mamon

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by mamon 6y ago
The best Linux desktop environment is Windows 10 (with WSL2) That's why some journalists have already called 2020 "Year of Linux On Desktop". Let's be honest, Linux has a good (but not great) kernel, good-to-great apps o
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by mamon 6y ago
That's the double-edged sword however. Many "random strangers" will be homeless people who notice that you are smoking and will ask you if you have a ciggarette to spare. My ex girlfriend used to carry an empty ciggarette box
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by mamon 6y ago
I think that's one of the reasons that smoking ciggarettes is such a popular addiction around the world: it's basically a breathing exercise that helps you relax.
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by mamon 6y ago
Since freight companies own the tracks the only way to do it would be if government bought them, which I assume would cost hundreds billions of dollars. Just passing a bill giving passenger trains priority would be unconstitutional because
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by mamon 6y ago
Just last week there was a fire in my apartment complex: 47 cars burned in the underground garage, the building directly above has to be demolished because of the damage it took. 70 families lost their homes. Reason? Electric car exploded w
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by mamon 6y ago
If there is a pattern in data, such as it fitting on a curve, and you approximate that curve, then that should generalize to unseen data. What's surprising about that? A single polynominal regression wouldn't be able to do it, bec
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by mamon 6y ago
Hubris. They thought Enigma is unbreakable.
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by mamon 6y ago
>> Why do you need to own it? Because our primitive brains instinctively want to own things. We can share with family, and with good friends, but not with strangers. Another thing: car is used not only to drive, but also as a storage
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by mamon 6y ago
yeah, if you put your phone in a pocket together with you key fob then that's not so different from using it to drive nails :) Fortunately, even skinny jeans usually have more than one pocket.
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by mamon 6y ago
AI is not even required for "world in chains" scenario. All it takes is giving everyone a smartphone for tracking their location, social media account for tracking their thoughts, replacing cash with online banking ("because
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by mamon 6y ago
What are you using it for, driving nails? I had many smartphones in over a decade and never a single scratch on a screen, without using any screen protector.
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by mamon 6y ago
So, after initial fallout it is a long-term win for software industry, right? ;)
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by mamon 6y ago
Or compare APIs to the car interface: steering wheel + pedals. If one car manufacturer was able to copyright them, then what are other manufacturers supposed to do? The second one can use joystick for steering, and maybe a lever for braking
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by mamon 6y ago
I spent a year in the US, despite my English being pretty bad, to a point where I struggle to pronounce some words correctly, or often ask the other person to repeat what they've just said. Despite all that I feel no need to improve my
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by mamon 6y ago
Are you from Central Europe? That might be a factor if Russian was similar to your mother's tongue and French is not.
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by mamon 6y ago
>> Their accreditation is not recognized If so, then maybe they shouldn't have been issued "skilled worker" visa in the first place. Part of the visa process should be verification that a person really has the credentia
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by mamon 6y ago
But still, you want that shortage to stay there for a while, because that provides the incentive to US universities to create more spots in CS programs for US teenagers. If you go straight to hiring foreigners you are leaving US kids behind
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by mamon 6y ago
It is true - as a part of H1B application you need to post a job advertisement in some US job board first, which becomes a part of the documentation you submit to USCIS. I went through that as a part of my own visa process. EDIT: ok, maybe
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by mamon 6y ago
I think this is by design. You don't want to issue visas to "people early in their career" - those jobs should go to Americans first. You only hire from abroad if there really is a shortage of specialists in some profession,
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by mamon 6y ago
It's all relative. Shrek made $487M internationally, on the same $60M budget. And it also started a franchise that grossed over $2B
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by mamon 6y ago
That compares to 4800U, not 4900U GP mentioned...
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by mamon 6y ago
Do you mean this table which has a caption over it that reads "Training performance in images processed per second" ?? Looks pretty self-explanatory.
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by mamon 6y ago
Which by the way might a perfect way of punishing dicks - nothing like pain and public humiliation to cure inflated egos.
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by mamon 6y ago
Like stock options for employees?
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by mamon 6y ago
Marriage is not about religion, or personal happiness. Marriage is all about "producing" new, physically and mentally healthy, well socially adjusted, future tax payers. Now, since marriage gives you privileges, such as tax breaks
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by mamon 6y ago
I think it is meant for students for whom learning English is the main, or the only focus of their college program. Probably because that's the easiest thing to abuse for the extended stay in the US: if you're studying hard subjec
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by mamon 6y ago
False, obviously. The resolutions were about promoting family values, things like making towns family friendly environment by building kindergartens, etc. There's not a single word on LGBT, homosexuality, etc in any of those resolution
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by mamon 6y ago
Do you have any good learning resources on encryption? any Github repositories worth mirroring, with the actual implementations? I am a programmer with zero experience in that area but want to some day be able to "roll out my own crypt
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by mamon 6y ago
Yes we still do have the capacity to go to the Moon. It's not like we've stopped developing space-related technology. There are dozens of rocket launches each year, we have people manning the ISS all the time. The way I see it NAS
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by mamon 6y ago
This is so fucking stupid. We've already put humans on the Moon, 50 years ago. Does it really matter if it was a man or a woman? Why waste time going to the Moon again, instead of, say, working on getting to Mars?

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