madisfun

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by madisfun 7y ago
> Consider what happens to a soul which always gets what it wants. The soul craves for what's not easily attainable. Commercial transactions are all the same. Feasibility is sweet but one-dimensional. There're things you can bu
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by madisfun 7y ago
The companies like 23andMe can do anonymous tests. They can even sell "gift cards" for cash (or bitcoin, for digitally inclined). Don't deliver kits, let them be picked up without asking for an ID, just by the gift card numbe
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by madisfun 7y ago
> Sideloading on Android is dodgy enough with dodgy APKs. Sideloading is what allows to use third party app stores like F-Droid and to run apps Google banned like Blokada (system-wide ad-blocker).
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by madisfun 7y ago
I saw a link "Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips". "Support great journalism," said the link I followed. (paywall)
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by madisfun 7y ago
GDPR requires consent for the processing of the personal data. Displaying an ad per se is not regulated by GDPR, and does not require consent. Though personalization of this advertisement requires processing of the PII, and thus it is suppo
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by madisfun 7y ago
Teams on Firefox enters in a loop of infinite logins.
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by madisfun 7y ago
Saudi Arabia is a US ally, so family region block against them is unlikely. Even if it is a country that tolerates and promotes open slave trade (look up #maidsfortransfer on BBC).
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by madisfun 7y ago
What it shows is that it's risky to rely on a "cloud"/subscription service offered by a company from a different jurisdiction. In particular, if the service provider is a US company, it's a red flag. If it's Ch
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by madisfun 7y ago
Sometimes. It's not a good defence of a thing, if it is good only sometimes and only for some people. By implication it's not good for the others.
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by madisfun 7y ago
Round-robin and privacy do not dwell well together. Like mike-cardwell pointed out in another comment, it just distributes the same information to more parties. As there has to be at least party which will know the request, some informatio
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by madisfun 7y ago
I'm not sure if transferrable and sellable rewards make CCGs less of a gambling activity. If anything, obtaining a physical object which can be exchanged for cash, with a potential for profit, is the definition of gambling. Non-transfe
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by madisfun 7y ago
I wonder when someone in power finally recognizes that Magic the Gathering and other CCGs, especially their digital versions, are essentially gambling machines.
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by madisfun 7y ago
Living in Europe, I have yet to see a smart navigation app, which would allow to take into account: - tolls and fuel consumption (Via Michelin is great at offering 2-3 routes with different and realistic costs, but the app is an ad-nest and
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by madisfun 7y ago
I use Firefox and have setup a monthly donation anyway. I understand that many people need something extra in return to give their money. So if there is a paid version which gives access to some _services_ like VPN or storage, and it works
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by madisfun 7y ago
Might be a good idea to have a throwaway SIM and a phone for travelling, not logged in into any cloud or social network services, and not tied to your main google account. Maybe just a couple of chat apps to stay in touch with your friends&
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by madisfun 7y ago
> For example Intel's C++ compiler produces (or used to produce?) much more efficient numerical code than either gcc or clang. I'm not an expert, but I believe that Intel could have implemented their hardware-specific optimizat
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by madisfun 7y ago
Mersenne Twister has a huge state, and if you have to use the MT (you need a very long period), you will probably want to be able to initialize it properly. For the common use case is a linear congruential generator which is initialized wit
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by madisfun 7y ago
Google's Roboto is a very close drop-in replacement for Helvetica. Almost the same metrics, slightly more "condensed"/DIN feel. You may also consider FreeSans (GNU replacement for Helvetica) and Liberation Sans (which is
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by madisfun 8y ago
faces per seconds
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by madisfun 8y ago
Disable adblocker.
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by madisfun 8y ago
On paper, the results are amazing, but researchers are always biased to produce positive results. BTW, a match between StockFish 10 and LeelaChessZero, an open source implementation of the same idea, will be organized in a couple of days. F
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by madisfun 8y ago
I believe it was TCEC season 13 which put GPU engines in disadvantage due to overheating, it was also the first season with GPUs. Right now there is TCEC season 14 in progress, did I miss anything?
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by madisfun 8y ago
It would be nice if A0 participated in at least one public computer chess championship, Chess.com's CCC or TCEC. That's a level playing field and all games published. AlphaZero was a great concept and execution, but if we have to
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by madisfun 8y ago
If I did the math right, then if the notebook I typing this comment on mined at 100% CPU load for 1 hour, the payout to the script owner would be equivalent to US$0.00085. For nearly 200 Wh consumed, or 70g CO2 equivalent, or $0.004/kW
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by madisfun 8y ago
Embrace, extend, and extinguish. The story of Google and the Web. Don't AMPlify the issue.
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by madisfun 8y ago
In almost all wars, the "bad" is the group that lost the war. And when it cannot be decided or doesn't matter anymore, those who control the discourse decide who is/was "good". Taking something away is not good
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by madisfun 8y ago
I like this nu metal/growling version of the Song of Songs in Church Slavonic by a Russian band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t106yVE6dYg Not sacrilegious, quite the opposite.
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by madisfun 8y ago
Just checked, there are hundreds of apartments for rent in Berlin at the moment. Doesn't look to be banned.
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by madisfun 8y ago
Finding ocean is easy: water and gravity have formed the surface to have few local minima. It would be much more interesting finding peaks: there are many local maxima. And the most important maxima are often surrounded by lots of local max
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by madisfun 9y ago
Search engines which still allow to open images directly: DuckDuckGo: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+ceo&t=hg&iax=images&ia=imag... Bing: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Google+Ceo Q

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