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by stevejones 10y ago
Actually it is. The article seems to describe an algorithm with a catastrophic failure mode where no (or not enough) ants return. Without retransmission the ants just hang around waiting for a returning ant. So there must be some sort of re
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by stevejones 10y ago
The big deal in the UK, a few years ago, was that a person would go overdrawn, deposit money to cover it immediately but then get charged an overdraft fee by an overnight process. This fee would put them overdrawn, leaving them liable for a
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by stevejones 10y ago
One advantage of solar is the requirement for an electrical grid is lessened, when photovoltaics get cheap enough the requirement for a grid is eliminated.
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by stevejones 11y ago
I don't know anyone who works for Facebook. I'm thousands of miles away from Facebook HQ. I keep careful tabs on who has what info about me and use many different email addresses.
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by stevejones 11y ago
My inbox.
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by stevejones 11y ago
IRC and email are federated systems, they have always been that way. The nature of the federation is different, email systems talk to each other, IRC systems don't. The issue with bitcoin is purely that it solves a problem no-one has,
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by stevejones 11y ago
> They made it very clear to us during HR onboarding that the only zero tolerance policy was on unauthorized access to user data. Given that Facebook HR trawls user data to send job spam I find this claim quite ironic.
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by stevejones 11y ago
Imagine you were to take the example further, unlocking the device required a sequence of fingerprint reads, with a precise ordering. i.e. left-ring finger, right index finger, right little finger, etc... That sequence would be a passcode,
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by stevejones 11y ago
Do any of them say it must be re-radiated omni-directionally as infra-red light?
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by stevejones 11y ago
So we can safely say that IMSI catchers have been used as a matter of routine since 2002.
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by stevejones 11y ago
It's almost certainly an offence under RIPA.
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by stevejones 11y ago
ITT: people who've never done an online resize
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by stevejones 11y ago
It's a search engine, so it searches for prices among many providers such as Expedia and Travelocity as well as individual airlines.
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by stevejones 11y ago
"the way it would seem to" {} initialises all elements to 0. {0} initialises the first element to 0 and the rest to 0. The latter form just introduces confusion.
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by stevejones 11y ago
I've not seen anyone use that construct anywhere.
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by stevejones 11y ago
tl;dr: Stop using Node, it only encourages them.
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by stevejones 11y ago
Works fine on my phone, yours must be broken.
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by stevejones 11y ago
The initialisers bit seems downright dangerously wrong. This code: uint32_t array[10] = {0}; Does not initialise every element to 0 in the way it would seem to. To see the difference contrast the difference you get when you a) remo
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by stevejones 11y ago
I was kinda sceptical about the article until I saw the quotes advocating that DID is totally a real thing from the doctors. Then I was very sceptical.
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by stevejones 11y ago
Despite what everyone is saying here, the median salary in the uk is 26K. 40K puts you in the top 20% of earners. 100k would put you in the top 1%. Although people are quite right in saying that on 40K you probably couldn't pay the ren
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by stevejones 11y ago
You'd be better off working out a way to compile smalltalk to FPGA.
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by stevejones 11y ago
> The article is about how people into "futurism", like people over at /r/futurism or a large part of HN's userbase, keeps wishing people would stop "concerning" themselves with society and politics to
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by stevejones 11y ago
This isn't about money, this is about abuse of the trademark.
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by stevejones 11y ago
Those recordings are subject to the Data Protection Act. Most are blatantly not following the Data Protection Act, and as such are illegal.
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by stevejones 11y ago
> So, that's the thing, in some ways it's worse. It has more detail, it's voluntary and less intrusive. The one thing which is quite different is it's not a system to control people, by control I mean controlling as i
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by stevejones 11y ago
The ToS is Spotify's word on this matter. If the ToS says they can do X, you can only assume they are going to do X. An apology doesn't fix the problem, no amount of grovelling by the CEO changes anything until the ToS are fixed.
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by stevejones 11y ago
I am immediately reminded of http://zapatopi.net/mindguard/
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by stevejones 11y ago
How do you feel about imposing a blanket ban on said flag for PR purposes?
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by stevejones 11y ago
Curious as to whether that was an open channel. Also https://www.freebsd.org/community/irc.html
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by stevejones 11y ago
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. -- Brian K. Reid

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