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by Iv 7y ago
So, I got into hot debate about this book. I read it, or attempted to do so in French, my native language. Thing is, while I do have some philosophical culture, I do not have a degree in philosophy, and people told me that my opinion is the
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by Iv 7y ago
BP can be read as "Before Pollution by airborne radioactive isotopes made radiocarbon dating unusable"
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by Iv 7y ago
The world would be such a better place if we were prosecuting conflicts of interest with the same strength as drug sales (or just drugs uses). The harm they do to society is on a much bigger scale.
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by Iv 7y ago
I love that they include a "Things We Tried That Didn’t Work" section. At first I was a bit put down by the bloggish tone but it does not obfuscate nor impair communication of information, so yes, pretty good paper!
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by Iv 7y ago
Magic tricks. Augmented reality. But we stop calling these "illusions" as soon as they have other applications. Pepper ghosts is an illusion that has been used by magicians for at least 2 centuries, but when Gorillaz or virtual id
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by Iv 7y ago
> 5. Audit has some explaining todo. Yes, that's a total fuck up on their side as well. That an incompetent company dies while doing stupid stunts like that is understandable and how the market filters out stupidity. That another co
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by Iv 7y ago
My assumption, given the storage requirements for laptops, is that the actual database is 2-3TB is size and that the rest is archived snapshots of the DB.
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by Iv 7y ago
At one point I was considering trying to write a differentiable renderer for 2d (cartoons) look. It was a bit too much work for my skill level, but I wonder if it got done already? I mean something that would be able to output a vector repr
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by Iv 7y ago
I like the constraints they put. But realistically, if you want to mimick the way humans learn, you want to put in place some kind of transfer learning: You have a model that has already been trained to understand video frames, maybe has pl
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by Iv 7y ago
This title just wants me to still throw a useless stone in an already lost battle: "book piracy" used to mean "Steal a book content and sell it putting you as the author". That's the original meaning of the word. Co
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by Iv 7y ago
What surprised me witht he cuckatoo was its size. I think typical parrots are smaller. Now I know the size-intelligence relationship is very tenuous, but within a similar order, it may have a value?
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by Iv 7y ago
I am wondering where sulphur-crested cockatoo are on the scale. Before seeing some in freedom up close in Australia, I never realized they actually could grab objects with their claws like they are hands and put them in their mouth. They se
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by Iv 7y ago
And if you redesign, please, pretty please, keep your URL structure intact. Having links being invalided every two years is jut a pain.
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by Iv 7y ago
I want to say, as a programmer I used to overestimate how much it costs and underestimate how much it mattered to the end client. Recently I have spent two days working on my personal project's esthetics and polish and was amazed at ho
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by Iv 7y ago
Net neutrality is about content-neutrality and origin/destination neutrality. It is not opposed to give packets higher priority when there is a technical reason for this. Having a protocol and routes that guarantee low ping but require
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by Iv 7y ago
You can still have problems with them. They propose to ID a commit type by the first character. Arabic is written from right to left. Which emoji is the first character of this sequence? It actually depends on the position of invisible LTR
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by Iv 7y ago
As a non-native English programmer, I disagree. I love ASCII despite it lacking many characters from my own language. Sometimes Instead of the Ç I expect, I'll get a Chinese character. What do you do then? Well you switch to an ASCII-o
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by Iv 7y ago
> Please use good ol' plaintext I want to emphasize on that. Why do programmers like plaintext, often to the point of wanting ASCII instead of unicode despite its international awesomeness? That's because we are called when thi
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by Iv 7y ago
I think the bigger mystery is why there are less fundamental laws than inevitable ones. That the universe principles arise from simple rules. How comes there are not millions of different quark types? Why not 5180 fundamental forces? Going
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by Iv 7y ago
I think it also comes from the Lang law, that prevents competition from different editions of the same book. In France, book are taxed at a much lower sales tax than other items but in exchange, there must be a single price for a given book
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by Iv 7y ago
The image I linked, yes, was from a single publisher. Here is one from several different ones: https://a-gilles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/aef9a82f8a20...
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by Iv 7y ago
Thing is, you are supposed to carry a book the time it takes to read it. It just has to survive something like 2 or 3 weeks in transports.
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by Iv 7y ago
Yes, that's a weird thing. Some books seem to be vanity items. But even in that respect, I find the US format weird: all books are dissimilar and are harder to fit in typical furniture. I do prefer the look of this: http://a
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by Iv 7y ago
In France the standard became de "livre de poche" edition, the "pocket-book". Fits well on shelves, kind of uniform format, softcover, so it is easier to read/transport, good paper quality. I have grown with this be
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by Iv 7y ago
I don't know how much funding does in batteries that are designed to be stationery. I.e. where weight does not matter, where they can be bulky and potentially run hot. There are technologies that are irrelevant for cars or phone (which
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by Iv 7y ago
I wish every government that invested in renewables would invest at least as much in batteries R&D.
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by Iv 7y ago
I'd love to see a cost summary of a typical lithium ion battery if you have it. How much is labor, energy, materials?
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by Iv 7y ago
I wish I went into manufacturing engineering. I wanted to work on robot AI and am there now but studying software is the easy part, you can easily get access to all the software and documentation online for free. Learning automation and man
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by Iv 7y ago
Oh I did not know that. The attack was behaving differently on Ukrainian targets? That's a pretty damning thing indeed and makes the question of the act of war very relevant. Note that it could make sense to a pro-Russia Ukranian group
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by Iv 7y ago
There just need to be one, with a good write up of the evidence and the evidence be better than "they used the same tools" or "their IP is in Russia". The linked article does not detail them. I have seen US TLAs blame Ch

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