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by lozenge 3y ago
Most people aren't going to be happy with "the scan shows something unusual that would normally be concerning, but you say you feel fine so I'll trust you instead of the scan".
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by lozenge 3y ago
All the examples you gave before have already been studied and are also particularly interesting. Maths is a huge and well explored field.
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by lozenge 3y ago
They're talking about street names specifically, not traffic signs. What's the point in having a street name that none of the locals know because they know it by a completely different name? Btw, based on Wikipedia, China uses sym
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by lozenge 3y ago
Retaliation is basically the default for visas. The data obtained from the ETIAS is no better than what they get from the airlines (APN) or scanning passports at the border.
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by lozenge 3y ago
They don't use readings from the polygraph. It's more like a prop they use to try to get to your honest/embarrassing truth. You can get false confessions on a polygraph interview but you can also get them in a normal police i
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by lozenge 3y ago
I was about to tell you to switch banks, then I realised you just described my bank. Yeah, I don't understand why none of the mobile-friendly banks are willing to build even a basic web interface for use on the big screen.
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by lozenge 3y ago
Well yes, they could forbid publishing noise on the platform, and just offer their own white noise content for users to access.
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by lozenge 3y ago
It's more about farming subsidies and tax levels. Some governments choose to make food cheap by encouraging overproduction.
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by lozenge 3y ago
But the FCC order itself explicitly says that government imposed fees won't be affected. The quote is in the article.
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by lozenge 3y ago
It makes sense to me? The algorithm specialises in distinguishing between the faces in its training set. It works by dimensionality reduction. If there aren't many black faces there it can just dedicate a few of its dimensions to &quot
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by lozenge 3y ago
They're not robocalls, but since my mobile number was ported to O2 I have received multiple calls a week of scammers wanting to access my account to order phones.
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by lozenge 3y ago
One compromise could be to run pypy on draft PRs and CPython on approved PRs and master?
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by lozenge 3y ago
What the other commenters haven't mentioned is that it's a 25 minute walk... to one store... then a 25 minute walk to another store, then a 25 minute walk to a gym, etc. Whereas in Europe when you walk to a high street, there&#x27
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by lozenge 3y ago
If the shop is on the way, then it's 0 minutes spent on transport, the only time spent is the actual time in the shop.
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by lozenge 3y ago
They mean water, sewage, roads, pavements, street lighting. See link.
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by lozenge 3y ago
Milton Keynes tried separating pedestrians and cyclists, it is mostly considered a failure. Reasons include- they built the place so well for cars that everybody owns a car- poorly lit underpasses- confusing layout- crime and the feeling of
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by lozenge 3y ago
There's already a crime of refusing to provide a password. With a maximum sentence of two years imprisonment, or five years in cases involving national security or child indecency. https://www.saunders.co.uk/news/p
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by lozenge 3y ago
> Does that stay true once the GIL turns back on? In the current nogil implementation, AFAICS, it seems the GIL can't be turned back on so there is no answer yet. Theoretically, you could have a one-off operation which fixes all obj
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by lozenge 3y ago
"Where is the need for recompilation?" https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/typeobj.html#c.PyObject.ob_r... The stable ABI lets extensions access the reference count of any object directly. I don't know
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by lozenge 3y ago
Neither does LPython yet, even when it does it seems like LPython is meant as a Numba alternative, not something to run arbitrary Python code. "LPython is built from the ground up to translate numerical, array-oriented code into simple
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by lozenge 3y ago
1. The "stable ABI" is broken on nogil, the selling point of the stable ABI was "add this C preprocessor flag and your extension will work on all future CPython versions, after paying a speed penalty". This is useful for
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by lozenge 3y ago
There were a lot of bad reasons as well. The removal of the u string prefix in versions 3.0-3.2 was unnecessary and made the transition much more difficult. It kind of gave Python 3 a bad reputation.
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by lozenge 3y ago
The no-gil "build mode" will still have the ability to switch to GIL "run mode", it will just be slower than the GIL run mode on the GIL build mode. Hopefully not much slower.
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by lozenge 3y ago
"on purpose not optimized, only a reference implementation of interpretable scripting language without any focus on performance" That policy is over. As the last years have shown, no alternative implementation can get off the grou
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by lozenge 3y ago
PostgreSQL shows how far you can get with a single big box and using multiple cores and shared memory. It's incredibly powerful and the vast majority of applications never have data big enough to warrant "100s of machines".
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by lozenge 3y ago
You have to recompile your C extensions for the nogil build. Consider an application where one thread is calling xs.append from a C extension and another is calling xs.pop and xs[-1] on the same list object xs. In the nogil build these oper
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by lozenge 3y ago
What happens when a company has to undergo discovery in a civil case or needs to investigate am employee for sexual harassment or leaking trade secrets? E2e encryption is not a desired feature in the corporate setting at all.
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by lozenge 3y ago
Wifi calling sends calls (sent and received) over the Internet as UDP packets. So you can call somebody in your home country using your home country SIM, but the data is actually using your holiday SIM's data allowance. As roaming and
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by lozenge 3y ago
Yes, ad blockers aren't big right now, but Safari on iOS and Samsung Browser on Android has ad blocker support. What happens if Apple or Samsung decides to bundle an ad blocker? Google wants to defend against any future moves. Already,
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by lozenge 3y ago
It's closer to explaining Coca-Cola anti-union murders in Colombia or the use of child labor and forced labor in P&G palm oil products. "I can keep buying this stuff, and can't practically avoid it, therefore it doesn&#x2

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