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by froh 3y ago
I just moved "up" from gfm markdown to asxiidoc and oh do I miss LaTeX. html rendering of LaTeX is a godsend. and imnsho asciidoc a work around to not fully having that.
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by froh 3y ago
that's the joke...
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by froh 3y ago
I see. and that's indeed one of the two main meanings. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caretaker hmmm is there some extended n-gram search these days where you can search for a specific word *with a sp
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by froh 3y ago
full title is: Accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workloads with Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel AMX) and it's a brochure ("Solution brief")
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by froh 3y ago
the idiom is "take offense in sth"
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by froh 3y ago
some kids are raised by other relatives or even non-relatives. will they at some point say "my real mommy was aunt xyz"? possibly. but still in no world auntie is a parent, in all worlds she is the caretaker.
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by froh 3y ago
child-riser is a lovely neologism, more self-explanatory than caretaker, but still caretaker is well established. and to clarify: I chuckled with sympathy reading your response :-)
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by froh 3y ago
before "outliers" there was "the tipping point" and "blink"
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by froh 3y ago
just to be sure: you don't look for recursive edit do you? https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...
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by froh 3y ago
no, for changing the mind of the original author of the posted article.
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by froh 3y ago
the article suggests the microplastics are not from the bottle.
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by froh 3y ago
indeed it's both: it was created for financial analytics, and it provides R dataframe features to python. thanks for.making me detour into the history of it.
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by froh 3y ago
yup I first met data frames in R and pandas is the Python answer to R isn't it
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by froh 3y ago
rcs. you meant rcs. and uucp.
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by froh 3y ago
"this app isn't compatible with your device because it was made for an older version of android" sigh
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by froh 3y ago
you sure? the Linux bios paper: author = {Ronald G. Minnich and James Hendricks and Dale Webster}, title = {The Linux {BIOS}}, coreboot: Werner Zeh, David Hendricks, and Matt DeVillier. Felix Held Jay Talbott Patrick Geo
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by froh 3y ago
I hold an old print of his Pascal language report near and dear on my.bookshelf. he bootstrapped oberon with one peer in 1-2 years. his preference for clarity over notational fancyness inspired so many of us. the Pascal family of languages
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by froh 3y ago
for computer science, Nikolaus Wirth was not simply "someone" and a black ribon signifies a great loss, not a tragedy.
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by froh 3y ago
how does their effort relate to coreboot? https://www.coreboot.org/
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by froh 3y ago
the main difference between java and pg vs closure and datomic (not: diatomic) is "immutability", which implies a different way of thinking about multithreading and multiprocessing and transactions. instead of locking and mutexes
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by froh 3y ago
the reason being that with ventilation, you can do a heat exchange between incoming and outgoing air. the structure and thermal mass is similar in new buildings.
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by froh 3y ago
interaction design for API and CLI, text based interfaces, is both hard and underdeveloped. for example argparse and similar cli argument parsers _know_ the basic structure of the command line, but they don't provide it in machine tabl
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by froh 3y ago
in 1997/1998 I ran into GCC C++ bugs. the (for money) cygnus release had them fixed about a year before you got the fixes on ftp or public mailing lists or news groups. I was a student with no income and I couldn't afford the pro
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by froh 3y ago
well you could easily put regulations on whatever is delivered to paying customers. so if you do pay for software you know which cybersecurity scrutiny is in place --- while no cost software comes at no warranties whatsoever.
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by froh 3y ago
there needs to be regulation of for profit services, so when you _buy_ software, there is a baseline that you can rely on, as a buyer. we do not need regulation limiting distribution of volunteer work. and the vague language for the delinea
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by froh 3y ago
there is insightful discussion right on lwn. I think changing the URL is cutting that out.
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by froh 3y ago
ICE vehicles have an average ge of about 11 years most (80%) of the cars are younger than 20years. older than that is the exception, not "all the time" https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments&#
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by froh 3y ago
> bad actors out there deliberately managing communication for strategic effect. that's the key challenge, and disagreement between FB and Google and X (and also image- or video based "communciators") on what constitutes b
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by froh 3y ago
agreed, there is neither collapse nor explosion. a 1.1% growth y/y easily reads as exponential growth, and that, like collapse is a myth.
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by froh 3y ago
the growth is decreasing, since years, and the 2050 estimate of 10 Bn is fairly constant over the past 30-50 years in a nutshell human world population growth overall is due to growing life expectancy, not childbirth, the number of childre

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