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by jamessb 6y ago
I don't think it's a good idea to serve a static website out of a Wasabi bucket - they might suspend your account if it receives any significant traffic. Their pricing model is to be cheap by not apply egress bandwidth charges, on
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I think they might be referring to the first embedded YouTube video [1], but this is not from the incident being described: it was uploaded in 2015, and shows Dubai rather than LA. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl
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> Jisti. Can’t dial in. Utterly useless for anyone with bad internet for this reason. You can dial in (at least for a call on https://meet.jit.si - I don't about self-hosted instances). Click the person symbol ('Inv
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The authors created Bertifier (project page [1], demo [2], paper [3]); the paper has comparisons to other tools. There was a paper at IEEE VIS last year ("Guiro: User-Guided Matrix Reordering" [4]) about a tool that implemented &g
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by jamessb 6y ago
Was it "How I write backends" [1] (previously posted to HN [2])? [1]: https://github.com/fpereiro/backendlore [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22106482
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> But it should be noted that COVID19 is an RNA virus. Its a stray piece of RNA floating around in the air, without any cell walls, cell membranes, or other apparatus for protection It is not true that a SARS-CoV-2 virion is just a &quot
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I'm not sure why the link is to the Portugese version of the page. The link is currently: https://marinetraffic24.com/pt/vesselfinder/ The English language page is: https://marinetraffic24.com&#x2F
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That is the default, but it depends what your employment contract says. The relationship between a university and its academic staff is not quite a typical employer/employee relationship: academics have much more freedom to choose what
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The AMS uses LaTeX for typesetting. They release packages for their other journals [1], but not Notices , which apparently [2] uses Lucia Bright, a font that is not free. [1]: https://www.ams.org/arc/journals/jour
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Here's one preprint: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kP2w_uTMSep2UxTCOnUhh1TM... ("A Massively Parallel COVID-19 Diagnostic Assay for Simultaneous Testing of 19200 Patient Samples") I think Figu
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by jamessb 6y ago
Discussion from 8 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22866284
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> This is cool although for practical purposes, I think most people who need such a tool will not be using Haskell Many people writing documents as text files use Pandoc, which is one of the most popular tools written in Haskell.
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> founded and quickly after conquered the internet with its search engine and internet browser Google didn't release the first version of Chrome until 2008, 10 years later.
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There was a Show HN for this project 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22772800 There have also been other similar projects discussed recently: * Spatial Video Chat: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by jamessb 6y ago
There is a more detailed interactive map of critical care bed capacity created by researchers at Konstantz University. Visualization: https://coronavis.dbvis.de/en/ Press release (English): https://www.campu
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by jamessb 7y ago
If you who want copies of classics in "math and science" you should be looking for reprints by Dover Publications, rather than Penguin Classics.
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> Plus, how could you taste the toppings? How do you taste the filling in a sandwich?
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"Donald Tufte" - I think you mean Donald Knuth and/or Edward Tufte.
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The department of Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has put out a call for business that could help to supply ventilators or ventilator components [1]. Large manufacturers including Vauxhall and Airbus are apparently p
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It describes an important architectural feature of SQLite. Also, this page was first written in 2007 (or perhaps earlier) [1], long before 'serverless' was applied to things like Amazon Lambda. [1]: https://web.archive.
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by jamessb 7y ago
I disagree with both of you: having "learnt a lot of existing knowledge" is explicitly required; and the PhD does not just certify "depth and breadth" of knowledge - it also certifies that you have made an original
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Yes. It is definitely possible to do a PhD part-time: many universities offer part-time PhD programs, and I know people who have done this. Doing it part-time and remotely is harder: even if a university allows this, an individual academi
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> It is true that I did not know about “intellectual property,” but even if I had, that would not have helped. . . But what if I want to go around quoting Hamlet and claiming the words as my own? In that case, there’s no issue of depriv
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For databases, there was a 2016 VLDB paper that suggested using 'write-behind logging' as an alternative to traditional 'write-ahead logging' that is "designed for a hybrid storage hierarchy with NVM and DRAM":
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Google's engineering practice documentation has a section on 'The Standard of Code Review': https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/stand... It includes this important rule: >
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by jamessb 7y ago
See this (97 page) review "Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning": https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05433 You might also find Bret Victor's "What can a technologist do about climate change?"
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by jamessb 7y ago
It seems the user created this because they thought that Postman required too many resources as an Electron app. I'm not sure why they didn't just use a commandline tool (e.g. httpie [1]) that would work with any API, rather than
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19190153
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> that's the whole reason they got rid of Google Maps Is it? It was widely reported at the time (e.g., [1, 2]) that they were getting rid of Google Maps and creating Apple Maps because Google wanted to keep spoken turn-by-turn direc
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There was a similar incident in 2001: > Amazon messes up a 'Buy this camera and get that bag free" promotion to be "Buy this bag and get that camera free." As a result you can get a $350 Minolta Maxxum SLR for $40. h

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