_Wintermute

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by _Wintermute 3y ago
A vocal minority, who largely lived outside of London.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Google slides didn't work properly for me on Firefox a few days ago, all fonts displayed as some ugly serif font. Though I assume this is Google being underhand and malicious rather than Firefox not working properly.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Keras was a high-level wrapper around Theano or Tensorflow. The creator of Keras was then employed by Google to work on Keras, who promised everyone Keras would remain backend agnostic. Keras become part of Tensorflow as a high-level API an
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
There's been dozens of "Google, but French" started by smart business people, they're very efficient at collecting millions in EU funding and producing almost nothing of worth.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
This is essentially required when dealing with French businesses in my experience. They absolutely will ignore anything that's not sent by registered post.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
"The British Government" isn't some singular immortal person. I imagine the people in charge of naming this academic institute had nothing to do with his conviction or homosexuality laws in the 1950s, they most likely weren&#
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
As an R user for nearly 15 years at this point: R isn't nice, it's an awful language, but it is very useful.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Zarr is gaining quite a bit of traction in bioimaging, it makes a lot of sense compared to proprietary file formats or millions of .tiff files which are both common scenarios.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Reminds me of the University of Edinburgh this year with their own Oracle disaster, seems like it was largely on time and budget, it just didn't work: https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/23/edinburgh_univ
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
There's actually a huge shortage of postdocs at the moment, if you're remotely qualified and a somewhat normal human being you can easily get a job. The problem is that the job is awful, stressful, temporary, and poorly paid - hen
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I'd love to but many jobs are confined to a few, usually expensive, cities.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
And AlphaFold was developed across the road from the Turing Institute.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Where are these 2 bed flats in the south east for 150k?
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
If you consistently fine a company for breaking your rules, you can't then demand access to their products that might break your rules.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Elsevier's profit margin is 37% from what I can find.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
The UK is full of nice places where people can't afford to live. I don't see how this is any different.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
That's not true. Wilkins had as much right to share that data as Franklin, and everyone seems to forget Raymond Gosling who actually generated the data.
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
I have the same issue with the logout-greeter crashing and stopping me shutting down or suspending. I often have to resort to "sudo shutdown now".
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by _Wintermute 3y ago
Every basic washing machine I've owned has had an option to delay the start for an adjustable amount of time.
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
I don't know if it's impressive or worrying regarding how much Posit/RStudio as a company have completely taken over a programming language. I have colleagues who write R code all day, and they don't know the difference
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
Sadly yes, but I'd have to run the dehumidifier in winter regardless of the heating.
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
I never turned the heating on either, though sadly I'm in a drafty Victorian London flat so the temperature dropped to 9°C at one point. The dehumidifier likely saved the day.
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the taxi-cab lobby groups in London are heavily influencing these stupid decisions that make e-scooters a less viable option for getting around. I don't have much to explain why they're banned from parks which
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
It's nice to imagine when you're not the one worrying about paying rent. I work in an interesting area (bioinformatics research) and as expected the pay is pretty dire to match. You do get the warm fuzzies now and again when stran
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
Because of the geometry of the front fork (rake and trail), if you lean to one side the bars will initially turn in the opposite direction. It's still countersteering. If you ever ride a bike where this geometry is wrong, which is diff
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
From what I've heard on DarkNet Diaries, the UK courts seem quite good at picking up intelligent youngsters involved in hacking and giving them a chance to move into cybersecurity.
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
You're either completely misunderstanding all of the figures you're reading, or you're arguing in bad faith. This has already been explained to you by others, this is my last message to you. Either food inflation or general i
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
You can't compare two different measures of inflation. General inflation: UK 10.4% vs EU 9.9% Food inflation: UK 18.2% vs EU 19.5% Same reason I can't say UK inflation is 10.4% and much lower than the EU's 19.5%. They&#x2
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
None of that is true. The EU average is 19.5%, it's the first figure in the link I posted.
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by _Wintermute 4y ago
I understand the publisher writing about it. I meant being singled out on HN, many US readers here seem to think this a uniquely UK issue.

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