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by mjn 8y ago
> the mawk flavor is extremely fast Fast, but partly because it's not Unicode-aware: it treats strings as 8-bit character sequences rather than UTF-8. Often that's fine, if non-ASCII characters are only passed through unmodifie
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by mjn 8y ago
Very different technical construction, but reminds me a bit of Joyent's Manta, that also lets you run map-reduce jobs over an object store without explicit server management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939340
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by mjn 8y ago
The Wayback Machine has always had a policy to delete things if requested, so there's no real change there. The most common way site owners do that is by changing robots.txt. In line with the Oakland Archive Policy [1], the Internet Ar
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by mjn 9y ago
> Honestly, California is the only state where I'd unabashedly recommend this path though. The community colleges are consistently good, you have multiple choices in terms of top tier public universities, and transfer students are g
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by mjn 9y ago
I don't suppose anyone here knows whether this plays out differently with very large shippers? I could imagine that having a real 24/7 in-house operations center could be cost-effective and desirable for a giant line, especially o
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by mjn 9y ago
Whether by luck or not, that's actually not far off one of the better estimates I can find. The paper "Fatalities among the world's merchant seafarers (1990–1994)" [1] ends up with a rough estimate of 2200 fatalities per
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Deep learning for biology(nature.com)
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by mjn 9y ago
The strategy that the dlib implementation uses of combining a global optimization method (LIPO) with one that works better locally (TR) reminds me of another recent paper I ran across, which takes a black-box global optimization algorithm (
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All We Have Are Words(magicalwasteland.com)
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by mjn 9y ago
Yes, they reimburse for delays over 1 hour. 1-2 hours is a 25% refund, 2-3 hours is a 50% refund, and 3+ hours is either a 50% refund (still) if you take it in cash, or a 75% refund in vouchers. Links: https://faq.eurostar.com&#x
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by mjn 9y ago
It depends on the AST, but most languages' ASTs are quite unwieldy to work with directly. They get marked up with all kinds of semantic information useful for a compiler or interpreter quite early in the parsing process, and are often
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by mjn 9y ago
Although DB doesn't run their own trains on the line, if you buy enough in advance, you can buy a "Sparpreis Europa London" ticket from bahn.de, good between any station in Germany and London, for typically in the range of €5
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by mjn 9y ago
Another obituary: https://www.opb.org/news/article/celebrated-oregon-fantasy-a...
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Ursula K. Le Guin has died(locusmag.com)
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by mjn 9y ago
Imo some level of service even in areas not all that favorable to transit is reasonable. Or at least, I think it's possible to do at least slightly better. I now live in a fairly rural part of the UK, a remote region (Cornwall) that
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by mjn 9y ago
#1 was the most interesting part of this paper to me. I don't think I've seen a compiler variant of Spectre discussed elsewhere, and now I'm curious whether a similar issue might be present in more mainstream compilers too. T
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by mjn 9y ago
It's really hard to convince people they don't have (and aren't likely to have) a Facebook-sized scale problem though, even if the vast majority of people really don't. It's like trying to convince people they don&#
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by mjn 9y ago
Possibly an obvious comment, but reading your post it struck me that any way you slice it, you're more or less building a garbage-collection system, with all the various tradeoffs those entail. Different performance issues since it&#x2
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by mjn 9y ago
Some Lisp implementations (like SBCL) also do that blending, although they can statically catch some integer range violations too. For example if you declare a variable to be an (integer 50 100) and try to assign a literal 30 to it, you&#x2
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Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech(elifesciences.org)
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by mjn 9y ago
Hey, the Romans never reached all the way to Cornwall and yet we still have... at least like, 1/2 of those.
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Do researchers need to follow TOS?(medium.com)
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by mjn 9y ago
This might vary by language, but in the ones I'm familiar with, the culture of "one-liners" has always permitted multiple statements on the line with statement separators. E.g. the awk one-liners: http://www.pement
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Supervised Learning – House of Lords and AI(gamesbyangelina.org)
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How to Escape a Death Spiral(theatlantic.com)
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by mjn 9y ago
Their FAQ [1] now appears to explicitly say so: that the class-action waiver and arbitration agreement only apply to disputes over the credit-monitoring product itself, not over the original breach. I don't know if they have some way t
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by mjn 9y ago
If done collectively that has worked before. In 2001, almost the entire editorial board of the Springer journal Machine Learning resigned [1] in order to lend their support to a new open-access journal, Journal of Machine Learning Resear
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by mjn 9y ago
Mu4e communicates with the mu backend through an s-expression based protocol [1], so in principle any other backend that implemented the protocol could work with mu4e. Not aware of anyone having written an alternate backend though. [1] htt
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by mjn 9y ago
That's the main reason I use mu, although I like notmuch as well. Their tooling is similar in a lot of ways, but for me the most important high-level difference between the two is the storage model: in mu, canonical storage is purely i
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by mjn 9y ago
I don't keep in that close contact, but as I understand it he hasn't precisely moved back to Greece. The business is incorporated in northern Europe and he has his legal residence there. It's just that since there's no

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