PhDuck

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by PhDuck 4y ago
I think many CS degrees teach FP, I remember learning a variant of SML (mosml) for my first programming course. Now the same university is teaching the same course in F#. Of course a lot of the data science/machine learning is being do
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by PhDuck 4y ago
Honest question: Have you ever used a MacBook trackpad long term? From my experience with Dell XPS/Precision, Lenovo Thinkpads, IBM Thinkpads, and finally MacBooks, the MacBooks are far ahead. The Thinkpads trackpad are way too small,
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by PhDuck 5y ago
It is really uplifting to see so many places, always felt there was far fewer out there.
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by PhDuck 5y ago
Agree with you for most recipe books and websites, however a few rise above the crowds. Serious eats, Cook's Illustrated, and most likely more.
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by PhDuck 5y ago
The main problem with both algorithms is that they seem overly sensitive, many times neither of the options seemed to be offensive.
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by PhDuck 6y ago
This is a cool article in the sense that it gives an idea of tuning that can be done on one extreme. While most applications won't need this level of tuning and some of them might be hurting if one isn't CPU bound, it is great to
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by PhDuck 8y ago
As a member of the Nordic societies I find it important to point out some important information. In these countries we already have rather sizable unemployment benefits. If you read the (better) article by NYT[0] on the same subject, you w
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by PhDuck 8y ago
It might not have fiber, but on the other hand it has far more protein.
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by PhDuck 8y ago
Leaving is of course an option. The fact that they don't leave mearly show that they value the gained social contact higher than the cost of data breaches.
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by PhDuck 8y ago
I'm not sure if it is still the case nowadays, but back when I had an iPhone I remember that Apple had a killswitch which allowed them to remove already installed apps on one's phone. Nevertheless, I doubt that Apple is more incli
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by PhDuck 8y ago
How does it "make sense"? Are you implying that the local company will behave more ethically? Baidu is also a mega corporation, that will surely allow the government access to your data at a whim. Right now, it is merely stifling
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by PhDuck 8y ago
Is using an outdated version of windows grounds for a complaint? I don't know much about the OSHA standards, but I thought it was primarily about the safety of the lives of the workers. What part of their standard does old OS violate?
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by PhDuck 9y ago
I'm not quite sure about the national transportation being 100% green, or at least I misunderstood what you are saying. As a Dane I can promise you that our governmental public transport is not 100% green, our main long-distance trains
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by PhDuck 10y ago
Kindness is not strictly speaking always supposed to be legal -- it can be considered kind to aid someone in escaping from prison but it's not legal and I think most would agree that it's wrong/immoral/unethical. Her d