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by gcr 2y ago
Cornell is currently in hiring freeze. These roles will not be filled. Source: I applied to a Cornell-related lab in March. A week after submitting my application the role was rescinded and my contact emailed me explaining the situation.
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by gcr 2y ago
These sound like downstream effects of funding stress to me, no?
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by gcr 2y ago
If the client connects to the database directly, how is access control or cheating handled? UPDATE players SET gold = gold + 500 WHERE id = 12345;
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by gcr 2y ago
It prevents Google from using or adopting it internally. For some “militantly open source” projects, this can be a feature.
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by gcr 2y ago
Why is changing one’s mind when confronted with new evidence a negative signifier of reputation for you?
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by gcr 2y ago
Setting some gentle publication conventions could help a lot with this. For example, requiring two-column or three-column format greatly improves article readability on mobile.
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by gcr 2y ago
A nitpick: uv’s package deduplication means virtualenvs do not take up space unless they have unique dependencies.
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by gcr 2y ago
Idc about him, but I’m curious about the board. Why don’t investors care? Doesn’t the CEO have fiduciary responsibility to not tank the company in a worldwide market? If Sundar or Tim reduced market penetration across EU by 43% they’d get r
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by gcr 2y ago
this is great, thanks!! is there any reason why it inserts multiple-seconds-long awkward pauses into the output? are you seeing that behavior in your example? (on a 2021 M1 Max MBP)
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by gcr 2y ago
I’m starting to think that string-based languages like SQL which mix structure and content are a mistake. Maybe future database systems will only accept queries serialized from protobuf, or JSON (output by a proper serializer)
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by gcr 2y ago
Wasn’t there a ceasefire? Why is Israel going against their own agreement?
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by gcr 2y ago
Why was this flagged?
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by gcr 2y ago
this is a deeply insightful comment, thank you. i worked at a FAANG for six years and this matches my experience. there's a variety of responses: - to burn out. sometimes the flameout is spectacular, other times it's a quiet, lone
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by gcr 2y ago
no worries, quaternions just make the usual rotations. It’s cyclic.
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by gcr 2y ago
I’ve experimented with reflinks and other APFS operations. Here’s a question though: how does this work with transparently compressed files on APFS? In my past experience, using reflinks is fine and using transparent compression is fine, bu
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by gcr 2y ago
Yes, and. Something like 40% of the humanitarian contribution in the world came from USAID, and Thanos just fingersnapped it out of existence last Tuesday. Until that gap is filled, there will be tons of unnecessary suffering. A "more
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by gcr 2y ago
It's because the browser tries to fetch `/words.json` but that isn't JSON, it's the homepage.
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by gcr 2y ago
I've been quite underwhelmed at Copilot's suggestions. Is Claude all that better?
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by gcr 2y ago
Imagine: if you dunk on Elon on Twitter now he could get mad and post your tax return in the replies
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by gcr 2y ago
Seconding this. Bookshop.org is a terrible experience if you want to read on your own eInk device. I had to purchase the book I wanted from a different seller at double the cost.
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by gcr 2y ago
Anecdote: I have a collection of >x,000 DRM-free ebooks that I legally bought/acquired. No piracy. I manage this with Calibre with a physical sync cable and read on an Onyx device. We exist! There might even be dozens of us!
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by gcr 2y ago
Quick! Go to your Amazon account’s “Manage Content and Devices” and “Download or transfer over USB” to save the .azw3 files to your computer. Then, follow instructions to set up Calibre with the De-DRM plugin. Do this before next Wednesday
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by gcr 2y ago
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Would seem like a pretty open-and-shut 1A issue to me. So much government censorship these days.
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by gcr 2y ago
The guy could be caught in the humpback’s mouth for a few seconds instead of actually being fully swallowed. It’s hard to say with the video. We need you, Captain!
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by gcr 2y ago
In what way are they illegal? The EOs only apply to federal agencies and their immediate subcontractors. Wouldn’t interpreting the EO as setting limits on the private sector be government overreach?
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by gcr 2y ago
The point is that it’s worth fighting, not whether the end goal is attainable.
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by gcr 2y ago
Read a little further. It sounds like the author genuinely found some footing for herself. It even raised her expectations of what she needed from the men in her life (someone with confident and clear communication, unlike her previous husb
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by gcr 2y ago
I absolutely do not trust mail tools with a modern website. Tools of this caliber should not be advertised on sites with CSS. When it comes to mail, you don’t want something retail-facing or flashy, you want something that works and doesn’t
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by gcr 2y ago
Is there a version of this with narrower margins? I can’t see well and need larger fonts
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by gcr 2y ago
hey, it's great to see partial support for scheme's continuations (or common lisp's restart system)! that old adage continues to be true: any sufficiently complex web scripting runtime will eventually implement about half of

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