skottk

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by skottk 2y ago
To paraphrase someone on Bluesky, why should I read a book that no one could be bothered to write?
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by skottk 3y ago
Parameterized SQL is your friend here.
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by skottk 3y ago
Either just by having developed their brains in a way that word facts just stick, or by constantly seeking out new word facts because that's what they love doing. I believe that the gentleman in this case instantly saw the word 'c
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by skottk 3y ago
No?
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by skottk 3y ago
In a book release event for Stefan Fatsis's book on tournament Scrabble players, Word Freak, the host posed the "megachiropteran" anagram as a trivia question for a book giveaway. One of the top players in my club _instantly_
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by skottk 3y ago
Had to start researching this when a family member was recently diagnosed. Parkinson's has many forms and many causes. There's a big divide between Parkinson's _disease_ (idiopathic Parkinson's) and Parkinsonism from a
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by skottk 3y ago
Wow, that was a long time to wait before finding out what the site is trying to show me.
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by skottk 4y ago
Many employers effectively force exempt employees to work 12 hour days.
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by skottk 4y ago
If the ROI was measured in terms of "someone got to hang out with Matthew McConaughey a certain number of times annually", I'm sure you're correct.
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by skottk 4y ago
They're often extremely impressive people. Sometimes you don't find out what they're really working on for a long time, sometimes you never do. Sometimes you find out after it's too late.
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by skottk 4y ago
And that in some cases they assume familiarity with a large body of knowledge of _other_ people's commentaries on the works, and in fact, those second-hand sources are what they're really responding to.
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by skottk 4y ago
The greatest weakness of the school is that the list of works was compiled in 1922 and has changed only incrementally since. It's also a great _strength_ of the school, but you could enter the world in 1988 from SJC knowing absolutely
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by skottk 4y ago
Talking about them in a small class of people who read the same thing at the same time, led by 1 or 2 professors who are practiced in _not_ acting like more than advanced students, is _really_ different from just reading the book. I'd
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by skottk 4y ago
That's what you do literally every day in math - take turns going to the board and working through proofs. Ptolemy is Waterloo for anyone who has trouble drawing big circles.
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by skottk 4y ago
We actually read some Descartes in math-- some of the papers from which we get the term "Cartesian coordinates." What he does in those papers fascinating, but has very little to do with the way that we learn and use Cartesian coo
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by skottk 4y ago
Class of '87 here. Most valuable takeaway is that you can read almost _anything_ directly or in translation. You don't need to read a summary of Hegel, you can read Hegel. You don't need to read an article about a Supreme Cou
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by skottk 4y ago
Save the Cat specifies page numbers because scripts are formatted to one page/minute of screen time, and movies have ideal lengths. If you can't turn to the exact center page and find the climax, the script is either formatted wro
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by skottk 4y ago
Petal pounds sites. Ignores 429, hits the same pages repeatedly Easy block for us. Behavior is so similar to bad actors, I was surprised to find that it had documentation.
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by skottk 5y ago
I assume at this point that this library has been audited many, many times by skilled professionals, none of whom thought to abuse the template + JNDI + LDAP chain in this way. It's just not as simple as "security audit finds all
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by skottk 5y ago
The comparison of AWS WAF to Sophos could not be more misleading. It’s an engine for building a limited set of HTTP exploit detections, and has nothing to do with endpoint protection whatsoever.
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by skottk 5y ago
Possibly, in all history, the major author who wrote the most words about how he hated it when people spelled his name wrong.
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by skottk 6y ago
And _then_ breaks?
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by skottk 6y ago
I stopped using it when it became a cryptocurrency client.
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by skottk 6y ago
Not a lawyer, software guy working in licensing & copyright for 20+ years. Was paid for a few years to talk about this stuff with tech and publishing people. They're requesting the takedown under 17 U.S. Code § 1201 - Circumvention
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by skottk 10y ago
And here I thought that my years fighting with UML modeling tools would go completely wasted.
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by skottk 12y ago
More than intelligence, performance on tests is affected by training.
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by skottk 12y ago
Nope - it's the unlicensed transmission that this decision covers. The opinion actually states that a cable company (with its licenses) would be able to offer the DVR portion of the service. The DVR thing was covered in the Second Circ
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by skottk 12y ago
Aereo was banking on partially-relevant case law - not the statute itself - from the Second Circuit which was contradicted elsewhere in the US.
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by skottk 12y ago
The user involvement bit is addressing the Cartoon Network case regarding Cablevision's remote DVR architecture that Aereo is based on. Cablevision designed a remote DVR system that made transient, user-specific copies based on the use
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by skottk 12y ago
Your points about the way law works are exactly where technical people often run into trouble when they reason about the law. Given that the TV broadcasters are paying for the right to broadcast (often gigantic amounts of money), I don&#x27

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