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by dleibovic 8y ago
A one pager explanation I wrote after it finally clicked for me -- floating point is just binary scientific notation! Not sure why more places don't explain it like this. https://github.com/dasl-/floating-point-num
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by dleibovic 9y ago
Is there a way to tell if my android phone received an update to protect against this exploit?
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by dleibovic 9y ago
All of your LastPass browser extensions should be updated to version 4.1.44 or higher On firefox, the version I'm using is still 3.3.4, which is the version available from the mozilla addon store: https://addons.mozilla.or
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by dleibovic 10y ago
Kafka is backed by spinning disks though. Am I missing something?
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by dleibovic 10y ago
This comment suggests you did not read the article. The article directly contradicts your assertions. In talking about how Japanese teaching methods are better than American teaching methods, it states: "Similarly, 96 percent of Americ
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by dleibovic 11y ago
I had trouble getting it to recognize my "arrow"
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by dleibovic 11y ago
What about this story is not dystopian? We have a city with a toxic sludge lake created to power our obsession with replacing our phones every year.
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by dleibovic 12y ago
Cardiff University researchers estimated in 2006 that 41 per cent of UK press articles were driven by PR, a phenomenon known as “churnalism”. Wow.
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by dleibovic 12y ago
Would you mind explaining a bit more? This is really interesting to me.
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by dleibovic 12y ago
I agree with you that the traffic speed improvements being due to the bike lanes is poorly supported. But still, this shows that there is room for intersection/street design improvements that do not slow down cars while making it safer
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by dleibovic 12y ago
Wow, that's terrible. I am so sorry to hear that. Where do you live?
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Wozniak, Thiel and Other Tech Heavyweights Back "Mayday" Super PAC"(inc.com)
1 points by dleibovic 12y ago|0 comments
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by dleibovic 13y ago
Is there any cause for concern about toxic chemicals being released into an oven that you use to cook food?
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by dleibovic 13y ago
Mr. Obama was angry at the revelations, privately excoriating Mr. Snowden as a self-important narcissist who had not thought through the consequences of his actions. I could not disagree more with that sentiment.
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by dleibovic 13y ago
To me, that is a perverse thought. I cannot justify the killing of innocents today to make the world a better place tomorrow.
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by dleibovic 13y ago
Generally, when I'm working on a specific task that affects a handful of files, I'll have all of those files open in tabs. This provides a visual cue for each file (i.e. I know the "main" file is in tab position 1, the c
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by dleibovic 13y ago
Another great article on bezier curves that I've used is: http://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
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by dleibovic 14y ago
can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Do you have a source?
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by dleibovic 14y ago
I thought php was also function scope, not block scope as the author claims...?
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by dleibovic 14y ago
So it just watches github's live feed for commit messages that contain a curse word.
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by dleibovic 14y ago
I'll be the dissenter here-- I was not a fan of the movie. It was a boring piece about a man obsessed to the point of craziness about sushi. His kids said to the mother: "Mommy, who is the strange man in our house?" The man was Jiro, their
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by dleibovic 14y ago
The gist of the article is this: the reason people are fat today is not because they burn fewer calories per day. In fact, they burn the same amount as hunter gatherers. Thus, the reason people are fat today is because they consume more cal
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by dleibovic 14y ago
If you butter your corn, it's best to eat in spirals to ensure even distribution of butter over time and minimal dripping.
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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math(rollingstone.com)
16 points by dleibovic 14y ago|6 comments