JorgeGT

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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It comes with experience.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Yes, the chart is misleading, giving birth in Spain is free as well, you may just pay the cost of the parking and whatever you take from the vending machine while you're waiting. I believe the chart refers to private hospital births wh
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Human org dynamics are always interesting, because they can be applied to many other fields. Consider, "Xerox, the forgotten home of OS's GUI era". How an org can pioneer a multi-billion business such as modern tennis and sti
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Very interesting since here, south of the Pyrenees, it's mostly the opposite. Carriers charge per SMS, and therefore they are only used by automated services such as 2FA, etc. I haven't received an SMS from an actual human in year
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
TL;DR: they had to choose a thumbnail and summary. I have been using WikiWand for years, which not only did that but also makes reading Wikipedia much better. Maybe I'm the only one but I have the hardest time reading paragraphs with
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> there's an interesting background on why people takes that risk At least in some cases, the reason was that paying the fine was quicker and maybe even cheaper than going through the municipal bureaucracy. People would even denounc
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Well, I really like being able to put a code editor on the left and then a browser, terminal, document, LaTeX output on the right of the screen without them becoming too constrained horizontally. But probably this is a very particular use c
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Most of the people knows nothing about all these things, until the media picks up the story. They at most believe Palantir is a Skype stone for elves and that Facebook makes money just running ads just like printed newspaper TV stations and
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Typos in README: "versitle", "explictly"
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I mean, it's in the name, web server . It serves things to people when people asks: - Hey, can I GET this drink? - 200 OK, here it is pal. - 204 Uh, the bottle appears to be empty - 206 I have only half the ingredien
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
You should have said something like "note that the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, albeit less known to the general public, also lives in the building", which is technically true.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Here in my country the "practical manual" for this tax year is 1163 pages long, but the web app of the ministry has most of your information already stored. For the vast majority of people filing taxes it's just a matter of c
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Knowing that mankind's scientific record now contains a Gioconda with the face of Benedict Cumberbatch has very much brightened my day.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Notice that in the comments they explain that they did exactly this: > I have put my phone in hotspot mode for literally 5 days, left it in one car, and connected both cars (at home, just one car at work because my wife works somewhere
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
It is, none of his other articles in the site includes anything similar.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I was puzzled about why would someone spend power cracking this, but apparently Troy was as well: > One of the things that did surprise me a little in V1 was the effort some folks went to in order to crack the passwords. I was surprised
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Well, when they "found it" this is, conquered by force, Puerto Rico was a territory of Spain. With the Constitution of 1812 Puerto Rico got a representative, like the other territories, and he was in fact chosen as Vice-president
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Well, as in anything human it is a matter of incentives. Comcast probably has an incentive for logging and selling your data to advertisers, whereas the Russian mob probably has other, more pressing things to worry about. I follow the same
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I was going to link this. I think we should seriously consider how the skill to produce such clear and didactic explanations to complex concepts has seemingly degraded nowadays. Specifically I wonder: who was making these videos? how where
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> Science on large datasets can happen via interactive notebook. I did not claim the opposite, just that it regularly happens without interactive notebooks. This seems like an interesting project though. Regarding the blog posts, it se
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> How to integrate billions of base pairs of genomic data, and 10 times that amount of proteomic data, and historical patient data, and the results of pharmacological screens into a coherent account of how somebody got sick and what to
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Accurately dropping a flotation device onto drowning swimmers for instance: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-drone-rescue/dr...
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The Blackwater of the Middle Ages. Still providing mercenaries to guard Europe's last absolute monarch.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Sublime Text package "Sublime Gremlins" [1] detected and highlighted the zero-width characters: https://i.imgur.com/LNlcgRK.png --- [1] https://github.com/redoPop/SublimeGremlins
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
I wonder if those in self-driving development at Uber et al. share the same non-engineering background. I think it would be ultimately in the interest of these companies that stringent regulation is enacted, so the public can feel as safe a
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
> there won't be 2 breaking systems competing with one-another. Different systems controlling the same end-points is never a good idea. Aerospace engineer here. Different systems controlling the same end-points is literally a basic
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The human safety driver IS a completely different uncooperative system active at the same time.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
The human driver can't coordinate with the self-driving system either, he just makes overriding inputs. Treat the built-in safety system as another overriding actor.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Plenty of alcohol is gifted in Reddit's own gift exchange: https://www.redditgifts.com/gallery/simple-pleasures-exchang... , I wonder if they will ban their own sponsored exchange.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
Apparently she identifies as a woman: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/934713/uber-self-drivin...

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