-driving cars/rental companies will attempt to extract that value. I don't doubt the
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by danpat 5y ago
It's somewhat complicated - timing of cold weather is important to kill off the beetles: https://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/fo... > For example, an under-bark temperature o
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by danpat 5y ago
I would love to see something like this written by someone with a young family. I find myself living JIT subject to the whimsical demands of small children for extended periods, and often wonder if it's even possible to re-arrange lif
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by danpat 6y ago
The sad news is that the credit card scammers have ruined this - automated credit card testing often looks for small donation pages like you're suggesting, then uses them to check if stolen card numbers are valid. This leads to charge
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by danpat 6y ago
For running, this sounds very much like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliotibial_band_syndrome Non-specific knee ache leaving you crippled walking down stairs, and some other specific movements that cause the iliotibi
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by danpat 6y ago
The difficulty is in deciding what needs to "stop". Do you "stop" rent payments when those businesses aren't allowed to operate? If yes, do you "stop" loan payments for landlords who depend on rent to re
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by danpat 7y ago
I've had some success with some of the off-the-shelf laser distance measurement modules, like the ones Bosch sell at big-box hardware stores: https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/laser-measur..
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by danpat 7y ago
Not seriously. I work on other similar optimization problems for my day job though, I can definitely imagine adding a bunch more complexity to guide the solver toward the right solution shape (price, volume, meal frequency, preferred foods
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by danpat 7y ago
If you want to get fancy with your meal planning, you can use a constraint solver like Google's or-tools to figure out what recipes to cook to meet nutritional (and other) goals semi-optimally: Example code: https://github.c
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by danpat 7y ago
I addressed this with my side business by keeping the free option pretty limited. Only a very small set of my potential customers qualify for free (very small, volunteer orgs, with very small problem spaces), so their support burden is kep
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by danpat 7y ago
The cruise control on our Subaru seems to behave like you’d expect here. If someone cuts in front of you going roughly the same speed, it backs off a bit to open up some space, but doesn’t slam on the brakes because someone is close.
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by danpat 7y ago
The term "embrace, extend, and extinguish" was coined by Microsoft, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
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by danpat 7y ago
I think "non-practical" was perhaps poor wording. I assume what the parent meant was a "data structures and algorithms" course, compared with say, "How to code in Java using the standard library". The latter is
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by danpat 8y ago
clang-format kinda does what it says - parses your code, then indents and spaces it according to the rules. It doesn't try to understand code intent, it just looks at syntax. clang-tidy does some deeper inspection and can be used to f
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by danpat 8y ago
Here at Mapbox we're doing navigation on OSM with traffic data - we collect our own telemetry, and use it to guide OSM-based routing. There are numerous Android/iOS apps using our API that you could use, or you could build one yo
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by danpat 8y ago
There is some element of random chance. A random mutation happened, and that mutation ends up dominating the gene pool because it's more successful.
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by danpat 8y ago
I was going to post this same comment. When I was a kid, I used to look out the window and worry that the wings might fall off because I could see them flexing. Then I watched the video above, and I was like - huh, I've only ever seen
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by danpat 8y ago
A functioning brain is posited to spontaneously appear in about 10^10^50 years due to random fluctuations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain I'm not sure if a functioning elephant is more or less likel
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RoboSat: neural nets for OpenStreetMap mapping(openstreetmap.org)
5 points by danpat 8y ago|0 comments
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by danpat 8y ago
To be clear, the 192 part is the lowest "Class C" network prefix. The 168 part was the arbitrary time-dependent part from the allocation database.
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by danpat 8y ago
Volvo proposed embedding small permanent magnets in the road surface that would allow vehicles to track more reliably. Their press-release for it is here, and has a couple of minor technical details: https://www.media.volvocars.c
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by danpat 8y ago
Hah, no, this has been in the works for a while, the release timing is coincidental.

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