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by jobigoud 6y ago
I'm fine with them adding optional social stuff. People have different interests. But why does it have to be mandatory? It doesn't make sense. They paint it as something to facilitate social, well yes, let people login with thei
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by jobigoud 6y ago
When you do something competitively it decouples the activity from the original use. Just like a Pole vault champion is not really interested in being able to reach the second floor with a stick. In this sense the fact that the words have t
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by jobigoud 6y ago
> We can read, and write in Hebrew but have no idea what it means I don't think that matches the definition of "can read" of most people. Maybe you can pronounce Hebrew, but "being able to read a given lamguage"
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Many sports & activities feel like this at high level. An athlete will train everyday and build muscle memory in order to jump over a bar placed as high as possible. A chess player, a football player, etc. Highly specialized skills that
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by jobigoud 6y ago
> If you're paranoid, definitely use a throwaway email for the opt out. If this worked then anyone could opt out anyone else, which some people would object to. I think that's the loophole they use to force you to provide even
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by jobigoud 6y ago
> On its face it seems trivial To me it seems completely impossible. How exactly do you expect to replace the missing information? Statistically from the neighboring pixels or frames? That works if your goal is to make an image prettier,
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Also she was conducting "interviews" with us to assess better what was and what wasn't R&D in our tasks, so once in a while we would spend an hour not doing any productive work. Yes post-thesis are more valuable, includin
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by jobigoud 6y ago
I can confirm. At my previous job we were about 20 employees and we had one person dedicated to this. Grants for R&D, so her work was to make the paperwork explaining and documenting why it was R&D. Also there was another gov help t
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by jobigoud 6y ago
> there are no supernova candidates near enough to have that strong an effect. Don't we have blind spots though? Like in the direction of the center of the galaxy or behind bright stars?
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by jobigoud 6y ago
It's also a terrible decision for the other uses of VR, escapism, porn, games… For escapism, you don't want to be constantly reminded of the real world. For the other uses you don't want your real life friends and family to
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by jobigoud 6y ago
> Uber and AirBnB have revealed that the Western World is far more lawless than we had imagined. I think we discovered that around 2000 with Napster, Kazaa, etc.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Per use maybe but what about per byte?
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Different experience here. I live in a touristy town on the south west coast of France, I've never seen so many people. It's very crowded. Granted it's the peak of the peak season right now but I think there's at least 1
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Why would it not though, since there is a pathway between the eyes and the nasal cavity via the nasolacrimal duct?
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by jobigoud 6y ago
I think he means we simply never heard about the employees that said the same thing about other planes because they didn't crash. These were highlighted after the fact.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
What does one gain by doing this? Is there a particular incentive apart from one's own principles?
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Another use case is when you want to watch a video without the audio to avoid bothering the people around. Auto closed captions quality depend on the language and the locutor. It works well for "presentation" content like vlogs an
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by jobigoud 6y ago
So that's not a problem in JSON. Why can't the library output nullptr?
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by jobigoud 6y ago
We say CIA as say-ee-ah, but we say FBI the American way as eff-bee-ay. I've also never heard anyone say peep-leen though. Sent through my oui-fee.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Day-to-day language favors short words though, English is good at that. Do people in Canada really use "coussin-à-gonfler"? It's a mouthful and sounds weird. Also why not "coussin gonflable" or "coussin d'
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Haha! Wow, the part where there is a device down the pipe that acts as a mini laboratory, analyzes the fecal matter passing through, and sends you medical alerts on your smartphone… I could totally see this exist in the future. Identificati
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by jobigoud 6y ago
And Yahoo Pipes, to build your custom feed by taking multiple RSS feeds and building a graph with filters, split and merge.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
What about ear and retina? Are these purely sci-fi at this point?
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Can an intelligent human recognize faces without failure when the person wears a mask?
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by jobigoud 6y ago
This is why working from home is so much better for one's quality of life and mental health. Wake up when your body has rested enough. 0-minute commute. No dead time where you fake-work or time where you are not working anymore but can
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by jobigoud 6y ago
They don't link to the study but they say 221 hours per year and since there is about 220 working days per year, I think the 59 minutes figure is per day, not for each way to/from work. So about 30 minutes one-way. The US study sa
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by jobigoud 6y ago
You have a call with the team every few days where you have to describe what you've done and what you are going to do next. This helps keeping you in check.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Plus the cost of rewriting the project with a different dependency.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
I was also thinking something like this. GPT-3 should be the internal monologue, the subconscious soup of words constantly exploring random thought alleys, and there should be another layer on top of it to bridge it with the outside.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic https://floating-point-gui.de/

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