doctorzook

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by doctorzook 12d ago
Wouldn’t this be a CPT exchange, though?
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by doctorzook 2mo ago
I love that these ads had (cornball) personality.
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by doctorzook 3mo ago
I'm okay with that. What troubles me is that there seem to be two sets of rules at play.
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by doctorzook 3mo ago
If a company stops publishing a book or piece of software, is it free to share because there's no longer an economic interest?
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by doctorzook 3mo ago
This seems... troubling to me. Essentially, the judge found that this qualifies as fair use because (a) publishing this with commentary is "transformative" even through "Defendants used the exact, unaltered [photo] in the blo
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by doctorzook 5mo ago
I assume the intelligent designer was fired for this.
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by doctorzook 8mo ago
I inherited and know how to use a couple slide rules, including a spiral one that’s 46 feet long (1). But if I need to actually calculate something, I use a RPN calculator. Or Python. (1) https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Circ
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by doctorzook 9mo ago
https://archive.is/KoZ0q
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by doctorzook 9mo ago
Off topic, but I’d love a good travel agent: someone who would help me cut through all the SEO and slop reviews to find the good hotels, tours, etc., and take care of booking and logistics. We’ve used some location-specific agencies that ha
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by doctorzook 10mo ago
Holy crap. I remember a sign in our dorm bathroom that read, “toilet cam is for research purposes only”. It was a joke, but always got a nice reaction from new people in the building. But they actually sell this?! And want to charge me for
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by doctorzook 10mo ago
Unless your data is really unusual, I’d generally recommend that you avoid writing your own query language and processor: it’s just damn hard to make it work well. Instead, look at how to put something like DuckDB in front of your data so p
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by doctorzook 10mo ago
Why is it my job to train the machines?
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by doctorzook 4y ago
> Last year, a study found that 4.5% of all bitcoin mining was taking place in Iran... So there is that. But the story ultimately looks entirely based on a tweet [1] from an official that Google translates as: > This week, the first o
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by doctorzook 4y ago
That's just not true, though. I say that without taking a position on the merits of jury nullification. Juries are generally charged with determining matters of fact; the judge matters of law. Even without jury nullification, a jury st
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by doctorzook 4y ago
I learn everything I need from Ted talks.