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by daniel-s 3y ago
If that were the case why did humans not evolve to have 17 times more female babies than male? The chance of a billionaire having a son is 65%. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161014-why-billionaires...
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by daniel-s 3y ago
Isn't Canonical famous for having one of the worst candidate selection processes? Also, there's a lot of superstition and nonsense about how to succeed at interviews and job applications.
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by daniel-s 3y ago
Same story for the Aral sea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea
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by daniel-s 3y ago
Short answer: A lot of desktop applications are built on web frameworks that ship with their own individual instance of Chrome to run. On Windows 95 they were C/C++ (or equivalent, Delphi, etc.) and executing on the chip.
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by daniel-s 3y ago
https://youtube.com/@ServeTheHomeVideo?feature=shared The YouTube channel for those who like me are too impatient to ever read.
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by daniel-s 3y ago
For those that needed to Google like me: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."
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by daniel-s 3y ago
Is there any mechanism to control this in the UI? It seems like something users would want: exit from XYZ country.
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by daniel-s 3y ago
You just need to use the same logic, syntax as CSS' selectors to pick out can ntent from the page. That's something a little different to CSS to style.
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by daniel-s 3y ago
Just draw a new camel and call it a day.
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by daniel-s 3y ago
Two sides to this. Author uses everyday life to describe the multiple layers of abstraction in software engineering. That's precisely the advantage of software: that abstraction is easier to construct—by simply writing down rules in te
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by daniel-s 3y ago
I don't mind the complaint about CMA being undemocratic because it's a council of unelected bureaucrats, it's just trash-talk from someone that didn't get what they wanted; to be expected. IMO the reason why this decisio
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by daniel-s 3y ago
I this similar to some of the smart mirror projects that exist?
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by daniel-s 4y ago
New ideas
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Is the reason because it made data exchange basically universal between languages? Before XML you had random binary or text formats, so APIs were a lot of work? Everything is Json now, but XML->Json is not that remarkable. Why was it suc
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Surprise workplace mechanics.
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Most people leave school able to perform basic arithmetic and to read and write. Almost nobody has a basic understanding of economics. Go here and learn more about economics in 30 minutes than 99% of people. https://mises.org&#x2
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Basically this. Companies go bankrupt or shrink in size if they do things like undervalue staff skills. Stop rewarding bad behaviour with bailouts.
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Can someone ELI5 why people have to pay for Java licences if it's a free software product. Is this only for Oracle's distribution of Java and would not apply if people are using OpenJDK?
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by daniel-s 4y ago
I think that your ordered tests are the setup.
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by daniel-s 4y ago
One way you can push propaganda as an agent is not to promote something obviously bad, especially if you would never get away with it, but to criticise it less than it deserves. Not saying it's happening in this case, but suppose you&#
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by daniel-s 4y ago
What's wrong with Shieldsup? My experience is that it works perfectly fine.
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How to Beat AI in a ChatGPT World(compilatrix.com)
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by daniel-s 4y ago
https://based.cooking/ The best recipe website on the internet. Is the best and doesn't rank on Google specifically because it doesn't do what this article talks about.
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by daniel-s 4y ago
The author uses Pandas as an example, but Pandas also has a great, built-in API to download and read HTML formatted tables in one line. https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.read_htm...
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Now if their ATC software ran on Emacs lisp they wouldn't have had any problem.
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by daniel-s 4y ago
For a moment I thought the topic was about PID controllers. That would have been cool. If the blogging gods take requests I just made one.
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Aren't all the things you described signs of good hardware?
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Stockfish variant that always plays the 2nd best move.
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by daniel-s 4y ago
If employees hate their job so much, can't they just quit?
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by daniel-s 4y ago
Murray Rothbard waited a decade to get his PhD. His supervisor didn't like his politics and never let him graduate. Rothbard had to sneak in and graduate after his supervisor left to join the Eisenhower administration. I'm surpris

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