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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

> Is there a name for this type of fatigue

Stress. (One of the smyptoms of)

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 familiar and easy to understand. You can even plot box and whisker plots next to each other for quick meaningful comparisons between different things.

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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.

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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://www.ellieharrison.com/vendingmachine/

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 framework to hash the input?

    users
        dynamic :  . 'Users'
        password : . 'Password'

    interfaces

    root {

    }

    numerical-types

Is this defined anywhere within the project or is this framework magic? (Or "glue" if you don't like the term magic). password is not mentioned again anywhere in the documentation, I'd like to understand how the framework knows to hash the input.

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 looking for magic property names?

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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.

Someone points out that I shouldn't be storing passwords in plain text so I want to store them hashed.

Despite there being hints in the documentation that this is possible (migrations shows the password hashed), it's not clear how to carry out this kind of change.

A walkthrough of making a change would help convey the use case much better than just templates of "this incantation produces this output".

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 some wrong.

This means that you aren't limited to asking the same questions to everyone so you can have appropriate discrimination through the range.

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 difference between 100 and 120 IQ (0 to 1.4z) which it clearly can.

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 ought to converge to a Nash equilibrium.

With the right mixed strategy, an opponent choosing a pure strategy would be at a disadvantage.

Randomising over a huge choice of pure strategies may be infeasible of course and in the real world players have to train for particular strategies which is why we see meta shifts. (Plus of course in the real world the conditions (assumptions) change due to gameplay patches.

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 works for a lot of sites!).

That's a choice that techdirt make. By framing it as an unavoidable consequence of the cookie legislation or GDPR moves the focus to the wrong place.

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 than a generic ad-blocker I feel more in control and that it's less likely to go 'rogue' like adblockers do.

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 in the immediate aftermath of a big leak or vuln.

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

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 issues almost weekly and you don't need to go back too far for full outages.

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hace 8 añosdiscuss

Are they wrong?

WorkLifeBalance

hace 8 añosdiscuss

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...

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