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by bsaul 4y ago
Has any city or bike maker found a solution to bike theft ? I used to bike in Paris until my bike got stolen. It got me so furious i stopped.
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by bsaul 4y ago
Softbank has been in my radar for 10 years.. I'm waiting for it to collapse and mark the beginning of a new bubble burst.
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by bsaul 4y ago
Wait, has any quantum computers performed a real computation faster than a normal computer one yet ?
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by bsaul 4y ago
It's one thing to report that "some people have side effects". It's another to correctly assess the magnitude of the problem, doing epidemiologist studies on a national scale, making sure all doctors report the problem,
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by bsaul 4y ago
Having doctors in my family, the reports they hear from gynecologist colleagues are quite unambiguous. There are massive side effects from Covid vaccines. The problem the medical profession has, is that most of them actually recommended the
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by bsaul 4y ago
works on FF mac with Ublock origin.
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by bsaul 4y ago
how is it worse than chinese or japanese ? i'm super curious..
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by bsaul 4y ago
IMHO, better practice with mistakes, then fix them later once you talk to native speakers, than not practice at all. For kickstarting a language practice, this site honestly seems ideal..
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by bsaul 4y ago
there's a snail icon you can use to have it speak slowly
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by bsaul 4y ago
Poor countries people with a laptop, a descent internet connection for streaming, available at any time of the day instantly, and ready to have a 2 minutes stupid conversation about anything random ? Not so sure ..
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by bsaul 4y ago
Absolutely outstanding. Small request: for japaneese, it would be great to include a japaneese phonetic transcription of the text in western alphabet. It would help distinguish words and make it easier to learn new vocabulary..
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by bsaul 4y ago
Absolutely.. Acoustic instruments should be listened to live, and preferably in a small room, so that you don't need amplification.
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by bsaul 4y ago
the problem lies in the speakers. You'll never find speakers good enough to mimic how the sound of a struck chord vibrates through the entire structure of the piano, then fills the room. This is why i laugh every time i see youtube vid
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by bsaul 4y ago
You should see the sequence. He was totally unable to explain any lines he had in mind, stating some positions were « obviously winning » (where it was absolutely not obvious, and in fact the engine marked it as loosing), etc. A total disas
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by bsaul 4y ago
This post-game analysis sequence is IMHO the major reason the chess community grants full credit to magnus version.
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by bsaul 4y ago
About open source lib not being updated : The thing is, even if the lib is "feature complete", it's pretty rare to not have to update anything, since the ecosystem in which this lib evolves will undoubtely have changed. Progr
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by bsaul 4y ago
That text is probably a bit too well-written for a non-native like myself, but did this person seriously suggest removing the well-known theory of the chineese room from books because its author likes to have sex with young adult women ?
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by bsaul 4y ago
Although i completely agree with your point, one could also say that before equations and models, there's observation and intuition. One could argue that metaphores are a step to move the science back toward reality and "complete
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by bsaul 4y ago
Side question : could anyone recommend exercises for mid-experienced developer that really has troubles spotting potential race conditions, and generally struggle with concurrency ? I’ve realized i’m spending a lot of time reviewing his PR,
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by bsaul 4y ago
Fullstack 20+ years of xp here : There's a great deal of fun to be able to understand a system from top to bottom. It helps design robust and elegant solutions. Yet, i do sometimes regret not having gone super deep in a field. However
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by bsaul 4y ago
i can imagine how some super senior engineer may like this kind of very challenging experience.
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by bsaul 4y ago
I'm not sure a criminal mind would advertize having found a bug in the algorithm. Instead it would probably try to capitalize on that bug for as long as possible while remaining quiet about it (assuming it's possible, of course).
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by bsaul 4y ago
Oh ok, yes from that point of view they're solving entirely different problems, for sure.
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by bsaul 4y ago
They changed the underlying algorithm for determining who to trust to validate transactions in the system. This new algorithm requires 1% of the computer power of the previous one, and supposedly work just as fine.
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by bsaul 4y ago
Not a big fan of crypto, but at least the ethereum chain is building a very interesting stack of technologies (smart contract, token, etc). If any major crypto project has the chance of one day becoming useful at anything, my bet would be o
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by bsaul 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're half joking, but banks authentify every single tenant in the transaction (from account owners, to institutions) in the most rigid way. Fraud usually happens at the edge (credit card), but everything "in
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by bsaul 4y ago
Except cryptography usually rely on mathematical proofs. I'm not aware of such possibility for distributed systems. I know Lamport did work on that subject, but i'm not sure if you can equate a TLA+ proof on some properties to a m
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by bsaul 4y ago
I find the complexity of that algorithm both impressive ( since they seem to have made it work), but also quite worrying. I'm really not sure how such a beast can't be filled with bugs, not in the implementation but rather in the
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by bsaul 4y ago
"actors and closure are the same concept": Do you have a good article explaining this ? To me actors is mainly a pattern for dealing with concurrency, and closures seem completely unrelated. But i assume i'm missing something
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by bsaul 4y ago
it only works if you're a french person named kevin.

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