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by pc2g4d 9y ago
One day, landfills are vibrant ecosystems that completely break down whatever is placed inside them. As a compost pile today is to plant waste, a landfill one day could be to plastic, glass, metal, styrofoam, etc. We just need to save the p
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Firefox is my preferred mobile browser for numerous reasons. I hope it's a good experience for you.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
There's more to it, though. Washington has a long history of opposition to state income taxes, for various reasons: http://kuow.org/post/strange-short-story-washington-state-s-... In a way, he was just supporting
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
> The Anglosphere is in no way vulnerable to dictatorship Just yesterday Donald Trump called Turkey's Erdogan to congratulate him on seizing nigh-dictatorial powers in his country. Somehow I feel we're _very_ vulnerable to dict
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I've seen in person how an attempt at creating a novel data processing engine just ended up reimplementing the vast majority of the SQL standard. It's almost like a fundamental property of nature.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I tend to use TODO for features/functionality I'd like to add, and FIXME for existing functionality that's not doing what we want. Obviously there's a fuzzy line there.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
This release tells me that Ubuntu has completely given up on being a desktop Linux distribution. There's mention of only one thing: containers. Containers, containers, containers. No shell improvements, no application improvements, not
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I knew a guy whose PRK surgery was... unsuccessful. It mostly improved his vision, but one eye was always fuzzy. He had to wear sunglasses for an entire year, and kept hoping somehow the eye's inflammation would calm down and things wo
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
> "the ranger account of a bear my dad fought in Yellowstone" Link?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
`grid-row: -2` targets the bottom-most row, whereas I would have expected `grid-row: -1` to do so. I've never seen `-2` used to refer to the last element in a sequence. Python [1,2,3][-1] yields 3, for example. Anybody have an explanat
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Never liked and never used Unity, but defaulting to GNOME 3 is also unattractive to me. MATE or Cinnamon would be more welcome.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I'm sad about that, too. I still think it's a great vision.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Maybe it's just me misunderstanding, but to me "inference" and "training" are one and the same. But the article defined it thus: This first generation of TPUs targeted inference (the use of an already trained model,
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
It's a cartoon that goes into the complexities of the Unicode Consortium and the process of getting new emoji approved. Unfortunate that such static content depends on JS :-(
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Preparing to Advance Payment Request and Payment Handler APIs(w3.org)
2 points by pc2g4d 10y ago|0 comments
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Yes, this is a huge problem for me, too! I'm currently using Fedora, so it seems to cut across distros, but it drives me crazy. After tweaking a bunch of config variables I've got something pretty usable, but it's not ideal a
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Want a New Emoji? Good Luck(thenib.com)
3 points by pc2g4d 10y ago|2 comments
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
But seeing such a strong Scottish Remain vote seems to justify giving them a chance to stay in the EU as an independent nation.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
It's an economics term. Basically, how much output to you get for a given amount of input. It's more about the market value of the components than about how much physical stuff was produced.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
To me this is why single-payer is unwise. The distortions of having a single massive customer with various mandates are bound to cause distortions like this. Government-subsidized HSAs for everybody is my pet alternative.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
This is a really clever application of this sort of model. I did a lot of work with LDA (latent Dirichlet allocation) topic modeling, but never consider doing binary operations on the topic vectors themselves. Cool idea.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Does the federal government build many sidewalks?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
A recipes app as part of a desktop environment? Feels like a loss of focus to me.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I always wonder about the effects of pervasive air conditioning. Living in cool environments all through the summer certainly isn't natural, right? Maybe the energy required to regulate body temperature in warm environments is actually
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
> We're all out here to survive (comfortably) and anyone who says otherwise is lying (although probably not intentionally.) Well, that's your philosophy :-)
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
And Mount Bachelor is thus named because it stands apart from the Three Sisters. Originally, though, I think it was named Brother Mountain. The occurrence of "sisters" geographical names is a common pattern.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
"Adam Frank is professor of astronomy at the University of Rochester in New York and the co-founder of NPR's blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture where he is also a regular contributor. He is the author of several books, the latest bei
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Wow, the negativity around here is shocking. Philosophy dares to poke at the structures built up by science, and people are aghast. The article basically says that, because there are wildly-different but equally-plausible interpretations of
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I only recognized... I guess 3 of these. A bunch of them could be total nonsense and I have no idea.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
All I know is the grumbling about Daylight Saving is louder than ever in the circles I run with. New slogan for an anti-DST campaign? Abolish DST: Save Lives... and Sleep!

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