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by jsty 7y ago
I don't particularly disagree. My point was more that given what the authors wrote in the quoted sentence, I thought that - rightly or wrongly - was likely the reasoning behind the naming decision.
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Probably because they don't want people talking cross-purposes or confusing their proposals with what is implemented in other languages, as they call out in the intro: "As the term generic is widely used in the Go community, we wi
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by jsty 7y ago
"No documentation" seems a bit harsh - there's a Getting Started guide in docs/ [0] and fairly good commenting on the interfaces in public/ [1] [0] https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/
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Was there no labs / project component that you needed to do lab reports or academic paper-style writeups for? I did joint Maths-Physics which was mostly theoretical and still had a fair amount of (technical) writing to do as part of my
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by jsty 7y ago
I saw IKEA launched some 'smart blinds' a couple of days ago, and this [0] review mentions timers [0] https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/3865106-3865106
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by jsty 7y ago
[Warning: attempt at taking joke seriously] Surely if this were so, it would mean you'd see fewer mentions of spaced repetition over time, rather than more? (assuming your comment implies having seen more than usual recently)
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I'd note that the relevant definition of publish isn't the common-sense use (i.e. make available publicly), but merely "the communication of the defamatory matter to a third person" [0]. Indeed the first link in my prior
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by jsty 7y ago
The UK has famously strict libel laws, and notably the burden of proof is on the defendant to prove the truth of their defamatory speech. https://www.burnetts.co.uk/publications/blogs/libel-and-slan... https:&#x2
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by jsty 7y ago
Perhaps I'm unusual in this regard, but in the context of software I'd interpret 'plans' as shorthand for 'pricing plans'. I certainly can't recall having regularly seen 'plan' substituted for &#
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by jsty 7y ago
IANAL It looks like he was hired as a contractor to work on their internal systems (i.e. the spreadsheet) rather than licensing a product to them. If as is likely the bank owned the spreadsheet, he's purposefully modified it without pe
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by jsty 7y ago
Use of the term in searches seems to have picked up quite a bit over the past couple of years, so might not have been in such common use ~3yrs ago: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
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Looks like go is mostly used in a graphics package (platform_external_skia): https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=org%3Aaosp-mirror...
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by jsty 7y ago
Are those not two different kinds of models though? For self-driving cars, the most important city models and those to which the Ford CEO was referring would surely be high-precision records of the physical layout of the city. Whereas the m
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Iran 'seizes British-flagged oil tanker'(bbc.co.uk)
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NSO spyware ‘targets Big Tech cloud services’(ft.com)
20 points by jsty 7y ago|3 comments
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> The Chinese firm is a member of an American organization called the OpenPower Foundation, which was founded by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation.” So the link is all three happen to be members of an
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by jsty 7y ago
There's quite a trend for new 'Corporate HQ' buildings to incorporate this kind of stuff to burnish their environmental credentials - e.g. Bloomberg's new London HQ [0]. If you're just a development company building
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by jsty 7y ago
There's a few good examples in this article [0] by Barron's, but amongst the access to not-widely-available investments mentioned by other posters, there's a general desire to understand the client as a person rather than a d
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by jsty 7y ago
For at least some of the lessons there are pretty comprehensive notes / transcripts linked in the column on the right. E.g. for https://course.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=2 there is https://github.com/h
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Silicon Valley’s answer to the housing crises? Charging $1,200 for a bunk bed(theguardian.com)
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by jsty 7y ago
No, it's a "grant to Mattermost and to recipients of software distributed by Mattermost a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publi
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by jsty 7y ago
However much we technical people might salivate at the prospect of designing a multi-cloud solution, for the vast majority of businesses it simply isn't worth the cost / complexity. I'd wager 90-something percent of applicati
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by jsty 7y ago
> Oracle's filing said that US "warfighters and taxpayers have a vested interest in obtaining the best services through lawful, competitive means... Instead, DoD (with AWS's help) has delivered a conflict-ridden mess in wh
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> If so, who is going to fund it? Considering the difficulty outlined in the article is in optimising the more 'cutting-edge' approaches (i.e. those without manually optimised kernels), there are numerous AI research centres (i
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If you want a non-mathematician friendly introduction, "Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers" [0] is a good place to start. For a motivating application, chapter 2 walks through using probabilistic programmin
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by jsty 7y ago
If it is a weird definition, it's a well-recognised one. Take the second sentence of the relevant Wikipedia page: "A country may be an independent sovereign state or part of a larger state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign
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by jsty 7y ago
> Why isn't the price to the NHS slightly higher, also in part to fund research? The NHS (via NICE) sets a standard amount that it is prepared to pay for any treatment based on the QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Years) it results in.
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by jsty 7y ago
If it's baked into an iMac / Mac Pro, what proportion of the potential market are actually going to delve that deeply into the components? I'd wager probably single digit %.
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by jsty 7y ago
> Especially screams should be farely easy to detect I guess it depends how reliably it could determine between ordinary screaming (especially with children who scream at just about anything that makes them happy or unhappy), and 't
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by jsty 7y ago
Very true. I probably should've caveated that I don't actually think it's a good name choice, just that I doubt it was chosen to mislead / as an attack on (lib)curl. Given my own uselessness with naming things sometimes,

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