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by dmurray 2mo ago
It's not aimed at consumers of their product. Someone outside the company who was thinking of joining a B2B sales team, and who likes tropical vacations, might react positively to this post. Or a potential investor might be impressed t
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Goldfish are what stereotypically served this purpose in the UK and Ireland, though this seems to have got out of fashion as pet shops no longer sell goldfish to be kept in tiny bowls.
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Well at least this wouldn't result in massive incentives for Microsoft to get the same law passed elsewhere.
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by dmurray 2mo ago
If by "ride" you mean hitch a lift to somewhere you couldn't get to otherwise, space doesn't work like that. If you want to land on an asteroid/rock, either you match speed with it, in which case you already had eno
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by dmurray 2mo ago
It's a very silly point to make to AI researchers specifically. If they don't work on those projects, the AI won't advance and won't magically be able to replicate the work in "one to three years".
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by dmurray 2mo ago
> All people are not born with equally capable brains You can't write this and then object to someone also shortening this to "stupid".
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by dmurray 2mo ago
In these circumstances I always say "I've seen something similar before". That has the benefits firstly, that the interviewer will probably go ahead with the question anyway while still noting your honesty; and secondly, that
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by dmurray 2mo ago
It was invented as a comically long fake word, but gained enough currency to be used in real writing, though in a tongue-in-cheek way. It's a Latin calque. I'm sure the spelling should be floccipaucinihil... from pauci , few and
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by dmurray 2mo ago
I was at the World Series of Poker when this change was made. The major sites had anticipated the decision not to allow sponsorship by "real money" gambling sites and had registered their .net equivalents. Pokerstars.net, fulltilt
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Or because there's not enough worth stealing in your house.
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Ireland, like the UK, has a system of Prize Bonds that work exactly like this, administered by the state. The expected return on them is actually quite competitive, depending on your tax situation. Everyone here seems to have got a present
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Roman legions marched around 30 km/day [0], carrying their own supplies, food, weapons and armour, needing to spend time making and breaking camp each day. Modern European pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago seem to do about 20 km/
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by dmurray 2mo ago
This part is clearly nonsense: > According to the planner’s calculation, the journey would have taken 43 days to cover 1,500 Roman miles. To put that into a contemporary context: the same route by road today can be completed in 14 days (
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by dmurray 2mo ago
My previous employer did this, and no one seemed to miss it. If you had a use case to add an exception (the most common was to send yourself a mail from your personal Gmail, to print something on the corporate printers) that was supported a
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by dmurray 2mo ago
This overeggs a bit the idea that Hitler "lied about where it came from". Hitler openly admired the Roman empire and alluded to Germany being the spiritual heir to it. Look at the neoclassical architecture, or the German imperial
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Do you need to be able to strike at a moment's notice? For a proper MAD-based nuclear deterrence, yes, you want to be able to launch a massive retaliation while your enemies' missiles are still in the air. Submarine-launched missi
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by dmurray 2mo ago
> Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Or how good their HA/failover strategy must be. Although losing one data centre from an availability zone seems like exactly the kind of is
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by dmurray 3mo ago
It sounds like they didn't need (at the time) to separate arguments from options, but they did need to separate revisions from pathspecs. So they repurposed "--" as the most familiar separator. Probably they were trying to
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by dmurray 3mo ago
The abstract does say > limitations, principally the small number of tournaments available for validation and the risk of in-sample weight selection But I agree this model is no more valuable than Paul the Octopus.
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by dmurray 3mo ago
And the out-of-universe explanation is that the Jurassic Park production team had access to SGI "3D rendering beasts" because they needed to render some CGI dinosaurs. So these are both what they had to hand, and what the producer
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by dmurray 3mo ago
I was thinking of an API key that was scoped both to a specific customer and a specific service provider (perhaps both have to do something to provision it). Billing goes to the customer, debug logs etc go to the service provider.
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Perhaps AI providers should support this natively: the customer supplies the API key but doesn't get access to the transcripts.
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Farage can't realistically be PM in the current parliamentary session anyway. His party needs to win, or do very well in, the next general election instead. At a national level this election is purely symbolic and dictates whether Refo
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by dmurray 3mo ago
A house and a car are an enormous amount of assets for someone 7 years out of college. Leaving bankrupts with "only" enough assets to be in the top few percent of their peers is hardly a hardship.
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by dmurray 3mo ago
MiFID 2 does not require nanosecond accuracy. It's something like 100 microseconds in the strictest case. Some MiFID reports require microsecond or perhaps nanosecond precision , but that's really just a formatting requirement &q
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by dmurray 3mo ago
They also used a practical effect for the scenes where the T-1000 needed to appear on screen at the same time as a character it had shapeshifted into. They cast identical twins for the roles. https://www.reddit.com/r/Mo
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by dmurray 3mo ago
But Órfhlaith Begley does go to Westminster, and she has an access badge for the Houses of Parliament, and she flies over there and works in her office in the parliament buildings and answers her @parliament.co.uk emails and asks her staffe
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Aside from all the other objections from this: broadly speaking, if you lose your job and can't get another one, the economy will be bad and house prices will fall. Not true for absolutely everyone, and as an individual you may feel yo
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by dmurray 3mo ago
I think they don't approve of the Crown as an authority even if they agree it's lawfully established? It's more like an atheist refusing to swear an oath before God in a courtroom: even if you agree that the law says you must
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by dmurray 3mo ago
Likewise, nobody will be all that surprised, or disappointed, if Binface never takes his seat. It's much more of a protest vote than voting Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland, and voters will have achieved their aim of Farage not getting in

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