jbarrs

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by jbarrs 5y ago
Working on a modular archiving tool that, so long as an appropriate archiving "kernel" has been written, will be able to archive files from compatible URLs without the end user needing to care which tool is used or how it's d
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by jbarrs 6y ago
Yes I totally understand, and I don't think you've detracted from the others at all. The more resources are available, and the more accessible they are for different learners and different styles of learning, the better.
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by jbarrs 6y ago
As an aside, I'd like to recommend to people the Cambridge Latin Course ( https://www.cambridgescp.com/ ) This was the course I followed learning Latin in school. Whilst it may be tailored more towards a school audience,
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by jbarrs 6y ago
By the end of the article I was really starting to wonder whether this was just marketing
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by jbarrs 6y ago
I am not a manager, so I am merely speculating here, but I suspect measuring productivity is important in determining which employees are of most value to the company (who is pulling their weight, so to speak), particularly for example in t
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by jbarrs 6y ago
I feel like this largely depends on the book. A novel between $10 and $20 that you may get multiple reads out of is better than a $100 university textbook that you only need for one year. The former you can bite the bullet on, the latter be
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by jbarrs 6y ago
My only gripe with this is that I'm never sure what the structure inside an archive is like until I inspect it. It's not a massive inconvenience but I don't like extracting to a new directory just to find it empty save for an
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by jbarrs 6y ago
According to a relative who's worked in the industry most of his life, the carbon footprint just from manufacturing and disposing of batteries for electric vehicles is not compensated by the decreased emissions. I think the lifetime is
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by jbarrs 6y ago
I'd like to give an alternative perspective on SymPy. Whilst I'm not familiar with Mathematica, and therefore cannot draw parallels between the two, I've used SymPy for a number of years and found it to be really useful. I wa
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by jbarrs 6y ago
I feel like emulation will always be catching up with the latest systems, though running some modern AAA game in a virtual machine would probably need a super beefy PC (though we could probably expect that to be available by the time that b
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by jbarrs 6y ago
archive.org seems to have a copy of this article https://web.archive.org/web/20201230222606/https://www.polis... EDIT: the other article linked is unavailable in the EU because of GDPR. Thankfully, archi
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by jbarrs 6y ago
Perhaps we could use something like this? https://github.com/TheApeMachine/cloudtube
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by jbarrs 6y ago
In fairness, I can't imagine "classics" garnering anywhere near the watch times of a new show. Whilst you'll get some new viewers from the people who've heard it's a classic or those showing their kids a movie
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by jbarrs 6y ago
>Even though it goes against the basic premise of human-centered design, users have to train themselves to understand when an intelligent assistant will be useful and when it’s better to avoid using it. I find this is one of the truest t
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by jbarrs 6y ago
That's essentially just an approximation. In some problems it can be useful to model the electron as having a finite radius, but our current understanding is that particles like electrons are literally infinitesimal points. In that cas
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Small generators to allow low-power systems to run on a temperature gradient(u-tokyo.ac.jp)
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by jbarrs 6y ago
Influencing a coin flip is certainly possible. If you can reliably flip it the same way each time it's not hard to get 5-10 heads in a row, with a little practice.
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Choon: An esolang programmed with sheet music(gwern.net)
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