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faceplanted··on Iron, How Did They Make It, Part IVb: Work Hardening, or Hardly Working?
Except a materialist would simply say that those people lack the social capital because they lack the material capital. Lack of Social Capital stopped them getting the access to the food, but those people without social capital seemingly always just _happen_ to be poor, almost as if social capital is simply a path _to_ material capital that you need to cash out into capital to actually have any power.
faceplanted··on We Hacked Apple for 3 Months
It wasn't that, they did do password cracking, if I recall correctly iCloud itself had a limit on password attempts through the site but there was a way to attempt logins through the API that didn't have that limit which let them target those users for brute force attacks.
faceplanted··on Show HN: URL Shortener Optimized for QR Code
I wonder what the minimum necessary text is for recognising a link in QR code apps, the one built into my camera won't notice that some text that says facebook.com is a link, but the one in google lens app will.
faceplanted··on BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)
> Both TV and Radio output quality has been absolutely eviscerated in the last 10 or so years

Who was in power all that time?

faceplanted··on Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world
I wonder if there's actually any kind of line between "inventing explanations" and actually theorising and studying the game's mechanics.

Obviously it's mostly pattern recognition, but that pattern recognition is partitioning parts of the board into classifications of what those sections are doing and whether to prioritise them or let it go in favour of something else, the immediate decisions within those sections are fairly logical. The more complex broader pattern recognition is how those sections will interact as they approach each other, which if there is that much inventing explanations where I imagine it comes in.

faceplanted··on Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research
> no matter what you may think of him as a person, it is a good strategy

The thing about Jordan Peterson's book is that the chapter titles are usually _great advice_, but the content always tends to slide into his strange, mediocrely researched conservative ramblings and sometime worse, at one point he just about admitts that he blames one of his women patients for her own rape, at others he veers right into granddad style rants about young people and their "progressive politics" ruining the world.

Honestly it's a bad book and people would be better off literally just reading the Quora question and answer that inspired it.

faceplanted··on I’ll admit it. I’m a jealous developer
Right click -> open in incognito tab.
faceplanted··on The new Jupyter Book
> It's not pure markdown.

Be fair, it's not trying to be and not claiming to either.

faceplanted··on Ask HN: Are there any software jobs in nature/animal conservation?
The video games vs museums comparison is kinda terrible though, don't you think? I physically _can't_ just go to a museum after work like I can play a video game or watch a documentary. There's a huge number of literally free museums in my city, but I still have to cook for my family.
faceplanted··on Tired of note-taking apps
The other side of that equation though, is if you started photography with something too cheap to the point of say one of those point and shoots that don't even have manual settings you've also just hamstrung yourself in a slightly different way.
faceplanted··on Tired of note-taking apps
I think his suggestion still works in digital form, just switch pen and paper with whatever your built in notepad is and go from there.
faceplanted··on Speeding up function calls with lru_cache in Python
More specifically, it prevents a call being repeated _in quick succession_, if there are enough calls in between repetitions it'll fall out of the cache and be reprocessed.
faceplanted··on Generative Iris
Also you could store a seed for the eye, or one for each even
faceplanted··on SQLite 3.32
Pretty sure they must, row based storage on disk would practically require it just to not completely waste all of the space you've just gained from deleting the column by leaving a gap on every single row.
faceplanted··on Arduino Pinball Machine That Plays Itself
You could definitely pipe (literally) the ball to the input like in real pinball machines and trigger a new iteration.
faceplanted··on Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
>> - Intelligence peaked among those who were born in 70's and has been in slight decline last 18 years. Similar results can be seen in other developed countries.

I always wonder when people post these numbers about IQ going up and down over time, what scales are we talking about here? like is it a difference of like 2 IQ points or is it like a difference of 20? Cause if it's 5 or less I can't imagine it would make any real functional difference to the country.

faceplanted··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
Social scientists aren't rolling in money.
faceplanted··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
It's that American cultural aversion to ever admitting that race is tied to history, they want to be seen to be doing something about racism but still do it through a racist lens where what matters is whether you look black and not what it actually means to have been discriminated against by American history and policy.
faceplanted··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)
How is your company managing now that all the sports are cancelled for a year? Sports betting is losing revenue by the ton right now.
faceplanted··on Upgraded Google Glass helps autistic kids “see” emotions
I think this is a fairly natural cognitive bias, possibly a form of the Dunning-Kruger effect, but there might be a better explanation I don't know for sure.
faceplanted··on Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password
That's not really the same situation, if someone's trying to bug you they don't want to be caught, if they were willing to do illegal violence they'd probably do it first, or if they're a government, you have way bigger problems.
faceplanted··on Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password
If someone has that much physical access to your machine they can capture your password far more easily with a physical keylogger assuming you use an external keyboard like one time.
faceplanted··on First Maine inmate enrolled in graduate school conducts research in prison
Damn good reason to teach him some philosophy then,
faceplanted··on More nurturing reading environment may stimulate brain development in children
There's like three different answers given here, and none of them mention distraction, I find it functionally impossible to read for study on my phone or computer for extended period without getting distracted even by things you wouldn't think of as distractions. Notifications distract, the ability to play music at all, the software that I'm reading on, highlighting text as I go, I just do not have a brain that makes it easy to read on a computer, and I think a lot of young people don't either.

e-readers and physical books just don't provide as many possibilities for distraction.

faceplanted··on FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case
A piece of paper no-one can read is extremely doable, if you encrypt your HDD at home you can walk around with it as long as you like and no-one will decrypt it, the problem is making it an accessible device you can comfortably use and take data in and out of without accidentally making it readable.
faceplanted··on The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1
"SHA-512/256" is a single entity
faceplanted··on Predicting where AI is going in 2020
Humans don't _just_ learn to recognise the things they see though, they have complex mental models of the objects and things about them they can access by choice as well as make hypotheses about new things that they can immediately test, humans don't get labelled photos of cats, but they see cats in 3D and can interact with them and use spatial reasoning and walk around them to completely separate that cat from the background behind them.
faceplanted··on BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop
How long does it take RAM to lose that data though? Most laptops take far more time to remove the ram than a PC and it's soldered down in a lot of cases.
faceplanted··on Bill Lorensen, co-creator of Marching Cubes, has died
But they _are_ sometimes referred to as metaballs, _at the same time_ as being used to implement them.
faceplanted··on Linux doesn't have Photoshop
Noob question, why is CMYK editing different from any other kind of editing? You can convert rgb to CMYK, every printer does it, so what's actually missing?
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