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by frob 4y ago
There are way way way more of them, so if you randomly select from the set of all possible configurations, you are much more likely to get something spread out and chaotic then something with a recognizable structure. As atoms and molecules
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by frob 4y ago
I do. I keep it about 2.5 feet away.
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by frob 4y ago
My partner and I have loved pineapple, jalapeño, and pepperoni pizza for years now.
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by frob 4y ago
Spacechem singlehandedly got me back into gaming 10 years ago. It was such a wonderful example of how a simple concept worked to its extreme could be more delightful and entertaining than shiny AAA games. RIP. I'm glad you went out on
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by frob 4y ago
It's like I have a new phone. Thank you so very much for this tip.
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by frob 4y ago
Which other large size company? It sounds like you're referencing an event or issue at of of the other FAAGS--would you care to enlighten us?
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Official IE11 end-of-life in 2 days(death-to-ie11.com)
118 points by frob 4y ago|56 comments
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by frob 4y ago
Here's a Snopes article fleshing out the context around that 8-word quote: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/ Summary is that he is obviously referring to work around regulation, permitting,
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by frob 4y ago
The "series of tubes" comment was Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, not Al Gore. "Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet [email] was
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by frob 4y ago
Hah, it's pegged to e^{pi * i} + 1 Pounds. This is the most honest valuation of a coin I've ever seen.
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by frob 4y ago
Wow. This satire is so pitch-perfect that I honestly believed this was another scam at first. Thw sad thing is, almost any scam-coin will list things like this. I had a good chuckle at quantum-proof and P=NP-proof. However, I give it at lea
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by frob 4y ago
Matte black nail polish ought to do the trick
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by frob 4y ago
Sadly enough, I'm literally scoping out a new feature at the startup I work at that involves rationally splitting text into lines with a max length and buffers with a max line count so we can interface with a legacy system from the lat
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A researcher's avatar was sexually assaulted on Meta's platform(businessinsider.com)
7 points by frob 4y ago|3 comments
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by frob 4y ago
I've had to deal with cheating in multiple classes I've taught. The second worst was when someone took their friend's code and just change the name in the header comment. They tried to claim they didn't copy but I had ti
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by frob 4y ago
NLP not being nearly ready. Some of the requests were powered by people on the backend and we hoped to use that as a training set. We could, but we only were able to automate the most basic things like reminders, weather, todo lists, daily
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by frob 4y ago
This is eerie for me to read, especially this line: "If messenger came with Andrea for everyone, that would clearly be amazing for the world." Eleven months later, FB bought a little startup I was part of to try to build exact thi
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by frob 4y ago
Wow, you're absolutely right. This story about how HN invested in an obvious Ponzi scheme (seriously, if the name Stablegains doesn't throw off alarm bells, you deserve to lose your money) fell over 10 spaces in the time it took m
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by frob 4y ago
I absolutely love the domain name. I'm immediately pulled back 23 years to sitting in my uncle's living room.
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by frob 4y ago
> Disclaimer: Not even close to smart enough to judge this guy. So off went the Emperor in procession under his splendid canopy. Everyone in the streets and the windows said, "Oh, how fine are the Emperor's new clothes! Don&#x2
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by frob 4y ago
3 car lengths seems way too close to be following at highways speeds. Assuming a car is about 16 ft long, that gives you less than half a second of reaction time at 70 mph. Even at 25 mph, it's still less than 1.5 seconds. I very much
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by frob 4y ago
This is absolutely true. I believe he was at least using ZLL at that time, so it only took him 10-15 seconds to figure it out.
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by frob 4y ago
The guy I learned to speedcube from was so good that we would secretly flip a corner or edge on his cube, challenge him to a race, and he would solve it to the point where only one piece was flipped, curse at us, fix it himself, and still b
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by frob 4y ago
This seems like a solid case where Hacker Rank and their contractor filed bad-faith documents and lied under the penalty of perjury. Now that SymPy has $25k of found money, it might make sense to hire a lawyer and counter-sue for damages.
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by frob 4y ago
I can't help but think of things like these in a future where there was some sort of gap or loss in human learning, maybe due to a mass-extinction event. It would be seen as a mysterious artifact from the ancients that has been singing
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by frob 4y ago
That's not a reason for banning a book. Libraries are full of books that are completely ahistorical and narrowsighted. Just go look in the political opinion and analysis section.
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by frob 4y ago
I'm working for a company that has over 50% female engineers and it's the best experience I've ever had. Im a guy and I've worked as a tech lead at a FAANG, at a startup, and in academia.
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by frob 4y ago
Can we please change the title to what the paper is actually titled? "Gender discrimination in hiring: An experimental reexamination of the Swedish case"
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by frob 4y ago
> What about situations where being vulgar is appropiate? Can google vacuum up the context directly from the writer's brain That's why it's a suggestion and not a feature that blocks you from writing whatever you please. I
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by frob 4y ago
They absolutely do. The vast majority of the events I interact with these people at are open to the public with announcements in local news papers. They have dedicated communication channels. The last person I helped spent every Saturday fo

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