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by gumby 2y ago
One of the most effective presidents since Johnson or Truman. But he did campaign on a single term. Let’s hope the Dem’s circular firing squad puts down its guns so they can quickly concentrate on winning the election with someone … probab
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by gumby 2y ago
Then the senate would refuse to approve a VP replacement. Remember that leading up to counting the electoral votes loose-lipped GOP senators were saying that Pence (the VP) wouldn’t be counting the days electoral votes? How do you think t
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by gumby 2y ago
It doesn’t undergo the phonetic process of umlaut , Don, and as it’s a vowel the two dots are more like a simple diaeresis. It is used in that way in French too.
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by gumby 2y ago
It was actually ſ+z, which is easier to see if you look at it in Fraktur, and is literally the name of the character. I have long been puzzled by how its romanization became „ss“. In older writing ‘s’ was just the terminal form of ‘ſ’ — i
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by gumby 2y ago
A fun thought, but really Iust a reading error from someone ho didn’t know that i and j used to be variant forms of the same letter.
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by gumby 2y ago
> Guarding against it anyway is like guarding against someone passing a destroyed object to you - it just doesn't make sense to. It doesn’t make sense to do so intentionally, but that’s a classic dangling-pointer/use-after-free
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by gumby 2y ago
Those EUV lasers are themselves insanely crazy, and unlike the semiconductors they are part of producing, the EUV gear has lots of expensive short-lived consumables — like mirrors!
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by gumby 2y ago
Ever had a bug in code you wrote?
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by gumby 2y ago
It switched them from CRLF to \n?
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by gumby 2y ago
People talk about using LLMs to write code, but is there any work on using RNNS (perhaps LLMs) to explain what a piece of code does? Seems like that might be a good feature for a debugger.
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by gumby 2y ago
> I would say the government is at fault here for prohibiting competition, not the companies. We should be naming and shaming the companies that choose the immoral path. That does happen sometimes, but over the last 40 years the US seem
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by gumby 2y ago
As another commenter said, the film was trying to make the opposite point: that Irons’ character knew full well — probably better than the other characters — what was going on. But the detachment you mention can / is very important.
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by gumby 2y ago
These algos are part of a process, so subject to the same kind of treatment. The car was a "black box" as far as its social impact when introduced, yet we managed to figure it out. And a lot of forensic techniques, like fingerpri
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by gumby 2y ago
This actually works fine in the USA where I live now. In the few letters I actually send I usually simply write the person's or company's name and the post code (zip code). This postal trivia is becoming more amusing all the time
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by gumby 2y ago
What bothers me is what seems to be some sort of psychological distinction between "algorithm" and "process". The cops* have had processes for years, some of which are sensible and useful and some of which are seemingly
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by gumby 2y ago
Apparently police never made mistakes before algorithms were introduced. Everybody knows that, silly!
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by gumby 2y ago
Back when Australia decided to require street addresses my grandmother decided to simply ignore it. I suppose this was the late 50s or early 60s. She continued to use her house name on all letters and official forms well into the late 199
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by gumby 2y ago
You can run GNU MUMPS, written by Harlan Stenn who now maintains NTP
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by gumby 2y ago
There was a paper on this in the late 70s from the Cedar group at PARC. This was back when computer science papers were actual scientific papers, so full of analysis of different alogorithms' performance with counted vs delimited stri
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by gumby 2y ago
TBF AEthelstan may have had internal control, but his reign still waged continuous warfare against Danish invasion, a conflict that continued for almost another century, until Harold Godwinson finally repelled them permanently in 1066. Sa
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by gumby 2y ago
The distribution grid did not do as well — lots of outages in the sierras and points north.
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by gumby 2y ago
We have a system that works well for our small founding team. Normally I am pretty hardcore that meetings need an agenda (can be loose) and intended outcome when the meeting invitation is sent out , or else I don’t attend. BUT our small fo
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by gumby 2y ago
This is good advice. In the first case she’s just sitting at home alone while in the second she’s out building her network. A gift that can change her life.
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by gumby 2y ago
its not uncommon for the founder to buy the IP out of bankruptcy for some token amount, since the technical ip of a filed company is pretty much unusable by anyone who doesn’t know the code base. I’ve never seen such a company successfully
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by gumby 2y ago
This approach was cleverly used by a PC company in the 80s/90s, Packard Bell. That brand had been a radio company from the depression into the late 60s, when the company failed. When PCs were starting to take off, parents of boomers w
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by gumby 2y ago
Exactly.
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by gumby 2y ago
An important part of my suggestion was the normalized output, not the advertising data the mfr provides. The nutrition labels are pretty good (though sometimes the serving size is bogus — that should be normalized by the program). Also the
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by gumby 2y ago
> imho it comes from western states not simply rounding them up. And the supreme court says they should go ahead and do so. After all, there's no discrimination: the police can round up anyone sleeping under a bridge, whether poor
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by gumby 2y ago
Let’s not forget that in some ways remote meetings are superior to in person (this is not to ignore the problems with remote meetings). One thing I like is that remote meetings can have automatic transcripts and recordings which in person o
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by gumby 2y ago
Great idea. Wish I’d heard it years ago.

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