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by ascar 6y ago
Japanese train stations also have soothing blue lights to prevent suicide and specially created jingles that are supposed to calm people down. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/the-amazi...
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by ascar 6y ago
> Most software isn’t FAANG. In the long tail of database size, I’d guess 95%+ of databases are smaller than a few hundred megs. I think that statement is plain and simply untrue for most databases that generate enough value to pay for a
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by ascar 6y ago
The regular stylus comes for free in the current presale. The eraser stylus is additional 40€, requires additional sensors and required additional R&D. Cost of a product is in the end a function of manufacturing, distribution, expected
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by ascar 6y ago
DMARC is essentially the combination of SPF and DKIM, so it's a bit misleading that you are mentioning SPF and DMARC and make it sound like DKIM is something separate. See Wikipedia [1]. If I recall correctly, DKIM setup is simply publ
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by ascar 6y ago
> Either the OS broke userland, or it didn't; if it didn't, then the same binary should run just as well today as it did then. I think you're oversimplifing things here. There are many reasons why programs did run on the o
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by ascar 6y ago
I don't really understand how this train of thought seems viable. Even the most profitable company in the world might be overvalued and then this investment isn't safe but risky, especially if the profit is primarily from rising p
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by ascar 6y ago
Maybe some references help to clear this up. GP apparently did get his geography mixed up. The term Pacific Islander [1] seems to not include the Philippines and Indonesia, as these islands are generally considered to be part of South East
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by ascar 6y ago
> All due to runaway global warming acidifying the ocean with CO2. Doesn't an increase in water temperature release CO2 from the water, because warm water binds less CO2 than warm water? I remember this as one of the many serious ef
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by ascar 6y ago
That might be a start, but higher education only scratches the surface of on-the-job skills in engineering. You learn the basic tools, the way of thinking and the skill of acquiring additional knowledge. You get near to zero experience on r
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by ascar 6y ago
Amazing read. Thank you! Inspiring how her brother encouraged her into sciences after she got completely crushed by her mother. From the same extract: \begin{quote} “Women can’t do science, because their brains aren’t made for it,” Lucille
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by ascar 6y ago
That's some first class cherry picking you did on the Wikipedia article. Here is the full relevant paragraph: "Like her brother, Joan was an inquisitive child, and she exhibited an interest in understanding the natural world from
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by ascar 6y ago
I'm also absolutely not an expert on this (M.Sc. CS). I would argue using Big O here is wrong and Landau symbols are not well defined on Markov chains/probabilistic turing machines. The point of Landau symbols is to give asymptoti
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by ascar 6y ago
If anything he would mean Pepsi, which is twice as big as Coca Cola (based on revenue). However, that you immediately think about Coca-Cola speaks for their superior branding.
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by ascar 6y ago
Kinda funny how GPT-3 attributes it's own history to the competition at DeepMind xD. "In a few short years, they had developed GPT-2, which is able to hold a conversation on a wide range of subjects. At first, people were very exc
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by ascar 6y ago
> In the event that Apple refunds any such price to an End-User, You shall reimburse, or grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application. And the sentence above that covers the regular refund too. Not
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by ascar 6y ago
Wait, isn't that trick basically about avoiding optimization (inlining the function to avoid the context switch) to reduce code size? The C compiler would do something similar here and also increase code size for performance unless you
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by ascar 6y ago
Also both comments made me suspicious half way through and I scrolled to the bottom to check for a GPT-3 note. Without that note I would definitely have regarded it as incoherent rambling by a human. Especially the second comment can be coh
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by ascar 6y ago
I always thought this was mostly to prevent fraud. If you pay for multiple views by the same user, it's much easier to generate revenue from fake views.
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by ascar 6y ago
The thing is that for anything more complex than simple CRUD either side (frontend and backend) is such an inherently different problem domain that I don't see that the programming language is the relevant factor. Because frontend and
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by ascar 6y ago
The irony that you can study abroad for about $12,000-$20,000 a year (including rent and other cost of living) in some countries (notably Germany) that do provide equal or better education than the state school and most importantly also pro
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by ascar 6y ago
Javascript came a long way and despite its legacy quirks is actually quite enjoyable with ES6. We also added tons of good tooling (like TypeScript, React or Vue) to improve the web development experience. While I still think, it would be ni
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by ascar 6y ago
The article directly proposes an alternative that "avoids some of the issues" with adding the pepper before hashing: > An alternative approach is to hash the passwords as usual and then encrypt the hashes with a symmetrical enc
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by ascar 6y ago
While reading this I wondered how they ended up at a box office of $25,488. Did they really spent $25,488 and consider it as a "small fee" to be the first in box office?! If I interpret the information about "four-walling&quo
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by ascar 6y ago
> The default software that comes with the Dell mentioned above handles everything. Does it really handle everything? Does it handle all (or even just a single one?) of the use cases I mentioned in my comment and that I care about. Can I
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by ascar 6y ago
I personally agree that the downvote button should be reserved for low quality comments rather than disagreement and that the diverse and high-quality comments are what makes this site and community awesome. Unfortunately neither the FAQ no
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by ascar 6y ago
Well, it's really about personal preference and while I know a couple of collegues with your preference, I feel it's the minority. I take two 16:9 screens over one 3840x1600 screen anytime. No need to setup some additional inner-m
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by ascar 6y ago
This is my masterpiece https://i.imgur.com/mhkMxaY.png "RecursyCat"
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by ascar 6y ago
> Those practices might not harm when you are making basic sites or demo apps in your spare time. But when an engineer with these practices goes to work on something like the software for controlling Teslas, it suddenly becomes a big pro
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by ascar 7y ago
US plus Canada is just 23% larger than EU by GDP [1]. Based on PPP it's 20% [2]. Considering we are talking about ~20 trillion in GDP and very similar PPP, that hardly seems to be a large enough difference to give your "absolute s
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by ascar 7y ago
As part of a university project we optimized a simple string to uppercase function via assembler analysis and asm. Directly optimizing the C code to produce more optimized assembly (notably removing branching) was nearly an order of magnitu

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