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by bbojan 3y ago
Somewhat related, a couple years ago Swiss police wanted to use AI software to predict burglaries. However, there were not enough burglaries in the country to get enough training data, so the project was shelved.
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by bbojan 3y ago
I don't know. I always thought of software as a living thing. As such, it is never complete. For example, 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced every year. Doesn't it make more sense to think of software in this way, as oppos
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by bbojan 3y ago
I believe that the Japanese version of Prius (not sure if the regular one or PHEV) comes from the factory with this option - it can work as a full house generator as long as there is gas in the tank.
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by bbojan 3y ago
> In the not distant past most Americans spent 30+% of their income on food And now they spend 30% of their income on medical costs.
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by bbojan 3y ago
What quality are you talking about? In my 8 years in Canada I wasn't able to by decent blackberries or tomatoes. At any price.
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by bbojan 3y ago
Because the tools we currently use (mostly programming languages) are too insecure to allow you to run any random code from the internet (that has full access to all your computer resources). And most users would be incapable of keeping pro
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by bbojan 3y ago
In my case it was the city. I'm not sure if the providers pay for access or is it free (paid for by taxes).
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by bbojan 3y ago
Wasn't that a Novell NetWare server?
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by bbojan 3y ago
You don't see small kids right behind your car this way. I believe this was the main reason why rear-view cameras were made mandatory on new cars.
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by bbojan 3y ago
Or generate electricity to run a heat pump for 2 to 3 times more heat generated than what you get from frictional heating form a windmill.
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by bbojan 3y ago
The article is missing the code for creating the "users" database table. What about indexes? Migrations? Relations to other tables? I mean you can just write SQL instead of using the ORM if your project consists of a single table
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by bbojan 3y ago
> - Design your application's hot path to never use joins. Storage is cheap, denormalize everything and update it all in a transaction. Hard disagree. You just re-implemented a database engine in your application code. Poorly.
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Alleged confirmation of MOND in Gaia data(phys.org)
8 points by bbojan 3y ago|3 comments
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by bbojan 3y ago
We had a working reactor in the 1960s, but we chose not to develop it commercially due to our inability to choose rationally. That's why we are where we are now.
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by bbojan 3y ago
> There's a reason none of _those_ have been built either. Let me introduce you to the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment[1]. What you probably meant is that none have been built commercially. That is true, but again as I mentioned, not
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by bbojan 3y ago
> The problem is that nobody has yet designed a reactor that a sufficiently amoral operator could not make unsafe. That's not true. There are many designs (e.g. molten salt reactors) where the operator cannot do anything to cause th
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by bbojan 3y ago
The fine article states that simply turning off SMT doesn't help with this particular exploit.
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by bbojan 3y ago
There was a helicopter crash in Canada due to an unrestrained tool bag: https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/ottawa/20... And this one in Ireland due to a rag: https://www.i
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by bbojan 3y ago
I've tried many (too many) layouts and my recommendation would be Colemak-DH. If you have a programmable keyboard, feel free to experiment with symbols, letters, etc. Home-row mods are also something that I warmly recommend.
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by bbojan 3y ago
"We don’t over-index on OKRs. Many important things can’t be measured and not everything that can be measured is important." Can't agree enough.
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by bbojan 3y ago
I have a fixed-rate mortgage from a Canadian bank.
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by bbojan 3y ago
Yes, the technical term for that is "lift induced drag".
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by bbojan 3y ago
The elephant in the room are, as always, nitrous oxides (NOx). Whenever you burn something in a nitrogen atmosphere, NOx are created. They contribute to acid rain and the formation of smog, and are a trigger for asthma.
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by bbojan 3y ago
Always found Colemak to be much more programmer-friendly than Dvorak. E.g. try typing ls -la on Dvorak.
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by bbojan 3y ago
> Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs? I'd love a simple, opinionated WM that takes the features we know are useful today (workspaces, expo mode, sensible file manager layouts,
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by bbojan 3y ago
Maybe because it's still gas and dust, whereas if the same mass coalesces into large objects it's much less reflective?
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by bbojan 3y ago
ThorCon ( https://thorconpower.com/ ) is currently working on this approach.
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by bbojan 3y ago
I had psoriatic arthritis and it just went away after several years. The only thing that could keep it in check was comfrey ointment (I tried everything conventional medicine had to offer except biologics). But since about two years ago I a
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by bbojan 3y ago
Start with EXPLAIN ANALYZE then work from there. You can use tools where you paste the output of it and it shows you the data in a more easy to understand format.
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by bbojan 3y ago
The "left handed pens" have a nib that's different so it doesn't scratch when you use it. Think of a mirror-image of a regular nib.

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