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by enriquto 5y ago
> the approaches were completely different, often not even ML based. Oh, the horror! Some aproaches were not (gasp!) even ML-based. As someone who was been working all these years in image processing without recourse to much ML stuff, I
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by enriquto 5y ago
One of the few positive outcomes for Russia out of this crisis.
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by enriquto 5y ago
where do these two constants come from? knuth?
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by enriquto 5y ago
> So does 'Hello World\n' need to check that printf() succeeded, or does it actually need to go further and check that printf() returned 12? No. According to fprintf(1), when the call succeeds it returns the number of printed
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by enriquto 5y ago
Ignoring the return of printf is a "bug". For the hello-world example, you can simply pass the printf value to main: "return printf(...) > 0;"
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Among other things, almost all trees are cospectral This does not really mean that the spectrum is not interesting, does it? Only that all trees have nearly the same spectrum. Sure, there's not much variability inside the class
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by enriquto 5y ago
As history shows again and again, attacks against the civilian population only serve to strenghten the support for the local tyrant. This would be just as counter-effective as the sanctions.
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by enriquto 5y ago
Kevin Brown's mathpages [0] are really something else. I keep falling into them again and again when trying to solve very different technical problems. Each time, he surprises me with several crucial insights that were already there
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Imagine having to write comments on HN using LaTeX. Plain text paragraphs separated by blank lines is already a subset of LaTeX, so we are already doing that!
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by enriquto 5y ago
> I always like to show these videos to illustrate: The videos are fun, but of a very limited scope. I would like to see the corresponding videos made by an independent person, or by people who make steel, aluminium and titan frames. P
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by enriquto 5y ago
> lowers the chance of back pain my (limited) experience is the opposite. I have more back pain after a ride with my upright, dutch-style ride, than on my sporty trekking bike, that has a more inclined position and I ride comfortably fo
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Same as with Taiwan. It's an island off China and rebels flew there at some point That's a subjective way to put it, isn't it? You could also say that "rebels" took all of mainland China and Taiwan is the last
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by enriquto 5y ago
Hah! from the point of view of the user, this is already possible even with password-based sites. Instead of logging-in with your previous password (which of course you forgot), you just claim that you lost it and request a recovery email
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Seems hard to formulate precisely… Well, it's an heuristic ;) The idea is that if you ever find a distribution that seems to be normal, you look for the finite variance variables that are lurking behind it. If you do not find the
915.
by enriquto 5y ago
My favourite is Mandelbrot's heuristic converse of the central limit theorem: the only variables that are normal are those that are sums of many variables of finite variance.
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by enriquto 5y ago
No. People who worked there then and left are being robbed today of the fruit of their work.
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by enriquto 5y ago
It's just an approximation, which should be correct up to an order of magnitude. I guess it's alright if there's a factor of 5 between the highest and lowest paid employees.
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by enriquto 5y ago
> What is the job worth? Total profit divided by the number of employees?
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by enriquto 5y ago
For further security, put a random number of spaces (or just one) so that the length of the secret is not leaked.
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by enriquto 5y ago
But what OS do you run on it? Is linux well-supported (regarding throttling, sleeping, etc)? I can't stand the macOS gui.
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by enriquto 5y ago
> I'd absolutely love to do that but there are only 2 or 3 monitors available on the market right now (...) Or, you know, just use good bitmap fonts on whatever monitor you have. Bitmap fonts look crisp on any low-resolution monito
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by enriquto 5y ago
> There’s a surprisingly large amount of middle class Americans who will retire millionaires This seems like a serious bug in the system, doesn't it? Why would old people retire as millionaries while young people struggle working l
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by enriquto 5y ago
Consider adding "gron" to your toolset, for easy json processing in the command line. It is cruder than jq, but it has a nice aura of simplicity that jq lacks.
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by enriquto 5y ago
Yes, and they are active by default.
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by enriquto 5y ago
> As a male homo sapiens, I have to say that if Neanderthal women looked like this [...] Apparently, this is not what happened. It seems that there are no neanderthal traces on human mitochondrial dna. This means that all neandertal le
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by enriquto 5y ago
> poorly drawn pictures are being bought not even the picture. The url to a picture on a random site.
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by enriquto 5y ago
Throwing away 25% of your bits sound wasteful... what you need is a moderately large power of 2 that is very close to a power of 3. These can be found by computing the continued fraction of log(3)/log(2). The sequence of convergents
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by enriquto 5y ago
Yes, the 1994 Flame Fighters is an outstanding set! My main dislike of the modern version is that the fire truck does not have a ladder (that would offer a lot of playability). The water gun just looks puny. EDIT: still, even if I have a
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by enriquto 5y ago
> What is the impact of someone who has your phone number knowing you are available over Signal? Don't know about Signal, but Whatsapp does the same thing (advertise to your contacts that you have a whatsapp account) and I find it
930.
by enriquto 5y ago
> Modern legos are awesome. Indeed they are! But, as much as I also dislike, like you, these bizarre comments; there's one place where I drew a red line and lego has sadly crossed it recently: lego sets that become obsoleted because

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