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by lake99 8y ago
Looks like an interesting talk, but are the slides available online somewhere? Edit: Never mind. I found the slides he had made for the same talk given elsewhere. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sZciK13LDh4rBFwbRCk0Oylga3.
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by lake99 8y ago
I have no personal experience in this matter, but through watching videos of bird training experts (in my case [1]) I learnt that parrots can be trained to be friendly with the entire family. Parrots might still prefer one family member, bu
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by lake99 8y ago
Yes, there is a penalty of starting and stopping the Python interpreter every time, which is why they want to implement the front end command in Rust. For scripts, current users are better off adapting to the current hg ecosystem, and writi
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by lake99 8y ago
> Speed wise it blew Bazaar and Mercurial out of the water. Benchmarks for this are hard to come by, and are for versions that are considered quite outdated now. But from what little there is, there wasn't that much of a performance
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by lake99 8y ago
Another example, this[1] music producer's kid developed perfect pitch despite the lack of any training. He was exposed to a rich variety of complex music right from the start. When the dad discovered his son's ability, he found ou
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by lake99 8y ago
I would wash my old Moto G under a tap whenever it looked a bit dirty. It had a jack. Plenty of phones that have jacks are waterproof.
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by lake99 8y ago
If there is a contemporary personification of Evil, that is Kissinger. It's not about "traditional republican values" either. As far as I can see, both your big parties are a continuation of Kissinger's policies.
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by lake99 8y ago
> if Beethoven's music had been lost or misplaced, would we immediately recognize it as "genius" if someone made a first recording in 2018 I'm not qualified to comment on the genius of any composer, but knowing my bac
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by lake99 8y ago
I haven't touched these topics. But in my experience, nearly none of my edits remained, despite providing credible and neutral sources for whatever I added. Usually, there are long-term Wikipedia editors who have put plenty of pages on
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by lake99 8y ago
I saw this in one of the most famous answers on Mathoverflow [1]. The CAS expert (Jacques Carette) who wasted three days trying to locate the "problem" in the software chimes in in the comments. [1] https://mathoverflow
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by lake99 8y ago
All that, and it gets worse. "time find ~" always reported something like 2.x seconds for me, no matter which terminal I used (kitty, alacritty, urxvt, st, konsole), but I know from observing the scrolling lines that it always too
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by lake99 8y ago
I usually walk around with a backpack. And yes, the bag gets scanned and I get frisked every time I enter a mall or a local metro station. The only time I was asked not not bring something in was at a cinema, where food and drinks from outs
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by lake99 8y ago
I haven't read the book, but reading this excerpt now, and given my Indian context of vegetables, this initially comes across as masochism. What we call "yam" in India has the full name "elephant foot yam", and is f
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by lake99 8y ago
You know the service that Bob Newhart provided, as a psychologist? He charged 5$ for 5 minutes. I'd be willing to do that for 1$. Ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw
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by lake99 8y ago
Was the pun on colorForth intended? Just in case it wasn't, colorForth was also created by the creator of Forth, and color has syntactic significance here.
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by lake99 9y ago
> schizophrenic patients Schizophrenia has to do with some degree of failure to separate reality and delusion. It's got nothing to do with multiple personalities. Are you talking about dissosiative identity disorder, instead?
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by lake99 9y ago
I'm not in the UK, and I could watch it just fine. Probably because Channel 4 blocked access to it in the UK, where they made use of the laws available to them. These laws likely don't let them enforce worldwide.
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by lake99 9y ago
> Traditional filesystems are hierarchical, slow to search, and don't natively store all of the metadata we need I don't know what he means by "traditional", but Linux native filesystems can store all the metadata you
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by lake99 9y ago
I did not say it will help you. But read this anyway http://research.lawyers.com/ignorance-of-the-law-may-be-an-e...
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by lake99 9y ago
> When they die, it becomes part of their estate and it's not confidential anymore. IANAL, but I don't think the law works this way. If you reveal any of that confidential information, you would be as liable to getting sued for
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by lake99 9y ago
That is an excellent idea. The only trouble is, the people who make this policies do not see the problem that you and I do. Their problem is to get more votes, and ocassionally to appease violent hooligans. What they have been doing fixes t
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by lake99 9y ago
Saimiam is an Indian, and is likely living in India. I neither understand nor agree with his skepticism. I may have been more generous if he were from some other country. Kamaal made a claim that " stories of having scored in upwards o
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by lake99 10y ago
The GPL enforces users' freedom. The BSD/MIT licenses allow for users' freedom. Proprietary restrictive licenses prevent users' freedom.
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by lake99 10y ago
I can't speak about Samsung, but the Moto G4 Plus also suffers from the same limitation, that the stock camera app can't use the hardware's unique features. But there are ways to overcome that. It's pretty easy to find d
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by lake99 10y ago
> long tarnished by charges of Nazi collaboration Is that an American or a British thing? I know quite a few diehard fans of Wodehouse in India. One of them even sent me transcripts of his radio broadcasts. The broadcasts seemed entirely
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by lake99 10y ago
> but it's an attitude that's pervasive of the Hindu Right anyway I haven't seen that attitude at all. Even the worst among Shiv Sainiks seem to consider vada pau their traditional dish. As for naan, the Indians I know con
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by lake99 10y ago
Well, they will still have to import all the upstream changes, and make sure that all the parts play well with each other, which, they can still do. Except that they don't. I think what makes it hard is the dizzying variety of CPUs tha
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by lake99 10y ago
Depends on what I'm trying to learn. If it's a programming language, or something math-heavy, I prefer books. If it's GUI programming, I prefer videos. I tried learning Android programming from their official documentation, a
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by lake99 10y ago
Over here, cremation is customary. The ashes are sent down a river.
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by lake99 10y ago
As far as I know, no one advocating abolishment of software patents sees the need for an alternative. Fat32 is not in common use because people are enthusiastic about it, but because it's easy to implement, and it's compaitble. At

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