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by qchris 6y ago
This project is wicked cool, and I almost missed that they built it using Rust. I like the language a lot, and I think something like this is a sign of it moving towards real maturity, where the utility of the programs starts outshining the
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CA Gov. Newsom Vetoes Bill Allowing Ranked-Choice Voting (2019)(sfchronicle.com)
7 points by qchris 6y ago|2 comments
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by qchris 6y ago
I'm in exactly the same boat. Paying for the VPN to use on exactly one device because everything else is Linux, and would happily put more money towards it if they offered a paid equivalent to GSuite that was privacy-respecting.
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by qchris 6y ago
Are you considering any options to allow donations to choose certain pools? For example, I think I'd be really interested in donating towards maintaining a thorough breakdown of politicians' records on mass surveillance or their s
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by qchris 6y ago
I second this wholeheartedly. I would be happy paying at least the $5/mo that they're charging for the VPN to have web-based access to privacy-respecting email service tied to a name I tend to trust like Mozilla (hopefully with a
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by qchris 6y ago
My team also may be looking for something with similar requirements in the near future, do you have any recommendations for solutions that you're considering? I know a number of earth science researchers that have mentioned ideas that
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by qchris 6y ago
I try to do my best to assume good faith, but sometimes comments like this make it really hard. In any case, here's two links. One's from Drexel University, the other is a meta-composition of resources by an organization connected
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by qchris 6y ago
I think you're looking for something like the Journal of Open Source Software [0]. [0] https://joss.theoj.org/
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by qchris 6y ago
Thank you so much for posting this; I hadn't heard of this documentary before, and the name Aaron Swartz was just something that sounded vaguely familiar. Just watched it, and I'm shocked and saddened.
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by qchris 6y ago
I don't generally consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I agree with the previous comment. For-profit prisons not only make money by having more prisoners staying for longer, but in many cases have actually been required to mainta
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by qchris 6y ago
If anyone's interested in the direct GitHub link to the repository: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5
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by qchris 6y ago
I'm not a developer on it, but I've been following the development pretty closely for a while. IIRC, the lead developer Jeremy Soller states that even though the kernel code does require unsafe blocks, it's actually less comm
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by qchris 6y ago
I have this for my mobile devices that are running Android, but can't wait for the ability to use it on Linux. I do wish that Mozilla would publish some regular updates, though. I realize it's more or less in beta, but I know I&#x
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by qchris 6y ago
I could see this being an immensely useful tool in certain contexts. I know that having something like this, as opposed to submitting a print-out of my program results during my introductory programming course (as well as just being forced
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by qchris 6y ago
Anecdotally, I know two professionals in their late twenties who used to live in New York City, but moved home to be with their family during quarantine. Their leases are up in September, and neither one seem likely to renew, since their jo
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by qchris 6y ago
I finally got around to reading it recently, and I think that aspect of the entire saga was the most startling. Not the fraud, not Holmes' ability to spin to the public and her board, not the work culture that she and Sunny Balwani cre
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by qchris 6y ago
That's certainly true, but it does look like in this case. I did the preliminary benchmarking on an 8-thread CPU (the actual HPC cluster has higher counts), and the total execution time on the processing was just under 8x, which I imag
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by qchris 6y ago
I've done something very similar recently, for processing hundreds of GB of .csv files across thousands of records. I ended up writing a fast single-threaded Rust program for the file parsing, then fed it into a bash script running GNU
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by qchris 6y ago
This is definitely fair--I don't consider myself a LabView expert. I'm proficient with object-oriented systems (Python, C++, Rust (if you consider Rust object-oriented)), with get/set for indices and network streams, but not
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by qchris 6y ago
Knowing that the ground control software is written in LabView is one of the more disappointing things I've read recently. I did a bunch of test engineering during co-ops during college, including multiple "codebases" of LabV
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by qchris 6y ago
I agree with you to a degree, but one of my pet peeves about certain linters and code formatting tools is when they take something that could easily be a very understandable single line, and break it up into three or more lines because that
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by qchris 6y ago
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when a legal team responsible for supporting this narrative has to tackle the issue of regulating the platforms as a public utility, but not the Internet providers that carry them.
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Cargo-fund: Discover funding links for your Rust project's dependencies(github.com)
1 points by qchris 6y ago|0 comments
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by qchris 6y ago
I agree that quote is there (and have read the surrounding context), but it doesn't seem to me that it actually says that DuckDuckBot results aren't used in any non-Instant Answer search result, which I think is a distinction. T
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by qchris 6y ago
Same! I knew about duckduckhack, but that it had been put in "maintenance mode" a couple years ago, but wasn't aware that DDG had started operating their own crawler. It's exciting to see--I'm hopeful they'll b
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by qchris 6y ago
I'm so excited, and just hoping the weather holds. The best of luck to the entire team, and hoping everything goes smoothly and safely!
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by qchris 6y ago
That's awesome! If you're interested, there's a group working on machine learning in Rust, including some working on doing GPU pipelines for it at https://github.com/rust-ml/wg . I'm not sure if any
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by qchris 6y ago
Honestly, I'm not sure. It seems like they cover slightly different fields, despite having some overlap. AFAIK, Darknet doesn't natively do a bunch of the image processing work that Sod can do, like edge detection with Canny, beca
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by qchris 6y ago
As an aside, unless I'm reading this very wrong, this is the first time I've seen the use of "my sibling" as a gender-neutral replacement of "my brother/sister" to express empathy. I'm delighted by it
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by qchris 6y ago
I'm a huge fan of this kind of practice, where the code for a paper is all located in a single public repository with build instructions, along with directions for how to cite it. Obviously, it's a little tough to do with some mor

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