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Remember this incident? Italians deploy fearsome SPY MANNEQUINS to win Fashion Wars (2012) https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/22/bionic_mannequins_are... According to the media at the time, the mannquins qui
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A good smell test for a job that isn't right for you is whether you ask yourself if it is the right job early on, or if you even have thoughts of quitting in the first year/month/week, apart from being overwhelmed by all the
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The notion of a smart contract (as implemented by blockchains like Ethereum) makes the difference between a legal contract and code even smaller: the [Solidity] code IS the (unambiguous) contract.
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That's a great explanation, thanks a lot for sharing it. Some big tech companies affected have laid off teams around the world, perhaps in order to mitigate the numbers looking bad to investors; so in a way, this adversely affected tec
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The Apple ecosystem is polished, but controlling and unforgiving. Tool upgrades are enforced and so are regular hardware upgrades, whether you like it or not. That's hardware that is still working, which Appled decides you will no long
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So Apple gets $99/year PLUS 30% app revenue share? So at a $2.99 "fair" price point as mentioned in the post, how many copies does he have to sell to break even (assuming 4 days of development priced at $2,500/day contra
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The money is not the problem - you want the source code so that if the company disappears, you can still maintain the software. I would prefer to buy from those commercial players that have a clause in their license saying upon sunsetting t
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People complain about big tech, but they use their free services all the time for convenience. I wish more people would self-host or use paid services so that the influence of big tech could decline based on an economic chance of balance; c
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I recommend a 19" Rack (e.g. 2x 1U) with sufficient bays - i.e. 4 or more - (1) so that you can set up a RAID array [1]; and (2) also consider building one NAS for fast access (SSDs, no RAID) and another, larger NAS for protecting agai
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Thanks for sharing, this is a very well-written and useful set of libraries, not just random, but also the other sub-libraries of utl. One caveat: > Note 2: If no hardware randomness is available, std::random_device falls back onto an in
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Compatibility is not a reason for not attempting to realize your proposal. (One just needs a difference namespace from "std" e.g. "lib".)
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Language models are not designed to know things, they are designed to say things - that's why they are called language models and not knowledge models. Given a bunch of words have already been generated, it always ads the next words ba
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The semicolon followed by that very, very important word called "however" are often cruicial in abstracts of scientific papers: turn.sh finds you where the authors of a paper switch to critizizing: #!/bin/sh grep -
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Amazing how Glenn Gould caresses that piano, in a performance that is almost a spiritual act. Apart from geek toys that often cause more hassle and annoyance than they're worth, the most appreciated material things that I purchased in
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Differential GPS is already a cornerstone of precision farming, because on a very lond field harvesting a 2cm border stripe (or not) implies substantially more yield (or not). Whether each cow needs 5G we can debate - but usually once a ser
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Thats for posting about "cow GPS" just as I was looking for further examples for "geofencing" for a book I am writing, apart from FourSquare. ;-)
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Important institutions that one may want to consider include: Open Source and Internet - Internet Archive [important would be some pro bono legal help due to the recent turn of events, perhaps] - Wikipedia [no need at the moment? Som
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I was also wondering that - is the poster the author? In any case Markov chains are a simple and elegant mechanism for making predictions, easy enough to understand so that even school kids at grade eleven (which is where probability theory
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I also wrote a language in which keywords are not reserved, called Leazy, during high school ( https://github.com/jochenleidner/leazy ), but just for fun. It`s arguably a good idea to treat keywords as reserved, in ord
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The Web is primarily for us humans. Don't try take the fun out of life.
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Dublin. 12% VAT tax, in-EU, English-speaking, super-friendly people.
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- pen - paper (especially in the form of A5 paper notebooks used as lab diaries) - reading - listening - writing - drawing - plain text files (together with text editors and UNIX tools) - full text search
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In most areas of law, whatever is not forbidden, is permitted. Licensing law is the opposite: you are not permitted to do anything with a protected work unless you have been granted a prior written license. (exceptions: fair use for scienti
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Nice to see an entirely new category of program, based on the core data type "thought", which is what I would call pre-organized information. A spontaneous thought could become a task or a whole project plan, a project or product,
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Nowadays menus are called "+" or "...". (Enough said.)
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LLMs are part of soft-computing, i.e. contrary to traditional (algortihm-based) computing sometimes things won't get the right result (or, just as bad, the right result in the wrong format). Engineering solutions with LLM is a lot of f
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> my advisor's rule was that you needed to understand the tools you were using at a layer of abstraction below your interface with them. Very wise advice! And the more complex systems are, the more this is truly needed.
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As Kermit the Frog in his Maryland commencement speech said, Jim Henson took people for "what they are": https://www.youtube.com/live/hLFa8zGeotI?feature=shared&t=74... Do NOT "fake it until you make
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The talk is suitable for the target audience, the young undecided. For the rest of us, especially here at HN, it would have been interesting to learn a bit more about how she got to that Fidelity job first and how she then "drifted&quo
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> today are entering a dog eat dog capitalist slugfest where a lucky few winners take all. If you believe that to be true, perhaps it might be worth trying to become one of the few lucky winners. Or come on, learn some Python and take th

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