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by qsi 2y ago
The "It Might As Well Be Swing" album by Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie band was my introduction to Quincy Jones, who did the arrangement. It is one of my favorite albums in Sinatra's discography.
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by qsi 2y ago
I agree it's actually a well crafted layoff announcement. I wouldn't even faulting for using Dropboxers. If layoffs have to happen there are much worse ways of announcing and implementing them than this. Still very unpleasant if y
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by qsi 2y ago
My Python skills are pretty limited, so it's likely I am missing what's obvious, but I don't understand what the purpose of this library is. "Modeling financial instruments" is vague; is it for backtesting? Calculat
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Singapore blocks 10 websites set up by hostile foreign actors(channelnewsasia.com)
1 points by qsi 2y ago|0 comments
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by qsi 2y ago
It need not be active to send a message. If you build a giant diamond cube or some other gigastructure, it could last for billions (?) of years even after the builders have become extinct. You need it to be detectable at interstellar distan
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by qsi 2y ago
You can do this through COM. I forgot which Python library I used but once you have an Excel application object you can do Data = xl.range('a1:a3') Sum = xl.worksheetfunction.sum(data) Xl.range('b3').value = sum Any lib
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by qsi 2y ago
You can access the VBA object model from Python once you've got a COM conduit. There are a few Python libraries to allow you to do this; you'll be able to write VBA-like code in Python accessing Excel's internals in a similar
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by qsi 2y ago
The CDAX index has about 360 companies and appears to have a market cap of around 2 trillion EUR vs 1.7 trillion for the DAX 40.
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Starship is still not understood (2021)(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
2 points by qsi 2y ago|1 comments
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by qsi 2y ago
The vision is that the cost per unit of mass to orbit will come down massively with Starship, once it's launching like the Falcon. That will open up hitherto unimaginable missions and markets. And customers. It's all about the the
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by qsi 2y ago
They used three different kinds of prompts with varying levels of restrictions, as described in the paper. To be quite honest, I assume you made your comment so that you could dismiss the paper without reading it.
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by qsi 2y ago
In addition I'd add that homelessness still exists in Singapore, albeit at a very low level, estimated at about 1,000 people out of a population of 6 million. ChannelNewsAsia did a feature on homelessness here a while ago: https:&#x2F
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by qsi 2y ago
Where in the Wikipedia page does it seem say so? I can't find anything relevant but then again I don't understand all of it.
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Huawei Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes(bloomberg.com)
2 points by qsi 2y ago|0 comments
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by qsi 2y ago
This is sad, at one point I played KSP 1 a lot and I agree it didn't need much upgrading. I had been hearing about KSP 2 for a while but hadn't really followed it. I'll fire up my old copy later today in loving memory...
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The fishy death of Red Lobster(businessinsider.com)
123 points by qsi 2y ago|521 comments
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Personal information at 127 Singapore schools accessed in data security breach(channelnewsasia.com)
1 points by qsi 2y ago|0 comments
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by qsi 2y ago
The linked article is a bit sparse on detail but you can read the actual paper as well (not paywalled to my surprise): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.24923
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by qsi 3y ago
Yes, but many are also very old and don't necessarily have large power lines leading to the car park as it's never been necessary in the past. Newark was mentioned as a case in point, where power is simply not available at the sca
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by qsi 3y ago
Funder? Finder? Sunder? Just generalize it to Nunder already!
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by qsi 3y ago
Sorry, but that's a terrible article, almost entirely devoid of content. It does link to [1] though, which has some actual background and [2] from MIT itself. [1] https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-magnets-ready-fus
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by qsi 3y ago
That is certainly true, I did not mean to imply this is not the case. I have noticed however that in the Singaporean English acrolect certain words and phrases are used differently than they would be in BrE or NAmE ("I'll send him
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by qsi 3y ago
In the few commits from Jia Tan that I've seen, the English parses (to me at least) idiomatically as a native speaker from either the US or UK, and I did not encounter any signs of Singaporean English. Obviously, this is a very small s
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by qsi 3y ago
As far as we know, they're rare...
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by qsi 3y ago
Blame the tax code. Buybacks are a more tax efficient way of returning capital than dividends, which get taxed twice (earnings at corporate and then income at shareholders).
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by qsi 3y ago
Collision is at 1:28 EDT; you'll need to go back in the livestream.
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by qsi 3y ago
The LinkedIn app on Android clocks in at using 351 MB on my phone, but 187 MB of that is cache and 13 MB is data. The app itself is "only" 151 MB.
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RIP The Scottish Enlightenment 1697-2024(dailysceptic.org)
3 points by qsi 3y ago|1 comments
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by qsi 3y ago
Yes, they link to Bankrate [0] where FL has a median of $66k, HI is at $210k and CA at $141k. And the numbers they present at the lower end seem much too low as well. None of this makes sense. [0] https://www.bankrate.com/mo
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by qsi 3y ago
More likely because it's a maintenance issue at the airline, and not a structural issue at Boeing, especially given the 777's solid track record over decades service.

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