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by jefft255 6y ago
Well, of all the other places, either they are a) Haiti, which is its own country b) territories of France c) places where French is dying.
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by jefft255 6y ago
These two issues are orthogonal. But thank you for taking the time to do your usual Québec bashing which you always seem to love doing when you get the chance.
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by jefft255 6y ago
>> There are quite a few other French-speaking places in America and most of them are (or see themselves) under no cultural threat. Well... This reads to me like you're saying something more.
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by jefft255 6y ago
Replying to seszett; You're right, I forgot about Haïti. Don't forget that they are their own country so they are not quite under the same amount of pressure than Québec or other French minorities in NA. Apart from that I don&#x27
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by jefft255 6y ago
Citation needed. French is definitely in decline in Louisiana and some efforts are being put in place https://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/louisiana-french... . Similarly story for New Brunswick as far as I
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by jefft255 6y ago
Ok then I misread what you were trying to say. I wish Bill 101 wasn't abused (like the Italian restaurant scandal thing). Sadly, as with most laws, people will always find a way to twist it...
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by jefft255 6y ago
Yes I understand that you know the intent; but are you suggesting that we shouldn't mandate businesses to hand out some documents in French because a few people you know are assholes? Do you realize that there is a reason that this l
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by jefft255 6y ago
Of all the unintended/bad consequences of bill 101, I’m not sure about this one. Maybe you witnessed something but I’d be surprised if that was a regular thing. Also, depending on the context this could be a very legitimate request; ho
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by jefft255 6y ago
I can second that for Canada; I've ordered at least 4-5 non-essential items in the last month and only one took more than 3-4 days to arrive.
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by jefft255 6y ago
Lot’s of code is simply unmaintained. The guy that wrote it is gone, it’s still running fine so nobody is touching it. Businesses don’t want to take the risk and spend the money to upgrade it. Maybe you don’t realize the insane amount of co
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by jefft255 7y ago
That's the point of the SE. Lots of people loved this design. Not everyone cares that much about bezels (I like mine thin personally however).
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by jefft255 7y ago
I worked professionally with VS doing Windows app development in C++ and I found it super powerful, especially for handling our 20 years old gigantic codebase. I don't get the hate, and I spend most of my days in Emacs nowadays (doing
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by jefft255 7y ago
Right, but they both were Ph.D. students and Brin I think published quite a bit of scientific papers before dropping out.
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by jefft255 7y ago
Eric Schmidt, as in Google's ex-CEO, is the second author of this paper! I didn't know he did any scientific research.
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by jefft255 7y ago
It's funny that you this mention this; Apple recommends Mac Minis for Xcode build farms right on their page! What could be better? A mac pro? An iMac pro would clearly be a waste given the cost of the screen (although some CI for a Win
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by jefft255 7y ago
I submitted my first observation one month ago. Love this stuff, especially given that I collected more than 1000 observations of trees during my masters; I'm now slowly publishing the interesting ones.
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by jefft255 7y ago
He wrote influential software engineering textbooks on patterns, agile development, refactoring and the like. I'm not sure how relevant he is today, but in the 90s the ideas he presented were pretty groundbreaking.
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by jefft255 7y ago
I’m Québécois. Honestly, I’m not aware of any Quebec-specific online resources. If you’re still living in Canada, there’s a good chance that you can get night classes at a University that would be taught by a Quebec expat. Otherwise, I woul
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by jefft255 7y ago
« For CS ». I mean, CS is pretty vast. There are subcategories, finer paper classifications, you can look into. It would still be a high number of paper to look at. You need to learn to skim over a title an abstract in ~30 secs and decide i
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by jefft255 7y ago
Some have been intentionally sensationalist, but the main lesson here is that maps are hard. Both making and reading them.
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by jefft255 7y ago
Honestly the sunlight issue has been variable for me. Velodyne processing seems to deal with that better than robosense.
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by jefft255 7y ago
1.5 mm is really ambitious. This is close to metrology-level precision. I wouldn't look into sensors aimed at robotics/autonomous vehicles. Try Creaform, Riegl stuff, etc... Also what you're trying is far from new so maybe ge
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by jefft255 7y ago
We had some of problem trying Robosense lidars at very cold temperature. Didn't try our Ouster in such conditions to my knowledge. BUT most of the we got good results in temperature much colder than what the lidars were rated for. For
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by jefft255 7y ago
About the airflow thing, there's nothing (to my knowledge) preventing you from changing the shape of the enclosure. It's just going to be bigger.
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by jefft255 7y ago
I just love the name of the journal they're publishing in: "International Journal of Unconventional Computing". That's new to me!!
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by jefft255 7y ago
I enjoyed my complex analysis course quite a bit, but I was lacking motivation a bit because the applications in CS were not as obvious to me, compared to real analysis. Maybe I lacked imagination however :D
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by jefft255 7y ago
Having done a lot of real analysis as an undergrad, my one complex analysis course was fairly different. We spent most of the semester proving stuff that didn’t have any analogue in real analysis. But sure the basics are the same and a lot
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by jefft255 7y ago
Which grad students? In CS the use of these is long gone (at least in the two departments I’ve been in). I wonder how prevalent they still are in physics. But I’m pretty damn sure that physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists all
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by jefft255 7y ago
You can have finite sum of infinite dimensional vectors, this still works...
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by jefft255 7y ago
Meh, at most salaried-type jobs people I know usually take at least one week of leave during the holidays. “Doesn’t exist at all” is pushing it.

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