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by l0b0 3y ago
"Big data" used to be thrown around a lot. It's not "big data" if it could fit on any kind of single PC available commercially.
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by l0b0 3y ago
In theoretical physics it's understood that the work is speculative, not empirical - reality always wins, after all. There's no ill will towards people who propose wrong theories of physics, because they are trying to guide where
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Xkcd: Factorial Numbers(xkcd.com)
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by l0b0 3y ago
Cue people optimising for this rather than using grammar, punctuation, and capitalisation properly. :(
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by l0b0 3y ago
> These scientists Does it say that it's the scientists doing this? From https://www.usap.gov/jobsandopportunities/ : > The U.S. Antarctic Program deploys roughly 3,000 people to Antarctica every
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by l0b0 3y ago
Off topic, but kudos to Kotaku for including both the absolute and relative numbers in their heading! It's such a rare piece of journalistic integrity.
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by l0b0 3y ago
How about this? 1. You update a copy of a repo which defines all inputs in a repeatable way (all inputs are either part of the repo or their hashes are verified during build). Nix does this. 2. You upload the build outputs to a publicly ava
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by l0b0 3y ago
Neat; it's a bit dense for non-physicists, though. Who's up for creating an SVG version of this with links for the words? I don't think I could do it justice with my very minimal understanding of physics and SVG.
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by l0b0 3y ago
> One is overwhelming technical debt. […] This sounds like an organisation with bigger problems than a single manager. The devs hate the job, but don't have the clout to convince management to let them do things properly? Ru
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by l0b0 3y ago
Spam scripts are much less smart than that. I added a hidden field with no text in it to a contact form, and a polite warning as the hint text for accessibility. If anything was filled into that field the submission was silently dropped.
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Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not(rachelbythebay.com)
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by l0b0 3y ago
Interesting piece! Some random thoughts on the examples… > And yet, we can ask the same questions about your website I guess BigCo already use my website to train their LLMs, going explicitly against the license of having to attri
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by l0b0 3y ago
> Then we also got German and Slovenian stores. Do they mean foreign companies operating in Austria, or separate DBs/web sites for other countries? (The forks[1] don't have legible names) I'd love to see a New Zeal
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by l0b0 3y ago
Oh wut? I got an interview from the first application, back in (checks bookmarks) 2012 (edit: It looks like they applied for McMurdo, not the South Pole). It was an odd one - the first question was what to do first when entering the server
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by l0b0 3y ago
https://kagi.com/search?q=python+endswith checks out: 1: docs.python.org › 3 › library › stdtypes.html 2: pandas.pydata.org › pandas-docs › stable › reference › api 3: This discussion! I've tried DDG and Brave for a
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by l0b0 3y ago
That only works in simple cases, and has been the cause of countless bugs. A duration of 1 day is semantically different from 60 60 24 seconds.
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by l0b0 3y ago
I don't think anybody involved in date/time programming disagrees, but I'd rather have a single standard for both than having to use two standards.
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Ask HN: Pinboard is dead, long live whom?
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Expert Opinions I Agree with (That Most People Don't) – Scott H Young(scotthyoung.com)
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by l0b0 3y ago
Open source projects are terrible at this, in general. Any feature ever introduced, no matter how ephemeral or small an audience, can't ever be removed. Which I suspect has contributed to most GNU tools being kitchen sinks rather than
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by l0b0 3y ago
This is also an opportunity to think about the value of a piece of configuration. If an example configuration value works for 40% of users without modification, should that value even exist? Think Bash's `HISTCONTROL=erasedups`, whic
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by l0b0 3y ago
Bad communication is EFT on steroids. Bad spelling and grammar, using jargon not already widely understood, taking things for granted, expecting everybody else to fill in the (huge) gaps, not making it clear who you expect to do what, makin
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by l0b0 3y ago
This sort of heuristic bugs me too. We should be able to write language server-adjacent tools which could do this sort of thing as easily as grep. You could do a lot of useful stuff with that, for example to implement custom linting rules:
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by l0b0 3y ago
This and other comments here resonate a lot. My SO is unlikely to ask for anything if there's even a small chance of getting a negative answer, and I'm basically the opposite. If this difference really is common, wouldn't it
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by l0b0 3y ago
Oh yeah, they did get an overhaul recently. Thanks for the reminder!
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by l0b0 3y ago
As a tech worker in NZ, the headline is absolutely right (I just skimmed the article). It's weird to see companies offering the same rates as six years ago, and crazy that research institutions offer a junior salary for a senior job. A
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by l0b0 3y ago
Xournal++ does the job, with a recognizably 90s interface. It stores a separate file with the overlay you create, and can produce a new PDF which combines the original file with your overlay. I use it any time I need to do something officia
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by l0b0 3y ago
Presumably it offends someone. Have a look at the bottom of the comment section, that's usually where the haters live.
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by l0b0 3y ago
Probably just a chaise longue surviving the salty, damp air outside like a champ.
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Nix Shell Template(paperless.blog)
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