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by o_nate 7y ago
You get a certain number of free articles with registration.
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by o_nate 7y ago
It's interesting that dogs are seen as the more practical, helpful pet. And certainly for much of history, that was true. However, in a modern, urban environment, I'd say the situation has reversed. Apart from the intangible, emot
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by o_nate 7y ago
Not sure why the parent is being downvoted. More detail of what happened would surely be informative. Ideally including the perspective of the arresting officer. Why were they pulled over? Why did he suspect they were in the country illegal
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by o_nate 7y ago
I guess the moral of this story is, if you're about to get on the bus, make sure you have enough battery left on your phone to last until you reach your destination. I use my phone to pay for a bus ticket every day, but I only have to
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by o_nate 7y ago
From a user's standpoint, the main noticeable change has been the steady decline in the quality and amount of food included in the box (along with increasing simplification of the recipes). In the early days, you'd definitely get
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by o_nate 7y ago
The type of trading that is consistently profitable at banks is mostly market-making, which is not a strategy available to a day-trader.
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by o_nate 7y ago
If they only use it internally and not on external-facing sites then the security issue is somewhat less urgent.
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by o_nate 7y ago
Interesting. If that really works, perhaps they should add a special asterisk that you should always leave the key in the car unless you're parking in an area with poor or nonexistent cell reception .
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by o_nate 7y ago
No headphone jack, no credibility.
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The Fifth Generation Computing Project(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
86 points by o_nate 7y ago|48 comments
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by o_nate 7y ago
That is a rather rare case. It's overwhelmingly the case that plastic gets recycled (if at all) into a lower grade and then can't be recycled again. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/almost-no-plastic-
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by o_nate 7y ago
This seems like great, practical advice. I usually get to step 2, documentation (however minimal) and command-line parameters. This inspires me to go the next step and add proper logging (instead of print statements) and unit tests as well.
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by o_nate 7y ago
Whenever I read articles like this, a couple of questions come to mind. Cumulative probability of being struck by one of these things within next 10, 20, etc. years? What would we do if we did see one coming that was going to strike earth g
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by o_nate 7y ago
That's a good example of how the lies of art can create a greater truth. It's rare to see all the big corporate logos superimposed on different parts of the field of view, rather like the sponsorship patches on the jacket of a NAS
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by o_nate 7y ago
There's a case to be made that flattening a list is not a common enough operation to justify a built-in keyword or even a method on the standard library list class. The Pythonic way seems to be that if you can write something with a si
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by o_nate 7y ago
Obviously it's absurd to think not everyone is conscious the same way we are, but I don't think you need to assert that for the hard problem of consciousness to exist. It's enough that I (whoever I am) am conscious, and no on
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by o_nate 7y ago
That's an interesting idea though it's hard to see how it would work in practice. In practice, our scientific concepts are ultimately grounded in observational data, data accessible to a conscious observer. I don't see how sc
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by o_nate 7y ago
OTM. The history of the Indian independence movement is a lot more complicated than the simple image of Ghandi and non-violence that most people receive through popular culture.
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by o_nate 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that snarky tone is standard in NY Times reporting and they'd have said the same thing if it was a US space launch.
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by o_nate 7y ago
I read one source that says metal ball bearings are used to attach the wooden wheels to the wooden axle. Makes sense, because otherwise the friction would probably make the device impractical.
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A Separate Kind of Intelligence: Interview with Alison Gopnik(edge.org)
3 points by o_nate 7y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 7y ago
I could see a use case for something like this to temporarily share a picture or other file on a web message board, for instance.
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by o_nate 7y ago
I can understand that when the only 2 things you know about someone are that they were a child predator and they have gobs of money with no apparent source, there is a strong temptation to think that the 2 things are linked. However, it see
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by o_nate 7y ago
Good advice. Lots of times people will tell you something specific that they want you to implement, but after understanding how they intend to use it and why they think they need it, you might realize that a different implementation would b
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by o_nate 7y ago
I dislike VBA too, but it would be easier to stomach if Excel at least had a decent IDE. Compare the VBA editor in Excel with Visual Studio and the difference is stark.
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by o_nate 7y ago
I agree with the sentiment of the article, though I don't really like the example given. To me, using a switch statement instead of if-else-if is not any clearer.
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by o_nate 7y ago
This is maybe slightly off-topic but one reason I prefer Java to C# when it comes to reading code outside an IDE is that it forces you to explicitly declare where every external class is being imported from, which makes it much easier to go
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by o_nate 7y ago
Whenever I learn about another of these Javascript foot-guns, I come away with a greater sense of awe at the relentless good sense that went into the design of Python. Not sure if it's a kind of super-human Dutch ability to foresee ram
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by o_nate 7y ago
If you are a large bank, I don't think that the regulator will take kindly to the statement that you don't model your risk since Taleb says it's not possible. Perhaps a more moderate position would be not to put too much fait
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by o_nate 7y ago
Not to be too nitpicky since it looks like the author is a developer and not a writer, but referring to the person building the spreadsheet as the "admin lady" throughout the piece sounds a bit awkward. Maybe just give her a made-

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