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jhugo
5y ago
at least fix the spelling mistake: devolping -> developing
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jhugo
5y ago
New Zealand (maybe Australia too?) has a solution for that in informal speech: yous!
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jhugo
5y ago
They said the training set distribution . It's frankly impossible that they have a training set without any biases, though I'm sure they worked to eliminate the ones they could think of (which itself would have bias).
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jhugo
5y ago
> - It would be nice to improve our antiquated language. I’m thankful that other people have the time and expertise to work on this. Language constantly evolves through use, and historically this has worked very well. Why is it suddenly
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jhugo
5y ago
Many (most?) large airlines take cargo directly like this. It's not so much "check your bag and don't board" as it is "consign this cargo shipment" which happens to be taken on the same aircraft as passengers a
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jhugo
5y ago
It is that straightforward in most countries — I've done this exact thing many times. You save a lot of money, but you can sometimes waste a lot of time, and if your shipment is at all complicated you need quite a bit of specialist kno
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jhugo
5y ago
Could you sue them? Sure. Would you win? Probably not. The board would likely make a compelling case that the long-term effect of lacing burgers with cocaine is a net loss for shareholders given the inevitable reputational harm, lawsuits, p
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jhugo
5y ago
The loans have different risk characteristics than his equity stake, he balances risk by deciding how much of his own money to put in vs. how much borrowed money to put in. (There is no doubt a ceiling — how much of his own money he is abl
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jhugo
5y ago
You don't know that there is a 21 billion shortfall. The source of funds for his intended equity stake is unknown to us at this point. It could be his imagination (especially given his history with the phrase "funding secured"
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jhugo
5y ago
You don't know that those are the largest loans he was able to get. They might just be the largest loans he wanted to get.
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jhugo
5y ago
By asking the board to remove it. If faced with a serious tender offer backed by financing and accepted by a majority of shareholders, the board would find it difficult not to allow it to go ahead (by removing the poison pill). That doesn&#
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jhugo
5y ago
> Frankly shame on YouTube for allowing the video to remain on their platform I was nodding until this bit... why do you think YouTube should censor this? It's a real video of a real thing that he did (which he misrepresents the cir
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jhugo
5y ago
Didn't sound like blame to me. The reality we live in has too many cars, too fast cars, too large cars. The kid lives in that reality now and probably won't get a chance to be a kid in a different reality. Therefore, it would be a
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jhugo
5y ago
Although by the numbers the roads in India are certainly much less safe than e.g. the US, it's not as unsafe as it looks for people who are used to it. Along with other countries with 'chaotic' roads, staying safe on the road
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jhugo
5y ago
I like the idea, but I threw in a bunch of test queries and it only seems to find cafes in places where it's easy to find cafes to work from (and thus the site is not really needed). In all the cities where I remember struggling to fin
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jhugo
5y ago
The article lists a number of reasons for leaving Turkey that are unrelated to money.
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jhugo
5y ago
In several English-speaking countries "guys" is not at all gendered (used universally by people of any gender to refer to groups of people of any gender), while "y'all" and "folks" are basically just not i
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jhugo
5y ago
That doesn't require you to deliberately assign a new IP every time the router reboots, it just requires you to be able to re-use IPs without an active DHCP lease. In practice customers don't usually turn their routers off for v
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jhugo
5y ago
> However, claiming that "basically all" IPs are multiplexed is definitely wrong. A home or small office broadband line typically gets a dynamic-but-ephemerally-unique IP, same as it always did. IPs assigned to homes and small
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jhugo
5y ago
AFAIK their policy is to block IPs that "obscure individual users". Another commenter quoted: > Communities typically block edits from IP addresses that obscure individual users. Surely they are aware that this is basically all
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jhugo
5y ago
There is a standard protocol for audio (and other realtime media) over an IP network: RTP. But your problem doesn't have anything to do with a lack of standards; Amazon has no incentive to just let you send RTP to the Echo Dot on a por
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jhugo
5y ago
> It's hard for me to square the price he's offering with the promises he's making about Twitter's potential profitability. Those promises are predicated on him owning it though. I'm doubtful of Twitter's LT
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jhugo
5y ago
Yup, after the first series of outages (which were much worse for us in Asia than for companies in the US, because it seemed that nobody at GitHub noticed everything was down until the US woke up) we moved all our code hosting from GitHub t
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jhugo
5y ago
It probably depends what sort of software your company builds. A frontend web design shop might well have developers who have little or no relevant experience for self-hosting something like Gitlab.
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jhugo
5y ago
Your mention of APT suggests to me that you're trying to maintain a stable deployment on a pet server, whereas GP's mention of Terraform suggests they've built some sort of pipeline for repeatable deployment. GP's approa
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jhugo
5y ago
Well, 20% headroom on a badly optimised workload that can't make full use of the GPU seems decent. Run some better code and you'll need that 20%. As covered in other comments, the thread author has no idea what they're writin
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jhugo
5y ago
"Journalist" might be a bit strong? He is clearly pretending to have a much deeper understanding of the subject than he does, meanwhile throwing around accusations of design flaws...
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jhugo
5y ago
Most of your points are entirely fair, and my experience may have been unique (lived in the centre of a succession of European cities and used trains extensively throughout Europe for many years). Not every train is easy to work on, but wit
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jhugo
5y ago
Sleeper trains change the calculus a little, because you can sleep as you travel. While they're a foreign concept to many people, they are reasonably popular in Europe — not just among railfans — and in many parts of Asia are a very ty
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jhugo
5y ago
> If you changed std, and also banned 3rd party libraries code from using unsafe you could probably make the system secure. But I'm worried that the rust community might not be willing to pay that cost for extra security. Anyone wil
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