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by mapmeld 3y ago
Having worked on a Geogig-as-a-Service proof-of-concept for a moment in time, the problems there were: no way to see commits and changes on a map (GitHub's later addition of a GeoJSON view and diff map being the final knell), and no se
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by mapmeld 3y ago
No, in the same way lawyers and the judge can decide ahead of time not to admit an unqualified expert witness, or to dismiss the jury for someone like Darrell Brooks representing himself by bringing up irrelevant information and hearsay whi
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by mapmeld 3y ago
Somewhat; Tim Traveler recently visited a 5,000-year-old dolmen in France, and it's preserved, but treated like any other small roadside attraction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S6wP8ox1R4
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by mapmeld 3y ago
I agree with "many many years" but a good number of quantum computers use other methods (superconducting qubits from Google/Rigetti, or trapped ions from IonQ). They have much smaller numbers of qubits, are more generally app
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by mapmeld 3y ago
I'd encourage people to keep editing. From HN and Reddit I thought that my changes would be thrown out, but nothing happened except bots cleaning up my references. An issue that I noticed is that scientific articles accumulate newswort
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by mapmeld 3y ago
Yes, it's in the state constitution, Article IX https://courts.mt.gov/external/library/docs/72constit.pdf
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by mapmeld 4y ago
GitHub gradually removes these users as they catch up to them, so not helpful to have extra steps. I have a couple of repos which were briefly popular, so when a new user stars it today, and I see 1000s of other stars, it's suspicious
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by mapmeld 4y ago
I follow a YouTube channel (VASAviation) which posts notable ATC recordings. JFK, AUS, and this collision are unusual in a short period of time. In 2017 there was a similar "trend" including two Air Canada incidents at SFO, which
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by mapmeld 4y ago
If you like mysteries, The Strait Times did a mini-series on "The Unsolved Mysteries of South East Asia" [0] which were (other than MH 370) totally new to me. "Arms Control Wonk" [1] has episodes on North Korea missile t
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by mapmeld 4y ago
I'll add to the Amazon interview complaints (early 2021 so remote). The recruiter prepped me ahead of time that I would have only 4 interviewers, and the next day they would be sending me an approval or some feedback. Having done inter
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by mapmeld 4y ago
As an open source dev, I was impressed by how patient everyone is in getting complex Fortran PRs merged (you can take a look on OpenBLAS on GitHub). Part of this is the communities which still use Fortran, and part of it is no one is doing
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by mapmeld 4y ago
Bizarre. I (US-based engineer with an Upwork account) was invited into a less sophisticated variant of the scam in spring 2021: > Nice to meet you. I am looking for a US person who do business with me. You can earn money with a few coope
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by mapmeld 4y ago
The schedule of Ramadan (the Islamic calendar month) may be delayed or extended in countries which use a physical sighting of the crescent moon to end the month, and can even differ by country if they go to different astronomers. This would
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by mapmeld 4y ago
This reminds me of a story of a geocoder (postal address search) which was found to frequently fail in NYC. When they debugged, they found addresses in east Manhattan (e.g. 100 E 61 St) were being converted to scientific notation.
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by mapmeld 4y ago
Yes. When I attended an IAEA Safeguards conference in 2018, there were a number of these civilian nuclear battery designs but none had been built. A small nuclear battery can replace building-size diesel generators which remote communities
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by mapmeld 6y ago
Is this an https://openstreetmap.in issue or Crimea or ?
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by mapmeld 6y ago
Not a subscriber to this view, but the concept is that we take care for our family and friends for free, and charity is driven by showing us real people rather than cold facts. For the rest of the "people we don't know", inve
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by mapmeld 7y ago
When I saw drops on Mondays, I initially thought it was due to a year-on-year weekday mismatch, but the analysis is sound > For year-on-year comparisons by day, we compare to the same day of week from the same week in the previous year.
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by mapmeld 7y ago
Outside of governments making their own WMDs against international rules, the closest would have to be Aum Shinrikyo. Before their sarin attack in Tokyo, they also manufactured VX gas, recruited scientists from different fields, and conduct
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by mapmeld 7y ago
I did get a patch some time ago which was really well-written. Almost all pull requests to serious Fortran projects (mostly OpenBLAS) get merged in. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@mapmeld/fortran-culture-on-
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by mapmeld 7y ago
I couldn't remember, but checked - I am replacing ' with _ in the actual code https://github.com/mapmeld/fortran-machine/blob/master/marsu...
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by mapmeld 7y ago
Back online! Sorry just saw this
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by mapmeld 7y ago
Companies are slow-moving. They legally can - but structurally cannot - decide one day that they're not that into you and move to a new state. If they bring in a bad employee, they have to first build up proof that they messed up, expl
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by mapmeld 7y ago
In my experience, it varies... I had one VPN service start to get blocked consistently, so I switched to another, and that's been going smoothly for two years. And I'm sure Netflix can put cookies on my machine and know what'
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by mapmeld 7y ago
Veritas Genetics offers full-genome sequencing for 1000 USD. I purchased their kit for 200 in a limited-time offer. Unfortunately when I sent it in early February, there is a backlog which is delaying my results until late this summer.
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by mapmeld 7y ago
I've been invited to write a Packt book on a topic that I knew very little about; I might have had one repo related to it.
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by mapmeld 8y ago
They also found the location of the shipping container, which is impressive
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by mapmeld 8y ago
This is ongoing, and Microsoft and Google continued browser experiments with another algorithm (paper titled "Frodo: Take off the ring! Practical, Quantum-Secure Key Exchange from LWE") https://eprint.iacr.org/2016
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by mapmeld 8y ago
Because Amazon makes many billions more than your Alaskan fish factory. There's no reason that Amazon couldn't improve conditions of their buildings, or allow more bathroom breaks, or notify workers in advance if they have a shift
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by mapmeld 8y ago
Bitcoin transactions are only breakable by quantum computation once you reveal the public key behind an account's fingerprint (for example, by signing a transaction). So you can avoid quantum attacks by making every transaction split y

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