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by joh6nn 2mo ago
The implication is not that people learned this skill from the SAT, but rather that not requiring it to score well on the SAT further lowers the baseline.
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by joh6nn 3mo ago
For the love of all things holy, can we not do these kinds of experiments on the same planet we live on?
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by joh6nn 1y ago
This is impressive. This kind of migration is super easy to mess up, especially doing it in-place like this.
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by joh6nn 1y ago
Right? I find submissions titles like this so frustrating: it's simply not possible to be aware of every project out there. Please, please provide me some context in the title. This would be way better with a title something like &quot
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by joh6nn 1y ago
I'm just a community mod, not a dev on the project, so take this with a grain of salt: I believe the intent is that you get bidirectional selective sync between your terminal and the docs, so that if what's in the docs is out of d
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by joh6nn 1y ago
My experience with runbooks has been: - I am on a team that oversees a bunch of stuff, some of which I am very hands-on with and comfortable with, and some of which I am vaguely aware exists, but rarely touch - X, a member of the latter cat
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Using the arrow keys to navigate the current input is well supported on most modern terminals, and has been for most of my adult life. If this isn't working properly in your terminal, then I'd recommend experimenting with the vari
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Ok, thanks, this is exactly what I needed. I'm apparently too much of a casual user here because I don't even recognize minimaxir as a username. So that's gotta be the disconnect for me: all the usual tactics apply, they&#x27
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Sorry, I don't understand the point you're making here. Are you saying that karma farming on HN leads to successful IPOs? Or are you saying that karma farming in general can be profitable? Because both of those are what I was tryi
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Ok, but to what end? Is there some karma-to-dollars pipeline that I don't know about? There a bunch of other platforms that superficially seem like much softer targets with more obvious payoffs. Like, if we put it in the classic contex
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Right, but that was the exact nature of the attack: it's a small commit that doesn't look like it needs a lot of scrutiny. Like, I get that you meant "it wouldn't take much scrutiny to find this" but I mean "it
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by joh6nn 2y ago
The malicious commit was designed to be confusing, as noted in the first comment of the investigation: > but calls to safe_fprintf were replaced with calls to the unsafe fprintf. The diff doesn't make this obvious due to the removal
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Thanks for weighing in! But this is just speculation, right? Are you speaking from experience? I'm specifically looking for someone who does it to explain it. I mean, I can make my own guesses about various forms of attention seeking a
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Interesting! But this sounds like an explanation why you read the comments without reading the article, not why you comment without reading, and those aren't inherently the same thing. So to clarify: do you comment on the content of th
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by joh6nn 2y ago
I'm confused why this is being posted now? This thread appears to have taken place in the days immediately following the original XZ discovery, with no new activity since very early April. It was discussed heavily at the time that Jia
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Asking in seriousness: did you comment without reading the link? If so, why? I legit don't understand why people comment on things without having read them, and I would like to
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Those aren't meant to be apps representative of the Mobifree "platform", those are existing projects that have agreed to partner with Mobifree towards a common goal. They're bulletpoints in thd same list as Murena the E
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by joh6nn 2y ago
how will US customers prove that they're not foreign customers?
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by joh6nn 2y ago
The only away for US citizens to prove that they are such would be for them to also submit their IDs. So it affects everyone. Basically, it forces providers of a very wide variety of tech related services to collect identifying info on anyo
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by joh6nn 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean about throwing more resources into the system, but as regards the DNA evidence, in this specific circumstances just asking the fraud "What's your Dad's name?" was sufficient. No expensive
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by joh6nn 2y ago
I am also not a mathematician, and indeed got fairly mediocre math grades throughout most of my education. But you don't need to be PhD candidate to understand that if you never actually check, you never actually know.
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by joh6nn 2y ago
Ok, but probability doesn't work like that. Even if 99.99% of the time a given individual is delusional, you still have to check every time because this person might be the 0.01%. It's like the question of "you flip a coin 9
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by joh6nn 3y ago
- all the data is stored in a sqlite db, so it's actually structured, as opposed to just being in an adhoc text format - this matters because it's capturing not just what commands were run, but metadata about the commands as well.
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by joh6nn 3y ago
it's unlikely to make you sick every time, but when it does make you sick, then it has the potential to make you very sick. Depending on which kind of meat/microbes+parasites, it can be fatal if you don't have access to antib
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by joh6nn 3y ago
Louis Pasteur began experimenting with heat treating microorganisms in milk in the 1860s; if you have seriously compelling evidence that pasteurization is a conspiracy that spans the globe and has lasted for 160 years, then I'm prepare
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by joh6nn 3y ago
Not recommending this specific one, just an example of the category: https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Shopping-Eco-Friendly-Waterp... Search term was "pocket shopping bag"
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by joh6nn 3y ago
I think Podgajski is trying to make the following argument: Assume a standard 2-axes scatter plot, with a randomly placed horizontal line that represents chance/luck. The scattered points represent opportunities. Any opportunity that o
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by joh6nn 3y ago
Would it make sense to integrate this into software packaging? For example, could this be used to quickly validate that a given file hasn't been altered from the version included in the package it came from?
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by joh6nn 3y ago
doesn't seem like the project is in active development anymore, but there's gitFS: https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs
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by joh6nn 3y ago
That feels a bit like arguing that the inability of mathematics to describe itself is proof of Gödel

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