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by rewmie 3y ago
> So actually it is a stance of the BBC not to condem it. I think you missed the whole point. The article states in no uncertain terms that "Our business is to present our audiences with the facts, and let them make up their own min
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by rewmie 3y ago
Ladies and gentlemen: crypto.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The JetBrains IDEs don't have an ultimate version, I think you're thinking of VSCode. This is not true. I installed intellij community, searched through it's plugins for http clients, and Jetbrains' plugin shows up
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by rewmie 3y ago
> these are his own words from a few years back I did not make them up . I'm sorry, but that's simply a gross misrepresentation of facts. If you read Warren Buffett's actual comment, it's quite clear that they were ab
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Wouldn't you rather have a decent CPU and better I/O at the same price point in a similar form factor? Zima's site showcase benchmarks that position their boards at the same performance level of a Raspberry Pi 4. The rec
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Mostly because he does not understand it (...) What leads you to believe that he doesn't understand it? I mean, how many tech companies failed/are failing badly? It's easy to single out Microsoft as an example of a succe
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by rewmie 3y ago
> In my experience, about one third of the time the toy is all you need, you can stop there, and what you were going to build fully would be over-engineering. On the flip side, the cases where the toy ends up being promoted to production
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Communism as applied in practice, specifically the former soviet union, very much had a hierarchy. I'm not convinced you realize that the definition of communism is not "a hierarchical organization". I don't see the
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Missing opportunity to release 16GB version (...) This seems to defeat the whole purpose of a Raspberry Pi: cheap, almost disposable computer to tinker around with. A 8GB RPi4 board is already more expensive than some used desktop comp
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I'm not oblivious to any of those things. I don't think so. The definition of communism is not a organization with a hierarchical structure. You even fail to touch the central traits of communism. You're simply trying to
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Yeah, as soon as I heard about the 5 needing cooling for most tasks (...) I'm sure those who put a premium on thermals or quietness will be able to run RPi5 with passive cooling if they really want to. The RPi4 already suffered fr
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Funny how 'communism' can be both the ultimate evil (...) I don't think you fully understand the issue you're trying to comment on. Not only is conflating a military organization with communism beyond wrong, but you
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by rewmie 3y ago
From a machine learning layman's point of view but with some experience with modeling, it's hard to see this as a discovery. Model decomposition and model reduction techniques are very basic concepts in mathematical modeling, and
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by rewmie 3y ago
> War is too serious a matter to be left to the generals. An absolutely oversized military industrial complex is indeed problematic if a country wants to be a full democracy. I think that the US armed forces have a far wider set of respo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> [citation needed] That's not how it works. You don't get to pull out of your ass that a random career is dishonorable and pretend that it's everyone else's responsibility to fix your unsubstantiated accusation. Eith
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by rewmie 3y ago
For perspective, Samsung is reported to have sold 272M phones alone in 2021. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsung-led-smartphone-ship...
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by rewmie 3y ago
> AWS (Amazon Web Services) had an hours long outage yesterday. This is the product used by companies that don’t try very hard. You hire the cheapest labor found anywhere and use Agile because they are all just hacks, most of whom never
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Do growth mindset interventions impact students' academic achievement?(psycnet.apa.org)
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This an an incredibly offensive thing to say (...) I'm pointing out a fundamental trait of a system: if a service charges users for each job application, regardless of their nature, then there's a perverse incentive for servi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> That said, they do make a lot of interesting boards over there, for various purposes. There are a lot of interesting NUC variants, NAS motherboards and Pi-like cards. This. I recall I bought an Orange Pi Zero 512MB out of AliExpress fo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Because it doesn't matter. It costs 0.01USD to change the name of the manufacturer and brand tag, or even to no-name at all. I disagree, it does matter. It might not be a silver bullet that prevents this problem from ever happenin
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I see this argument a lot, yet it falls apart upon closer inspection But does it, though? I don't think so. > I'm talking a few dollars a month to put your best foot forward (...) No, it really is not, and your portrayal r
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Find this very hard to believe. You really wouldn't spend $1 to submit a job application to a position that is your bread and butter while unemployed? No, it's a stupid concept, and one that turns posting fake job ads into a
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by rewmie 3y ago
This. Tracking which job you applied for is the least of the job applicant's concerns when looking for a job. In some circumstances the first step of the job application process is even fire-and-forget, and tracking those only serves t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I honestly think you should aim to make jobseekers pay instead of the job offerers. If I was a job seeker, specially if I was out of a job, I would never ever spend a single cent on a job application service, particularly one that does
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) but unfortunately the reality is that a good chunk of them actually believe those things. I'm sure that a good chunk of people who hang out on Facebook and Reddit also believe in those things, but that somehow never leads to
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by rewmie 3y ago
> QUIC is TLS-equivalent, not TCP-equivalent. From Wikipedia[1]: "QUIC improves performance of connection-oriented web applications that are currently using TCP.[QUIC] is designed to obsolete TCP at the transport layer for many appl
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This is why threads aren't nearly as important as many programmers seem to think. Chances are, whatever application you're building can be done in a cleaner way using pipes + processes or green/user-space threads dependi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I was saying QUIC can be userspace just like (...) I think you're too hung up on "can" when that's way besides OP's point. The point is that providing access to fundamental features through a standard API is of
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Did they not answer that question? It uses the BSD sockets API with SOCK_DGRAM? No, that does not answer the question, nor is it a valid answer to the question. Being able to send UDP datagrams is obviously not the same as establishing

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