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zodzedzi

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    Comment #37647329

    For anyone else who was also seeing just garbled characters in the title, and since the first few paragraphs of the linked article don't explain what that is: GF2P8AFFINEQB is one …

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    Comment #37343811

    Off-topic question: I've been seeing this "si" URL parameter pop up a lot in shared youtube links lately. Which app exactly pulled the URL for you?

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    Comment #37191680

    > Bilinguals and monolinguals remembered English competitor words that overlapped phonologically with a spoken English target better than control objects without name overlap. High…

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    Comment #36607254

    > ... we had to build our own physics algorithm for very specific problems, and ended up selling the software ... Like a simulation algorithm? Can you elaborate on what kind of alg…

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    Ask HN: What's a good Linux OS and setup to build a dev “network” on my laptop?

    I have a new lightweight laptop with 16 GB of RAM, decent SSD space, and an i7 CPU. And I would like to setup a few systems on it, to have "everything" with me as I move around whi…

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    Comment #36305602

    > ... heapsort, which is kind of slow, but prevents adversaries from smashing your stack. How does heapsort protect against a stack attack?

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    Comment #36117680

    Unrelated, but this style he draws the timelines in: is it hand-written/hand-drawn, or software-generated? It certainly has the overall feel and appeal of being done by hand, but I…

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    Comment #36050668

    Uber gets to introduce driverless cars finally (an old promise of theirs) without the costs of owning or developing hardware, and use that as leverage over drivers. I don't think U…

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    Comment #36049537

    Many comments saying Waymo could easily spin up an Uber-replacement app are missing one key point: integrating with Uber allows Waymo to have a slow rollout / soft-launch. They can…

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    Comment #36024558

    > Generally, the models are compressing their understanding of all text, and in doing so, they're learning high order concepts Are these higher order concepts accessible to us? E.g…

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    Ask HN: How do GPTs grok high-level concepts, beyond word-level transformers?

    My background: I'm familiar with pre-GPT machine learning and DNNs. I read the relevant papers, went through many explanations of how transformers work. Often those explanations sp…

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    Comment #31046825

    I had 11.2.11. And you're right, according to their changelog [1], they added it in 11.3. >> v 11.3rc1 + Contextual policies (different capabilities for the same origin, depending …

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    Comment #31046709

    I don't see any of these options in my plugin. I have NoScript 10, and it looks like there is a NoScript 11 out there; is that what you have? Maybe the feature was introduced in 11…

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    Comment #31046274

    If they stick with billboards for advertising, I personally don't mind it. The issue to me is with tracking-based advertising(/anything).

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    Comment #31046225

    Ok interesting. I'll try to find those sites I encountered again and check it out with uMatrix.

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    Comment #31046216

    Ok I'll set it up sometime soon and give it a try. Thanks.

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    Comment #31046202

    I see "Custom" allowing you to choose which elements (frame, fonts, etc.) to allow/block for the domain you're configuring. But it doesn't offer the ability to say "apply these set…

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    Comment #31046176

    I don't remember the sites; I'll try to find them again, and will share here if I do. I remember seeing 3 sites within an hour, and deciding to change the DDG setting to TEMP:TRUST…

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    Comment #31045632

    I use DDG as my default search engine, along with NoScript in the browser. Often when I visit a new website, I peruse the (long) list of domains that the site is trying to pull jav…

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    Comment #30679941

    Which spigot algorithm is the 3-line version using exactly? (I did some untangling of the code in limited time, but it's still pretty cryptic.)

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    Comment #30645256

    What are some example such books?

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    Comment #30337762

    Fork it, create a new non-profit to oversee its development, a la Linux kernel.

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    Comment #30062750

    > One of the big class combos was Electrical Systems, Mechanical Systems, and Fluid & Thermodynamic systems where you work through from the laws of thermodynamics to how they apply…

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    Comment #27136995

    Thanks, that was helpful.