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by gspetr 6y ago
>Why not architecture, or dress, or food All of these have a very limited use as a means of conveying information, mostly because the medium itself is static. > or religion? Funny you would mention religion. Christianity, Islam and Ju
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by gspetr 6y ago
>If that was true, we'd all be speaking latin. Thank god for language preservation, otherwise, we wouldn't have shakespeare, mark twain and the world's most productive language. I'm not sure this is a compelling argum
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by gspetr 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Ethiopia "During the Italian rule, infrastructure to connect major cities, railways, public and private companies, and dams providing power and water were built; this along wi
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by gspetr 7y ago
I believe this is a problem that CS has already solved: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~graham/pubs/papers/cmsoft.pdf The Count-Min Sketch is a data structure consisting of a fixed array of counters. This is a sho
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Employees of digital media outlets worry stock options are worthless(businessinsider.com)
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by gspetr 7y ago
I understand your point, but I think the context is more of "They can't even handle a fizzbuzz level problem" and not come up with something quite naive (i.e. something like naive RegEx matching), rather than "they can&#
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by gspetr 7y ago
Good point. To indemnify youself from this type of data loss, change math.log10() to np.log10() and use Decimal() for tasks involving precise number crunching. EDIT: Setting Decimal module's precision manually via getcontext() may be r
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by gspetr 7y ago
> CPU cycles were basically free for engineers. So what happened to a guy who had the bright idea to do CPU mining on Google's infra?
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by gspetr 7y ago
Yep, the good old "build it and they'll come" trap for the naive engineer that I've stepped into myself. Thankfully, having read Rob Walling's book now I know that marketing comes before code: https://new
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by gspetr 7y ago
Isn't this exactly the case where you could have avoided this hassle entirely had you shelled out some cash for ECC memory?
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by gspetr 7y ago
This is what you are looking for: https://github.com/ivmirx/awesome-remote-job
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by gspetr 7y ago
There is a very easy workflow remedy for this, if DDG is your default search engine: type "!py [topic]" For example, I tried searching for "python lists" in my address bar (DDG is my default) and I got all sorts of garba
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by gspetr 7y ago
I agree with your point, but there's also a further nuance, as people can, and often do really stretch the definition as long as it fits their agenda. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-white-hispanic_n_3588744 &q
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by gspetr 7y ago
Most of the latter are interested in expelling those they don't consider their own, violence to most of them is just a means to an end, otherwise "go back" or "send them back" would not have been their rallying cry.
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by gspetr 7y ago
None of the above mentions race. Unless you want to define any territorial conflict between 2 sides as always based on race, when race is only incidental to other differences. The Rwandan genocide was same race, but different ethnicities. B
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by gspetr 7y ago
If you wish to deplatform based on broadcasting a killer's message then a lot (probably almost all) of newspapers would have to be closed. Consider Zodiac killer's letters or Breivik's manifesto. If copycat killers arise sayi
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by gspetr 7y ago
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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by gspetr 7y ago
from darklang.com: "Dark is currently in private alpha." That's probably the primary reason why there's little to no info.
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by gspetr 7y ago
Are you at liberty to elaborate what the discarded longer challenge was?
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by gspetr 7y ago
Age is a proxy for putting value into such concepts as "ethics". When you're more or less senior and have your basic needs met, then you can afford to be picky on what you work. Fresh grads might not care because it takes to
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by gspetr 7y ago
> There's really nothing to celebrate by glorifying the different ways a human body can be destroyed. I'll reiterate a part of my comment I left in a different subthread: If you have a problem with violence, Mortal Kombat shoul
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by gspetr 7y ago
If you wanted to be a surgeon, and you couldn't handle the inevitable blood (real blood mind you, not pixels on a monitor/TV) how on Earth should hospitals have adapted to your special needs as a worker? As sibling commenters have
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by gspetr 7y ago
Efficient Anti-satellite weapons are low-tech if we are talking about space-to-space combat. Heck, I read an article in Russian that argued that bows+arrows or catapults/ballistae could be efficient weapons when compared to lasers that
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by gspetr 7y ago
The Soviets had vast presence in Europe and were credible ideological opponents. China is contained in South East Asia and poses no ideological threat to the West.
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by gspetr 7y ago
The problem with that is, there are credible sightings from quite a while ago, before drones really took off, not to mention the speed, acceleration and size of the "drones" are far superior to any drone. https://en.wik
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by gspetr 7y ago
I use it because I'd rather tell Google than my government, which is not on friendly terms with either US or Google.
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by gspetr 7y ago
Krugman? He is not credible: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/elec... "If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never." When someone cannot ge
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by gspetr 7y ago
It should be, given the potential loss is about a Grand per hive: "We estimate about a $1,000 per hive — which includes the cost of the future pollination, the honey crop, packaged bees as well," said John Klepps, a hive quality a
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by gspetr 7y ago
The parent was probably talking about this paper: https://csyhua.github.io/csyhua/hua-ipdps2018.pdf Here are a few more (somewhat) related to this topic: 1.Joe Grand, “Advanced Hardware Hacking Techniques”, Defcon 12
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by gspetr 7y ago
NoScript and uBlock Origin have stopped working. This opens up a LOT of attack surface for malicious hackers. If this isn't a critical security issue, what is?

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