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by NamTaf 10y ago
This was my university calculus textbook and I liked it well enough. Granted, I was learning with the assistance of lectures to teach me the concepts too so I don't know how you'd fare with only this textbook, but I liked it wel
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I am just finishing The Innovators by Walter Isaacson (the guy who also did Jobs' biography) and it did a good job at tracing the threads of theoretical information management systems through to their practical manifestation via the
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by NamTaf 10y ago
The other cool thing ddrescue does is will 'mine' away at the failing blocks by reading it from both forward and reverse and clawing out every last bit of data it can. That, coupled with the resumption capacity, logging feature an
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Per the sibling comments, you just need to specify a sane block size. dd's default is really low and if you experiment a bit with 2M or around that you'll get near-theoretical throughput. NB: Remember the units! Without the units
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I think they omitted 'had' from run. The past tense of run is 'had run', 'was running' or 'ran' depending on how you want to use it after all.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
As much as I hate the situation and as much as I agree with you, your contradiction answers why: " But it's crazy that 100 year old scientific works can still be under copyright and illegal to distribute. These objectively have va
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Yeh I've considered something like that, it's a good idea. It's a pretty shitty mirror too so replacing it would be nice anyway. It was as much an example of the sort of sentimental hurdles you have to overcome - there's
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This resonated with me, thank you for posting it. I lost my partner of 6 years about 15 months ago when she was 26 and I was 29, completely unexpectedly. Many of the stages the OP touched on are things I see reflected through my experience,
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Integration outside of the browser is why I use keepass. I can press ctrl-alt-w and it will enter my passwords for things such as Steam, Skype, etc. in the applications themselves. I use passwords outside Firefox. Ergo, a password manager t
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by NamTaf 10y ago
You're missing what raising a child entails if you think that's all it entails. If you raise a child without the deep emotional investment that comes from a parent, you're not going to raise a child well at all.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
That's provably false given there's been cases where Teslas have already slammed into other vehicles on freeways.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Not when the people in the meeting prior are still in the room 3-4 minutes after the hour/half hour and then they all shuffle out laughing about how they are "sorry" they've gone over time but not really because if they
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by NamTaf 10y ago
It sounds like the OP is scanning for internal defects in bonds via impurities being trapped in there. These occur relatively randomly and there's some balancing point where it's just not worth trying to make the production line c
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Bullshit. As an engineer, I have entirely enough time to read books because I prioritise the importance of doing so. Remember, we all have the same 24 hours in a day.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
It looks like it just caches the last known location which is pretty useless.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
If it's true, I believe we have to wait for the OpenAI team to build new gym environments before we can train in new games. I only briefly poked around because it's nearing on midnight here - maybe you can pull open the examples i
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by NamTaf 10y ago
From my initial reading, the end user can't create environments? Is that a feature that I can expect will eventually come?
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Within the next 20,000 years we'll get to the point where the improvement of technology and our desire to get rid of the goddamn stuff will overcome the incredible cost of blasting it out of the solar system for good.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
If I look at the dish I could likely find something similar in Chinese restaurants here in Austraila but it wouldn't be called that.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Wireless signalling transmissions, EM interference, at two guesses.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
They are the circuit breakers. Our trains in Brisbane, AU run 25kV (Thameslink seems to be the same 25kV overhead, with a 750V third rail, but this will be the overhead section) and the circuit breakers trip during the entry/exit of a
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This is fantastic. I was in Singapore a couple of weeks ago and after mentioning that I'd narrowly missed out on getting an SMRT job earlier this year we got talking about the SMRT in general. He commented on this exact phenomenon of e
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Agreed. Don't let uni just be a gateway to employment. It's also a really good young adult experience where you can form social networks trivially easy that will serve you well into the future. It's your last hurrah of the in
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by NamTaf 10y ago
For a defined 3-month internship where your primary goal is to suck up as much experience as possible at a young age during said internship, I think you can give insane work hours a pass and just accept that they're making the most of
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I interpreted it as 'why not to lose your ethics and pursue richness in questionable areas'
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by NamTaf 10y ago
No it doesn't, because most everyday users don't give a toss about security. It has to be something that is pushed as a best-practice by those who know better, not something that is demanded by an everyday user who doesn't. T
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I won't bother making the wide array of arguments, they're already well and truly made during discussions of sugar taxes that various nations around the world are considering. For US readers, many other nations don't quite ha
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by NamTaf 10y ago
On the contrary, when people are directly faced with the consequences of poor health decisions it is often a very good time to reinforce the cause and effect that many gloss over because it's not clear and present at the time.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
The wiki article on it has a number of good illustrations to show it as well. Moreover, I find the cognitive leap from matrix multiplication to simultaneous equations very powerful and enlightening, particularly when you then understand the
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This was a really good, morbid read. Thank you.

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