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> Never disliked the lack of non-ascii support. Ah, the elusive quadruple-negative.
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And what language should we use to create such an OS? Maybe Rust?
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Wow, that's at least a dozen bananas long!
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This is only one half of the story, the deductive investigation. The other half is the psychological thriller: we can observe the murderers, who just committed an (almost) perfect crime, and who are strong and confident in the beginning, to
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
Mostly off topic nitpicking, but... In the International System of Units (SI): k: kilo- = *1000, prefix K: kelvin = the unit of thermodynamic temperature In the IEEE 1541-2002 standard: b: bit = the basic unit of informa
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
HN thread from 18 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30082138 .
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
I choose to be optimistic about the upcoming AI bot wars: https://xkcd.com/810/ .
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
> published on arxiv.org and open access Don't use the term "open access" like this. A paper published on arXiv is free to read, and was freely published. "Open access" is a scam by the big publishers, where they
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
He said "should", not "will". Both of you are right.
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Great! Now all we need is a pure CSS operating system, and we're ready to go.
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If you want to impress Hacker News, you have to write a browser in CSS, too, because currently your work depends on C++.
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> Classical mechanics is not something sacred. It is our first serious model of physics. Just a sidenote: it is at most our second serious model. Aristotle's Physics has a bad rap, but it's "a correct and non-intuitive a
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
It's true that most North Koreans can't access the real, global internet, but they have an intranet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network) ), which may be used more, and who knows how is that affe
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead.
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Infix operator in R: > '%mult%' <- function(a,b) a*b > 3 %mult% 5 [1] 15 Using infix operators as functions: > '*'(3,5) [1] 15
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
The opposite of supersample would be subsample.
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Cops still use horses, too. And routinely kill suspects' dogs ( https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/jun/16/doj-polic... ).
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I don't know where it is currently, but according to this 2008 article it was on a world tour at that time. https://phys.org/news/2008-07-james-webb-space-telescope-ful...
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by anon_123g987 5y ago
A human standing next to a full-size replica: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... It looks the same to me.
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No. There are other countries with nukes to keep him in check (and vice versa, of course).
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That's for Americans only.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29939789 FFmpeg 5.0 ( https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/release/5.0/Changelog ) 113 points|_Gyan_|3 days ago|27 comments
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What has more seeds, an apple or a fruit?
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Euclidian distance works well in 2D and 3D as special cases. I would say Mahalanobis distance is its generalization (yes, built on top of it), which works better in the multidimensional (multivariate) case.
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For example: The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P and a distribution D, introduced by P. C. Mahalanobis in 1936. It is a multi-dimensional generalization of the idea of measuring how many standard deviati
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No, I think there are fewer and different videos in the sidebar.
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Alternative to YouTube (same content, better UX/UI/frontend): https://invidious.io/ https://yewtu.be/
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I like the MATE System Monitor even more. On Xubuntu it's simply: sudo apt install mate-system-monitor https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/applications/mate...
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> In my experience, the published paper is super vague on the approach, and implementing it without further references is really hard. This is my experience, too, and in my opinion this is exactly what has to change for really reproducib
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> It's the right thing to do for open and reproducible research. Everybody here talks about how publishing code helps (or even makes possible) reproducibility, but this is not true, on the contrary, it hinders it. Reproducing the

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