AlanYx

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by AlanYx 3y ago
If you have a considerable amount of staff turnover, strong typing is a godsend for a large codebase. Having an order of magnitude more unit tests is another option, but that undermines the alleged "less code" benefit of weak typi
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You might find that the Glamorous Toolkit ( https://gtoolkit.com/ ) scratches some/many of your itches.
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Hagoromo ended up not going out of business, so there's no longer any worries about finding Hagoromo chalk. It's worth the cost.
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>...most heat escapes through the glass front and back of the phone, even though they have poor conductivity. Some does, but given glass' very poor thermal conductivity (1.38 W/(m·K)), heat dissipation by the band around the ou
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by AlanYx 3y ago
For what it's worth, World Book still publishes the print version of their encyclopedia.
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You can easily do the envelope method in ledger (aka. ledger-cli if you're searching for it), which is the back end for Paisa.
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It's hard to know for sure. The most common analysis, following the PEFCR standard, takes the carbon impact of cows and then divides it up in a certain ratio between flesh and leather products, then adds the tanning and production step
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One of the things that undermines the used furniture market for higher-end furniture is storage. Larger pieces often get stored somewhere for a period before they're sold, but unlike veneered MDF, solid wood pieces are vulnerable to ge
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Thorium Reader is an under-appreciated ebook reader IMHO that works well on Linux.
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It's very well-written and I recommend it, but just be aware that despite the "mastering" in the title it's not meant to be a deep-dive into Emacs. (The author provides a lot of great additional content on his website if
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It does! But the really interesting thing is that travelling wave tubes are still being used for quite a few modern satellite designs. For example, SiriusXM used them in SXM-9/10, and is probably using them in SXM-11/12.
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That still is the default calibration target for Calibrite/X-rite calibrators.
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There isn't even a single screenshot of what it looks like, either on the linked page or the idx.dev site.
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The Wikipedia article on LK-99 now references a Korean source claiming that this was submitted to Nature in 2020 but that the paper was rejected.
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the objections are not typically phrased in the type of language you're using. A typical example is something like this, from Louie (J.Res.Math.Ed. 2017): >Through the le
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>This is my best guess about the line of thinking that motivates these "no advanced math" policies. You've explained the thought process of the "reformers" fairly well, but there is another additional element tha
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I'm really intrigued by the smart kerning idea. Are there any other monospace fonts that do this?
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Discoverability and interactivity are debatable, but customizability is still not VSCode's forte. It's easy to knock up some quick elisp to scratch an itch in Emacs, whereas just printing Hello World in VSCode requires a bunch of
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Last week it was Facebook. Today it's Google too. And the impact is arguably more significant given that Google is delisting Canadian news from their core search engine (not just from news.google.com), which has 92% market share in Can
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China practices affirmative action by giving certain ethnic minorities additional points on the gao kao. There's a good 2017 paper by Ding et. al. that explores the effect this has.
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Not exactly. Most models of reading involve at least two steps: (i) decoding and (ii) assigning meaning. Decoding is translating written letters into blended sounds, then meaning is assigned. There is very strong evidence that skilled, fast
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There was a fantastic Hacker News discussion about Sold a Story a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599181 Apparently the same sort of analysis with math isn't quite as straightforward. There is so
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It's a fairly common thing aimed at younger kids (kindergarten, grade 1). Usually the idea is that there are fifth and sixth graders who volunteer as playground helpers and who draw the younger kids to play with them if they're al
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On some post-2017 non-HDR Apple displays, the OS actually dynamically adjusts the screen's gamma curve to simulate this effect. On machines that support this, if you hold Option down while opening the Display control panel, there'
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Add that to the minefield of GDPR issues Reddit has to confront. They've provided the whole Reddit comment corpus to researchers, several located in Europe, though the PushShift dataset. There are no real privacy controls on that datas
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Are there any good papers describing best practices for doing this? For example, how do you handle personally identifying information that needs to be in the training set? (e.g., names of actors, authors and other famous people) Do you have
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>Was this piece written by the EU government? It sounds so weirdly congratulatory. There is a self-congratulatory concept that's fairly prevalent in some policy circles called "The Brussels Effect". It's the idea that
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Just curious, can you adjust the cook time upwards by 10% or so to overcome the pressure difference?
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The tragedy here is that widespread abuses will water down the signal for those few high school students who do legitimately contribute to research. My wife worked in an academic hospital affiliated lab during her PhD, and every summer they
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She's the first author of the stochastic parrots paper, and she's fairly representative of the group of "AI safety" researchers who view the field from a statistical perspective linked to social justice issues. That&#x27

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