mikorym

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by mikorym 6y ago
As a non-American, how would they be able to enforce something like this? Is it related to the HTTP specification? What stops me from encrypting things?
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by mikorym 6y ago
TL;DR So the answer is just it's for backwards compatibility with MySQL 3? I was kind of hoping for more.
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by mikorym 6y ago
On the other side of the thought process, if you are interested in ways to completely ignore p-values, multivariate stats is a good candidate, and is rather pedagogically well suited, too. For example, if you have a friend who hates chi-squ
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by mikorym 6y ago
> transcribe solos Do you mean learn other people's songs from sheet music, or do you mean write down, from the sheet music, the same song again on blank sheet paper? Edit: Or do you mean write down the song via hearing?
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by mikorym 6y ago
It is sometimes possible to write code to alter your CSVs to retain the strings. The first thing would be to write them as: entry1,"0123456789",entry2 rather than entry1,0123456789,entry2. This has worked for me in some instances
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by mikorym 6y ago
This I think is pretty much exactly how I think it should be. Half sounds decent. But... I don't live in the US. We pay tax and received no services in return.
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by mikorym 6y ago
I think one answer is tax cuts for charity. If I can give my tax money to someone of my choosing, I think it may incentivise people to feel better about where the money is going. To be clear, not making your tax payments less, but rather ch
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by mikorym 6y ago
RE: minor-keyed This is an interesting topic for me personally, and the way I experience it is like this: The starting point to a musical scale, classically, is major. Minor is the first alt-culture in key signature. However, the next step
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by mikorym 6y ago
Polish Mazurka is kind of reminiscent of a 3/4 time Tango, so I think there is already an implicit cultural link.
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by mikorym 6y ago
I think that somewhere between 2006-2013 was something of a quality age for MacBooks. The issues that came, like the keyboard, or lack of repair DIY ability coincided with the advent of the iPhone. The question at the moment is whether 2019
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by mikorym 6y ago
I've had an idea for a while, coming from a developing continent, that it would be good to have an alternative for students where they can start working when they are doing an advanced degree, but also simply a place for high school st
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by mikorym 6y ago
Is it still done via actual downloads? It's very easy for script kiddies to do that. I would have expected a bit more sophistication, like hidden URLs in emails that autoresolve, at the least. Not my area, though.
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by mikorym 6y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by mikorym 6y ago
One should be careful to confound people's carelessness or complacency with a right to exploit people. I also don't think the people being ransomwared are the same people who try to weaponise your data, hospitals being a good exam
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by mikorym 6y ago
Interesting article, but I would say this is squarely from the perspective of the less technical people involved: lawyers, prosecutors, management types, apart a little bit from Art who knows about the steps in unencryption and so forth—int
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by mikorym 6y ago
> https://www.mathwashing.com/ > There is a widely held belief that because math is involved, algorithms are automatically neutral. > This widespread misconception allows bias to go unchecked, and allows companies
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by mikorym 6y ago
Thanks, this answers my question. In some developing countries you could have power cuts of over 10 hours.
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by mikorym 6y ago
From what I can tell, this is intraspecies competition. In Southern Africa, we have a situation whereby not all woodpecker species can peck the holes from start to end. The ones who start the holes look similar to the ones in the article, b
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by mikorym 6y ago
CD players are a more legacy example of hardware doing magic, in this case, a whole lot of XORs. [1] [1] https://youtu.be/fBRMaEAFLE0?t=651 "Free with every CD, a Cray supercomputer"
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by mikorym 6y ago
What happens when you get a power cut? Or, assuming you are from a well functioning country, what would happen and how would you restart?
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by mikorym 6y ago
That's why there were those "illegal" t-shirts with the RSA algorithm printed out in Perl. But I have a more pragmatic approach. If nuclear launch codes were written out on t-shirts I wouldn't be happy about it either. I
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by mikorym 6y ago
I've heard a lot recently about Jane Street. Do you know a lot about them? I was curious to know their background in more detail and generally what kind of company it is, or the general attitude or atmosphere of the place. Also, why do
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by mikorym 6y ago
I think the simple way of passive resistance is calling it "Microsoft GitHub".
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by mikorym 6y ago
For all the comments about how you have to switch to Google every other search: Try writing out more words that explain what you are looking for. This always works for me. If it doesn't then do !mill and enjoy going down the rabbit hol
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by mikorym 6y ago
The first sentence on the website is: > Can a native Mac code editor really be that much better? I honestly thought that this must be a fork of Text Wrangler. Footnote: Text Wrangler was merged into BBEdit and this was superficially comp
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by mikorym 6y ago
> "While moving back home during the pandemic makes sense and is seen as socially acceptable or even smart, it also means you are living with people who still see you as your 18-year-old self." I feel that this is the case for
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by mikorym 6y ago
Right you are! Here is the HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224584
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by mikorym 6y ago
Sorry to ask for a clarification, but do you mean with or without Vim keybindings?
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by mikorym 6y ago
> [it doesn't enable] evil-mode (vim keybindings) by default Is it easy or in any way advisable or otherwise a good idea to use Emacs with Vim keybindings---coming from a Vim background?
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by mikorym 6y ago
I think the problem is not the lack of documentation, it is that people don't know what documentation is. The iPhone 10 or 11 or wherever we are, does... ...not ship with a manual! Have you ever noticed that? In fact, documentation is

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