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by perlgeek 4y ago
> except in the sense of trying to exploit market inefficiencies to take it that's precisely the bad part about it
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Kinda like the whole Dark Energy thing in physics, I still hope for a better explanation, some day. BTW I've once read a hypothesis that severe pandemics (like the black death) select for individuals with highly active immune systems,
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by perlgeek 4y ago
For learning, it would also help to show the flag + correct nation name next to each other; maybe a list of past flags and their correct answers at the side or bottom?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
You can select which charity to support on smile.amazon.de at least. So pick the top 10% or 5% or whatever charities that were supported by the most customers.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> "our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin" If that's the supposed reason, I call bullshit. Could've just reduced the number of charities.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
If you're very early, you want to automate enough to be able to iterate quickly. That's not the same as automating "everything", of course.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Don't forget Larry Wall's page: http://www.wall.org/~larry/ :-)
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Still no working escalation for issues within stripe?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Some from Raku (formerly Perl 6) that I really like: * sub MAIN: sub MAIN(Int $x, :$verbose) { } generates a command line parser that expects an Integer plus an optional named switch --verbose * It has named params (as seen above), and ther
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by perlgeek 4y ago
There are at least two enforcement mechanisms: * Governments can reach Apple and Google, and thus force them to remove the apps from their app stores. * Diplomacy. EU and USA will have a lot of negotiation to do pretty soon. USA doesn'
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> If they give what seems like a very honest and thoughtful assessment, that's a good sign. In 99% of cases, the real, honest answer is "I couldn't possibly know, because I don't know all the candidates for this job&q
552.
by perlgeek 4y ago
Finally I understand why private RSA keys are so freaking long; storing redundant information explains it.
553.
by perlgeek 4y ago
marriage, divorce, another marriage?
554.
by perlgeek 4y ago
> Russia will win the war How do you define that? I'm mostly asking because Russia's official war goals have changed so many times that it's hard to even know what it means to "win" it. Like, control of all of Uk
555.
by perlgeek 4y ago
> ChatGPT will not result in a trillion dollar business. In the event that a paid ChatGPT for say, $5/monthly resulted in a 10+ billion dollar business, Google would within the same year simply do the same with Meena or Lambda (make
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> Monocrystalline Si solar panels have so many advantages that it's hard to get interested in anything else for home or business construction. I agree. "Classical" is already cost effective in many areas of the world, and
557.
by perlgeek 4y ago
... and shortly after the deal was signed (and the projected profit added to the books), the contract was swapped out / "sold" to a subsidiary mostly owned by Enron, and selling this propped up the books even more. The associ
558.
by perlgeek 4y ago
Solar panels still have some dimensions along which they could improve, for example: * efficiency in low-light situations * efficiency when parts of the panel are covered * cost I guess the inverters could also be improved...
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Y'know, I've written a lot of python these past years, and python is just full of aliases and different ways to do things. Just an example: "if x is not None:" is syntactic sugar for "if not x is None:". String
560.
by perlgeek 4y ago
Recently bought a new printer, avoided anything with "smart" or "cloud" in the name/description.
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> It doesn't affect anyone. No one in Europe uses cash for anything more expensive than maybe 200 euros. Sold a used car just last year, got 2700€ in cash for it. Much easier than doing a bank transfer (which takes 1 day to arrive,
562.
by perlgeek 4y ago
Laughing with somebody in a social setting also triggers a dopamine reward. Should we strictly regulate laughing in social settings, by that same argument?
563.
by perlgeek 4y ago
I just tried some prompts in German in the form "give me poem $x with religious elements removed", and it worked the first time (but not very well), and then later it stopped doing it, saying its purpose was answering questions. S
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by perlgeek 4y ago
If your private SSH key is leaked, you can expect the attacker to come up in with a single successful login attempt, sshguard, fail2ban etc. won't help. The only help against that scenario is a true multi factor setup, or maybe a hardw
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> in 2 or 3 years, with a new hardware update, Tesla FSD will be very successful. Do you think that folks who bought FSD will get a hardware update, without extra cost?
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Some ml/dl tools (think gpt3) seem to be able to answer questions that we previously thought you needed gintelligence for. I think the line between "pure statistics" and "intelligence" are much more blurry than the
567.
by perlgeek 4y ago
I've tried Kite once, and wasn't really impressed. For example, back when I tried it, it wouldn't offer any kind of autocompletion within a string. Even vim's built-in autocomplete tries to complete words for you there
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by perlgeek 4y ago
I'm not a Musk fan these days, but I have to admit that he did create things of value. Cheap transport to orbit, some pivotal electric cars. Sure, he promised more, but at least he delivered something of value. The full self driving
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by perlgeek 4y ago
> Only 11? Gosh she literally faking medical results with death consequence I agree that her actions were egregious, but those weren't what the trial was about. The trial was about defrauding investors, not about defrauding customer
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by perlgeek 4y ago
Learning a bit Norwegian every day.

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