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7y ago
Where exactly does that implication come from? Are you from a world where you need a map reduce framework + cluster to have parallelism of any kind?
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Yes. Encountering the Apache Helicopter joke on 4chan is par for the course, but I just really don't want to hear it out loud from a coworker who is senior to me in a meeting room, and have everyone else laugh along with it.
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> respect other peoples decision making That is absolutely not my default position. Respect of that sort requires earning and it's pretty rare anyone manages to do so. > your judgement of value is not more or less valid than the
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7y ago
Generating an SQL string with any input from the user is not accepted best practice, even if that were a sufficient way to achieve it (I suspect it would disallow a parameter string to contain a legitimate, escaped ' character). Genera
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7y ago
Just because any proportion of people think something or are willing to do something doesn't validate, justify, or excuse that thing.
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7y ago
They might be sensitive to IR without sufficient filtering but they're not selective to it, I think the idea here is something like a IR,R,G,B pixel format. Maybe you could get military interest in it (digital Aerochrome).
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7y ago
I buy the number of shoes per year that I'm going to buy and I'm going to buy them first based on a value calculation that considers things like their price and my expectation of their longevity and secondly based on whether or no
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A composting operation could potentially capture its gasses though, compared to landfills.
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They've added https://transformer.huggingface.co/doc/gpt2-xl
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"Why is money called 'circles' in Asia?" is what I'd suggest.
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I wonder if the ergonomics of text based adventure in SOV-order languages is/was substantially improved for this reason. 北に行く (north, go) ポーションを飲む (potion, drink) スライムを戦う (slime, fight).
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7y ago
Beef jerky in coffee sounds awful, but coffee in beef jerky sounds great.
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7y ago
Said they, on the "Y-Combinator" Hacker News comments.
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7y ago
Dread it, run from it, complexity still arrives.
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Can you explain this more because I really can't wrap my head around this concept of some kind of natural state of a homogenous group of humans. Even if we were to simulate a preternatural perfectly uniform society of clones, wouldn&#x
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7y ago
Yeah, if "some" is there it seems we should be confident enough to drop "may" or we should have looked into it a bit more before publishing...
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7y ago
ReactOS is a full OS so, unlike Wine, I believe you can load drivers that target Windows, which might be important if you have a piece of expensive hardware that only has official drivers for a legacy release?
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7y ago
Having played a lot with both, this thing is so much smarter. Example, with filled text in [], never retrying or canceling an autocompletion, and with very minimal selective effort between candidates in the first set of options: " Type
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I started it once when I was super under-utilized in my day job and was looking at ways to stay stimulated. I figured I'd start out getting approved as being able to do useful work in a particular CMS in a particular language (Where I
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I haven't gotten a chance yet, no. My recent projects have been tiny things in PHP, or large ancient things in Java. Looking forward to an opportunity to try it out, though.
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I find Rails projects often grow larger than the formalisms available in Ruby provide for, and I tend to find myself missing types even in fairly tiny projects. I look forward to Ruby 3 type annotations, and to the continuation of a long hi
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Ideally, I would sit down and be so familiar to the problems I'm solving, the tools I'm solving them with, and the tools so suited to solving those tasks that I can just type in my solution without having to stop to consult someth
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Is it intended to be a Little My generator, or is it just me?
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What point does this make that addresses mine? Of course there are different qualities of toilet paper. In a commodity-style market for toilet paper there would be competition on both price and on quality axes and there would likely be mult
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You absolutely can still grade commodities. A discerning distributor who has discerning retailers who have discerning consumers has plenty of incentives not to comingle inferior material into his shipments. The fact that consumers aren'
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Your expectations for performance in this task might be easily met by your background-level/automatic ability, but others will have either higher expectations or lower ability and a tool might make the difference.
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It's analogous to JS minification -- Clients on the production site should get a bare minimum and the VCS should have the readable form with all the digits of precision and whatever comments, non-functional groups acting as layers in t
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I imagine this is a supplier (as in B2B, Amazon is negociating prices for buying bulk stock from them to sell on Amazon as Amazon), not a marketplace seller.
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Problem is, if I'm low on decision making energy or risk tolerance I will prefer a near-guaranteed acceptable solution over a probably good but potentially awful one.
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On the other hand, business people who don't care about their tech stack often have BIG blind spots in their conception of their desired solution, such as IT leaders that will slam the brakes on your solution if it doesn't fit int
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