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by meuk 8y ago
I don't think it is unheard of to have a judge interpret the intention of a law.
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by meuk 8y ago
My guess: Big corporations often have more potential to outsource, and are better known, and have a stronger PR and legal department. These traits give them a much better negotiation position (don't remember that governments profit fro
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by meuk 8y ago
It's directly contradictory to their goal, since the goal is trying to answer well-defined questions.
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by meuk 8y ago
From the wiki page, I am led to believe that he proved a weaker result, being that if there are cycles of period three then there are cycles of every period (which is not the period three implies chaos result). See the second paragraph in
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by meuk 8y ago
I have replaced the battery and the HDD by an SSD in two old thinkpads, and they work very well. In particular, they have a nice key layout and type a lot better than my 1600 dollar Dell XPS, which is more important to me than a full HD scr
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by meuk 8y ago
As an introvert, visibility has always been an issue for me. Last week I had a big task for which I put in well over 10 hours a day. When people see it's done sooner than expected they just assume that is was easier. Meanwhile, other p
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by meuk 8y ago
I sometimes work remotely, but most days I wasn't very productive. This is partially my own fault for not having a dedicated room to work in (so I sit in the living room, which is full of distractions). But it's also an infrastruc
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by meuk 8y ago
You can basically make your own kind of 'near misses' with recurrent relations. If you have a recurrent relation of the type f(n + 1) = a * f(n) + b * f(n - 1), you (almost always) get a solution of the form f(n) = c * alpha^n + d
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by meuk 8y ago
Common misconception, but that graph does not explain the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's actually more like a linear curve, it's just a little flatter than the graph of y = x. The Dunning-Kruger effect is that the best people under
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by meuk 8y ago
Absolutely awesome! Some faces seem to have some weird horizontal asymmetry, though (I'm not saying that people are perfectly symmetric, but in these pictures the two halves of the face seem to belong to different people).
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by meuk 8y ago
Some situations are easier to rationalize when you are an outsider. I think many people were sceptical of Theranos. Maybe Elizabeth Holmes was charismatic enough to overcome scepsis in most people. It is baffling that she managed to become
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by meuk 8y ago
Ten and a half years... Some murderers get away with less.
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by meuk 8y ago
> In reality, this high-end hardware isn’t really necessary for most applications outside of video encoding, machine learning, and a few other domains. This should say "really isn't" instead of "isn't really&quot
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by meuk 8y ago
> We worried about those folks because they were [...] the least likely to tell others about the service. Are there still people who don't know Netflix? ;)
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by meuk 8y ago
I like the commandline as well, but most of my coworkers are happy using a git GUI, and I can see why: 1. Most GUI's give you an overview of the changes before committing. 2. Most GUI's let you commit and push in one go, an
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by meuk 8y ago
Personally, I think using git from the commandline is too complicated for the purpose it serves in most companies. Using a git GUI works quite well for people inexperienced with git.
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by meuk 8y ago
Another problem is that nowadays, all devices need internet to do anything. It's ridiculous. Even offline gaming is impossible for most platforms/games.
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by meuk 8y ago
I recently set up a RPi with Pi-hole, only to find out that my ISP gave me a router that prevents you from using another DNS server. I can still use the Pi-hole, but I have to set up the DNS manually for every device. Quite a pain in the as
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by meuk 8y ago
Ouch, good point! I was at work and a bit too eager to have the first post, I think ;)
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by meuk 8y ago
Intuitive explanation: if you interpret a time series as the coefficients of a polynomial, the Fourier transform is just polynomial multiplication (this makes sense because polynomial multiplication is just convolution). Now we can write ba
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by meuk 8y ago
Disagree. I dislike coding at work, because it's boring infrastructure stuff I have to code. I am 26, I work 32 hours a week and work pressure is very low and there's just no way I'm burning out. A lot of coding is just borin
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by meuk 8y ago
Microsoft's documentation is really bad, in my opinion. So maybe Microsoft would be a good choice for Steve after all ;)
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by meuk 8y ago
If you followed only the first year then yes, you've wasted your time. Things start to get interesting in the years after that.
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by meuk 8y ago
I live in the Netherlands and disagree with your point about the price. I usually cook meals for 2-3 people. They usually cost less than 3 euro for vegetables (in total, not per person). Meat and/or cheese are usually the most expensiv
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by meuk 8y ago
To show equivalence, you should show that any state machine can be implemented as a coroutine and vice versa. The author here implements one example with coroutines and with a state machine, which shows exactly nothing. (As a metaphore, it&
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by meuk 8y ago
If they gave people the illusion that they could make WPF cross-platform it would mean a lot of wasted time for both Microsoft and the contributors. So it's probably better to remove that illusion right away. People can always fork a
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by meuk 8y ago
I've made a simple PCB layout before, and worked with FPGA's before (generated some simple HDMI output, and communicated via SPI). Is a similar project feasible for me, or likely to be a step too far?
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by meuk 8y ago
At least it adheres to most standards, unlike many browsers. Many people don't care about customization.
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by meuk 8y ago
Well, that's embarrassing.
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by meuk 8y ago
Well, Opera is a good browser that no-one uses, so it can't be just that. Tbh UX just isn't Microsofts strong suite (although I really like Windows 10).

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