nraynaud

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by nraynaud 5y ago
I'm so sorry for all these native English speakers missing out on the automatically translated pages put there to bait google and others. Then the "clever" ML people scour the web and use multilingual pages as rosetta stone t
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I can't imagine the crazy headache for management, like are you going to ask your Indian teamates their cast when you suspect there is foul play in the team?
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I don’t know, I’m not a native English speaker. I meant that: “to gradually reduce or write off the cost or value of (something, such as an asset)”
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Did I miss the amortization of the CO2 emitted during the change?
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If they want to visit the US with a Iranian stamp on their passport.
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We have a famous example here of someone who is forever forbidden to work around financial markets, that include the IT systems and network equipment. But I don't think companies here are ever barred to go further than the law. If empl
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I have never been asked this question for employment. In my country being forbidden to work in some area is an extra sentence that the judge would impose (it's mostly around being forbidden to manage a company, being elected, or using
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by nraynaud 5y ago
yeah, on the surface it is a bit weird, Peloton has capital intensive hardware, there should be some interaction as to how much capital is allocated to the technology, product releases etc.
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by nraynaud 5y ago
My “other side of the coin” is: as a designer of a system, never explain how they work, just tell people it is smart and that they should not assume otherwise since they don’t know how they work. And then go back swimming in your giant vaul
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I'm not sure we do (whatever we normalize by to compare the 2 big areas), freight trains are not big in Europe, because of size. Our most populous and wealthy countries are next to each other. For trains, you need to amortize the cost
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I don't know, it's all about regression on other factors. I'm pretty sure you can find a drinking test population in California that is wealthy and non-smokers too. And you can eliminate coffee with a muslim population.
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by nraynaud 5y ago
the study of mormon communities did actually show a lower cancer rate. I can't find the article anymore, but it's visible in breast cancer rate (I don't remember what the study was controlled for).
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funny, I once did a backward scheduling for a client during a task, I had to justify 3 times why I looped backwards over an array. So if I were to create an actually clever algorithm like they ask in leetcode, I don't knwo how well tha
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I have tried providing a correction to OSM, they never got moderated or integrated. But there is a local club because they used the email address I provided to invite me. I don’t think I want to spend time doing it again.
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And I would add that not everybody is targeted for their political opinions, they might disagree but not be vocal enough to be targeted, be lucky, etc. So the lack of voting power might not affect their capacity at having a good life and fo
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by nraynaud 5y ago
one very impressive feat is the Pont du Gard, this thing has been in disuse for 1500 years, and lots of stones have been looted over the centuries. And its aspect ratio is somewhat thin.
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I’m not a crypto bro, but I don’t think it’s fair to criticize a prototype on its cost. Airplanes were very bad at the beginning. I think the valid criticism would be if there is some kind of physical limitation that prevents the system fro
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by nraynaud 5y ago
to add a bit, it's part of the DHS mentionned later, Department of Homeland Security. It's the giant paranoid agency that spies on pretty much everybody in one form or another.
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and the weird comercial buildings that look "welcoming" on the road side but actually the entrance is in the back, towards the car park.
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the world is not manichean, the superpowers are thorns in the side to "deal" with day in, day out, for smaller nations. What's the point of view of the African nations where only China invests vs what the Uighurs think of the
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I just love the complete lack of self-awareness. Russia and China bad, the US is good.
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oops, sorry for the misinformation
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As an anecdote, the CEO of tilt five wrote the guidance software for the Astra rocket that went sideways when an engine quit upon takeoff.
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I wanted to do that for CAD modelling if the glasses can be worn all day long. Look a the display for normal things, and look at the reflective panel for 3D things. I guess game developers could be interested too.
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knowing the cost of a bullet train railway, and the fact that freight trains don't use them, I'm skeptical, as far as I know, it's tax money and debt that "pays" for it.
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It’s a very common western insult to say that all Asians are the same. But then they test a supersonic weapon or organize a flotilla in an unexpected way and everybody freaks out.
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I really would like that for the map on my bike.
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it has a bit of a smalltalk flavor, where the runtime is a memory image, with objects and data in a giant jumble.
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Ouch, so much for the argument that self-driving is safer if the car was tail-gating another car and didn’t have the reaction speed to brake.
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how much would you ask to be paid to pressure test the coolant system of a giant bomb in situ?

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