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by entropy_ 4y ago
This is factually untrue though. Twitter was making money in 2018 and 2019 (to the tune of ~1.2B/year in net profit out of ~3B revenue, which is a fairly high profit margin) they lost quite a bit of money in 2020 and less in the years
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by entropy_ 4y ago
It's a hash of everything that goes into a commit, including the commit message. The idea is that nothing that makes up a commit can change without changing the hash.
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by entropy_ 4y ago
I'd guess a lot of it is in hardware and firmware which would be very costly to change that late into the development cycle
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by entropy_ 4y ago
Mid-30s and no regrets so far after roughly 12 years of experience. I've done mobile development (Symbian, yes that Symbian, iOS and Android) backend (nodejs, erlang, PHP, python) data engineering and probably a host of other things th
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by entropy_ 4y ago
I like how you think labels correctly label anything. I happen to work at a music streaming service (not Spotify) and I can definitely say that those datasets are insanely noisy and generally you can't really trust labels to, well, lab
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by entropy_ 4y ago
I had a very similar experience with Nibbles. It was my first time reading a program and modifying it. The initial motivation was that we'd bought a new computer and it was suddenly unplayably fast. Found the busy loop that slows thing
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by entropy_ 4y ago
As far as I can understand it: 1 - I'm proud of having cheated Airbnb out of their commission when helping me find housing so I could live like a hipster 2 - I hate living next to Airbnb hipsters Needless to say: not a lot of coherent
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by entropy_ 5y ago
Where did you get 1,000$/KWH of storage? Even at small scales (household-sized batteries, ~10~15KWH) prices are currently around 300$/KWH for lithium batteries including shipping in a 3rd world country (I know, because I live in a
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by entropy_ 5y ago
I'm familiar with this prayer in Arabic, and two variations thereof (one used by Catholics and the other by Eastern Orthodox churches). The Catholic one would translate to 'enough for the day' (كفاف يومنا) and the Orthodox to
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by entropy_ 5y ago
We kept getting rejected by a reviewer who couldn't log in (we'd attached credentials to our submission). When they finally sent a screenshot with the rejection, it turns out they were using 'login with Google' and then
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by entropy_ 6y ago
The past year in Lebanon has been like that. I'm sure if someone wrote a script about this for a movie they'd be told to just "tone it down on the grimdark shit okay?" or something. 1 - Oct 2019: financial meltdown (stil
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by entropy_ 6y ago
I live about 9km away from the site of the blast(as the crow flies). I can definitely confirm that the order of events was: 1 - Earthquake 2 - Sound (sounded like rolling thunder or a jet breaking the sound barrier) 3 - Pressure wave (felt
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by entropy_ 6y ago
They would die of blood loss before that happens
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by entropy_ 7y ago
"The ability to be expressive comes with it certain biological traits and dispositions. These traits may determine your viewpoints on matters." This is an extremely hand-wavy assumption that you're basing your arguments on. A
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by entropy_ 7y ago
Happened to a friend of mine though it was Syria in that case(before the war, 2008~9). Guy was 20 and had never set foot in the country, wasn't really aware this was even a thing. Managed to get out of it after being detained for a few
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by entropy_ 7y ago
Not an expert, but I would imagine the speed at which these carbohydrates get metabolized is a factor in whether or not it messes them up? Carbs from bread take a much longer time to raise blood glucose levels and do so for longer than a sp
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by entropy_ 7y ago
I remember our first night home with our first child. It was an extremely difficult birth(long labor followed by a C-section due to complications) and so my wife needed lots of sleep(we only got 3 nights in the hospital and she was in no wa
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by entropy_ 7y ago
It's only weak if you have access to a credit card and are able to pay for a VPS or VPN abroad. If you're trying to bypass it using only free(as in beer) tools, it's quite effective as clearly shown by the article.
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by entropy_ 7y ago
First, I may or may not have privately held views about the morality(or lack thereof) of US foreign policy post WW2(hint: If you look at my comment history, you can probably figure it out given where I've stated that I live and some ob
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by entropy_ 7y ago
This particular position baffles me, especially since we're discussing Iran here. Iran had a liberal democratic government and the US toppled it(because they dared try to take control of their own oil reserves) in favor of a milita
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by entropy_ 7y ago
In theory you can build a latch using only NAND gates, so it should be possible unless the gates that are demonstrated are flawed somehow, see my sibling comment.
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by entropy_ 7y ago
He built an adder, which does always complete(by design). But having the ability to build AND and NOT gates(which he demonstrates) should be enough to build any computer from just those 2 components[1]. I'm not familiar with the game t
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by entropy_ 7y ago
You need to go to the app store app, then the updates tab and pull down to refresh(yes, the updates tab, not WhatsApp listing in the store). When you do that, you'll see the newest version becomes available for update. This happens w
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by entropy_ 7y ago
My son could read the alphabet and recite it at 18 months. He learned this on his own because someone gave him a kid's alphabet book and he kept pointing to things in it and we'd tell him what they were. I think kids are perfectly
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by entropy_ 7y ago
The downgrade attack works even if both the AP and the device connecting to it are WPA3 capable, that part is not a given
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by entropy_ 8y ago
I definitely agree with most of the points in the article. I've always been an avid reader and I find that this has enriched my life and my ability to think and reason about the world around me. However, I find that the dig at amazon a
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by entropy_ 8y ago
The attestation API can be used to detect probable root, but that's not the only thing it does. It can be used to detect if an APK is modified(and thus probably cracked) or not. There are various things you can check for and you can al
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by entropy_ 8y ago
If your app relies on server-side functionality to work, you should look into the SafetyNet Attestation API to see if you can block cracked apps from working by having the server refuse to talk to an app if it can't prove it was instal
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by entropy_ 8y ago
Why though? If getting the product for free isn't contingent on you writing a positive review(only on writing one at all), why would it be broken?
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by entropy_ 8y ago
I don't live in the US/UK/Europe so Amazon deliveries are things I pay a lot for and take a while to get to me. So when I buy something, I have to be damn sure I'm going to like it. That's lead to the following stra

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