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by fcatalan 5y ago
My daughter has this as an school assignment, with some implication that it is some sort of a contest, and we managed to grow quite a few of similar quality to the seed crystals on the site in 4 days, which was the original (poorly thought
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by fcatalan 5y ago
I guess I'd buy an NFT from someone as a means of directly supporting their work, say as an alternative to a donation, patreon, twitch subscription... Other than that I must be old because I don't see the point of the whole thing.
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by fcatalan 5y ago
In our initial trials involving about 5 people the software systematically failed to recognise one woman just because her (pretty standard) hairstyle. It also failed to detect my kids coming up on camera a few times.
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by fcatalan 5y ago
We tested a couple eproctoring products last year while we geared up to move every exam online. We disliked them on ethical grounds, but also as ultimately unpractical. I had also a bad feeling about the vendors, there was a strong whiff o
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by fcatalan 5y ago
I have another personal angle on this: I'm not very social. I do enjoy conversation or dinner or visits with friends or coworkers, occasionally, but not the constant barrage of invitations, events and obligations that was normal before
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by fcatalan 6y ago
Ummm no. In fact the relationship between Spain and Guinea is surprisingly tenous considering the colonial past. Guinea hardly makes it to the news and it isn't in the "national conscience" at all. The average educated spania
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by fcatalan 6y ago
COVID lockdowns had already started the chess surge, for example look at the numbers for chess streams on Twitch: https://twitchtracker.com/games/743 I started playing in June after reading this: https://www
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by fcatalan 6y ago
My kids are a bit younger, but the article reads a lot like our life during the hard quarantine period in Spain. They couldn't set a foot out of the door for 52 straight days and only walk around the block for a few more weeks, but the
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by fcatalan 6y ago
I'm 45. I got started by books when I was about 8: The little public library near my home had translations of the Usborne BASIC guides and Tim Hartnell's game books and I devoured those without having a computer to try them on. Th
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by fcatalan 6y ago
I strongly disagree. Grammar is a great tool for an instructor to organize their teaching, but a terrible way for students to think about language. Yeah, to read or speak you need to internalize those rules, but you don't really need t
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by fcatalan 6y ago
Or maybe if the lectures are online they should be paid proportional to the effort involved, which can't be possibly the same if you have to come up with new materials, find new methods of teaching and engaging the students, etc...
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by fcatalan 6y ago
I'm still developing web services connected to an Ingres instance running on a rickety ~22 year old Sun server with lots of bits and pieces cannibalized from its long dead siblings. We have the replacement system almost ready but won&#
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by fcatalan 6y ago
I personally remember that couple of years, 95-97, as ripe for coming up by yourself with things that are now considered "obvious" or just the way things are done. Things happened fast: by the start of 1995 the concept of network
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by fcatalan 7y ago
I was in charge of ensuring the TLS 1.2 compliance of hundreds of old sites in my organization. 2 weeks ago I was well on track to have it finished in time. Now I'm tasked to just keep up essential systems that are straining under the
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by fcatalan 7y ago
If you just care about understanding most of the written language this can be done a bit faster in a very similar way: A few years ago I started watching Danish TV shows and went through a few months of "Danish obsession". -I star
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by fcatalan 9y ago
Reads to me as an allegory very loosely based on the very real and sad story of Ignaz Semmelweis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis
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by fcatalan 12y ago
Well, whats good for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary should be ok for Google. http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/2015/3/at-the-flick-of-...
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by fcatalan 12y ago
So now stop a bit. Reread what you wrote, think about what you did and the outcome. Harrowing isn't it?
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by fcatalan 13y ago
Seems like a genetic algorithm would be a great fit to produce a letter arrangement given a target silhouette
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by fcatalan 13y ago
I've been working from home for 8 months this last year and point 2 was the biggest pain. Even after setting some initial rules, there was this almost imperceptible but continous pressure to do stuff just because you were at home. It&#
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by fcatalan 13y ago
There's a great article describing the start of Erlang as a Prolog metainterpreter. It's very accessible, at least I can follow it with my month old Prolog knowledge and it's quite impressive to watch as the interpreter goes
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by fcatalan 13y ago
It might be a problem to keep your best developers working in Barcelona on Spanish level salaries if they are good, young and fluent in English. It's not just the absolute salary numbers: the relative purchasing power of even decent Sp
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by fcatalan 13y ago
A great post about the same problem but from a Math/CS perspective, and as fun to read: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/918.html [Cosma Shalizi's "In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solve
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by fcatalan 13y ago
I've been helping test Quolony for a while and the potential for this technology is great. In particular using it as a browser extension with the instant link sharing and cobrowsing gives those otherwise solitary web browsing sessions
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by fcatalan 13y ago
When I was a kid the situation was clear for me: Homework made me struggle for hours while the drill sergeant act next day would last for mere seconds. So I did the bare minimum that would keep me from getting in serious trouble and accepte
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by fcatalan 14y ago
True, apropos that today I heard someone call bitcoin "the Dunning-krugerrand"
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by fcatalan 14y ago
Ember confuses me too. I've worked with many server and desktop MVC frameworks for almost 20 years. I'm familiar with MVC, it plays simple and easy, like rock-paper-scissors. My problem with Ember is that it seems to be more like "rock-pape
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by fcatalan 14y ago
They say a boat will make you happy just twice: The day you get it and the day you get rid of it. This boat truly seems a complete failure.
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by fcatalan 14y ago
I'm sitting here in front of an X1 loaded with Ubuntu and the experience so far isn't great. The build quality wouldn't be quite ok for a $1000 laptop and is infuriating for a $1700 one. And the screen is just ok About the linux experience:
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by fcatalan 14y ago
5. They need to keep pushing tweets into my timeline that I always ignore.

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