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by crvdgc 5y ago
Scunthorpe problem [1] is used to describe the false positives for auto filters, which are often results of naive substring matching. In a way, the current problem is similar, but on the semantic level. However, it doesn't cover other
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by crvdgc 5y ago
> Finally, encryption is used across the board. All managed disks running Cloud PCs are encrypted, all stored data is encrypted at rest, and all network traffic to and from your Cloud PCs is also encrypted. That being said, this level of
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by crvdgc 5y ago
I vaguely remember there's a science fiction story about an underwater civilization where the buoyant force servers like gravity for us. Since the force points outwards, for that civilization, the planet is "up above" their h
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by crvdgc 5y ago
I don't know if it's deployed in this case, but some facial recognition process in Chinese apps like Alipay requires the user to turn their face left and right to a certain angle, and the whole continuous movement is used for veri
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by crvdgc 5y ago
One downside of remote (only) work is that the employer is less likely to sponsor a visa. I encountered this problem recently, but after I get the residency permit, I'll be glad to work remotely.
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by crvdgc 5y ago
Too bad you can write only one of those positions on your resume.
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by crvdgc 5y ago
> Whether you’re rich or poor, Facebook costs the same and the experience and features you have access to are identical. Or you can say, the amount of work that's extracted from the user is the same. Because the major "service&
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by crvdgc 5y ago
Here it means "extinct in the wild", see the link from the post https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/extinctio...
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by crvdgc 5y ago
Some devices have physical kill switches for cameras and mics. Whether or not the eavesdropping theory is true, such devices can help you deal with your immediate worries.
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by crvdgc 5y ago
It comes down to semantics of “kill”. I wonder if there's anyone can believe long work hours are the sole cause of mortality, regardless of whether they read the title. The usual interpretation, long work hours are the major factor in
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by crvdgc 5y ago
As a “non-native” English speaker, the single most influential class I took for learning English is lexicology. Each student is required to recite 500 Latin roots and 200 affixes. It's hard, but after that, the vocabulary capability gr
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by crvdgc 6y ago
Same for me.
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by crvdgc 6y ago
To all native English speakers, before talking about standards and lingua franca, try to implement some basic algorithms in Latino and take a minute to imagine a world where it is the standard (programming & documentation). Then you&#x2
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by crvdgc 6y ago
Well, at least when writing that lsp, you have this lsp to help.
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by crvdgc 6y ago
> WARNING: Please be careful when using it! It could be dangerous. In particular, writing "rm" or "dd" into it could be like running around with a chainsaw. But you'd be careful writing "rm" anywhere in
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by crvdgc 6y ago
The author linked to a wikipedia page[0] for examples of viable business models, and it interestingly includes "Professional Open-source Model" without explanation. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines
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by crvdgc 6y ago
Working for a company and working for visibility only differ in the capital gain (in the broad sense of the word). Your goal is still external to yourself and towards the need of the capitalist system. An analogy would be, if you want to wr
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by crvdgc 6y ago
I'm quite surprised intuitionism is not brought into this conversation. > Intuitionism is a philosophy of mathematics that was introduced by the Dutch mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer (1881–1966). Intuitionism is based on the idea that
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by crvdgc 6y ago
> as no-one can afford everyone else's patent licensing fees A patent deadlock.
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by crvdgc 6y ago
I had the same experience as well. I tried NixOS once as my main desktop environment. I encountered two problems that made me switch to Ubuntu+Nix. And they work perfectly for their own purposes. One problem is dynamically linked binaries,
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by crvdgc 6y ago
From the Chinese poster, it says the price is 1XXX9 CNY (it's intentionally written this way to build up expectations), which ranges from $1530 to $3050.
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by crvdgc 6y ago
The control buttons are designed to use shapes rather than symbols to be more including, e.g. involving workers into the decision making process.
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by crvdgc 6y ago
I tried half of a “Head First” which claims to addressing this problem with cognitive science methods (eccentric pictures, repetition, handwriting, and dialogue style). At first it feels good, but after half of the book, I realized all of t
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by crvdgc 6y ago
Haskell Language Server ( https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server ) offers a pretty good IDE experience. It also mitigates the parameter naming problem. With a type hole, the language server will infer the typ
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by crvdgc 6y ago
Sony DPT-RP1 user here. It's a similar large screen e-ink reader with writing support. It's of great help to me for PDF reading and taking notes. My opinion on reMarkable 2 (from the page): Disadvantages: - can only transfer with
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by crvdgc 6y ago
> More importantly, I would like to make the game recognise when there’s a forced guess _coming_ — currently if there’s a 50/50 chance in one corner of the grid that you’re clearly going to have to take eventually, you have to wait
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by crvdgc 6y ago
Mr. Robot vibe.