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by petjuh 23d ago
This reminds me that in the USSR they had typewriters that added an identifier somehow that could be traced back to that particular typewriter (and who it was sold to)
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by petjuh 23d ago
How resistant is it to dithering? Can you just add +-1 randomly to each pixel r,g and b values and throw it off?
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by petjuh 3mo ago
Ok, but Hurro-Urartian is an agglutinative language family that is an isolate and has nothing to do with Semitic.
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by petjuh 3mo ago
From what I know, the main issue is that the Linear A script corpus is rather small. Another commenter here said it's only 7500 symbols in total, spread around 1500 inscriptions (so on average 5 symbols per inscription). The other thin
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by petjuh 5mo ago
The reason is that auto-updates and CI tools have reached a critical saturation and everybody uses them. Years ago, `npm install` would have been more likely to be run manually, and only if something in the build breaks - which means once i
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by petjuh 5mo ago
OK, how about this then: sudo rm "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)" Nice and simple. Or if we want to be more thorough: modinfo -n algif_aead && sudo mv "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)" "$(modinfo -n algif_
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by petjuh 4y ago
This reminds me of War of the Worlds, where the martians had no diseases and thus no immune system. When they came to earth they died from diseases. A society like that, with no defenses, would be very vulnerable. That's why it's
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by petjuh 5y ago
And the drive to HTTPS was initiated by "evil" Google (like free email with >2GB which was unheard of at the time).
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by petjuh 6y ago
I've often wondered about using an older OS such as OpenVMS for which hacking tools simply don't exist.
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by petjuh 6y ago
Am I the only one left in the world who actually likes Google and has a positive opinion of them? I remember switching from AltaVista to Google and thinking they're much better. I remember a friend forwarding me an invitation to join G
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by petjuh 6y ago
How much jewelry is that in Tutankhamuns? Is it like half a Tutankhamun, or less?
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by petjuh 6y ago
OK, I had to search for the edits themselves, they're at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angels_%26_Airwav... Here's a sample: 23:37, 21 February 2006‎ Alex 101 talk contribs‎ 12,196 bytes +1‎ Re
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by petjuh 7y ago
Didn't America attack british colonies in Canada in 1812? I thought America was the aggressor in that war and Britain just retaliated.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Wouldn't those limiting factors apply for this upgraded protein as well? If they don't, then selective pressure should have already upgraded it.
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by petjuh 7y ago
I can't read the article, it seems to be behind a paywall or something.
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by petjuh 7y ago
I wonder if neclei were "invented" by viruses as those safe rooms. There are already theories that DNA was first invented by viruses to protect against cleaving by RNAases, and the presence of UDNA viruses suggests it. It would al
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by petjuh 7y ago
During the crusades it was the crusaders who massacred muslims when they took Jerusalem. When Saladeen retook it, he did not massacre anyone and turned out to be more civilised by the christians.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Were those side projects done during work hours or using Google's equipment?
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by petjuh 7y ago
I access my GMail with Chrome and have no problems.
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by petjuh 7y ago
I wonder if their reaction was counterproductive in that the more they try to apologize or do promotions the more people are reminded of the incident because of which they are doing the promotions. Maybe if they had implemented a strict &q
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by petjuh 7y ago
Is Chrome a bad browser? I feel that unlike IE6 vs Firefox, Chrome is not inferior to the competition and in fact moves faster, not slower towards innovation.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Ah, yes, sorry. I didn't realize this article talks about dark matter, not dark energy.
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by petjuh 7y ago
I recently read another article suggesting the universe expansion might be anisotropic. The most interesting part was mentioning that data from supernova standard candles had been normalized to fit with the assumption that expansion is isot
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by petjuh 7y ago
I was told a horror story about a dev who was given a project to complete only to turn out he had done nothing 3 months later. He was too ashamed to ask for help. They weren't doing standups at that time, or anything Agile. If nothing
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by petjuh 7y ago
But Stuxnet did use obfuscation. The last payload was decrypted by concatenating two environment variables on the host and Symantec never managed to decrypt that one. Did author not read the Stuxnet report?
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by petjuh 7y ago
Seems like most of the internet is ad-supported except stuff like New York Times and Netflix
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by petjuh 7y ago
Yeah, Google has done much for privacy and it's kind of ironic how people believe those who say it's malicious. The only crime Google ever did was to be successful.
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by petjuh 7y ago
In Terry Pratchett's Assassins Guild they would hire them.
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by petjuh 7y ago
It would go right through Earth. There might be pretty big explosions though as it feeds on earth's mass.
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by petjuh 7y ago
Money is a system of control in a more generic way - it allows you to make people do things for you and give you resources. It can make a plane come for you to take you to a different city where a room will be waiting for you, people will g

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