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by eindiran 6y ago
This book is also very good: http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
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Mostly simple things: if you have a messaging queue used for logging, and you need to predict the change in its memory footprint given some change in a message format before rolling out/testing the format change, just use Little's
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It's a play on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-body_problem But referring to a relationship, and the difficulty of finding a location that works for both people in a relationship. See: https://w
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> I think the wiki is one of the modern world's most underrated -- and underexploited -- innovations. Agreed on the underrated front. But I feel like I interact with enough wikis that its not obvious to me that they are significantl
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Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable(cerebralab.com)
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Because not everyone wants to live on the bleeding edge. Because typing ‘pacman -Syu’ 7 times a week gets annoying. Because you want to use the apt/.deb package ecosystem. Because Ubuntu is easier to install, and doesn’t require you to
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Where do you live? I am in the Bay Area, and for me personally Amazon has been the only place which has had consistent delivery times in recent months.
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Generating the longest error message in C++(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
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This explains it pretty well: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr18/cos518/do...
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khal looks quite cool. Does anyone have some experience with it?
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The original one uses a red ribbon throughout the zoom; is there a reason why that helps visually maintain the illusion? Is it just a stylistic choice? The second one doesn't contain a static object that travels with the camera in the
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I'd be curious to also see research done using (1) calcium serum levels and (2) bone density, comparing meat-heavy, meat-light, pescetarian, ovo-lacto vegetarian, and vegan diets. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/a
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Unconventional Computing(en.wikipedia.org)
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Other entries in the history of fluid-based computers: John Conway was involved with a water-based computer, WINNIE, in the 1950s as an undergrad at Cambridge: http://nautil.us/blog/this-early-computer-was-based-on-a-ur
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For any given forum, the "we" making the claim is almost certainly correct. Most people on any given forum only lurk, so the people commenting are inherently "contributing" more. Many lurkers will recognize your username
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Since virtually no one honors DNT, and its usually not set by default, choosing to set it is giving up a free bit. Instead try to do whatever the default behavior of your browser is.
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Use an extension to spoof your user-agent string. Something like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-st...
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For anyone considering taking the dive: NoScript takes a bit of time to get used to, but stick with it. You'll build up some things you are happy to whitelist, plus always have the backup option of disabling temporarily within a tab. I
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The book "Obfuscation" shown at the bottom of the page is a very interesting one, definitely worth taking a look at. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/obfuscation
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The documentation for mutt suggests using lynx with mailcap: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#mimesupport But using mailcap + some terminal browser should work in general. w3m, lynx, or browsh should work. For exam
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I think there are a few problems that result in this sad state of affairs, and unfortunately they are not constrained to biology (eg 'why isn't mathematics taught with wonder?'). 1. Teachers are required to do evaluations, an
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In my idiolect, changing the gender of pronouns inside of idioms is highly marked, even though I use singular "they" as the epicene pronoun. > The classic phrase was ... strangely gendered I don't think it was "strang
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> I feel like the people who discuss social media policies are people who don't even use it. Many of the people discussing regulating the fossil fuels industry are people outside of it: when you aren't directly benefiting from
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It's definitely worthwhile to try to learn 1 new language. But learning 3 within the span of a year is very unlikely if you are an adult (and not someone extraordinarily good at learning languages like eg Kenneth Hale[0]). Try out lear
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Viruses and other malware can sometimes run under Wine: https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2007-January/053...
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> Effective advertising targets people who are likely to want the product or service already. The whole point of advertising is getting conversions: convincing people who previously weren't going to buy your product that they should
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The Bay Area has around 7.75 million people, so 1k people is around 0.013% of the population. So even if only 2% of the Bay Area works in tech, this would be 0.64% of the tech workers. According to this, it looks like it is closer to 12% of
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An alternative take, definitely worth a read: https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars
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Wikipedia lists dozens of mnemonics, including a number of sexual, racist, sexist or otherwise offensive variants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_color_code_... The article includes a story about a pr
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If you read the top comment in the Reddit thread, it sounds like there was a bit of an arms race, with uBlock and Twitch each releasing patches to undo the other’s change. It seems that uBlock got the final word in.

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