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by ebg13 6y ago
I tried my best on the calibration demo page in Safari and consistently get a 0% accuracy result. It calibrates sort of ok in Firefox. I guess this is heavily browser dependent? But why?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Most SWE jobs are in B2B, web development Citation? > embedded, etc fields. Which one of these sees a lot of MATLAB usage? Both embedded and etc. MATLAB is used widely in signal processing and controls software. > Maybe don&
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by ebg13 6y ago
Will it still give the wrong answer if your table isn't sequentially indexed? That is, does #({[1]="a", [3]="b"}) return 1 or 2? edit: I see that it still returns 1. That's a shame. This trips up so many newcom
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I get what you're trying to say, but MATLAB is not really a programming language SWEs would use It may not be a language that website jockeys use, but "I don't use it therefore probably no one does" is almost neve
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by ebg13 6y ago
~= and 1-indexing are only weird if you haven't seen them before. MATLAB uses them as well.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Knowing what I know about the expected quality of things found on AliExpress, I'm hesitant to put batteries found there in my ears.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> LuaJIT is still at Lua 5.1, IIRC It's 5.1 plus some of 5.2.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I like that you're happy with the ones you have, but it's a weird flex to say that you "couldn't be happier" _and_ that "sound quality isn't great". Would you not be any happier if sound quality _were
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by ebg13 6y ago
Other answers talking about using git features are assuming that you don't care about Wiki/PRs/Issues/Labels/etc that are GitHub metadata not part of your repo history. But GitLab does have feature support for exten
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by ebg13 6y ago
Nothing about what I said changes if 95% of the marbles are the same color instead of 100%. "Overwhelming percent of yada yada" is (allegedly anyway) a significant finding that has been buried.
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by ebg13 6y ago
But how is that striking "a deal"? That doesn't sound like giving something to get something.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> and just stick to the facts Except that it would also be sticking to the facts, no? If you pour out a bag of marbles and find that all of the marbles are the same color, reporting that all of the marbles were the same color would be
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by ebg13 6y ago
> They cited time zone differences, unreliable or state-managed Internet and armed conflict in some of the students’ homelands. I think it would be enlightening to see transcripts of the moments where each side said something convincin
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The best plan is to re-base all pennies to be worth 5¢ But they say "ONE CENT" on them.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> When the protests are peaceful, you don't need to send in military. When the city is burning, it could be a solution. What about the many reports that the protests started peaceful until the police started shooting? You may disa
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by ebg13 6y ago
Can you clarify whether (and if so why) you have a problem with that characterization? > Wikipedia states 'Massad has characterized Israel as "a racist Jewish state."' Israel's own definition of self calls itse
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by ebg13 6y ago
If you can't tell by the way it sounds, then maybe they're all fake?
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by ebg13 6y ago
"(when G. Maxwell arrested)" Well this is a rather unfortunate name collision. Sorry, Greg.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I think the argument that doing fake reviews on Amazon is 'bad behavior' or something to feel guilty about is laughable. People don't think that it's bad behavior because it sullies Amazon's good name. People
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by ebg13 6y ago
> If everyone... This is a wildly false assumption based on being inside a tech bubble. In rounded terms, the set of customers who assume that Amazon reviews are fake is closer to nobody than to everybody. > is it unethical to make
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by ebg13 6y ago
> though sadly not dental! or prescriptions
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by ebg13 6y ago
This doesn't seem very useful to me. It looks like it only estimates taxes for you and doesn't do any legwork on cost of living.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Why is that? You don't want to accidentally commit your credentials to github and have the world see them. At least if they're in ENV they stay private as long as your environment does.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> You could charge per item, based on weight, like postal shipments. I would say not exactly based on weight, but similar to that: total dimensions&weight converted to dollars + miles converted to dollars + hours converted to dolla
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by ebg13 6y ago
Elsewhere thoraway1010 indicates that (n=1) a quoted wage by deliverer is $22-28/hour for driving ~13 miles/hour. Even if you allocate a whole dollar per mile as driving cost, that's still waaaaay above the federal minimum wa
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by ebg13 6y ago
Can someone with perspective on this explain to me how a percent commission model makes any kind of sense vs evaluating actual labor effort for a courier service with fewer guarantees? Delivering 100 pounds of potatoes is _way_ more difficu
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The guards posted at vantage points with rifles? Your other points notwithstanding, rifles aren't particularly special in French policing. Gendarmerie are basically everywhere.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Area was limited with huge glass panes Having lived in Paris for several years, I don't recall ever seeing access to the Eiffel Tower area restricted at all except during restoration construction. It's a giant pass-through
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by ebg13 6y ago
> the value of the PC is not in it’s CPU alone, it’s in the interaction of all the components, the screen, the ram, the disk, the keyboard, the GPU That's fine. We can (and do) do those too. Pretending otherwise is weird. Authors
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by ebg13 6y ago
In a country (the US) where more and more people have unlimited data plans, what does it even mean to evaluate the cost of "1GB"? My T-Mobile plan gives me unlimited mobile data almost everywhere I go in the world for long periods

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