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by nomaxx117 5y ago
At this point IBM is only around because it takes a while to die. IBM's leadership are truly incompetent and I do not expect to see them around in another 10 years. It's a pity that they acquired RedHat, as it will now be driven i
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
These projects are so expensive, but also the most impactful I would argue. This intensity of investigation can solve truly horrendous and well-hidden crimes.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
I remember having a class "competition" my freshman year of college to implement the fastest autocomplete system. It had to be Java, so I used JNI to call into a well-optimized set of C routines for constructing and querying a tri
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Thanks for the data, that's exactly my point! this is a term constructed by those outside the group, and those within the group don't use it.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Good point, didn't think about that.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
I'd guess not, as anything that would store these new words is probably storing longer text strings, and thus already would need to be dealing with escapes properly. Unlike names, these words won't be keys terribly often.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
From what I'm seeing, there seems to be a trend towards ditching smaller offices and consolidating or moving towards WeWork spaces.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
It's interesting to watch languages evolve around this issue. I can't help but contrast this and other debates by native speakers with the obnoxious spread of "LatinX", a term which makes no sense if you speak Spanish (I
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Reorganizing these roles to Redmond would make a great deal of sense financially, although I wonder how many of these roles will move, and how many will disappear.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
This is far and away one of my favorite metrics. If I see something with more comments than upvotes on here, I can expect an intense debate over something controversial. These tend to be some of my favorite comment sections.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this, its always amazing to see how physical properties can be used in weird ways to bypass normal "rules" of computation.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
I've come to associate this style with dishonesty. Alegria was designed to elicit feelings of trust, but ironically it now is associated with firms that cannot be trusted.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
I would agree completely. There are documented instances of this entity being called out by the parties who actually own the rights to the music. I described them as fraudulent for a reason: what they are doing is fraud.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Ingroove is known to be a fraudulent troll. They have been doing this to massive amount of creators, in many cases asserting rights to music they do not own the rights to.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Are you suggesting that states should go into lockdown because people were too stupid to get vaccinated? I am all for taking measurements to keep those to young to get vaccinated safe, but I draw a line with unvaccinated adults who have had
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Please stop with the ad hominems here. That is a relevant point (especially earlier in the pandemic), but it is decidedly not the issue at hand. Hospital beds are one of many issues at the moment. If we had more beds, that wouldn't all
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
The US situation with hospital capacity has little to do with lockdown measures, and far more to do with the insufficient vaccination rate. People who chose not to get vaccinated are now preventing others from getting treatment.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
This is not a very convincing argument at all. Syntax highlighting takes away the mental burden of analyzing the syntax of a program, freeing the programmer to think about the structure and semantics of it. A good IDE (a good vim setup can
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Depends, cheap restaurants see more traffic, especially fast food. They should be able to spread the cost of increased wages across the additional customers.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
I know a lot of small business owners who do nothing but whine about this in my hometown. However, I think that their issue really is not offering wages as high as the competition. An old friend of mine is doing pretty well with his recentl
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Not familiar with that, and Google isn't being helpful. What are they exactly?
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
I think that per-capita normalization in particular is interesting. I have a spreadsheet where I did that, and the Philippines stands out even more then, as does Brazil. GDP is a bad normalization factor here, as the trend is weird. High in
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Interesting point regarding the incinerators! From what I've read, a lot of it has to do with systemic mismanagement of the situation from the various governments over the past few decades.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
IF you want the raw numbers, check out the references at the bottom, particularly the "top" reference, published in 2021, which is where the raw data is.
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
From what I've seen, the only oceanic activities that add much is fishing, which seems to be currently estimated to produce around 20% of global oceanic plastic waste. I believe the link may have mentioned this. If not, some of the ref
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
Not really. Most of this waste seems to be single-use, and if you read through the cited references, the primary factor seems to be the inability to manage waste plastics from locally consumed products. Rivers are tempting targets for waste
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
That isn't the case based on the data. Fishing nets aside (which are definitely from predominately Chinese-owned fleets), much of this is actually not from the recycling systems, but is instead single use plastics, especially since Chi
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
I would argue that these are the wrong questions. As this article, and those papers referenced by the article point out, this has to do overwhelmingly with inadequate waste disposal systems. More interesting questions for solving the issue
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
You might be able to get answers in the "Figures and Data" tab of this page: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/18/eaaz5803
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by nomaxx117 5y ago
These actions do reduce litter, but most ocean emission is the result of a complete lack of waste disposal systems. The quantities involved are always far larger in situations where a very large portion of waste is simply dumped into a rive

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