truantbuick

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by truantbuick 5y ago
I don't remember. It was many years ago -- circa 2015. Nevertheless, I'm irritated by the implication that it's the user's responsibility to do this. At least as recently as last year, I've discovered instances wher
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by truantbuick 5y ago
They held my number hostage for a while after I switched off iPhone. I think it took months for iPhone users to be able to message my number before it actually started reaching me again. I think there's a lot of truth to the word &quot
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by truantbuick 5y ago
I'm getting the impression that the new job I'm starting very soon uses something like this. Any suggestions on most convenient way to cover up camera when not using it? I've looked at a few "webcam camera slide" pr
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by truantbuick 5y ago
AFAIK the only player to have tested positive for COVID in that outbreak is Gleyber Torres (the rest were support staff), who had an actual COVID infection before, which undermines your idea that getting COVID is somehow superior to getting
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by truantbuick 6y ago
Not the best example since there was a severe earthquake in Pompeii in 62 AD. They were still rebuilding in 79 AD when the town was destroyed by Vesuvius.
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by truantbuick 6y ago
Not sure you meant to imply otherwise, but just to clarify: Bly intentionally got herself committed for an undercover assignment.
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by truantbuick 6y ago
From a great coffee table book, "100 Facts About Pandas", by David O'Doherty and Claudia O'Doherty (no relation). https://www.amazon.com/Facts-About-Pandas-David-ODoherty/dp/... One of my other
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by truantbuick 6y ago
Don't forget about Keith B. Alexander, the director of the NSA at that time. He testified to congress that this program helped foil 54 terror plots. Weeks later, he conceded that it was helpful in "only one or two". We later
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by truantbuick 6y ago
> There's so much to learning where the sharp bits of math are; proofs are the razor-thin path through the briar patch. This is an excellent metaphor using beautiful language. Did you just coin this yourself or is it pre-existing?
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by truantbuick 6y ago
Isn't this article missing the point of the internet? It talks about an ambitious (but ultimately aborted) top-down project to build thousands of interlinking mainframes. But building large networks wasn't particularly novel. It w
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by truantbuick 6y ago
Billions? Ridiculous. There's a lot of suggestions of what one might accomplish with this exploit, but I'm not sure they would be obviously more lucrative than this. Any time you use it, you're likely to lose it, so its val
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by truantbuick 6y ago
I'd like to believe we will start mass manufacturing all promising candidates long before testing is complete. The stakes are so high this time that it's important _as soon as_ testing results are deemed adequate, they can start d
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by truantbuick 7y ago
The Astros hid behind the guise that they were outstanding at picking up "tipping" from opposing pitchers. i.e. The smallest difference in a pitcher's delivery, imperceptible to you or I, would indicate what kind of pitch was
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by truantbuick 7y ago
To all appearances, this looked like an actual kidnapping. For myself, I'm happy to receive an amber alert on my phone even if it sometimes ends up being a false alarm. About your point of "productivity", I can't really
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by truantbuick 7y ago
I don't know specifically about secp256r1, but in general, I think there were already a lot of suspicions and most people were wary of any ECC curves NIST or NSA had chosen by 2008 when Bitcoin was developed. [1] In a purported email [
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by truantbuick 7y ago
> At any time in the past five years, Google could have leveraged Android’s 80-plus-percent market share and told carriers that it was launching a default messaging service that works like iMessage, falling back to SMS only when necessar
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by truantbuick 7y ago
Ah, thank you! That explains it.
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by truantbuick 7y ago
As far as I can tell, he uses "word" in the same way it's used today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture) But, he does say a "word" is the information of 6 letters or 10
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by truantbuick 7y ago
This post is running around BSV-associated social media outlets. [1] [2] BSV is a project almost entirely propped up by a billionaire gambling tycoon named Calvin Ayre who is promoting a known con-artist named Craig Wright [3] as the invent
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by truantbuick 8y ago
I'm still enraged over the fact that Oracle got $300 million to make a website for Oregon's healthcare and failed . The website wasn't ready (nor would it ever be ready), and the whole state's healthcare was in tatter
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by truantbuick 8y ago
You mentioned in another comment that haplogroups would be too foreign a classification for you, but that would likely be the most specific/differentiated classifier. If somebody says they're a "quarter French" -- puttin
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by truantbuick 8y ago
It doesn't mean _nothing_ -- it's just prone to the same type of problems and edge cases affecting pretty much every attempt at categorizing in a very complex system.
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by truantbuick 8y ago
"There is not universal agreement on the region’s components." [1] "It can be difficult to define exactly which countries are included in the Balkan States. It is a name that has both geographic and political definitions, wit
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by truantbuick 8y ago
I can only speak for myself, but when I got one of these tests 6 years ago, I never got such an impression. They've updated my results several times since and I never feel hoodwinked as if I had been previously deceived; I'm alway
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by truantbuick 8y ago
None of the differences, either split by company or by twin seem egregious or even particularly unsatisfactory. They cite that AncestryDNA measured each of their DNA to be 99.6% similar, and really, that seems like the error rate you would
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by truantbuick 8y ago
What are the characteristics of those who generated an RSA key sharing a prime factor? Can they be linked back to a few bad CSPRNG implementations? What are practical steps to be responsible about it? It's contrived, but I just imagine
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by truantbuick 8y ago
> That doesn't mean "there are truths that humans can never prove", all it means is that we have to extend our axiomatic systems in order to prove some truths. If you believe that the only consequence to Gödel's theor
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by truantbuick 8y ago
Speaking mostly about my experience with Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, but my impression is it's pretty similar for the other games: The early EE release was a bit buggy. When you're just re-releasing an old game and ch
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by truantbuick 8y ago
It's interesting that there are a few bits of evidence that are used for and against the Satoshi = Szabo question: 1. Szabo wasn't cited in Satoshi's white paper 2. Szabo barely mentioned Satoshi or bitcoin in his own blog or
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by truantbuick 8y ago
It's speculation, but if you've been following the drama like I have (I'm not particularly interested in cryptocurrency per se, but I love reading about it like a sporting event), it's almost certainly Craig. Craig Wrigh

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