nostalgk

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by nostalgk 2y ago
I once visited Moscow for a AI coding jam sponsored by the Russian state, and while I was there, there was a Telegram group for all of the students to use to communicate during the jam. This Telegram channel was set up by the state official
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by nostalgk 7y ago
We even had a speaker advertise a telegram channel for everyone I was there with to talk to each other, and the Russian audience laughed to his amusement. I didn't get the joke; kind of funny now. I still never ended up using it, have
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Yup, and it's a tragedy. A boss cares about the work being delivered, and wants the end product as a valuable piece of the business. It's not like school where if one is late, one might as well not even turn it in; even if it&#x27
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by nostalgk 7y ago
It is also not true across Android -> iOS, as I just made the switch and experienced the same thing.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
> To my knowledge, that's not true. But even if true, that doesn't mean e2e encryption isn't in effect. It's not true. I just recently switched phones. If you activate your phone on the app, you can't use the app
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by nostalgk 7y ago
"Telegram is banned in Russia" Really? I just went there recently, and nearly everyone used Telegram as their primary messaging application (other than Instagram)
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Unfortunate name too
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by nostalgk 7y ago
My speculation is that it maybe tries to crack the hashed value and input that to the phone instead, rather than interfacing with the password screen. in other words: the encryption/wipe code may be a function of the password screen, b
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by nostalgk 7y ago
From what I can tell, it simply tries to brute force the password (perhaps with some informed suggestion). It does appear to have access to an exploit that bypasses/disables the encryption lock that wipes data off the phone after faile
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by nostalgk 7y ago
This. I recently worked with a company that produces drones among other things, and spoke with the head of research there. More or less, they said they had given up on putting money into drone R&D until battery technology caught up, as
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by nostalgk 7y ago
All the French bakeries I went to actually had a huge amount of fresh baguettes, absolutely delicious and 35 cents each. Maybe they were bad compared to gourmet baguettes, of course, but they were great compared to the American variants
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by nostalgk 7y ago
As well, is this really something that harmful to the environment? I get that people driving > people not driving when it comes to climate harm, but I don't want to live in a city and I feel like there are much larger climate concer
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Yup, it's certainly a punchline in seemingly every office job I've ever worked. I've worked a lot of retail and cooking jobs though too, and I think a lot of people come from these fields as well and have trouble distinguishi
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I think it's rougher for people to understand that aren't in this industry, and there are so many jobs that _do_ benefit from this in a numerical way, i.e. more parts per hour, more accounts created, sales made, etc.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Any update on the whole adblock thing that was popular here a little bit ago, with them deprecating the ability to drop web requests? Seems kinda paramount to this initiative.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
It probably bends, but I think most of the issue is with the actual finish of the card which seems to be flaking off or discoloring.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I do agree that comparing the US culture of gun ownership + the second amendment (which, although may have been written as though to apply to all people regardless of national identity... doesn't) to the situation going on in Hong Kong
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by nostalgk 7y ago
1. Because they are cool aesthetically 2. Because they appear to be more durable (see thread, unfortunately).
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Why has the US military machine failed to wipe out a few thousand foreign insurgents (generally less well equipped than American civilians) using drones then? Why did many of my peers, troops, die? I have severe doubts that the US could con
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Yeah, agreed. Even places I've worked with wonderful internal IT still have problem users who can't figure videoconferencing, or have damaged/misconfigured their device in a way that prevents it. It often comes down to the on
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by nostalgk 7y ago
You sound like you might have some solid points in here. Next time try adding a few citations, and less rants about your perception of young adult women.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Pretty sure the average citizen doesn't carry the Daishō any longer these days. Unless they're all actually ninjas with concealed weapons.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Pretty sure a lightning link is more "elect-fire", not select-fire. Not to mention much more dangerous than the relatively well documented and simple (highly illegal without an SOT) procedure that can be easily found to do a prope
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Have you tried Elite Dangerous? It's totally playable from the chair.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
This approach, for us, proved fastest when we scaled it using Kubernetes compared to the others we tried.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
To be fair, it is a bit tougher when Macs are so expensive. When my PC breaks, I have 4 other options I can count off the top of my head. When my Mac breaks, I only can afford to have one spare, and even that is more of a matter of lucky ci
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I have never heard of TestCafe, but I've used Puppeteer for a variety of projects with Chrome. My latest one was using it to convert HTML files into PDFs en masse.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I don't know anyone who expects an internship to be unpaid, especially in the tech industry. I've heard quite a few complaints in the medical industry though.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I've gone through a few of the modules, and I can say it's been really effective so far.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
My team that I am going to convention with is much better at math than I am, but they haven't touched any code before. I, on the other hand, have touched a fair amount of code in the past three years, but don't have very many foun

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