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by bjourne 8mo ago
Then give your excess money to a homeless person or donate it to Amnesty. We don't want or need the "pressured to tip" culture here.
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Chinamaxxing: Why Gen Z wants you to 'diagnose' yourself as Chinese(thespinoff.co.nz)
1 points by bjourne 9mo ago|0 comments
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Misconduct in Post-Selections and Deep Learning (2024)(arxiv.org)
3 points by bjourne 9mo ago|0 comments
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Row Polymorphism without the Jargon (2020)(jadon.io)
1 points by bjourne 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Lambda the Ultimate used to be a great resource. Now it's kind of dead.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Last I checked static inline was merely a hint that compilers need not take. They all do, but by definition it's not a zero cost abstraction.
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EFTA00400459 has been cracked, DBC12.pdf liberated(neosmart.net)
3 points by bjourne 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Specialization takes away a lot of the competitive pressure.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
"Fair call on the website — we built it fast and it shows." Oh, man, get out.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Can you in plain English explain exactly what unifies these discoveries? I have a hard time seeing what unifies traffic congestion with eigenvalue analysis of ESNs. While many systems contain thresholds, a traffic jam is not chaotic in the
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by bjourne 9mo ago
In the early days of Wikipedia many articles were taken directly from the CIA Factbook since it was public domain. Numerous Wikipedians have fond memories of it and remembers it as something the US did that was actually good and not evil sh
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Linux is "everywhere" only if you count Android, which is not very Unix- like .
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by bjourne 9mo ago
One of the technical marvels of the day were mail and usenet clients that could properly render quoted text from infinite, never ending flame wars!
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by bjourne 9mo ago
This, of course, is a tongue in cheek.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
The first version of UNIX was released in 1971 and the first version of Windows NT in 1993. So UNIX is only about 60% older than NT. Both OSes have "stood the test of time", though one passed it with a dominant market share, where
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by bjourne 9mo ago
In the group I administer posts of many members always get stuck in the spam filter queue so I have to check it manually every day to let their posts through. It's painful. But it is the only thing that works for non-techie people. Peo
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by bjourne 9mo ago
You don't need an LLM to find loads of uncorroborated claims on Wikipedia. See f.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_autoencoder Most articles about tech are woefully undersourced.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
What if your site is slashdotted or HN hugged to death? Most requests will hit the IP of the first record, while the others idle.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
I don't know about this field, but in many parts of Computer Science, MDPI journals have a very, very bad reputation.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
I don't understand why the author doesn't consider load balancing and failover legitimate use cases for low ttl. Cause it wrecks their argument?
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1917 Bath Riots(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bjourne 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Connection only happens when it's rainin', Routers only love you when they're routin', Say carriers, they will come and they will go When the rain fries your motherboard, you'll know, you'll know
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Nitpickinging is a quaint obsession.
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4M followers reports TikTok ban(aljazeera.com)
70 points by bjourne 9mo ago|12 comments
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by bjourne 9mo ago
> I won the SSRI lottery I guess, the side effect are sweaty feet, vivid dreams and a dry mouth. That's all. Yes, you did. Had the same medication and got tremors and stiffness so bad I thought I had early-onset Parkinson. Could har
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by bjourne 9mo ago
It doesn't work. You can use it for proof-reading, but that's about it. You can use it to stuff your text with scientific sounding BS: "remains challenging", "motivating alternative approaches", "emerged a
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Those are the exact symptoms of tear gas inhalation. The source you are reading is going for a spin.
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by bjourne 9mo ago
Oh, no, not this false dichotomy again! People protest to affect political change in their own countries. For example, that's why Americans now protest against ICE and not against the secret police in Turkmenistan. In my country, the g
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by bjourne 9mo ago
The most important ones are those that catch bugs. If your system crashes you write a test that fails until you fix the bug. Don't punt on it because "it's hard to test" (code smell). Tests that never fail are of miniscu
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by bjourne 9mo ago
The whole point of the forced sale of TikTok was for the American-Israeli hegemony to exert control over the narrative of the platform. And now it is doing exactly that. Color me surprised.

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