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by blt 7y ago
Same. I'm almost at 3 years quit, but I've quit for 3 years in the past and then restarted.
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by blt 7y ago
I'm sorry. It sounds like your management is misguided.
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by blt 7y ago
Yes, some (most?) of the scammers are bad people. That doesn't mean you can conclude that all Indians are bad people. Those are the comments I was talking about.
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by blt 7y ago
I like your point about field workers. The iPad is a great replacement for a clipboard with a multi-page form.
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by blt 7y ago
Your interpretation is what I was trying to get at, but I changed the phrasing because I didn't intend to be provocative/harsh.
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by blt 7y ago
edited. I don't think greed plays a big role in the refund scam I described because a lot of the victims are on the "mark list" and actually did pay for some tech support contract in the past from another scammer. So it&#x2
577.
by blt 7y ago
good point, edited.
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by blt 7y ago
Anyone interested in the details of how these scams are pulled off might want to check out "scam baiting" youtube channels like Kitboga [1]. They use a virtual machine and pose as a computer-illiterate person long enough to observ
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by blt 7y ago
Maybe the author considers "IO bound" to include "Uses IO inefficiently". If a program uses unbuffered IO one character at a time, it does spend almost all its runtime waiting on IO syscalls.
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by blt 7y ago
I find it kind of confusing that anyone attempts to make money building developer tools for MS platforms. The behavior described here is MS's standard operating procedure. Their goal is to control everything. They want to provide a fu
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by blt 7y ago
I just end up not reusing resistors. I have the unused ones in labeled drawers. Once I lose track of a resistor's value, I add it to the pile of components that need sorting. I actually sorted that pile once for fasteners, but resistor
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by blt 7y ago
Minor note: in footnote [15], the 1974 and 1986 CIA report links both point to the same pdf.
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by blt 7y ago
I stopped buying anything expensive and simple to manufacture from Amazon. I now only use it for things where I want the no-name version anyway, like RGB LED strips and curtains. Essentially treat it like AliExpress with fast shipping.
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by blt 7y ago
Matlab gives you these semantics by default. IMO, it's a big reason why it has been so successful with non-CS programmers. Mutation is often more intuitive, but as long as you break your code into functions, you automatically limit the
585.
by blt 7y ago
This would be a great application for deep learning. Use the authors' method to generate a lot of uncorrected-corrected pairs. Or, use a graphics engine to render realistic underwater scenes with and without water color. Then use a con
586.
by blt 7y ago
Sounds like the Google workflow.
587.
by blt 7y ago
At first glance, I thought this was some humor post about an object with a name made by randomly mashing keys...
588.
by blt 7y ago
A lot of the construction projects came at the cost of bad safety standards and general poor treatment of workers, including plenty of workers deaths. Something to keep mind when bemoaning the slower speeds nowadays.
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by blt 7y ago
I am surprised by the usefulness of math concepts as analogies for everyday life. Local vs. global optima, explore vs. exploit, depth-first vs. breadth-first, constraints vs. objectives, necessary vs. sufficient, ... I also find myself want
590.
by blt 7y ago
Can't wait for this to become the next polygraph: not admissible as evidence, but extremely useful for coercion and extracting false confessions!
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by blt 7y ago
That difference is smaller than I thought. It's probably a no-brainer if you want to buy a house and raise a family. But from the perspective of a young single person, an extra $30k/year will get you from $1k/month rent to a
592.
by blt 7y ago
Cars require too much land area per person. Two dedicated parking spaces is only scratching the surface. There's gas stations, repair shops, dealers, and of course the actual roads. By the time you carve out enough space for these, spr
593.
by blt 7y ago
I wish more people would understand this. Although the big coastal cities still have plenty of institutional racism, glass ceilings, etc., at least your very existence is not often challenged.
594.
by blt 7y ago
... that pay a lot less than their big-city counterparts.
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by blt 7y ago
The agent only observes the first-person view in pixels, a compass angle, and a dictionary of inventory items [1]. So any solution would need to have a significant computer vision component. [1] http://minerl.io/docs/tu
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by blt 7y ago
Also: > It would be a great relief to the rest of the workers in AI if the inventors of new general formalisms would express their hopes in a more guarded form than has sometimes been the case.
597.
by blt 7y ago
That paragraph could have easily been written in 2019 - probably not surprisingly for McCarthy.
598.
by blt 7y ago
I have some good ideas for emojis, but I'm guessing that's even harder to get through...
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by blt 7y ago
This is awesome. I didn't see any mention of how much real quantum hardware is available. I guess it must be extremely expensive, or else they would quickly become unavailable due to curious people tinkering. (Also, how do you know tha
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by blt 7y ago
Monoculture is not good. Positive changes happened after LLVM/clang rose up to challenge GCC. LibrePCB cannot hope to be a drop in replacement for kicad like clang was for GCC, but a file converter tool seems plausible.

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