Viewing profile — WorkLifeBalance

Beating macOS at gaming sounds like a punchline, that's just not impressive, macOS has only ever been an afterthought for gaming.

In which jurisdictions is this deliberate circumvention of access controls legal?

> Is there a name for this type of fatigue Stress. (One of the smyptoms of)

Stop trying to re-invent statistics. Use a box and whisker plot of latency. You quickly get to see the mean, the quartiles, and all the outliers and you get it in a format which is…

There's also microsoft's R-Open ( https://mran.microsoft.com/download ) which I've found is faster than the out of the box R since it supports better multi-threading of commands.

That reminds me of this work (2009) by artist Ellie Harrison who made a vending machine which dispensed snacks any time the word recession popped up on the BBC news feed: https://w…

These may well work on some (cheap?) phones, I've had phones not display properly through polarized sunglasses before.

Specifying something as password hashing as (sha256? salted sha256?) without telling it to seems like magic to me. So to clarify, it's this password: declaration which tells the fr…

Where is the definition of the password being hashed? The tutorial defines it as text: /* 'Users': collection { 'Password': text }*/ How does the platform know to hash that? Is it …

How do you take this from here to the next step? Let's say I want to develop a multi user todo and I've followed the examples and now have some Users who log in entering a password…

Modern tests are delivered by computer and typically are adaptive. This means that as you answer questions correctly you get asked increasingly difficult questions until you get so…

The difference between 99th and 99.99th percentile is 1.4 standard deviations, a common IQ test ought to be able to be accurate to that. Otherwise it couldn't measure the differenc…

Meta doesn't imply cycling, just that the best strategy may be a mixed strategy which involves randomly picking between different pure strategies. Instead of cycling, the meta ough…

It's a stretch to say it results in cheaters, people have been writing cheats since quakeworld.

There's a better solution: Stop collecting and keeping personal data. I can't even read this article without using firefox reader mode to skip the cookie warning / prompt (this wor…

Someone on here recently recommended uMatrix for this purpose and I find that a nice trade-off between usability and request blocking. It's an extension but given it's less opaque …

Despite not working in infosec I tune into risky busisness (risky.biz) every week, it's a good round-up of the week without the overreaction you sometimes get from twitter and here…

You say that as if github never has outages when the reality is, like any large service, it has frequent service outages. Just check the github status pages, there are orange level…

Are they wrong?

They all feed into the National ANPR Data Centre: www.npcc.police.uk/FreedomofInformation/ANPR.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recogni...

Every petrol (gas) station has ANPR; which makes sense, you can't get too far before you have to fill up.

VR isn't decent yet and won't be until it's comfortable enough to slap a VR headset on and watch a movie. That's comfortable both in terms of literal headset weight but also latenc…

When I first found notebooks I was amazed at their utility. The ability to quickly display algorithms and processes to a wider (potentially layman) audience is amazing. To be able …

XML without schema are a mess. XML with schema and validtion can be a joy to use compared to the untyped JSON world, but it's the lack of having to specify type which helps JSON re…

According to [1] windowing functions make SQL turing complete. Does this make SQLite turing complete or has it been turing complete before? [1] http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/acc…