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by korginator 3y ago
Add this point from the article for context: "This retraction is Tessier-Lavigne’s fourth in as many months, a stunning turn of events for a researcher of his stature." That begs the question, how did at least four such cutting-ed
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by korginator 3y ago
For years, the New York Times has had a cosy relationship with the China Daily which itself is a mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party. I remember seeing several pro-China op-eds and advertorials in the NYT during the pre-Covid days, sc
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by korginator 3y ago
USB-C is simply more convenient to use, and you get it right 100% of the time, instead of your orientation being wrong 50% of the time with USB-A.
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by korginator 3y ago
USB-A should be relegated to the rubbish-heap of poorly designed interfaces for the simple reason that it has no physical indication (e.g., RS-232C) or clear visual indicator for orientation, and you get it wrong 50% of the time. It's
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by korginator 3y ago
This feels very apropos to a recent banking outage we had here in Singapore. On Oct 14, I was out buying groceries and was asked a very strange question by the NTUC FairPrice supermarket cashier, "which bank is your card from?". E
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by korginator 3y ago
Rubbish. These are just excuses for terrible & thoughtless design. USB is by far the worst designed thing in the history of humankind, in terms of the cumulative amount of frustration it has caused globally. All common-sense usability p
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by korginator 3y ago
As with many Pāli words (e.g., dhamma, samkhāra, etc.), it's hard to provide a simplistic one-dimensional translation of the phrase "mettā", often crudely translated as loving-kindness. When you read through the Sutta Nipata
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by korginator 3y ago
I'm not even sure what this project is supposed to accomplish. I tried a few books, and gave up within a few seconds. Pauses and punctuations, intonations, the spacing of words, and a whole lot more are really out of whack - it takes m
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by korginator 3y ago
Archive: https://archive.ph/1lWyv
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by korginator 3y ago
[Edit: sorry, replying to myself because I can't edit the parent post] China launches a $40 billion state fund to boost the chip industry. https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-launch-new-40-bln-s... Archive li
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by korginator 3y ago
Before Covid, we used to have projects with Huawei that needed visits to China, specifically to their HQ in Shenzhen. The calibre of their R&D is nothing short of world class. I've had the pleasure of deep-dive analysis and problem
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by korginator 3y ago
On the rare occasions when I order books from amazon, they are usually books that I've already read or borrowed from elsewhere, that I need for further reference or research. Aside from AI-generated garbage, there are large numbers of
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by korginator 3y ago
Yes, I really agree, and I've gone through the same pain, but try using the alternatives that claim to be better because they have OpenAPI specifications [1] The example shows you how to use the swagger tool, parse the OpenAPI spec [2]
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by korginator 3y ago
I've been playing with OTEL for a while, with a few backends like Jaeger and Zipkin, and am trying to figure out a way to perform end to end timing measurements across a graph of services triggered by any of several events. Consider th
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by korginator 3y ago
If it's not unlimited then don't call it that. If the company expects users to not do certain things, then state that in the contract. If you call it unlimited and it's not really unlimited and depends on what the company fee
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by korginator 3y ago
There's no strong benefit to consumers, and the industrial use cases never materialised because telcos have not rolled out services like URLLC, MMTC, compliant edge-compute (MEC) platforms with full 5GC integration (e.g., MEC app regis
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by korginator 3y ago
Since the professor is also a composer, are there any examples of his own music? I'm unable to find anything except his lectures on YouTube. I'd really like to hear his take on good sounding music. As a former musician myself, I f
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by korginator 3y ago
This looks like something that targets independent developers. I know this won't be allowed in my organization. There are so many unanswered questions. Where would the code (or git repo) be hosted? Can we host on-prem? How will Google
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by korginator 3y ago
At work, there is a whole process and checklists for "approved" software. Zoom is one of them. Most Microsoft software are in this approved list. Our work laptops are locked down and you can't install anything. Our developmen
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by korginator 3y ago
I've been down this road a few times over the past few years. Aside from zoom or a company-managed MS teams service, we found the alternatives just too troublesome to get working properly across larger groups of people. Take google mee
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by korginator 3y ago
I really don't see the value proposition for yet another stablecoin. The only reason I was using PayPal is so that I didn't have to provide my credit card number to merchants while purchasing online. Now with single-use CC numbers
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by korginator 3y ago
From the report: During 2021, Mozilla paid $387 Thousand dollars to a Mckensie Mack Group whose LinkedIn page describes itself as “Black-led and nonbinary-led, MMG is a global social justice organization”. And another $100K to an "Act
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by korginator 3y ago
This would never work for me. Sometimes I attend talks to look for specific information, which is often a lot more than three things. Sometimes I attend just to learn about a new subject, or for some inspiration. Often, it's not a talk
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by korginator 3y ago
I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use & evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] g
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by korginator 3y ago
Been using the Mozilla suite for email since the late 1990's and migrated to Thunderbird some time in 2003-2004 if I recall. I've never really bothered with speed or understood why it was a concern with a POP/IMAP email clien
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by korginator 3y ago
With the rate of inflation and interest rates going up, salaried workers need a cost of living adjustment at the very least, even if we forget about a bonus or a big pay hike. This decision is unethical to full-time employees seeing the tid
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by korginator 3y ago
Quite the opposite. Several divisions in my organisation and others in our group have decided to gradually move to a model where about half of us work from home for the medium term, and that number is expected to increase over the next five
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by korginator 3y ago
Musicians have been taking inspiration from, borrowing from, and reinterpreting other artists throughout history. This is what makes for the rich tapestry of musical genres & styles, and the evolution of music itself. So may great hits
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by korginator 3y ago
Your cell provider can always determine the location of your cellular device. They always have. Now with 4G and 5G it is easier for trusted services to get extremely precise details about the location of your device [1][2]. The example in t
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by korginator 3y ago
When I worked in a large-ish organization in the late 1990's, there were some "interesting" hiring practices and office dynamics, to say the least. Our organization had a phone hotline and an email address to raise concerns.

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