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901.
by lolc 6y ago
Fascinating story. It led me into a short Wikipedia bout reading about Japan's period of isolation.
902.
by lolc 6y ago
Oh, no Linux at all then?
903.
by lolc 6y ago
The models use past behaviour (looking at dishwashers) to predict future behaviour (buying dishwashers). Spending cash on something is a much harder signal of interest than looking at it though. So the models would be stupid to ignore that.
904.
by lolc 6y ago
And just the other month, we switched a transmission from SFTP to FTP because we couldn't be bothered to deal with the bottlenecks in the SFTP stack. HTTP? Maybe next year :-)
905.
by lolc 6y ago
Haha, the reason we use computers is because the work more reliably than humans. By using indeterministic processes, commonly called AI, we effectively make them human. This can yield interesting results, but you don't want a monkey co
906.
by lolc 6y ago
> Because we're talking about him and not about free software. It's that simple. No it's not that simple. Because the other side of this is that we are talking about Free Software because of him, indluding his personality.
907.
by lolc 6y ago
I would assume that most people have some sensitivity because they've been exposed to coronaviruses before. However this is not enough to quickly raise an immune response when the new variant shows up.
908.
by lolc 6y ago
Relax, everybody understands that code written in one hour is going to be shit. We will know you care about fixing things because you point out in what ways the code is shit. If you are uncomfortable talking about shitty code, especially yo
909.
by lolc 6y ago
I remember tracking down corrupt entries in our DB. It was mostly one user introducing the inconsistencies. Turns out he would double-click on every button, and the browser would happily send-abort-send two requests every time. Sometimes th
910.
by lolc 6y ago
Rosy ways to explain this result: 1. Some participants are able to predict the result but when they are forced to act on it beforehand the entanglement collapses. 2. The negative correlation with charity spending is because the cheating par
911.
by lolc 6y ago
I find that the difficult conditions at the time are sufficient to explain the accident. Maybe we'll learn that there was unprofessional behaviour by a pilot. But until such time, that is unwarranted speculation. The linked article is
912.
by lolc 6y ago
I don't see how the report in the linked article is related to Ever Given. It certainly isn't of the fateful trip because it's about a southbound journey.
913.
by lolc 6y ago
As is standard for canal transit, the Evergiven was piloted by a Suez pilot at the time of the accident. Because this ship's main steering force comes from the rudder, it has more force when it goes faster. Maybe they even accelerated
914.
by lolc 6y ago
Looks like you wanted to build an argument but lost steam after one sentence. Here, let me continue for you: "So if she chooses to go to the city, it will be her decision and consequently her responsibility when she inevitably gets hoo
915.
by lolc 6y ago
"Opting" to become addicted? I know one person who says of herself that some days she just can't go into the city. Because she knows on those days she'd get hooked again if she were to pass a place where she used to shoo
916.
by lolc 6y ago
They don't have to put them back.
917.
by lolc 6y ago
That was an interesting read for someone like me who just started splitting builds into frontend/backend to get build times down. That they would switch languages just to get faster builds sounds extreme to me. But in the end I already
918.
by lolc 6y ago
An older relative once gave me the hint to bury a question in my text to see whether the examiner would address it. I was actually surprised to get an answer when I tried that.
919.
by lolc 6y ago
Nice to read they've baked this in. It is a barrier that can let one recover even after attacks from insiders.
920.
by lolc 6y ago
Haha, they look so cool! Given that the mesh has an uneven surface though, I don't see how they could compare well to the resistance of a tire with a smooth surface. Also, it looks like the coating would have to be reapplied often beca
921.
by lolc 6y ago
This is very useful! I have to look up this combination every other month when one of my systems starts thrashing.
922.
by lolc 6y ago
It took me a while to understand this, but I think the long consistent blocks are a sorting artifact. As the observed headlines are bucketed by the hour. You don't see the title flip within the hour, you just see the percentage. It wou
923.
by lolc 6y ago
Of course we'd like researchers to always start from the best premises. But the process is such that if you want to update your premises, you have twenty competing theories to choose from, all in the process of getting validated. Do yo
924.
by lolc 6y ago
The Nazis did plan an invasion. See Operation Tannenbaum[0]. Switzerland didn't end up getting divided between Germany and Italy thanks to the Red Army hurtling more humans west than the Wehrmacht could supply bullets east. Swiss munit
925.
by lolc 6y ago
> I don't think that word means what author thinks it means. I read that to mean the court didn't look at individual cases with much consideration and just handed out jail sentences to everybody involved. What do you think the
926.
by lolc 6y ago
There's this joke in Switzerland: When the war wasn't going so well Hitler sent a note to the Swiss government demanding a supply of tanks. The Swiss council deliberated and responded in due time: "Will one be enough or do yo
927.
by lolc 6y ago
Thanks for that quote. Turning this around we get: "On about fourteen days within the year we'll be above the average price. And on half a day in the average year we'll charge 150 times the average price." And now this i
928.
by lolc 6y ago
Oh I can see those dynamics too. The thing is that people want stable pricing. And when they don't get it, they look around for somebody to blame. From what I read, I get the impression that they understand they're the suckers in
929.
by lolc 6y ago
I get that this is an unfolding disaster. People are trying to push through as best as they can. And I really don't know anything about the Texan energy-market. But the quotes in this article rub me the wrong way. > Stressing that h
930.
by lolc 6y ago
> I still don't understand the arguments about a future date requiring a timezone. A future event at local time requires a location, because the timezone may yet change at that location. Suppose we meet Nov 1st 2017 in Istanbul and

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