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by k_sze 6y ago
Or the Singularity will be much worse than we thought... or much more hilarious.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I see what you did there.
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by k_sze 6y ago
For me, the most interesting part is the fact that there are armv7 and arm64 builds now. So we can like, give our kids an rpi4 with 8 GB RAM and they get a proper IDE for real programming languages, not just Scratch.
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by k_sze 6y ago
A bit off-topic, but when you think about it, it’s interesting how our vocabulary is shaped by gravity. I mean, why “vertically aligned” and not “horizontally aligned”, right? It’s not like the performance of the battery actually changes if
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by k_sze 6y ago
Which is gaming the system, if you ask me. Cracking coding interviews would be considered “overfitting” in statistical learning parlance. You may ace the interview, but for most people the performance at coding interviews has no correlation
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by k_sze 6y ago
What do you use to convert pdf to epub?
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by k_sze 6y ago
Odd. Your problem might be caused by badly formatted epubs? I'm using Calibre 5.0.0 on Ubuntu and I have no problem with a Chinese novel epub in vertical layout. The mouse cursor even turns sideways for selecting text and I can use t
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by k_sze 6y ago
The ability to highlight and browse the highlights is HUGE. It makes Calibre really useful for language learning (e.g. by reading novels). I can now highlight new vocabulary or idioms and see them in context when I need to, without me havin
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by k_sze 6y ago
Not Docker, obviously. :) “Look, the cabinet did not break down in my living room. So I’ll ship you the cabinet with the whole living room together.”
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by k_sze 6y ago
Did the kernel panic look like a BSoD or a macOS kp as well? :P
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by k_sze 6y ago
The other day I learned about a thing called “trade dress” while reading up on the seizure of the OnePlus earbuds as “counterfeit Apple AirPods” by the US Customs. And now I’m wondering how all these theming things that make one OS look lik
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by k_sze 6y ago
Don’t sell your wife on it. Sell your wife for it.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Instead of burning in place, could the plants be chopped down and used as fuel to generate electricity?
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by k_sze 6y ago
Would it help if mail clients can be configured with a list of e-mail addresses or domains that are known to prefer plain text, and then automatically warn the user and suggest to switch to plain text? Arguably such mail clients can come wi
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by k_sze 6y ago
I think the comparisons could also use some normalization with respect to per capita income (mean, mode, median?). 1 USD in the US doesn't mean the same thing as 1 USD in China. From the consumers' perspective, it's about aff
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by k_sze 6y ago
I think it depends on which camp you're in: - the camp that believes pay should be proportional to the value produced; or - the camp that believes pay should be proportional to the effort put in.
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by k_sze 6y ago
French is actually a significant language in Cincinnati? I've never been there and it isn't exactly close to the Ontario or Quebec provinces of Canada.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Unfortunately it seems that it's not an international release. You need to buy a ticket from one of the participating venues, and then your virtual screening would be limited to the country of the venue. I live in Hong Kong, so I'
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by k_sze 6y ago
Hours are also not necessarily a good measure of contribution. A good developer can put in 1 hour of work and produce more value than a bad developer in 2, 5, or even 10 hours.
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by k_sze 6y ago
It's also a bit hard to gauge and appreciate how much of an improvement the feat in TFA is, without previous numbers to compare to (preferably in the form of a timeline).
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by k_sze 6y ago
I didn't know about that. Thanks for the heads-up!
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by k_sze 6y ago
If you like this kind of game, you'll probably like the Hexcells series ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexcells ). Every game is guaranteed to be solvable without guesswork. The deductions can get a lot more comp
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by k_sze 6y ago
So I left a comment on that blog and the author replied that the "weekly review" is the one in GTD.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I didn't close the tab outright, but I agree that the author should be more forthcoming about what exactly they are talking about. The whole "weekly review" thing just absolutely lacks context. Like, are they talking about th
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by k_sze 6y ago
The book "Pragmatic Programmer" talks about this in chapter 2, topic 9. The kind of duplication you want to avoid is knowledge duplication. If two pieces of code literally do the same thing but for different reasons/purpose
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by k_sze 6y ago
I thought that's where law student interns come in. Basically law firms hire law students. When stuff like this comes up, the real lawyer can give hints to the law student and the law student goes talk with the client. The law student
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by k_sze 6y ago
I see that on the pages about each of his books, all of the chapters are listed. Are those actually the complete chapters or only excerpts?
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by k_sze 6y ago
I don't quite understand. The latest version of FF is 79.0, released on July 28. This article is dated Aug 4. So is Mozilla going to remotely activate ETP 2.0 for users of FF 79 without requiring an update?
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by k_sze 6y ago
I wish it allowed me to search by CPU family instead of socket. I care a lot more about the CPU family than the socket. There is no way I remember what socket the latest AMD Ryzen 4000 family uses.
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by k_sze 6y ago
I could really use something like that, with the additional ability to add custom sources. My use cases: I read e-books in Calibre[1]. When I read novels in The Witcher series or in the Forgotten Realms meta-series, I need to lookup words t

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