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by julian_1 9y ago
> It used to be that education was something people did for themselves. It is easy to identify exceptions (replication crisis, intrusion of managerial activities), but this motivation also applies at the higher levels - ie phd candidatur
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Are they secure? Do they have undocumented PSP arm cores with dma access?
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4 / 3 would be computed as an integer (eg. 1), before the result is implicitly coerced to float for the rest of the expression calculation? A nice example for debugging, and for understanding the value of languages with better typing d
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by julian_1 9y ago
Marginal utility is a consumption function. By itself, it says nothing about cost or what a producer will do, > In economics, utility is the satisfaction or benefit derived by consuming a product; thus the marginal utility of a good or s
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by julian_1 9y ago
> to which adding one more of something will exceed the cost of doing so. No. That's marginal cost.
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by julian_1 9y ago
> the marginal utility of one glass of water, or one screw in a more complex utility function (as is always the case in life) than for just one widget, I was taught the concept using the water example in undergradudate, and find the anal
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by julian_1 10y ago
Just because evidence was not lawfully obtained (ie. call recorded without other the other party's consent where that is requirement of state statute), doesn't necessarily mean that evidence can't be used to protect yourself
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by julian_1 10y ago
Happily stopped using Docker when they began removing key features - even in the face of widespread user protest , https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/5001
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by julian_1 10y ago
Is it possible to scrape random html5 pages off of the internet and transform them with xslt 2? Or write content/metadata schemas (distinct from a DTD schema that simply describes html5) using XSD? Unlike xhtml, my understanding, was t
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by julian_1 10y ago
No-one could even agree on making HTML5 valid XML - in order to leverage all the tools and knowledge that exist in that space. Not that I even like XML. But having another XML dialect that's not actual XML shows that the only hope is t
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by julian_1 10y ago
> And yet, with JSX we have a gratuitously non-standard dialect of JavaScript that isn't on the standards track and will never be natively supported in browsers. It just gets compiled down to native javascript. JSX is also optional
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Solar-powered 81-hours flight successful: A new endurance world record (2015)(atlantiksolar.ethz.ch)
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by julian_1 10y ago
People also use 23andme and similar services for reasons other than providing health advice.
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This is a frustration of mine. At university they try to install a knowledge of all kinds of crazy languages, before you're ready to appreciate their value and the issues they attempt to address. The most glaring example is probably te
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by julian_1 10y ago
Do you have any suggestions for what to use for a regulator eg. lm2940 - that needs something like 22uF, low ESR on the output pin for stability? MLCCs are expensive and not very available in this capacitance range.
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by julian_1 10y ago
I hate "clever things" as well, but it's worth being precise about what constitutes cleverness in different languages. Dynamic languages - ruby, python, bash, objective C etc - allow all sorts of cleverness - such as monkey p
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by julian_1 10y ago
Please use the funds to implement support for the last two generations of Intel integrated graphics chipsets. Currently, FreeBSD supports neither Broadwell or Skylake and they're probably the most common chipsets used in laptops. sourc
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by julian_1 10y ago
Question - can I simply drop scala into an existing java based maven build? Using something like the scala-compiler plugin https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.scala-lang/scala-comp...
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by julian_1 10y ago
An experiment doesn't 'work out', if it doesn't lead to continued grant funding.
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For me it's because a tiling WM is simpler, more aesthetic and more responsive.
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by julian_1 10y ago
I agree about windows 8 and 10. Around the time of the Gnome versus KDE wars - I felt Windows XP, 7, and Server 2000/2003 were clean simple GUIs. I messed about with Compiz as well and thought it very neat. I was happiest on Linux with
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by julian_1 10y ago
> Gnome went off the rails, Unity completely ruined Ubuntu[1], and KDE always felt very cheap and hard to navigate. Completely agree, and as a user of Desktop Linux for a very long time - I always felt that Linux GUI have been inferior t
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by julian_1 10y ago
Higher gate capacitance of FETs is also a drawback. Often you need a bjt or even dedicated gate-driver IC to drive the gates quickly. The extra pole can also make negative feedback more complicated. And there's less component choice wh
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by julian_1 10y ago
A compiler like gcc will (or at least used to) translate small switch statements into compare/jmp assembler, and larger switch statements into a jump table using indexes/modulos on the test expression. The tipping point for when t
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by julian_1 10y ago
Ironically, I stopped using Western Union ten years ago because of all the completely inappropriate and personal questions they would ask whenever I tried to do a transaction. Questions that I would expect during airline screening and inter
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by julian_1 10y ago
Stronger typesystems are better for production system. They give more guarantees and mean you need to write less unit tests. Rust's sum/algebraic types are a move in the right direction and so is pushing resource usage invariants
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by julian_1 10y ago
It's certainly not an equitable relationship between buyer and seller - and important market information symmetry is lost when a seller cannot rate a bad buyer. But can a seller still leave a text comment to that effect as feedback?
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by julian_1 10y ago
Excellent decision. You only need to look at what happened on reddit in /r/politics or /r/the_donald. The polarization is poison for creating a shared culture for intelligent discussion of topical issues. To be sure - th
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by julian_1 10y ago
Haskell would be a lot easier to manage in production environments if resource-usage was more predicable - meaning strict by default.
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by julian_1 10y ago
I use screen (like tmux) and xmonad. The tiling window-manager is used for longer running GUI apps - webbrowser, pdf/email viewer, CAD etc and for apps that I don't context switch as quickly. Also for handling the dual monitor set

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