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kjrfghslkdjfl
2y ago
Well, and his writing. Anyone with an interest in distributed systems should read ZeroMQ "The Guide" even if they don't plan on using ZeroMQ.
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2y ago
It's not. If you're shorting, you're paying to borrow the stock.
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> But, we knew we would be there an hour early because of where/when we were dropping our kid off for the evening. So I just said TELL them when will be there and TELL them we’ll be at the bar if anyone wants to have a drink beforeh
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2y ago
Could you point out specific examples of what is too regulated? I never understood this complaint. True, I also never bothered digging into it because I started out with the belief that it's just a talking point. But I'm happy to
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2y ago
That's android only. He's talking about desktop. I like it too though.
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> But my main complaint about Julia is its general approach to memory management. I'm not a full-blown hater, but I have problems with that as well. Specifically, you have no control about it whatsoever, you're just promised th
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If the author is reading... Why specify compat in this manner? https://github.com/yolhan83/BloodFlowTrixi.jl/blob/03a78be28... Normally you want to specify "up to which major version" or "up to
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2y ago
> It's an organization with an unpredictable return on investment Yes, science has extremely unpredictable return on investment. What's your suggestion? Don't try?
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2y ago
Fascism.
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2y ago
Answer is obvious. Because teenagers tend to be impressionable and unscrupulous.
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I think she's obviously right. The reason that cars make stupid mistakes that a human never would, is that cars are trained to classify 2D images (and act accordingly). Humans on the other hand have a 3D model of the world that underst
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Same, and I hate "experimenting" cooking. I memorize simple recipes and do them a lot. I don't wanna experiment cooking, I want to have eaten.
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2y ago
Wait I thought HN was not for politics?? Or is it that when the politics isn't US politics, HN readers can be more emotionally detached and treat it as "interesting"?
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> I never understood the prejudice against poor English speakers. How else are you supposed to learn a language than to be immersed in the culture before you are fluent? You don't need to be immersed in order to be fluent. I spoke E
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"Presumption about reliability of computers" Anyone else get the sense that these were laws written without any input whatsoever from people who actually have working experience in complex systems? I'm convinced that no moral
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2y ago
Better challenge: generate these puzzles in a way to have a unique solution.
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Reminder that the efficiency of such a device has a hard bound given by the laws of thermodynamics which doesn't depend on implementation details.
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Julia is a language that blew my mind. It convinced me that multiple dispatch is the way to do generic programming.
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Feels like the phone capabilities didn't change much since 2018. What would be the android phone nowadays that we could write this article about?
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FitoTrack. That's all I have to say about this.
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I'm quite confident in guessing that you've never had any first hand contact with experimental physics research. If you did, you'd know that most people aren't there for "the income", but because they enjoy adv
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> real reason is they want to make it themselves their way. I have a different theory. I think the real reason is that writing code is easier than reading. Literally, it's psychologically more comfortable to write code than to read
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So wordy. I still don't know what it is he had a view on. > Three days prior to that, on March 22nd, I was sufficiently convinced that there was an unacknowledged geographically distributed coronavirus outbreak to pre-register that
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What did you expect from the title? That they used Einstein's equations to render the actors? Of course it's the black hole.
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Currently, I use google maps "offline maps" for this. However, one thing it can't do is give you directions in offline mode. Meaning, I can have the map in offline mode but not ask it to find me a path from A to B. Do you kno
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I'm disappointed to see that he didn't try the simplest and most obvious solution: deploy a telescopic boom that pushes the tower against the floor.
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This is too reductionist. There's a lot of reasons why someone could turn down that bet, other than "he's just blathering". Maybe he's very confidently down on OpenAI but 10k is a lot of money for him, and is being
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2y ago
Every time you say "wait a second" you're using time without a calendar or a timezone. You're referring to a point in time as an offset (1 second) to "now" which is the point in time when you say it, and its
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You might be right. I was trying to disentangle "time" from "calendar" by showing that just because someone doesn't know anything about calendars doesn't mean you can't coordinate with them to meet at a fu
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I didn't say aliens would care about UTC, did I? I said that we would have to specify a point in time without resorting to calendars. I didn't say we would use offset to UTC, because aliens don't know UTC either. But presumab
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