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by phs318u 5y ago
> How many messaging systems has Google had over the years? The article answers that: "Google's messaging history is one of constant product startups and shutdowns. Thanks to a lack of product focus or any kind of top-down mand
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by phs318u 5y ago
Unless I'm missing something, the data for long-term impacts of COVID infection are still coming in - and will be coming in for years. The data we've got to date is for a definition of "long" that is somewhat short.
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by phs318u 5y ago
I'm asking you whether you believe there's any latent racism in America, absent the media. I find it hard to believe that anyone could possibly answer that question in the negative.
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by phs318u 5y ago
I’m honestly asking if you really think it’s the media driving racism in America. To believe so, seems to me to be a remarkably ignorant perspective when it comes to the history of the USA. Was the media behind racism in the 60’s? If not, t
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by phs318u 5y ago
Wow. “So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence.… Terror is the normal state of any oral soci
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by phs318u 5y ago
Aural dysmorphia?
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by phs318u 5y ago
Took me twenty seconds to click through and determine that the concluding sentences of the abstract in the first link Domingos uses to prove his point, actually does the opposite. "This suggests that preference for women among identica
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by phs318u 5y ago
I think there's also an element of "ownership" to the kernel for many of the OG maintainers. It's their "baby". And as every parent knows, you would do a lot more for your babies than for anyone else. It may we
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by phs318u 5y ago
You're conflating pollution (which I take to mean typical by-products of both fuel generation i.e. during mining, and power generation i.e. at the plant) and catastrophic destruction of the plant. You may well be correct with respect t
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by phs318u 5y ago
I recommend this every time a similar news item gets posted. Password Safe (designed by Bruce Schneier). I use the iOS and Linux apps and keep them synced via DropBox. Been around for years (I've been using it almost as long). Still ge
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by phs318u 5y ago
This is probably off-topic, but here's what I would love to see: a federated, highly redundant distribution platform where usage requires a contribution of storage. Volume, performance and uptime of that contribution would be rewarded
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by phs318u 5y ago
Ten years. Which is also the lifetime of something that only lives for ten years. Such as your files in this solution.
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by phs318u 5y ago
I'd like to challenge one part of your comment - that microservices break up data on module boundaries. Yes, they encapsulate the data. However, the issue that causes spaghettification (whether internal to some mega monolith, across mo
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The NetHack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists(nethackchallenge.com)
2 points by phs318u 5y ago|0 comments
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by phs318u 5y ago
I accept that I contribute to the outcome but I can’t control the outcome. Therefore I choose my actions on the basis of how I want to define myself. I don’t do this for any other reason than that I want to define the way in which I give my
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by phs318u 5y ago
I should probably have qualified my first statement: There is no longer a reasonable question for which "Oracle" is a good answer. I agree that Oracle definitely used to be the right answer for enterprise development. These days h
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by phs318u 5y ago
There is no reasonable question for which “Oracle” is a good answer. The brand “Oracle” has rapidly evolved into a signal of “badness” in the same way as white mould on fruit, or chromatic slime on meat. Stay away!
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by phs318u 5y ago
Similarly, ”shitbin” was the second word on my first try, and I had to internet search to convince myself that it isn’t in fact a word.
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From macro to cellular resolution: synchrotron X-ray reveals Covid lung damage(physicsworld.com)
7 points by phs318u 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: SOE as a Service?
1 points by phs318u 5y ago|1 comments
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by phs318u 5y ago
Does this qualify as a civilian program? https://www.ansto.gov.au/research/facilities/opal-multi-purp...
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by phs318u 5y ago
I recommend this every time a similar news item gets posted. Password Safe (designed by Bruce Schneier). I use the iOS and Linux apps and keep them synced via DropBox. Been around for years (I've been using it almost as long). Still ge
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by phs318u 5y ago
> Nuclear is able to compete on merit If that were the case, then this would not be required: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10821
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by phs318u 5y ago
Having ditched Apple laptops this year (after 18 years of Mac computers) for Linux (on System76 hw), I've been wondering what it would take to pry the iPhone out of my hands. I think I've found it.
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by phs318u 5y ago
My current job title is "Head of T<important techy stuff>". I have to get lots of stuff done. But unless my to-do items are, "play guitar", "play nethack", "go for a walk" or "eat as much s
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by phs318u 5y ago
> I wrote a script to scrape my course materials when I was at uni, it was that bad Pass!
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Facebook proposes NetHack as a grand challenge in AI research(venturebeat.com)
18 points by phs318u 5y ago|2 comments
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by phs318u 5y ago
> And no, none of the facts I stated were "rebutted". One incorrect comment was made about Rahman and Mattis, clearly quoting old (and also incorrect) press articles, which totally missed the point (I never claimed they work fo
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by phs318u 5y ago
smsm made a point that implied some facts. alecb rebutted those facts, added one of his own and made a critique on the rest of smsm's comment. Nowhere is that making smsm an "unperson". People are free to make a point. And ot
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by phs318u 5y ago
Ha! Are we siblings? My mum's line was "Dinner is what I cooked and if you don't eat it now you can have it for breakfast served cold." And she meant it.

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