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by otoburb 3y ago
As a previously frequent traveler on both domestic and international flights, pushing your way through to the back while everybody is standing up waiting to deplane doesn't have to slow things down if those passengers waited until enou
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by otoburb 3y ago
Thanks for your work on Buckaroo! Jupyter print() and IPython display() have limitations given their dead static output and feels like printf debugging of yore, which I know Buckaroo was written to address. What are your thoughts on Vis
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by otoburb 3y ago
From the AMD Radeon tweet referenced in the article[1] (emphasis mine): "Open sourcing additional portions of our software stack and more hardware documentation." So, not the whole driver stack, but still a positive step forward
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> Otherwise what's stopping everyone from claiming discrimination every time they get laid off? You can claim discrimination, but then you'll need somebody (usually an attorney you hire) to file a lawsuit against the compa
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> [...] credentials and connections matter a lot. Paul Graham tried to add a bit of nuance to your point in a recent essay[1]: "The empirical evidence is clear on this. If you look at where the largest numbers of successful sta
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Reverse Vowels using Factor(re.factorcode.org)
2 points by otoburb 3y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> [...] identical to Redis and that it is a drop in relevance placement for Redis going forward? I think only identical to Redis 7.2.4, and will ignore Redis development going forward.
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by otoburb 3y ago
I knew about hexagons but not about R-trees and Hilbert curves, and then combining the two. Even though that was an inbound content article, it was at least informative.
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by otoburb 3y ago
Always something to look forward to in [early] retirement to keep the mind active.
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by otoburb 3y ago
Zig also has an IRC channel on libera (#zig) that is moderated by Andrew Kelley.[1] [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
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by otoburb 3y ago
The IRC link doesn't go anywhere except back to the homepage. Is the IRC channel hosted on libera/oftc/efnet?
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by otoburb 3y ago
Evidently it's the same project, but your link was the "research & publish" phase of the project, while this announcements seems to be the "commercial" phase. The same list of people who wrote the blog post(s) o
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by otoburb 3y ago
How will this discontent manifest itself? It feels like voter apathy is widespread[1], so it would be amazing to me if any politican feels that this is the issue that causes TikTok voters to mobilize no matter what side of the aisle you&#
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by otoburb 3y ago
This looks like something that I could use right away, but I wonder, since we can write Python, does this mean that we can write back to one of the native backends (e.g. Postgres)? Currently, the only way to do this from Excel (e.g. saving
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> Regardless you still have to spend time and money on extracurriculars since the 98% is a bare minimum. This means student activities and clubs aren't for socializing. They have been co-opted as a mechanism to create 10-person
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by otoburb 3y ago
As a (to me, puzzling) counterpoint, Caltech ran a similar internal analysis in 2020 and again in 2022 and extended their moratorium on standardized test scores for first-year admissions out to 2025.[1] [1] https://www.admissions
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by otoburb 3y ago
I think the reasoning (whether correct or not) is that the constant vigilance (such that it is) prevents a torrent of facade from crumbling and falling; it wouldn't just be "an errant" piece.
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> The laws stem from the death of a Barnard College student killed by a falling piece of masonry in 1979. Interesting timing given the recent article about somebody who died from falling bricks from their aging facade while sweeping
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by otoburb 3y ago
They would always be at the mercy of NVIDIA's API. Without knowing the inner workings, perhaps a major concern with this approach is the need to implement on NVIDIA's schedule instead of AMD's which is a very reactive stance.
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> I don't know much about SQL Server and MySQL but I wouldn't favor a lockin closed source software or anything remotely connected to Oracle. If that's a concern, then MariaDB is another alternative. Postgres isn&#x27
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by otoburb 3y ago
You're right to be conscious of and cautious about runway given you have a family to sustain. If you're not a single parent, what does your partner think about the circumstances, and what would they be willing to do to help? Havin
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by otoburb 3y ago
Yes. It was great because we both spent time upfront explicitly talking about our working styles and expectations. At that time of our lives, we were both able to push hard at work. I didn't take equity, but asked for more cash compens
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by otoburb 3y ago
I thought one of the eligibility requirements to be recruited was either US citizenship or permanent residence.[1] [1] https://www.goarmy.com/how-to-join/requirements.html
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by otoburb 3y ago
Similar to the French Foreign Legion where one can request citizenship through naturalization after 3 years of service[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion
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The Rule of X(bvp.com)
1 points by otoburb 3y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 3y ago
Reviewing the actual FTC announcement: " Companies that allow or provide applications with ephemeral messaging capabilities must continue to retain all relevant documents during government investigations and enforcement actions. &quot
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by otoburb 3y ago
The O-1 is a nonimmigrant visa[1], but my understanding is that it's also one of the few nonimmigrant visas that USCIS allows for dual-intent consideration. Eventually, you have to go through additional steps to convert to an immigrant
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by otoburb 3y ago
Appreciate sharing this specific immigration journey so far. The biggest positive factor seems to be that the poster was already in the US on an L-1B which also counted towards one out of four of the O-1 eligibility criteria (specialized kn
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by otoburb 3y ago
>> OsmAnd has more than 10 million installs, VLC more than 100 million. Can you imagine the fees? They obviously don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars on hand to pay every month to Apple. VideoLAN (VLC developer) is a non-
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by otoburb 3y ago
Apple provided a fee calculator so that people can run their own scenarios: https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-...

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