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by perlgeek 3y ago
* high variance in teacher quality (we had such a bad French teacher that after 9 years of lessons, I knew less than those who had 4 years at a public school) * long hours * since the school didn't believe in failing students, everybod
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I was at an alternative/private school, and while lots of it sucked, they did value doing things with your hands, so something I made were: * a bowl made out of copper, with a fitting lid * a three-legged stool * a very fine pair of sa
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I don't think anybody can really say for now, but if the price of it comes down enough, there are two rough categories of things that can happen: * devices that currently use superconductors don't have to use cooling anymore, an
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It's actually handled in the post (there's a 25k bounty if they stay together 1 year, after that a vesting schedule).
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Publish early, publish often. Put the code on github when there's something to look at. Write your blog posts as soon as you have something usable. Tell your colleagues to use it as soon as it brings them value. Do what OP calls "
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by perlgeek 3y ago
No
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Weren't the raw materials lead, copper, sulfur and phosphorous or something like that? Seems hard to to buy out elements that are so common in industrial and chemical processes.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Basically all these file transfer solutions are crap, from a quality and security perspective. Procurement works by ticking off features of a list, possibly comparing prices. Quality and security are hard to quantify, and often cannot reall
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by perlgeek 3y ago
If an attacker can compromise the jump host, they can compromise the system where the user starts the agent-forwarded connection.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Never happened to me, with several IMAP accounts. Are you using pop3 maybe?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> But I recently realized there is a very good reason to take Calculus. It’s to prove you can do hard things. This doesn't explain why Calculus over any other number of hard things.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Speaking of Germany... their subsidies to wind and solar energy helped dramatically drive down the cost of both: https://energytransition.org/2016/01/how-germany-helped-brin... This was done due to environmental
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Once thing that's missing (from both the article here, and for example the whole hydrogen discussion in Germany) is the round-trip efficiency. Now the author of the article would likely argue that with prices dropping as fast as they d
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by perlgeek 3y ago
From my user's perspective, it seems that privatization of Germany's phone and Internet market has worked pretty well, and lowered prices all around. Though I don't know if that was because there was a huge boom of Internet a
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by perlgeek 3y ago
By the same token, somebody actively writing code could be said to be one consultant away from being replaced be an offshoring firm. In the end, knowledge of the business details (including their technical implementation) are something that
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Meta note about the announcement: > contextual options based on the tab or Space that is currently active I find it quite amusing that two whitepace keys/characters, tab and space, are also used to refer to areas of the UI in thunde
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Next step: open a criminal case for attempted fraud with your local prosecutor. I find it outrageous that we simply let it slide that companies lie to avoid fulfilling their legal obligations, and count it as a victory if we can get them to
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by perlgeek 3y ago
So was the unauthenticated read block related to Twitter being afraid that Meta scrapes their user base for easier migration?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Big accusations, little evidence presented so far.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
The article calls paperspace "a leading provider of cloud infrastructure as a service". Does that mean they have/had lots of hardware investment? Or do they "just" offer a management layer based on other clouds?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
The way you phrase it, it sounds like what you really need is some kind of life and maybe career advice, something that needs more context than the few lines you've written here. Maybe it would help to talk somebody a bit older? Do you
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I had expected such orders after GDPR went into effect. I guess I was young and naive back then...
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> Privacy is already brocken, no options. And thus you question every attempt to fix it?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I heard this interview as well, and found it quite fascinating, especially that there's now an idea for an experimental test of pilot waves vs. other interpretations. I didn't consider pilot wave theory a serious contender, he kin
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Why in the world would an online article not include a short gif or an embedded video showing the bowling technique? Is gq.com primarily a print medium?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
In Eiffel at least, the contracts are checked at run time, whereas in Dafny it seems that it's verified at compile time. I think (but I'm not sure) that Eiffel disables recursive contract checking (so checking a contract of a func
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Putting a seed somewhere has a pretty low chance of producing a tree some years on. Conditions need to be good enough, and there's fierce competition in the plant world, as well as animals and lawn mowers that curb growth. Which is why
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> With modern pollution rain water is not likely to be safe to drink (depends on your location) There are lots of "grey water" uses that don't require drinkable water, like watering plants, flushing toilets.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I'm curious, where do you plan trees? Do you have land on your own, or is there some public land where you can plant trees?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I think it hasn't really been settled if pushing or pulling metrics is the anti-pattern, it seems to change every 5 to 10 years which one is currently hot.

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