overkalix

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by overkalix 8y ago
Census
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I know it's just a joke, but to be clear everyone in the village was a debtor AND a creditor.
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Hey hey hey. What's wrong with Kahneman?
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I'm trying to do exactly this, people think I'm crazy. Do you mind me asking where did you relocate exactly?
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There can't be a similar process of standardization if there is no cooperation between supply actors, and there will not be cooperation if the market is completely open. There is a tradeoff between scalability and competitiveness. If y
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I literally cannot believe
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Ah, yes, good ol' could you code facebook.
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Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Spain is at the top of the ranking because the medical staff have a huge economic incentive to convince donors/family (2k euros) and conduct transpla
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by overkalix 8y ago
Where do you live that your local gov can pay $30M for payroll software?
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In my experience running Linux in two laptops is that it tends to underestimate the battery duration but the battery lasts longer than with the original OS.
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by overkalix 8y ago
Not a webdev, but from what I've seen webdevs are forced to compete, not in what they can do, but in terms of how they can do it (frameworks, packages). So, an aspect of your work process becomes a proxy for the quality of your work. I
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by overkalix 8y ago
Interesting. Coming from a Mediterranean country, what shocked me the most was not the extremely obese people (although these really were a lot more common than in my country), but the fact that figuratively everyone seemed to be at least o
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I always liked the aphorism "Better is the enemy us good".
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> Is that in the funny dialect they speak? Catalan is not a dialect of Spanish, if anything it would be a dialect of Occitan. And seeing how condescending are hurtful you are trying to be I suspect you already knew that. > Why do peop
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by overkalix 8y ago
Do you consider Portuguese to be a dialect of Spanish?
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If there is a particularly noisy group, don't be shy to yell at them "calleu d'una puta vegada".
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by overkalix 8y ago
Shilling and karma farming have killed ingenuous sharing of information. I used to go on reddit to discover new things. That's no longer the case. I still visit small subs about some shows, games, languages, etc, but I am no longer exp
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by overkalix 8y ago
My understanding is that the measures taken against GDPR infringements will very much depend on the good will of the relevant national authority. And as a member of a EU country that for the last year has been constantly bending (when not b
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This is the most embarrassing moment of your life? You amateur.
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I'm a PhD student and my university has a pretty decent subscription. But while downloading a paper from a uni IP is very straightforward, from outside campus one has to jump through so many hoops that sci hub is the most comfortable o
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by overkalix 8y ago
I don't use Julia and I only use Python occasionally, but I'd rather go for Cython than Julia...
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by overkalix 9y ago
I still work with my eight year old notebook and its glorious Intel Atom and 1GB of RAM... It was gifted to me during my second year of college and now that I'm on my PhD I still have a use for it. The original Windows distribution las
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by overkalix 9y ago
Fun fact. A few weeks ago I received a reminder email from a service I used months ago. The transaction was done in person, but I guess I somehow agreed to sign up for their web service. Not only did they attach my username and password in