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by astrea 6y ago
> I'm sure it's purely coincidence she is locked from her twitter account on the same day that congress will be voting on a resolution on whether or not to expel her. Surely you could see that correlation as a pattern of questi
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by astrea 6y ago
As someone with a disability who types with one hand, please for the love of God don't make this the standard
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by astrea 6y ago
> $80K would be on the order of half of the annual salary of most developers outside of SFBA. Wow, I need a raise.
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by astrea 6y ago
One would begin to think that, then remember they're discussing Oracle
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by astrea 6y ago
One is global infrastructure with billions of users to appease making a potentially breaking change that the end user directly sees. The other is an app used by a order of magnitude less users simply changing int to int64 in their code and
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Operation Pipe Dreams(en.wikipedia.org)
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by astrea 6y ago
In your excitement, you also forgot to explain how this is achieved.
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by astrea 6y ago
I don't understand this argument in American politics ("If we build something nice, those no good poor people will just ruin it!") and I especially don't understand it in this context. Unless my memory is far worse than
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by astrea 6y ago
And honestly, the sex scenes in (some) movies just felt contrived or forced.
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by astrea 6y ago
Fair, my mistake. I only lightly read the post I'll admit.
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by astrea 6y ago
My university uses this to predict COVID spread: https://delphi.cmu.edu/about/
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by astrea 6y ago
Step 1 sounds personal
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by astrea 6y ago
I question the dataset used for this and the basis. They used "self-reported political orientation, age, and gender" and "facial images (one per person) were obtained from their profiles on Facebook or a popular dating websit
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by astrea 6y ago
Coming from a hardware education and moving to an almost strictly Python career, I simply cannot enjoy the full fanciness of Python as I'm constantly worried about what weird things it's probably doing in the background. Particula
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by astrea 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law ?
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by astrea 6y ago
Seems like the technicians' work is already done for them. What a win!
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by astrea 6y ago
I had the same thought, but they're both a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)
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by astrea 6y ago
I know it was probably not very romantic in reality, but I can't help but imagine a Star Trek style adventure and the exciting challenges that come along with it.
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by astrea 6y ago
RAM (the temporary memory where your operating system, programs, etc are stored) stores bits as charge in a capacitor. Now this is where my understanding falls apart, so I'm going to take an educated guess and hope someone smarter corr
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by astrea 6y ago
It has been a hot minute since I've touched C, so I'm failing to grok the issue here. Sscanf is reading the data variable for a float-formatted string into a float variable. How is that also getting the size? What is different abo
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by astrea 6y ago
While you both take two sides of the argument, the truth, as it tends to be, lies somewhere in the middle. While I agree that there are some qualified scientists, etc. that have taken up this issue, there is still a sort of extension of can
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by astrea 6y ago
They're also possibly playing the safe game and just chasing ideas that they know will get them grants rather than having the true freedom to experiment. In the times of the World Wars and Cold War I'm sure there was a lot of room
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by astrea 6y ago
He could have paid his bill without the credit. I doubt that the trade-in credit fully covered the cost of a new MacBook.
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by astrea 6y ago
This is not entirely true. You have to file if your income is above a certain amount for your age and filing status. If you owe or get a refund from the federal or state government is entirely dependent on your tax obligation and the amount
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by astrea 6y ago
They don't lobby to make the tax code itself more complex, they just lobby to be the only providers of such services: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
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by astrea 6y ago
Advanced research is happening all over the country (even in your very own backyard in Silicon Valley). You just aren't looking for these types of jobs or are too distracted by the shiny compensation packages
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by astrea 6y ago
I hate when I fail to pay my bills by the agreed upon due date and bad things happen.
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by astrea 6y ago
off-topic, but by definition, is water wet? "Covered or saturated with water or another liquid." Would one consider an object covered or saturated in itself?
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by astrea 6y ago
Outsourcing is and has been a massive trend for years. So much so that they have a word for it!
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by astrea 6y ago
I'm saying the only thing running like shit is your overpriced laptop you goon

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