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75dvtwin
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without re-iterating my views about the political affiliation of these outfit. Just seeing the timing of it, all at the same time, is indeed suspicious. Another posted suggested that they have hired at disproportionally large numbers. Seems
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I should have used better and clearer wording, so apologies. What I meant was, strategic thinking on FreeBSD has to follow (not precede, in my view) the goals of the project. Which is what I was trying to say above, but poorly. -- FreeBSD d
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This sentence helped me to visualize what might be happening. "Just as a grounded boat can float again when the weight of its cargo is removed, a glacier that loses ice weight can float over land where it used to stick. When this happe
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Or, it could be, the above suggests confirmation bias (which, in turn, results in selective justice).
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It is often the case, and very unfortunate. Also besides a 'written job description' -- there are always unspoken 'tokens' for candidate's gender or, even, race, perhaps other attributes. Studies on this type of sub
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> Annotation-based programming might seem cool now, but wait a few years. I even have this experience on my own projects and with much shorter span than a year. When I go back to a code base I worked just 3-4 month ago -- I have very har
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It is not the laws that are problem, it is the law-enforcement/justice system that's a problem. Justice based on 'selective outrage 'cannot fix corruption. Justice that's corrupt itself cannot fix corruption. Weste
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8y ago
Exactly this. Modern corruption vehicles include things like speeches, book publishing fees, movie/documentary fees, consulting fees, and real-estate deals where an expensive property is sold or rented for much less than market value.
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So everybody comes up with their own definitions for things. I guess we value 'briefness' over precision these days. Because we think, people who make lots of money are brief, but people who concentrate on details are just pawns&#
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WRT > Module interface unit locations must be deterministic. My immediate though was create a SQLLite database per some collection of modules (a crate of modules?). Each row in that table will have unique 'business id' and uniq
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I guess the author is thinking that Operating system dev must be run like a corporation. I think it is a valid point of view, and if competition with Linux is the goal -- then it could be, the only valid view. But if competition with Linux
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8y ago
If I take a copyrighted text book on linear algebra, then I copy its table of content. then create my own text book (with unique material), where the table of content is from the above book. Did I just violate the copyright of the first te
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WRT > The usual mechanism to address this is to require more than one clinically trained person to agree, which holds them for a few days until it can be heard in court and decided by a judge. It seems the above would only work (meaning
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8y ago
I think It is a future of every society that 'standardizes' on 40 hour, or more work week, and restricts legal immigration of competitively-skilled workforce. Perhaps, naïve, but the only way for Japan to solve these kinds of prob
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many experimental sciences took, slightly, wrong turns as well early on(chemistry). The failure of most of todays cryptocurrencies is that they have become investment vehicles. They are trying to compete with gold on one side (because of li
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I think this library, is exactly that. Cross platform in (C), and works on mobile, browsers, as well as desktop environments.
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I also find ScylaDB C++ code nicely educational (at least for me). It is using modern idiomatic C++ with a healthy mix of boost library. For example: https://github.com/scylladb/scylla/blob/master/db/
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8y ago
Octave checks for matrix mismatch, I believe. Not sure if it is integrated with pytorch.
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having technology companies participating in disinformation campaigns, apparently is not uncommon in US. https://www.foxnews.com/us/cyber-group-touted-by-dems-for-bo...
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I do not think author contradicts himself at all. If they would have used react-native-web, he would have saved some time writing the Android (or IOS) apps. Because he could have reused the code (he said that too). This is what I have done,
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what about PostgresXL. it is a release v behind Postgres. But it has ACID and cluster. I do not have personal experience with it, but would be interested to hear what folks say. Overall, I agree -- PG with JsonB is extraordinary powerful sy
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Teresa May was a 'remain'. Subjective, but... It was never a question in my mind, that May would sabotage the negotiations to the point that the skeptics of the exit, would proclaim 'I told you so'. Never believed that s
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horrible article in my view, by Dominique Collett Senior investment executive, Rand Merchant Investment Holdings, & heads the firm’s next-generation financial services business, AlphaCode. Just names of a company with one/two sent
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I think (and hope), that the next big thing (after https) -- will be VPNs by default. (and independent from the internet provider service). By default, nobody, and I mean, nobody needs to know ones home IP address, period. And nobody nee
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Serviced apartments and corporate housing companies offer fully services apartments. https://www.bridgestreet.com/ You can cook there, etc -- they are fully serviced (eg you get cleaning people once or twice a week, beds ar
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There are not many things, that are more dishonest than selective outrage, hidden behind the veil of 'moral high ground'. Is anybody auditing Patreon to apply same level of 'checks' to all the other users? Is there a l
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I also have a question. the article references the discovery of the new crater created by meteorite hitting Greenland https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/11/impact-cr... would the erosion caused b
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do you have by any chance, some numbers of the website size (js + images) that make it slow on Kobo?
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I liked the "There are many compelling reasons to push for publishing "uninteresting" or "negative" results. Efficiency is one obvious reason: Scientists need not waste time testing hypotheses that have been repeat
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@amuresan, here is an attempt to answer your question, from a non-expert: --- In a variety of problems, one needs to compute minimum or maximum of some numeric function. Later, the result of the above, is used to construct 'optimal
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