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Is this an issue that's worse for Chrome than for other browsers? The only browser extension I use is HonorLock, an exam proctoring software that I'm required to use. Its extension is for Chrome only, so I use Chrome from time to
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I take it that you’ve never been paid late while living paycheck to paycheck? No, it’s not just about forgetting to pay the bill on time, and in many cases the interest rate is already the highest one that’s legally possible. When high-stat
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Imagine the horror if credit card companies stop being able to offer premium airport lounge experiences and free travel to their wealthiest customers by means of the late fees they charge to their most marginalized.
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It’s good that this arrives at a time with downward pressures on housing costs (I think?), because otherwise these savings wouldn’t stand a chance against being gobbled up by rent increases.
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Insightful, and reminds me of Kierkegaard: Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that
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A good linter can help people see where their code isn't concise and give nudges toward better style. Clearly, being concise can sometimes mean being opaque, but in this case it's not, the boilerplate dilutes the meaning without a
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“While formal methods have been studied for decades, their deployment remains limited; further innovation in approaches to make formal methods widely accessible is vital to accelerate their broad adoption.” — White House Well gosh. I appli
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Inspired by Monty Python, the surprises are part of the charm. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Is the state space of a single proton sufficiently complex for the complete range of first-person experience to fit within it?
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The achievement of course objectives is a measure of instructional quality. Why add insult to injury when the customers don’t get what they paid for?
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Another one to consider is the Sylvia Plath Effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath_effect
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To highlight another dynamically typed, interpreted language ecosystem, npm has been providing a remarkably smooth and uniformly adopted service for the JavaScript community.
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Interesting parallel to solar panels.
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Researchers falling behind on mathematical results? Government can lend a hand: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
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Some novices do in fact write Rust, just like how many of them gain experience in C and C++ during undergrad. With any luck, universities will adopt something safer like Rust…
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When I saw this, I was wondering whether Florida has a new startup-style VR project -- this time with the “Magic” Kingdom. Unfortunately for the Sunshine State, Disney’s two research labs are located in Los Angeles and Zürich. https:/
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If the US is hoping to promote free-market policies, then increasing demand for technological innovation within China is a likely objective of this policy. For an example of the theoretical framework being discussed by experts, here is an a
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If the organization has a widespread issue where employees hesitate to ask questions via impromptu Slack messages or phone calls, then managers need more training on establishing an effective organizational culture. Here is a guide from For
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Point (1) is a function of the team's culture around new hires and working relationships generally. Occupying the same building, the same floor, or even the same room as a coworker is simply not equivalent to having a beneficial work c
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To add to the anecdata of programmer impressions: Haskell can be extremely performant compared to Python. In terms of developer experience, it almost causes me physical pain to use some of the poorly designed Python libraries out there.
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If we take the behavior of matter as the observable signs of how it feels — this is true if sensation motivates action — then many rich states of sensation have been observed in subatomic particles. The computational process of an organism
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Panpsychism is going mainstream again.
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If panpsychism is true, then even the molecules our bodies cleave apart during digestion could be sentient.
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Unknowns are inconsistent with assurance. It’s rational to reject unknowns if you prefer assurance. If you’re the NSA and you need your security assured, you’ll absolutely balk at having novel machines with recording equipment and unknown p
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Animal intelligence will continue to be surprising for as long as animal exploitation remains mainstream.
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The bottleneck is that the Python libraries have a poor user experience. “Get familiar with one or more ML libraries like PyTorch, Tensorflow, FastAI, or scikit-learn. This is harder than getting familiar with a normal programming library b
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What makes the two fears fundamentally different?
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Yeah… it’s a eulogy given to the general public. Sometimes they say nice things even if they aren’t 100% accurate.
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Well, who was in Satoshi’s orbit, and did Satoshi have an employer?
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Due to the tendency to patch and mitigate known security vulnerabilities, there is a norm within cryptography to assume that parties will possess technologies which are more advanced than are publicly disclosed.

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