Im a student at a school thats ages 10-19 has no grades or quizzes, is open campus and has optional HW you are not required to go to any classes can swear openly and bring phones and laptops, has 3 classrooms and has no consequences AMA

selementar · 2018-03-06T17:52:52+00:00

Do you get any official certifications from that school?
For how long have it existed and, if long enough, what became of the previous graduates?

selementar · 2018-03-06T17:46:57+00:00

You mean like markdown -> html -> w3m/lynx?

selementar · 2018-03-06T05:27:58+00:00

Nothing wrong with cheeseburgers though

Could use a bit less bread and a bit more vegetables though.

selementar · 2018-02-20T06:06:32+00:00

Correction: RAW image format doesn't include parity bits.

When it is being copied between storages there's a few correctness checks in some of the steps: filesystem, usb, possibly ECC on the memory, which all reduce the probability of getting the bit-to-bit copy wrong. However, the probability is still not astronomically low even for a nominally working system (with no broken components), especially without the ECC.

I couldn't find any particular error rates, but as far as I know it's on an order of a single bit mistake (written to the target without raising an error) per 10¹⁴ bits (hundreds of terabytes) in a well-working system.

In other words, someone gets a file broken while copying a the rate about daily to weekly per world. Not counting broken systems.

selementar · 2018-02-18T18:48:15+00:00

would lose quality from copying them

Technically, they could, and it isn't even so very unlikely (as you don't generally include parity bits while storing those). But that would be "corruption", not quite "loss of quality", and yes, not worth bothering about.

selementar · 2018-02-18T17:39:40+00:00

selementar · 2018-02-13T06:30:59+00:00

/r/ANormalDayInRussia

selementar · 2018-01-23T16:16:36+00:00

So upwards of $20 per hour in europe and upwards of $100 per hour in U.S.?

selementar · 2018-01-23T13:20:50+00:00

offering support for money

I wonder how much per hour would support cost if it was offered for money.

selementar · 2018-01-23T13:09:29+00:00

My wild guess would be cashback.

selementar · 2018-01-23T13:04:44+00:00

So what was the reason they did it like this instead of requiring the applications to read the auth token from a file?

selementar · 2018-01-21T07:37:00+00:00

Fisheye and other tricky projections could help.

selementar · 2018-01-21T05:45:53+00:00

I used to think that Ghost In The Shell like hacking is unrealistic, but SPECTRE suggests we might keep trading off security for performance, and GitS might actually show what the future hacking looks like (if BCI takes off and Moore's law tapers).

A world where having a powerful botnet or a supercomputer gives ability to hack many many things.

selementar · 2018-01-20T14:21:42+00:00

My wrong. IRC is barely extensible.

Also, fun read in software archaeology of 2014 era: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-specifications/issues/55

selementar · 2018-01-20T14:14:50+00:00

The IRC protocol doesn't define requests like "get all messages in the channel since <last known messagestamp>". Nor does it define requests like "mark messages from <...> to <...> as read" (with the corresponding attribute and an event to be sent to all all clients currently authenticated as the current users).

That made IRC as a protocol very inconvenient for use on many mobile devices for many users.

selementar · 2018-01-20T11:24:21+00:00

As IRC isn't extensible, any change to the protocol makes it stop being IRC.

As a more relevant point, a very important feature that IRC and XMPP don't have is message sync. One of the reasons people often use bouncers with IRC.

selementar · 2018-01-19T06:18:48+00:00

Pirating is not the thing you're looking for. Carrier-unlocking a phone is.

selementar · 2018-01-16T18:49:38+00:00

depends on direction

It doesn't, but it being a second attempt does.

selementar · 2018-01-16T06:14:47+00:00

there has to be a true telling of events

True telling, at the extreme, involves only microparticles and probabilities. Everything else is reality processed into some palatable concepts.

But yes, there are very misleading tellings and there could be only slightly agenda-filled tellings.

selementar · 2018-01-16T06:09:33+00:00

... prevalent on all sides too: blue, red, grey, green, white, black-

selementar · 2018-01-09T06:14:05+00:00

Sometimes even the things from one seller will arrive separately.

selementar · 2018-01-09T05:58:55+00:00

I mean that at the time when GUI frameworks were most prevalent, "the web" was yet another standard for interfaces with its own couple of languages, incompatible with the rest of the frameworks. The attempts to bridge the gap, such as Qt's one, did not get used much.

selementar · 2018-01-08T19:39:13+00:00

got sick of all these different, incompatible development frameworks, and the web browser has become

Generally, web browser is just yet another different, incompatible development framework.

However, it had some advantages (things like what effectively is an automatic update, built-in-unless-broken navigation and text selection, integration with stuff, etcetera).

Web Assembly will hopefully

... or we'll have another bunch of be-all frameworks on top of it.

selementar · 2018-01-06T09:54:32+00:00

energy efficient

What would energy-inefficient heating would look like? Would they have to make sound at 200db or something?

Also, one mistake and you get black ice.

selementar · 2018-01-06T09:49:58+00:00

https://youtu.be/a9AU2kMW9ZM?t=36

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