jpetso

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by jpetso 6y ago
Of course it's not, there's always a better way: https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
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by jpetso 6y ago
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results" The housing market can only grow as far as people are willing and able to pay for. Sure, you may have a few international investors distorting the picture, but for the wider mas
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Milton doesn't necessarily have more capacity or willpower to offer tax breaks than Toronto, and the incentives for companies are stacked. Perhaps decades ago I'd be content with commuting out to the middle of nowhere by car to wo
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by jpetso 6y ago
For diseases where there are just a handful of patients requiring sky-high treatment prices, it would be worth investigating whether society can spread their costs among enough people that the costs are bearable anyway. And 10 people yearly
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by jpetso 6y ago
Quoting the author from the comments: > Yes, the plugins are open source, too. Customers can test what they will get in an online demo which is available on my website. > They get the functionality as well as the code after they bough
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by jpetso 6y ago
It sounds like Linux and BSD both have an implementation for both APIs, only implemented in different ways? If so, I don't much see where the problem is with this solution.
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Yep. Vienna is all mid-rises, basically everywhere throughout the entire city. I imagine that changes the calculus considerably.
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by jpetso 6y ago
The government doesn't generally tax poor people much, so most tax savings benefit those that can better afford life already. The whole purpose of taxes is to take enough from the ones that are still doing okay and redistribute it to s
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by jpetso 6y ago
I may, in less experienced earlier years, have bought a needlessly semi-expensive >$1000 mattress. Even then, after sleeping on it for almost 10 years now, it has amortized pretty well. $100 a year isn't really something to worry ov
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by jpetso 6y ago
Never said they were useless! I also use them all the time. There is, however, only space for two extra keys in the holes of the four-arrow layout.
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by jpetso 6y ago
Well, the Bible says that you shall rest on the seventh day of the week, which in certain religions is known as Sabbath or Shabbat or whatever, which as we all know maps to Saturday. Without having really done the research, I've been a
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by jpetso 6y ago
Bah, humbug. I moved to Canada almost a dodecade ago and despite all person heights and interior design stuff being denominated in imperial units, getting the hang a grasp of any multiples is no more intuitive than in metric units. Metres w
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by jpetso 6y ago
Being able to speak popular languages is in fact often advantageous for the multi-linguist.
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Isn't this basically what's happening nowadays, except on the level of competing digital currencies instead of on the level of competing configurations? Bitcoin, Z-Cash, Stellar, GNU Taler and many more, all of those offer differe
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by jpetso 6y ago
A laptop in this form factor won't be great for gaming even if you put a dedicated GPU inside, there's not enough room for cooling and especially not when replaceable components take up more space. For half-decent laptop gaming, y
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by jpetso 6y ago
They say Intel 11th Gen CPUs, so the particular one will likely be the one that ships with your pick of Tiger Lake SKU. The Xe MAX card is useful for particular niche cases, such as encoding videos with good power efficiency, but because it
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by jpetso 6y ago
This would also suggest that once AMD gets their USB4 act together (hopefully starting with Rembrandt?), Mobile Ryzen should become an option.
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by jpetso 6y ago
This is what makes newer ThinkPad keyboard layouts great at least in terms of arrow keys - the useless icon keys from the GP's posted image are now PgUp/PgDown, meaning you can access at least two out of the four without annoying
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by jpetso 6y ago
Yep. With swappable keyboards, I really hope that they consider an alternative option with trackpoint, trackpoint mouse buttons and full-size arrow keys, perhaps even adjacent PgUp/PgDown keys à la ThinkPad.
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by jpetso 6y ago
Companies have no incentives to improve the economy as a whole when the same time can be spent with a higher ROI on improving the company's own fortunes in particular. Give them the right incentives and only then it'll happen.
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by jpetso 6y ago
New Vector leadership holding key decision-making positions on both Element and Matrix.org could be seen as a distinguishing factor. It feels subjectively like more entanglement than the Mozilla/Gandi combo.
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by jpetso 6y ago
To add to "it's a trade-off": LPDDR4X is not replaceable and allows only 16GB max instead of 32GB for DDR4. However, LPDDR4X also requires half the voltage (0.6V vs. 1.2V) and can offer up to 4267 MT/s of transfer speed
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by jpetso 6y ago
For the X250, I can confirm that it handles the 16GB. Investigated it once, haven't bothered actually upgrading, though.
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by jpetso 6y ago
The trend is not going in the right direction despite the expired patents: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-kills-off-its-TrackPoint-... Add to that the braindead half-size arrow key design of most models (often paired wi
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by jpetso 6y ago
Not a manager, but I find myself thanking people a lot for all kinds of minor things. I'm among the group that hates excessive inflationary praise. Saying thank you, and being thanked, doesn't trigger my bullshit sensor though and
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by jpetso 6y ago
PRC appears to be unpopular with significant numbers of Hong Kong residents and it most definitely didn't look good internationally. That doesn't necessarily stop them from taking power.
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Well, that's one kind of 1%. Then there's the other kind that has enough money and uses it to amass power in domains outside of their core business. Think Koch brothers, George Soros, Rupert Murdoch. Think large donors and Super-P
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by jpetso 6y ago
Thanks for explaining. I was confused by the "no system call on consumption" example in the blog post, but if it uses a system call after emptying the completion queue then that'll work just fine.
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by jpetso 6y ago
Are ready completions strictly determined by continuous polling if there's no system call involved? If lots of applications end up using this method, will it increase power consumption due to many processes actively idling until a new
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by jpetso 6y ago
Now imagine a world where donors can voluntarily give one of two working kidneys to people who need them to survive, and you have a much closer analogy. Still not quite there, but at least not as unnecessarily alarmist.

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