mar77i

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by mar77i 6y ago
> Imagine a software engineer who has been asked to place a backdoor in some software. I imagine such an engineer just gets a development plan and doesn't get to see the bigger picture, implying the backdoor. It might only get enabl
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by mar77i 6y ago
Took me a second to realize what that was. Also thought the main street nearby went to a sag. Glad it was just optics.
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by mar77i 6y ago
Great Scott! Love his KSP content, where he discusses space trivia to no end...
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by mar77i 6y ago
I wonder why anyone would think inverting semantics like this was anything but asking for disaster. With all the metaprogramming that is possible, will the matching Cat(age=age) even produce a coherent object that has an age argument passed
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by mar77i 6y ago
Personally, I always thought my Alice in Chains Markov chains were pretty funny. https://git.mar77i.info/alice-in-markov-chains For anyone trying to run it, the URL in the collect_lyrics.py script should be the band's
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by mar77i 6y ago
There was this long Ars Technica article from the same year: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/insid... I'm not going to assume that the complexity of what's going into these dr
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by mar77i 6y ago
Personal experience. I put more into a job when I see a point in it, because I start to like it. When I don't find my work worthwhile or find interesting in any other way, it's not going to turn out good. What does it take for thi
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by mar77i 6y ago
Looming destitution never made good work. The way one engages with a good employer is a sense of co-ownership in some way. I can't tell how my way of taking ownership to an arbitrary project is influenced by a relief of financial stres
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by mar77i 6y ago
I found this article about Ensiferum's "Finnish Medley", which among other things, compiles the tunes they cover in it: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/content/finnish-medle... Another band, Moons
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by mar77i 6y ago
The argument that BitTorrent had no legal applications is invalid. If people kill each other with guns, why would you put the blame on the gun company?
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by mar77i 6y ago
Unless you're with the Mongols.
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by mar77i 6y ago
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by mar77i 6y ago
I wanted to argue imps, dwarfs and other types of programs when I noticed that I was applying core wars terminology to a completely non core wars problem...
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by mar77i 6y ago
Even though I'm baffled by this obvious case of throwing out the baby with the bath water, on the upside, the explanation is only kind of backwards. Protecting families from the cyber war torn online spaces with their fraudulence, leak
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by mar77i 6y ago
Recently did that code as presented using pygame, but I haven't uploaded it anywhere yet, that might be a good idea, though.
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by mar77i 7y ago
I came here for this, too. You're not mistaken.
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by mar77i 7y ago
Oh wow, sorry for not looking into this properly. Thanks for the fixed link.
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by mar77i 7y ago
I like your approach. And the blogpost's author does not even hint that the story told could mask an underlying issue at all. Which I find mind boggling somehow, but can we call this symptom whack-a-mole and what can be interpreted as
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by mar77i 7y ago
To me it's really both. Do one first, notice it works sometimes and you're not sure whether you should publish it (at that point, don't :) -- ) and then look at your own product through the lense of what you're learning.
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by mar77i 7y ago
It's arguably the perfect time for them to... go viral.
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by mar77i 7y ago
https://wyag.thb.lt/ If you want to hop the same train, I saw this long ago...
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by mar77i 7y ago
The blockchain idea is well-intended, I believe. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi...
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by mar77i 7y ago
Heidi, the classic tale of the Swiss girl living in the mountains. The story is very popular in Asia and there was a kids' cartoon adaptation in 1974 by a Japanese animation studio. I thought the 2015 3d series also involved Japanese a
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by mar77i 7y ago
Damn it, you beat me to bringing up laminar flow!
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by mar77i 7y ago
This casts an interesting light on my long-standing dislike for crosswalks: Everywhere else on the streets as a pedestrian, drivers will not expect me, therefore it is my, the pedestrian's, responsibility to stay safe. On crosswalks, i
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by mar77i 7y ago
To an employer, this seems kind of missing the point: you spent your time at college. Did you do real work yet?
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by mar77i 7y ago
It made me realize that the reason "Learn to Code" was treated as such an insult on social media is exactly its topical proximity to this very discussion.
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by mar77i 7y ago
Oh, I've seen something similar recently. Not sure which macbook it was, but apparently, at least in some cases, Apple appears to be subscribing to the great benefits of placebo ventilation. https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by mar77i 7y ago
Reminds me of the body of work by David Firth. His work also was driven by stark contrast between internal consistency and utter and sometimes unsettling external nonsensicalness.
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by mar77i 7y ago
The article's title gives me the cognitive dissonance. Glad it was changed for HN. To add my own interpretation, "US court appears to legalizes X and technically prohibits it" -- what is this "it" the court prohibit

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