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by fleetingmoments 7y ago
As someone who uses take-home assignments as part of my hiring process, I disagree that it is no effort at all. We still have to review submissions, get the code running (we usually let the candidate do the problem with the tools of their c
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by fleetingmoments 7y ago
I just can't understand this mentality. You are the one who wants the job, doing the bare minimum of effort to prove that you can perform the job is too much? Why should they review your code before they know if you're someone the
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by fleetingmoments 7y ago
Not if there are invasive species in the mix. It can be extremely labour intensive to prevent aliens from destroying all biodiversity in an area.
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by fleetingmoments 7y ago
You trained Deep Learning models with a 2GB GPU? It must be a very niche problem where it both fits on an onboard mobile GPU and provides a significant performance gain over CPU considering the data transfer overhead?
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by fleetingmoments 7y ago
Exactly. USB C is so much better. Charging on either side and only replacing the cable and not the whole adapter if there is a connection issue.
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by fleetingmoments 7y ago
I'd like to see reusable silicone packaging. Bonus points if the containers are standardised like shipping containers and fit together in a way that maximises internal volume, like the cells of a honeycomb. Who wouldn't like a con
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by fleetingmoments 7y ago
You're going by specs only, rather than actual quality of components. See videos of blind tests between the XR's screen and the Pocophone for instance. People pick the XR, every time.
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by fleetingmoments 8y ago
I thought it had to be accomplished by satellite somehow. I looked at a very remote island in the southern Indian Ocean where I was stationed and the amount of detail in Bing Bird's eye view of the geography was astonishing. This was c
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by fleetingmoments 8y ago
Why can't these sites implement a 'are you sure?' check before letting users repost fake news? Do a lookup on Snopes or similar and provide that along with information that informs the user of legal consequences of participat
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by fleetingmoments 8y ago
| For comparison being in the top 2% of any Olympic sport would land you a spot in most Olympic teams. This is just nowhere near true.
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by fleetingmoments 8y ago
If your personal time is infinitely valuable to yourself, why do you sell for way below that?
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by fleetingmoments 8y ago
OpenMRS-based systems are widely used in the developing world in hospitals, not sure what the barriers are to first-world adoption.
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by fleetingmoments 8y ago
It's also written in an obsolete, obscure programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS .
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
How else would we elect the biggest asshole?
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
I don't have much of an issue with targeted advertising or content by harvesting of data through what you make publicly available, as long as it is de-identified. It has plenty of applications for good as well. I hope that platforms ar
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
Malema is not the leader of the opposition, his party has won less than 10% typically. The official opposition is the DA, which governs Cape Town and the Western Cape Province.
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
What if you're using an append-only log, like Kafka as your data backbone?
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
Whether their lives are "sucking" is a matter of perspective. There are billions of people around the world who would be only too grateful for a life that "sucks" as much as theirs do. You'll find people from all w
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
No it hasn't.
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Lawsuit Exposes Internet Giant’s Internal Culture of Intolerance(quillette.com)
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
And if you get hacked and can prove it, the bank/municipality has the power to correct fraudulent transactions.
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
What input signals do you have access to through the Apple Watch? Is it only Heart Rate output or do you get the actual interbeat intervals? Any chance of getting to the raw ADC output of the photodiode?
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
r/buttcoin
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
|By far the most ravaging drug in the world is alcohol Ever considered that this has something to do with it being the most accessible and normalised? If you could pick up crack at your corner store, if it was advertised everywhere, if crac
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
Choosing someone that looks like the owner would increase the odds greatly. You can't narrow down the search field like that with a PIN or a fingerprint.
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
If no Bitcoin is being minted and a certain amount is lost every year to burn addresses or mistakes, it stands to reason that at some point the amount Bitcoin in circulation would approach zero. A hacker group could grind the economy to a h
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
He would be a huge improvement over pretty much all other candidates at present.
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
| Then more recently some academics have re-defined gender again to mean "ones own innate conception of one's male/female identity." Nope. What you are talking about is Gender Identity. There is pretty good evidence for
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by fleetingmoments 9y ago
I don't know, it sounded like improving GH's diversity/inclusivity was exactly the reason she was hired and so that must have seemed like an obvious place where she could contribute. And she didn't call the data scientis

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