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by dpq 5y ago
The next best thing is the Three Body Problem. But in many aspects I find Vinge's works unrivaled.
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by dpq 5y ago
1. Too much of hassle for most people out there. 2. (hypothetical) desire to keep Telegram afloat? I would rather pay a recurring fee though than get ads, but if the choice would be "Telegram with ads" vs "No Telegram at all&
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by dpq 5y ago
I think they stopped doing it long time ago (and I cannot see these links now), but if my memory serves me well basically these links were taking you to Google and Bing with the same query, respectively. I.e. they were directly linking to
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by dpq 5y ago
> Sophie Schmieg is a high-level cryptography/security Googler, and Knows What She’s Talking About. She refers to the Carrington Event, a major solar storm (“Coronal Mass Ejection” they say) that happened in 1859, and severely disru
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by dpq 5y ago
That's what folks at hyperc.com are aiming to solve.
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by dpq 5y ago
I had a colleague who once tried to copy-paste a Scala snippet into Python code and came to complain that it doesn't work. We're no longer colleagues.
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by dpq 5y ago
cries in Mongolian
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by dpq 5y ago
While the research in question is quite interesting, I recommend to skip the linked Academic Times post and head to the original paper instead: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/202...
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The AV technology you're not paying attention to(dpq.medium.com)
4 points by dpq 6y ago|0 comments
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by dpq 6y ago
The paper in question can be found with Sci-Hub. Amusingly enough, it contains the following: > Three formulas have been developed by Alder (3), Vecchio et al. (4), and Wolever et al. (5) to calculate the total area un
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by dpq 6y ago
We've had mixed experience with Databricks, to be honest. The quality and responsiveness of support we were getting was not worth the amount of issues we were seeing + the considerable cost, so we decided to use "exit strategy to
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Google Has Deleted K9 Mail from the Play Store(twitter.com)
1 points by dpq 6y ago|0 comments
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by dpq 6y ago
Fascinating and sad. I'd like to tell a similar story with a happier ending. I was looking for the first volume of JH Schroeter's observations of Mercury (published in 1788!) when I was writing my own PhD, and found it thanks to c
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by dpq 6y ago
This immediately reminded me a very old book by Bob Shaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Zero_Man The tech in the book was no less fictitious but sounded kinda cool: a neutron resonator, with a beam being targete
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by dpq 6y ago
The "AI" part here is a bug, not a feature. I wouldn't have to do it if I had an API for sending requests, or a condo-provided app, or at least if the concierge service used e.g. Telegram officially. Since neither of these is
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by dpq 6y ago
I live in a condo with a concierge service, and I need to order passes for delivery guys with a phone call. Naturally, this got very boring very quickly, so I made a Chrome extension which upon a click connects to a Voximplant app which cal
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by dpq 7y ago
That's incorrect; Postmates, for one, uses Phantom Auto ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/09/23/postmate... ), and they definitely operate on public roads.
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by dpq 7y ago
Welcome to https://phantom.auto
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by dpq 7y ago
I think the parent is worried about the possible mandatory ubiquity of AR devices more than anything. As long as skipping a tech is socially acceptable and does not impose impractical costs (try living without interacting with a computer o
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by dpq 7y ago
I suspect we'll see high-paying jobs getting automated even faster, so her newly acquired skills may become obsolete before she graduates (also, she won't be able to afford the tuition fees). I don't think there's an ans
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by dpq 7y ago
It directly follows from the assumptions that space is isotropic and homogeneous. I recall that there was a short and elegant proof of this link in Landau and Lifshits vol 1; you may want to look it up.
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by dpq 7y ago
For the better or worse, this is the standard language for modern academic writing. Do not blame the authors if this social convention is not to your liking.
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by dpq 7y ago
The point of the author being? Since he has poor manners, or Asperger's syndrome, or he lacks vision to lead the free software movement into the future, then it's okay to plant news stories, coat them with outrageous not-technical
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by dpq 7y ago
Do you object to the notion that the USSR, like any country, was in a way an imaginary entity, or to the notion that it mainly ceased to exist because the its citizens decided to imagine something else and actually pulled it off?
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by dpq 7y ago
While generally you are of course correct, this is not always the case. Some facets of reality have been willed/believed into existence. Nations and social orders are real, but only exist as long as people believe in them. For example,
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by dpq 7y ago
> The question you should ask yourself is: in what kind of society do I want to live and do my actions contribute to it and if so at what cost? What if everybody acted like I did? But then of course this is the wrong question to ask. Thi
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by dpq 7y ago
Essentially, money is freedom. It's a wonderful, marvelous experience when you can suddenly turn your problems into expenses.
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by dpq 7y ago
...and does a great job explaining his pov. It's not like he's saying that sexual assaults do not exist, and people should be able to rape / immodestly touch whoever they please with impunity. > Sexual assault: The term is
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by dpq 7y ago
> claiming they were actually willing Did you even bother to read the emails or at the very least the article? This misconception is exactly what's being argued there, that Stallman said something clearly different. > Ignoring a
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by dpq 7y ago
> How popular would gnu be if it had someone who was better at communication involved? Also, how popular would gnu be if the US had a copyright reform, or if we lived in a fairy world with unicorns? There is no point to such questions: i

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