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Re:Assorted Less(1) Tips on Friday January 02, 2026 @09:57AM (#46465351)
I'm so mad that I didn't know the hitting F thing!
Terribly so. So we need more high-quality research, not to stop researching it. The scientific method can only get better by putting it in practice.
It seems that the statement "blood flow doesn't tell you anything about neural activity" is definitely not true: https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/brain-metrics/what_does...

Also, it seems dangerous to suggest rejecting studying a specific area because the scientific tools and our understanding around it are currently limited - this is what science is for after all. If we thought this way, we wouldn't have nutrition research.

> It could mean "I'm lonely, so I think unlike everyone else." This doesn't make a lot of sense. Would people do it out of spite?

Makes sense to me actually: I wouldn't say it's even necessarily conscious, but the less you interact with others, the more you can become set in your own ways and create pathways to seeing your beliefs as truths.

I suspect it's a needed trade-off between security and practicality. I have no idea how "needed" it is though, can someone shed some light on this? Also, couldn't Signal add their own encryption layer?
Re:Non-Blocking Parallelism for Services in Go on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:27PM (#25839117)
Agree, in fact this pattern is found almost verbatim in Go's documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/sync/semaphore#example-packa...
Re:51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities on Thursday December 17, 2020 @11:17AM (#25456927)
Nice. I like the (shortest) output of this one better. And as opposed to trivy, it was able to detect the packages (and 1 vuln) in ghcr.io/linuxserver/swag.
Re:51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities on Thursday December 17, 2020 @07:25AM (#25454942)
Was looking into this yesterday as I have a bunch of containers running on my media server. Found this tool: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy which allows you to easily scan your images for vulns. Anyone have other recs?
Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:05PM (#25076483)
Yes, can someone clarify this? What the hell is going on here?
Re:A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:27PM (#24723547)
Respectfully disagree. You're essentially arguing that they're not politically motivated in staying at/leaving their job. That's fair. Nevertheless their actions translate either support, inaction, or opposition. The implication which MLK argues is that inaction is harmful to the movement.
Re:A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:38PM (#24722952)
Which, as your parent seems to not realize, is also a political stance. This dichotomy is exactly what MLK refers to in the Letter from a Bermingham Jail (i.e. positive vs negative peace).
> If so it’d turn around a long held belief that STEM education is biased towards men. At least in grade school.

No, you can't infer this conclusion from that paper.

Yes, the paper claims that there exists some bias towards girls (from teachers' grading). And the sentence you quote claims that without that specific bias, the gender gap would be in favor of boys ("12.5% larger"). However, we do not know if this figure is free of bias (IMO, fair to say probably not). Therefore, there might be other biases in STEM in favor of boys that could explain the gender gap in their favor.

Re:A simple way to get more value from metrics on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:30AM (#23361432)
Interesting, wonder if he's looked at the data from levels.fyi. Although it's surely not representative.
Sounds like an application for Multipath TCP: http://www.multipath-tcp.org/
Re:Algorithm for Drawing Trees on Saturday January 18, 2020 @05:26PM (#22087761)
This is interesting, I was asked this question in an interview for a Microsoft internship, but for a binary tree.
Re:Cutting Google out of your life (2019) on Sunday January 05, 2020 @06:36PM (#21965072)
What does YouTube have that you can't find elsewhere on the web?
Re:Things to use in Python 3 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:20AM (#19919098)
Re:Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (2008) on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:08PM (#19881736)
It's at least a user enumeration issue
Re:Rules for Autocomplete on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:07AM (#19440266)
Yup. 10 years later, Chrome doesn't even come close to Firefox's implementation.
Very cool. Is there a writeup somewhere?
Re:How to Use JSON Web Tokens on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @09:13AM (#18806233)
Yes, JWTs don't bring anything new to the table. In fact, most articles promoting their use don't even explain why you should use them. This is cargo cult programming at its utmost.

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