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by jpab 6y ago
> I recently had an exchange with someone that reminded me how important trust and mutual respect is and how the lack of such tends to cause problems to escalate. What feels like a breakdown of trust in society has been on my mind a lot
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by jpab 6y ago
> But tech companies want to talk to the humans they're hiring, so race and gender are (almost) always available as information inputs during the hiring process. This is actually kind of funny to me, because in the open source world
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by jpab 6y ago
I'm not an expert but it looks like a lidar to me. Putting it at an angle lets it map the ground in front of the cart.
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by jpab 6y ago
I don't think that follows. To conclude that these are properties of capitalism you need to examine both capitalist and non-capitalist societies and observe that capitalist societies exhibit poverty, crime and violence (true), and that
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by jpab 6y ago
Ah, ok. I haven't been to Coventry since I was a kid. I should probably have looked up some information or something before posting.
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by jpab 6y ago
According to Google maps, Southam is about 25 minutes drive to Coventry or 15 minutes to Leamington Spa. It's not in the "middle of nowhere" in any important sense. And Leamington is quite attractive - not a bad place to live
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by jpab 6y ago
With asset build pipelines that do lots of preprocessing, compress everything, and pack things with a layout that tries to minimise disk seek time while playing, it's conceivable that relatively small changes in the source data can res
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by jpab 6y ago
For viewing objects I find a turntable style view best in most circumstances. For landscape or architecture (where you're in the scene), mouselook with WASD + vertical up/down. Neither of these control styles are 6dof; they don&#x
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by jpab 6y ago
The fences aren't a locking mechanism, at least not on their own. The lower (hardware) level locks are the steps in the cache coherency protocols (potentially including explicit cache line locking signals) that allow an execution unit
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by jpab 6y ago
> Trump on twitter is literally just Donald Trump, not the president. There has been a specific legal battle about almost exactly this question. So far, the US court system disagrees with you. > "These tweets are published by a p
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by jpab 6y ago
Famously (or perhaps not, but I remember it anyway), Duke Nukem Forever developers 3D Realms said that it would be released "when it's done". Duke Nukem Forever was first announced in 1997. It was released in 2011, and got te
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by jpab 6y ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24441979
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by jpab 6y ago
Neocities.org seems ideal for this. I personally use the free tier of netlify at the moment, but I'm considering switching to neocities instead since I just have simple personal stuff to serve and I like the neocities ethos.
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by jpab 6y ago
I apologise, I was speaking loosely. I don't know if sponge collects input in memory or in a file. (Frankly I've never needed to care since the files I've ever needed this tool for have all been small)
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by jpab 6y ago
The purpose of sponge is that you can do this: grep foo file.txt | sponge file.txt If you do this with redirections then file.txt will be truncated before it's been processed, leaving you with an empty file instead of what you wanted.
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by jpab 6y ago
I follow several artists and get lovely art that I wouldn't otherwise have seen, and wouldn't have sought out. I follow several people in the game development industry, and historically used to see a lot of interesting technical
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by jpab 6y ago
Unless it's also a non-cryptographic hash then I don't see how a timing attack does anything interesting here. Timing will potentially tell you how many bytes of the hash match. But finding a password that produces a hash that
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by jpab 6y ago
You can still gain efficiency by centralising services. If you have centralised services you need some mechanism to coordinate them and make decisions about how they should work, and those decisions should ideally take input from the people
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by jpab 6y ago
Why is cancer pathological? Because cancerous cells prioritize their own growth over the health of the wider system in which they exist. Companies with this mindset do not reach a point at which they say "ok, we're big enough now&
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by jpab 6y ago
Do you mean Chrome OS? Google is a web company; they want people to use the web. They made a laptop/desktop operating system built around their web browser, because they want everything to be on the web. It does most of the things you
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by jpab 6y ago
I posit that whether a search should be "local" or "global" is much more a factor of what is being searched for than who is searching. If I search for a barber I want local results, and I expect that that would be true f
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by jpab 6y ago
You referred to it as "the single most cost effective way to speed up math and physics research". I don't think it's so surprising that people are interpreting that to mean you think LaTeX is a bottleneck in the research
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by jpab 6y ago
For what little it's worth, I had the same reaction as SilasX here; I've just never encountered this usage before, only the "in debt"/"late payment" usage.
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by jpab 6y ago
Google Drive is a consumer product (+), not really the same use case or target market as S3. Consumers probably don't want to deal with variable charges on their card depending on how many people they shared a file with. Certainly I
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by jpab 6y ago
I found that curious. Why were the Amish living so much longer than others in colonial times?
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by jpab 6y ago
From my perspective here in the UK, where the health secretary is making threats to ban all outdoor exercise [1] because some people aren't following the social distancing rules, the Swedish approach sounds far better. At least in Swed
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by jpab 7y ago
Oh, and apparently there is something vaguely along these lines already: https://github.com/rust-secure-code/safety-dance/
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by jpab 7y ago
I would prefer to see a positive badge for "this project doesn't directly use unsafe" or similar, which maintainers can choose to put in their README in the same way that they currently put build-status, test-status and other
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by jpab 7y ago
You can't make a sphere entirely out of hexagons; the math doesn't work [1]. In the article they note that they include 12 pentagons too, to solve this problem. Neatly, they arrange to have all the pentagons in areas of water wher
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by jpab 8y ago
I assume the data storage is on a separate chip which - in the context of this attack - is untrusted. That is, the firmware could try to wipe the data storage too, but that would be relatively easy to bypass and doesn't really gain you

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