iokevins

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by iokevins 7mo ago
Discovering this years ago was such a rabbit hole. They had a fake SF Bay-adjacent office street address (Walnut Creek maybe?) and had incorporated their US HQ in Michigan using a fake street address. This web site lists Rebex but they stol
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Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible(jabberwocking.com)
93 points by iokevins 5y ago|199 comments
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by iokevins 6y ago
Yeoman's work. TY!
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by iokevins 6y ago
caltech
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by iokevins 6y ago
Alliteration. They wrote "paragon of pulchritude", which to me sounds like smart, dry humor. It works.
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by iokevins 6y ago
Pronounced Bidi like MIDI, or Bidi like Wifi, or (?)
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by iokevins 7y ago
Groot force
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by iokevins 8y ago
Tcl was the first language used. I laughed, but only because I've developed in Tcl and it has its time and place. Though I don't remember how to do an if statement in Tcl off the top of my head. Update: ok, its squiggly brackets;
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by iokevins 8y ago
TL; DR: What is this? These pages are a collection of facts (identities, approximations, inequalities, relations, ...) about matrices and matters relating to them. It is collected in this form for the convenience of anyone who wants a quick
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by iokevins 8y ago
Eric Lippert discusses this here (2015): https://ericlippert.com/2015/04/27/wizards-and-warriors-part...
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An ORM *is* your data layer(cpratt.co)
3 points by iokevins 8y ago|0 comments
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by iokevins 8y ago
To summarize, neologism Canary MacGuffin represents one likely, visible event (to the requestor) the requestee would have to do while Shaving the Yak (?)
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by iokevins 8y ago
Antonio Murdaca's tweet thread: https://twitter.com/runc0m/status/1015216562129825793
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Net neutrality bill thottled by AT&T’s friends in the California legislature(tellusventure.com)
1 points by iokevins 8y ago|0 comments
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Router Build: Arch, ESPRESSObin, Ubiquity Access Point(blog.tjll.net)
2 points by iokevins 8y ago|0 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
They used Agora: https://agora.vote/ (Aside: forgot to turn off my extension and so it appeared as, 'Sierra Leone just ran the first "Multiple copies of a giant Excel spreadsheet"-based election') https
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by iokevins 9y ago
"This is thought to be entirely secure against the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which require speculative execution on branch instructions."
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Amazon’s Checkout-Free Grocery Store Is Opening to the Public(technologyreview.com)
2 points by iokevins 9y ago|0 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
From the article, it seems like issues with their "order-to-shelf" system: "Order-to-shelf, or OTS, is a tightly controlled system designed to streamline and track product purchases, displays, storage, and sales. Under OTS, e
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by iokevins 9y ago
Josh Marshall just now: "Announcement to publishers who reshaped business models around Facebook. Bye." https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/951615904760172545
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by iokevins 9y ago
The Mark Twain Project has made his autobiography (and other writings) freely available online: http://www.marktwainproject.org/landing_writings.shtml I listened to the audiobook version, as my preference/availability.
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by iokevins 9y ago
From the article: "It is common to experience swarms of earthquakes at Mount St. Helens." "...there is no immediate danger of an eruption."
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Beijing to build $2B AI research park: Xinhua(reuters.com)
2 points by iokevins 9y ago|0 comments
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by iokevins 9y ago
The State of California recently initiated a reclassification project for IT positions, which includes evaluating salaries. They last reclassified positions in 1976...back when Elvis was alive (note: salaries have risen modestly since that
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by iokevins 9y ago
Anecdotally, this already seems to represent a thing at the municipal level, at least in Sacramento, where police seem to arbitrarily enforce it to detain people they deem undesirable (e.g., homeless, by the downtown arena).
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by iokevins 9y ago
Heartened by this: "Since news of the vandalism got out, however, Go Fund Me efforts on Wild Hill Honey's behalf have raised more than $35,000. Engelhardt posted to the company's Facebook page that the money would allow them
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by iokevins 9y ago
Summary: According to Stanford University's account, Lawrence Lessig (then Stanford, now Harvard) helped lead Stanford's lawyers to victory over Joyce's grandson's lawyers in a fair use case, letting an English professor
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by iokevins 9y ago
For me, installing the free Overdrive app and linking to my public library account--boom, 60-70 audiobooks listened to in one year: https://app.overdrive.com/
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by iokevins 9y ago
And leave open the possibility of subsequently bringing the other charges, in case of pardon or if he doesn't follow-through
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by iokevins 9y ago
The two main paragraphs: "Prior work has suggested that energy is involved when quarks fuse together. In studying the properties of one such fusing, a doubly-charmed baryon, the researchers found that it took 130 MeV to force the quark

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