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by mtl_usr 9y ago
High speed rail pretty much only works in Japan and Europe for this very reason. It does have the benefit of offering a rather relaxing travel experience compared to flying. Taking the Eurostar between Paris and London takes less than three
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
The MacBook Air being ridiculously noncompetitive and the recent hike in price for the MacBook and the MacBook Pro totally changed the college laptop market. For the last 10 years+ almost everyone in CS had a Mac from the start or bought on
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> they wanted me to send it in and wait two weeks which was a non-starter as it is my main development machine Pro equipment means pro support. Why is only Apple getting this ?
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I guess the brand is getting quite valuable.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
It's been abandoned for quite some time. Apple is slowly pulling out of academia, where they used to shine quite well.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I know people in Canada that got US bank accounts just so they could use the real payments apps and tech instead of the poor local offering. It's a testament of how good it is.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
As a non-native speaker, definitely a ressource I should read.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> For example, updating BIOS to a version that fixes an important CPU bug causes the computer to freeze and shutdown every few minutes at random. I'd return it at this point. It's defective by design.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I was once called "snobbish" because I used the term " transitive" while discussing a similar issue with non-technical people in the legal field. If only the legislator understood technology instead of simply using the &
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I stopped believing in the "digital native" buzzword after spending some time with some older relatives. Because nobody makes good old fashioned cellphones that can only make calls they were all upgraded to touch-screen smartphone
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
As a Canadian, this article sums up pretty well the internet situation in most of the country, even in "urban" areas. Due to the "Canada is different" mentality here, foreign, more efficient companies are forbidden from
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
I've seen a few good classifiers to filter hate speech in tweet s at a few hackathons. Of course they rely on a wordlist 90 % of the time but it would eliminate the trashiest comments quite well.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Simple fact trivia won't do anything to demonstrate a person has understood the article, merely that he read it. It's the fundamental difference between functional illiteracy and "plain" illiteracy. This difference shows
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> faraway cities such as Montreal Loved that bit > Fourth, PornHub is owned by MindGeek which also owns Brazzers, Mofos, DigitalPlayground, Twistys, RealityKings, and has many relationships with other producers. There was, a few years
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Doesn't seem very different than the Google Bus vandalism that was in the news a few years ago. Some people want Google to look bad for whatever reasons. It sounds like these people know that recovering the bikes will cost Google money
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Such a good way to attract pro users. The number of Apple store and their world-wide support is one of the reason I see a lot of pro users reluctant to buy something else than a MacBook. This makes absolutely no sense since the only buyers
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
> Radiology is poised to let CNNs make radiologists a lot more efficient. I honestly don't see the added value of having a "more efficient" human once the classifier is good enough.
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by mtl_usr 9y ago
Was approached by them for a project. Definitely not the case as outlined by we39i [0] down in the comments. Mostly French from France there. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14875272