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robryk

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About robryk

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    Comment #46313705

    Why do you think that this other kind of accountability (which reminds me of the way captain's or commander's responsibility is often described) is incompatible with what the artic…

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    Comment #46313621

    Would automated tests that produce a transcript of what they've done allow perusing that transcript to substitute for manual testing?

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    Comment #46313586

    Even if the situations are noticed and seen fully, does it cause the schools to not punish the victim? The stories I've heard about zero tolerance policies were that _even when the…

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    Comment #46107101

    Why? You just need to choose electronics that doesn't use micro mechanical designs that would be damaged by helium. (Or are you pointing at some other reason?)

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    Comment #42510894

    The larger issue for most quantum key exchange setups is the transition from classical to quantum: you want not to accidentally generate two unentangled photons in the same secret …

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    Comment #42109704

    I think you are on the right track (sorry, I did not verify all the individual statements). If you weren't already aware of them, you might wish to learn what normal subgroups are,…

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    Comment #42041325

    The reason why it's not so simple is that various operations on the cube do not commute (whereas rotations of different wheels on a combination lock do).

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    Comment #41390358

    Is it still not a free action if it replaced an ad?

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    Comment #41348336

    Is it also impractical for treating potable water supplies, or for treating wastewater? (You mentioned only _bottled_ water companies.)

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    Comment #41346200

    I don't see why one has to create the actor-actor relation table. I would rather search for shortest paths in the bipartite graph where nodes are movies and actors, and divide the …

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    Comment #41239948

    I wonder if they intend to measure pressure and display altitude difference (or at least its sign) at some point. (That could be very helpful when skiing.)

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    Comment #41044440

    You can always exfiltrate by inserting stuff into the page's DOM that will do the exfil from the page's context.

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    Comment #40607935

    Why isn't this the model case for small claims courts?

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    Comment #40554311

    As with race conditions, making things faster doesn't change things but only exposes preexisting problems. The preexisting problem I see here is sloppy definition of existence for …

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    Comment #40533333

    HOAs require more than (or a very specific extension of) freedom of association to exist: they require an ability to bind any future owners of a piece of land to join the HOA (rega…

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    Comment #40434993

    To steelman the GP's POV: there are other parts of solutions to problems where similar levels of rigour are required and cannot be filled in by using a preexisting library (state m…

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    Comment #40183952

    I have a power meter that sits in front of my kettle (that I also use as a teapot) that notifies me when the tea has finished brewing (i.e. when it finished boiling + a fixed delay…

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    Comment #40138195

    I don't see why subjective morals cannot be realistically followed. Do you mean that it will mean sufficiently different things for different people that they any promise of this s…

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    Comment #40022072

    > The only variable inside its own table is yolAbejyiejuvnup=Evjtgvsh5okmkAvj, which in this context serves as a kill switch. This seems false? The trie contained also strings like…

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    Comment #40007880

    I don't understand what happens when the sensor is bent in more than one location. At the beginning you mention a ToF sensor, which made me think that you're looking at reflections…

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    Comment #39900571

    Ssh does client authentication after handshake. The server is required to sign the handshake result with its private key, so you won't get past handshake if you are a server that c…

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    Comment #39897739

    Or just a very quick change?

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    Comment #39490409

    My best example of that was a test that was asserting that a monitoring metric changes in some way with a comment expressing doubt whether the asserted values are correct (but whoe…

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    Comment #39490223

    This is my experience, unless I try to make the contract of the thing simple to test via property testing. Then, writing tests often becomes basically an exercise in writing down t…

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    Comment #39451227

    Both lift and drag are aerodynamic forces, so your approximation causes one to conclude that one need to simply spin everything faster. (And then we run into problems with transoni…