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by dpwm 8y ago
There are people who swear by Labview, especially those more familiar with electronics than code. There are very good researchers I know of in soft condensed matter Physics who know they can't code but feel confident using Labview. One
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by dpwm 8y ago
> Take SV elites for example. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Dorsey seem out of touch in a way Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford did not. You are not comparing like with like -- you even give it away in the tenses that you use. The first three are
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by dpwm 8y ago
Identifying a clearly vested interest and inherent bias in a person defending the system that they personally benefited from is a fairly accepted standard part of critical discourse. Without being critical of the origin of ideas and the int
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by dpwm 8y ago
I'm having a hard time reconciling the Anandtech definition of Tau: > Tau is a timing variable. It dictates how long a processor should stay in PL2 mode before hitting a PL1 mode. with the Intel one: > Turbo Time Parameter (Tau):
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by dpwm 8y ago
4. Counter-counter-countermeasure: wheels.
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I'd have thought that even when items are commingled there must be some way for Amazon to determine the origin and deal with it appropriately. However, I would have also thought that it was in Amazon's interest to fix this before
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I could substitute pretty much any country for China and any bad thing for "this" and I'm fairly sure that what you've said would be true. The only things that seems to differ is where the corruption takes place and whet
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For monetary values, though, the denominators should be the same. This means that the denominator won't get arbitrarily large. For serious uses of rationals you need to have control over when the top and bottom are divided by the GCD.
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You can handle non-decimal currencies by treating money as a fraction. You can implement a correct set of fraction manipulation functions in well under 100 lines of code with a bit of algebra. It seems likely there are several well-tested h
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by dpwm 8y ago
This is quite a neat idea. A couple of people have mentioned Jupytext around here. I found a guide with animations which appears like it might do what you want. [0] I personally look forward to trying this out, as it means that I can use Ju
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by dpwm 8y ago
Seems more like an attack on a straw-man Python ecosystem. Section 1, on there being two versions of Python, is a bit daft. It's been settled: use 3. Sections 2, 3 and 4 are attacking Python for not behaving in the way R does. For what
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I tried on multiple occasions to understand Quaternions, but I never found the time to get them. It was like a personal mental block. I also bought into some of the pedagogical FUD surrounding quaternions and understood there were controver
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> I was so totally ignorant of his awesomeness that I'm ashamed. I would speculate it's likely it made for a much more interesting conversation for both of you than if you had been aware of his accomplishments. You also got a m
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Except, perhaps in the long term, those that want the UK to adopt the common currency.
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If that was the reason, it wasn't the smartest move given the devaluation of the currency. I was of the opinion it had more to do with his company's fairly lacklustre vacuum cleaners being exposed when they were compared under the
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> My personal pet peeves with HN is that there is a vocal minority that is completely dismissive of the entire field of economics. I am mostly dismissive of a lot of economically-motivated political arguments, because a lot of the time t
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by dpwm 8y ago
I never knew if the jokes were just cold war propaganda or entrenched in some kind of reality. The design of the Lada definitely went back some way. But for his needs it wasn't a bad car. My dad tinkered with cars and did everything hi
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by dpwm 8y ago
It is exactly what I hoped it is: a searchable database of single-board computers -- think raspberry pi and similar. There's far more than I expected -- there are apparently 270 in the database.
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> reminds me of the old joke... Despite the jokes, the 80s ladas weren't so bad. My dad had a second-hand one in the 90s (almost certainly from mid 80s) and it was a pretty solid car. There was a degree of simplicity to the maintena
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Under "Project Non-Goals": > Performance. If you need it, use Clojure. Joker is a naive implementation of an interpreter that evaluates unoptimized AST directly. I may be interested in doing some basic optimizations but this is
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by dpwm 8y ago
Python derives a fair amount of expressiveness from the power it gives to library authors. A lot of this in turn comes from its dynamic implementation. As a library author you can write effective python at different levels. Some involve qui
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I can't think of a situation where you'd need to show contempt for a colleague. > a coworker that should deserve termination Isn't that for their employer to decide?
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The gender of the user of the word ought to be unimportant, but it adds to a context that determines how it's being used. If we generalize what you've said to race, it shouldn't matter whether a white person is using the n-
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by dpwm 8y ago
It's a name which is associated with a certain level of contempt when applied by a man to a woman. It really depends on the jurisdiction's employment rights and very much on the context as to whether it could be grounds for dismis
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Around the time that more Russia election meddling stories were breaking, a friend (probably now identified as a Russian bot for his views) sent me a link to a video put out by AIPAC on the importance of bipartisanship for ensuring that the
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by dpwm 8y ago
> You're ignoring a huge amount of business software that is created for, and runs on, Windows. That's like judging Android or iOS based upon the consumer crapware that gets sold/given away in their app stores, as opposed
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UWP sounds like it gets it right, but a lot depends on the granularity of the permissions. I'm not even sure you can win: too fine grained and the user ends up with permission fatigue and just clicks through, too coarse grained and the
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This isn't necessarily the first time they've done this, it's the first time they've been caught. Think of the money saved by not training 6370 staff in data protection and not having any kind of enforcement of policies.
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> The problem is that distro package managers are many and often complex to satisfy, which is one of the reasons people don’t develop “real” desktop software for Linux. If by real you mean the kind of proprietary {ad,spy,toolbar}-ware en
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> I just wonder why the author of this page does not disclose his name... > And even hides this from the whois info. The registrant country is listed as France and the registrar is OVH. They are simply adhering to the GDPR. I have dom

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