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Re:How Hamming codes work
on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:23AM (#11010331)
Just so you know, this is the same Hamming that published the classic essay, "You and Your Research" (1986): https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~yymao/misc/Hamming_kaiser.html
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Re:Hacker Monthly Shuts Down
on Saturday January 09, 2016 @10:22AM (#10871505)
You're thinking of HackerCanon: https://medium.com/swlh/best-of-2015-pfffffffft-79d9b014f4de
Re:SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy
on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @06:50PM (#10854879)
You Uber to work every day? Isn't that terribly expensive?
We paid $10k for a domain and all we got was less traffic
Re:On the Surfaces of Things: Mathematics and the Realm of Possibility
on Monday December 28, 2015 @05:23AM (#10800589)
Thank you!
Re:On the Surfaces of Things: Mathematics and the Realm of Possibility
on Monday December 28, 2015 @05:17AM (#10800576)
Came across this reading The Browser (a site that curates the 6 best links every day). Worth checking out. https://thebrowser.com/
On the Surfaces of Things: Mathematics and the Realm of Possibility
Craigslist's $100M software piracy ring gets busted
Dollar may lose its currency crown to the yen in 2016
Re:Lyft spam on Facebook
on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:10PM (#10693507)
Source?
Re:Lyft spam on Facebook
on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:31PM (#10692866)
One of the ways I've seen botnets skirt this problem is by using cartoon profile pictures. Cartoon bots don't work quite as well on Facebook as they do on Twitter and Instagram (where they're only used to inflate favorite/follower stats, not to sell stuff). Unfortunately, it's probably hard to convince someone to hail a Lyft if "social proof" is coming from someone with a cartoon face.
With that said, these bot puppeteers could feasibly get around identity theft/copyright/social proof issues by using CC0 stock photography sites. There's plenty of free photos out there for people to use, i.e. as profile pictures.
Not that it'd be any more ethical, but at least it would be legal.
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An Encryption Backdoor Is a Bad Idea
Re:Learn one subject after another or all in parallel (like at an univ...
on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @07:36AM (#10654857)
Are you studying full-time or part-time? The difference between you and a student (I imagine) is that you have 8 hours of the day blocked off
Re:Why the Public Can't Read the Press
on Monday November 30, 2015 @03:33AM (#10648399)
Fantastic, fantastic read.