weakfortress

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by weakfortress 4y ago
It's interesting to see these unconventional solutions. Genetic algorithms evolving antenna design produce similar illogical but very efficient designs. Humans have a draw to aesthetic. Robots don't have such limitations.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I've tried. In fact, I spent a good portion of my life trying to become more extroverted and "likeable". While I found I could very accurately mimic the people who had this trait over time it became exhausting to keep up with
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by weakfortress 4y ago
These comments are always so hilarious. It demonstrates a significant lack of understand of how statistics actually works. You see this on reddit all the time, you'd think it'd be better here. Power and sample size are determined
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Dongles don't prevent piracy. Famously, I remember paradox cracking several dongle-secured audio tools that were claimed to be "uncrackable". You may not even need to clone a dongle to do it.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Used to run into these problems all the time when I was doing work in numerical analysis. The PATRIOT missile error (it wasn't a disaster ) was more due to the handling of timestamps than just floating point deviation. There were seve
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I think part of the problem comes to the sheer amount of jargon in even the simplest research paper. During my time in graduate school (CS) I would often do work that used papers in mathematics (differential geometry) for some of the stuff
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I'd like to add one more thing to this you probably experienced as well. My family has several people in medicine. All of them have done a stint in a hospital before quitting for greener pastures. The homeless problem (now renamed &quo
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by weakfortress 4y ago
You are aware you can have more than one big problem right? I drink too much diet soda. The cost of a 12 pack has more than doubled in over a year. There are now cheaper 12 packs of rot gut beer than soda. Price gouging should be stopped ev
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I don't understand them in any field. I was forced into signing one for tech that blocks me from working from any competitor for up to 2 years. Depending on how loosely you define competitors that could mean I can't work in tech
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I work with data, so it's not uncommon to load a large file either deliberately or accidentally. Highlighting isn't the issue. Even a CSV on the order of 100-200MB kills VS code dead. I assume this is because it's an electron
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Try to open a large text file in VS Code and watch it grind to a halt. While VS Code offers a buffet of features that are cool and convenient it has a lot of problems.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
A half functional mainstream Linux distribution is infinitely more stable than Windows 10 and 11. They don't even pump ads into your start menu! There's no telemetry! I've been using Linux forever in one form or another. It w
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by weakfortress 4y ago
What era is this? Certainly it's not the last 20-25 years. I don't remember being able to afford anything until after I graduated and was fortunate enough to have parents that let me live in the basement while I got on my feet. My
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by weakfortress 4y ago
"Most discrete math is object oriented" ...what?
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by weakfortress 4y ago
It sounds like you're incredibly picky. I moved away from Ruby to Python years ago for 99.9% of my professional work. Ruby to me is write once read nowhere. "Professional" developers invent all sorts of creative DSLs to make
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I generally find the most technically competent people I work with generally are simpletons when it comes to technology. Once you see how the sausage is made the master plan of the technocracy becomes obvious.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
When I was growing up computers were dumb and hard. To be a kid using a computer you not only needed to develop the smarts to be able to USE the damn thing, but to make use of it you needed to spend a lot of time...reading. As I got older t
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by weakfortress 4y ago
The downvotes are by new age pseudo-intellectuals that frequent this forum. Congratulations. Medical science says you're not smart.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
You would be wrong. I suppose it's anecdata but a member of my family who works in pedatrics sees this regularly unfortunately. Usually it's these new-age parents that think co-sleeping is somehow beneficial. You fall into a deep
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by weakfortress 4y ago
1password has a document on their security arch: https://1passwordstatic.com/files/security/1password-white-p... . This alone lends credence to their claims. To this date there has been no major breaches despite be
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Yes. But prior to this breach it was easy to look the other way due to the extremely large amount of inertia associated with changing a manager and all your passwords. I know this was the case for me. In August we thought it was simply anot
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by weakfortress 4y ago
> a lot of early vegan meat alternatives were ghastly I think most people dislike vegan food because vegans eat it. Not because of the food. Vegans have done a number on their appearance to the public. Most people seem to have the same e
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by weakfortress 4y ago
> plant based was the default My canine teeth tell a different story. Meat was eaten when it was available. Certainly they also ate berries and what not as cavemen. However, it wasn't like grug, or medieval grug, went out of their w
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Maybe I'm fortunate and developed some preternatural ability to learn by taking college classes almost my entire life. But I've never had a problem asking for book recommendations (from professors, the internet, etc) and then read
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by weakfortress 4y ago
How does "learning in maturity" change from regular learning? Why do you need a book? Just go find something and learn it...the system couldn't be simpler.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Except pop-sci books are cancers in and of themselves. The book has some interesting notes but in general prescribes really questionable conclusions to the data. For example, one poster here suggests sleeping less leads to cancer. I don&#x2
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Stop reading productivity blogs. You do not have to be productive 24/7. Downtime is important. Do you think going to a concert, or dinner with friends, etc is wasting your time too? It sounds like a deeper problem than just the video g
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by weakfortress 4y ago
A long time ago I attended a DEFCON where this was discussed. Long before it became a big deal in the industry to have all this tech in cars. CANBUS was broken reliably, and if my memory serves me they even had a car you could take a shot a
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Depends on your targets. I got laid off in 2020 and got a job right away. Within 3 months, and that was because I took a month and a half off afterwards. There is no crunch right now if you have a degree and can program. Companies are tight
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by weakfortress 4y ago
If you've ever shot a gun or been around guns you'd know the rapport of various guns is not always consistent. Often, it is difficult to tell the difference between a gunshot and a firework for example. Even something like droppin

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