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Basically I think that as long as the conversation is interspersed / mixed enough that I can't easily understand what people are talking about, then I think it's not thought disruptive, and even beneficial in that case - I agree when people are talking loud / clear enough that you are basically a third listener in their conversation that it can be less than ideal.

Fair enough - and I expect it probably varies by individual. I would strongly wager that I get more done at a coffee shop, or some place with a low buzz, than sitting alone at my house - as long as the conversation isn't directly at me. I do bring some high quality over ear headphones with me in case it gets temporarily loud though.

A single person / noise source is super distracting, but ambient chatter is wonderful

I was joking in both comments (clearly running arbitrary shell commands on a personal computer is a terrible idea), but it's not like a careless rm -rf has never happened before

Don't tell me you've never accidentally rm -rf'd something important

I sort of disagree with this and think one should extend in the opposite direction- to keep sharp, have an RNN generate some plausible config options / shell commands, and append them to the bottom of your vimrc / bashrc on startup. This results in sort of like a 'chaos monkey' of coding, to prepare you for when real emergencies pop up.

For numbers, I think mapping them to consonants helps: 1-> t/d, 2 -> n (as it has two things on bottom), 3 -> m (3 things on bottom), 4 -> r (ends in r), 5 -> l, 6 -> j/ch, 7 -> g/k, 8 -> f/ph, 9 -> p/b. Now plug in some vowels and make words / a sentence for whatever numbers you need, e.g. mud riddle -> 31415 -> 3.1415. I forgot where I learned this many years ago, but its probably on some random website.

I suppose one could make the argument that the voters should be able to forgive small gaffes like that, yet here we are.

Or if you are lazy, just github. https://github.com/divbit/blog

At risk of talking politics, for example, she spoke against Sanders plan on universal health care at an important point in the race [1]. If she later changed her stance to be for universal health care, I don't think people either realized it or believed it - basically she needed to commit to it strongly enough so that it would be politically hard to flop after winning and not do it (to gain the voters who cared about that). Fwiw, it sounds like she is now running for NY governor, hopefully she wins that.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/01/13/hillary-clinton-single-p...

See fig. 2.1 here:

http://disp.ee.ntu.edu.tw/meeting/%E7%B6%AD%E6%AF%85/An%20In...

and also read here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV

That is my quick guess on how to roughly derive the constants (because it is new, probably there are some fancy modifications tho :) )

Actually if you have 3d features, could use edge detection algorithm like Kirsch after fuzzing the colors a bit.

(just alert any keys with heat > mean +- x *standard deviation or something stupid like that)

Idk how common the setup in the article is, but seems they could easily test for heatmap singularities such as the one that happened and alert for that.

Yeah ok, thats a good point.

probably true

I like this one,

> DO NOT solely rely on SSL/TLS to secure data in transit. Rationale: Numerous man-in-middle attack vectors and publicly disclosed flaws in the protocol.

Not quite what you are asking, but if it's written in React-Native or Xamarin, then it can be pretty close to the same codebase from Android to Windows Phone (or I guess they like it called Windows 10 Mobile)

Probably well known, but my favorite is always https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyreactiongifs/

glorious example: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyreactiongifs/comments/50bnuj/...

Previously discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588 highly worth reading imo

It compiles with -std=c++11, graph one fails with 03 on WSL at least

In the last two paragraphs it states that IBM used to publish papers on its inventions to prevent others from patenting them. I have heard that recently, the law has changed to allow it to be possible to patent something within a year of its publishing. Maybe someone knows more about this - is this true? Seems like it would incentivize patenting if so, rather than publishing or dedicating to the public, as then people would just patent whatever someone else publishes.

Depends if github / git is still around I guess https://github.com/divbit/blog

That's interesting. Some of my family in the US have done similar medical tourism in Slovakia.

I was thinking of Bangalore- sorry. I've been awake entirely too long and didn't go for the morning run to refresh yet.

How is the healthcare system in India? Google gives me conflicting answers.

Permutation City (Greg Egan), or Diamond Dogs (Alistair Reynolds)- have to read it in the right mind frame as some sort of moral analogy

Very clean looking. Nice!

I think one can have this attitude with a lot of things. The job which you were supposed to get is the one you got, etc. It must then be that 'supposed to' doesn't really have any meaning, or the opposite, that things are going according to whatever grand plan there exists for us. Who knows.

>And they probably know that.

I imagine their hands are kind of tied- if they don't do anything, then people complain. If they do something, it is possibly not perfect, unless they can come up with some amazing spam reducing innovation which probably close to an AGI fake news bouncer.

The only thing to really do is throw some tools up, and adjust them as adversaries (fake news makers) get more tricky, until finally, after a long time, you get the big innovation.

In any case, deciding to take a stand is clearly better than doing nothing at all.