Mircea Danila Dumitrescu

I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code

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People Born Blind Are Mysteriously Protected From Schizophrenia

The possible explanations could help us better understand the condition.

Real news - important findings for humanity

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An American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry just retracted their latest paper on Monday. Professor Arnold had shared the prize with George P Smith and Gregory Winter for their 2018 research on enzymes, reports the BBC (in an article shared by omfglearntoplay): It has been retracted...

I feel the need to acknowledge this.

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Mircea Danila Dumitrescu — There’s More To Life Than Science

Knowledge and insights acquired in a field during years of experience are invaluable, but do pair these with soft skills.

Thank you RomanianIT and Cristina Juc.

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Programming Sucks

This is so good it had to be on my blog!

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Microsoft does it again :)

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Fitbit just bought another smartwatch startup

It now owns Vector, which made a classier version of the Pebble

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Security researchers can turn headphones into microphones

Security researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have created a proof-of-concept exploit that lets them turn headphones into microphones to secretly..

This was theoretically known for a while, but now it’s actually doable. Enjoy feeling secure!

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More cool stuff from @techcrunch disrupt

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Meter Maid Monitor fixes the most San Francisco problem ever

Possibly my favorite hack to come out of the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon is solving a so very San Francisco problem. Meter Maid Monitor uses high tech cloud..

This guy just hacked together the coolest thing :) Check the link above and his website @ http://peoplesparking.space

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Live asynchronously.

Last year I turned off all my notifications. I stopped booking meetings. I started living asynchronously.

Getting there...

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Periodic table of DevOps tools :)

https://xebialabs.com/periodic-table-of-devops-tools/

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Reader msm1267 writes: A severe vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office 365 handles federated identities via SAML put an attacker in a position to have access to any account and data, including emails and files stored in the cloud-based service. Microsoft pushed through a mitigation to the service...

This is just wrong :|

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StatusToday now a finalist for Best AI Startup at AI Summit 2016 — Thoughts by StatusToday

[New Report Human Threat to Cyber-security by StatusToday]

Another step towards conquering the world :)

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Human Threat To Cyber-Security — Thoughts by StatusToday

Big Takeaways from Security Leaders Breakfast

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In Q1 2016, European and Israeli tech companies raised a combined €4.8 billion, making it a record-breaking quarter in the region, according to our extensive data and research. Update: Dow Jones tracked 411 deals in Q1; we tracked 790 funding deals. Don't take our word for it: Dealroom separately tracked €4.6 billion for the quarter. …

Record quarter after all!

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Another reason not to pipe from curl to bash. Detecting curl | bash serverside.

This is what fun looks like for me :)

[macaedh]

what the fuck ethan

[kvothbloodless]

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

[pervocracy]

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

[maxknightley]

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

[squeeful]

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

[optimysticals]

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

[hedwig-dordt]

“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.

[themarysue]

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

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Madness :)