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811.
by romwell 5y ago
As a Ukrainian: kindly, reconsider. Russian invasion wasn't started by the West. It's not a game. Supplying weapons and enforcing the strictest economic sanctions is the least the West can do to ensure Ukraine's — and its own
812.
by romwell 5y ago
...had. With each day, Putin is scrambling to find all the help there is. The only people fighting for him now are psychopaths and conscripts. The latter don't want to be there, and Russia is running out of the former.
813.
by romwell 5y ago
Probably the last time Putin is going to grant anyone's wishes. There's only one way for him out now, and it doesn't involve him being alive. It's only a matter of time at this point.
814.
by romwell 5y ago
It's not your nerves that are showing here if you can't figure out that 98% of employees make more than the Federal minimum wage because state/city minimum wage is higher than Federal in many states and cities. That's
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by romwell 5y ago
What's the problem exactly with a higher false positive rate there? We're not talking about a crime enforcement unit here. We're talking about access to a platform , which doesn't owe it to anyone to provide it in the f
816.
by romwell 5y ago
The answer has been "yes" since 2014. It's just the continuation and escalation of their 2014 invasion.
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by romwell 5y ago
Eh, if that's the case, I'm cool to be one of the few remaining humans among billions of wonderful whoever-they-are. Beings so acceptive of others as to make me oblivious there's a difference? That's far more than humans
818.
by romwell 5y ago
If you really want to be this facetious and go into sentence structures, bear with me: The "if" clause does not apply to the request to get a lawyer. >If y’all, this is how I feel, if y’all think I did it, I know that I did
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by romwell 5y ago
Oh sure, and the phrase "Why don't you get me a lawyer" is not a request, but a question , the answer to which the police isn't obligated to provide. Sorry, I'm not buying it. The only relevant part is that the wor
820.
by romwell 5y ago
The best part is that the latest gen of the vehicle in the article, Honda Fit, is not even sold in North America. Due to lack of demand , presumably[0]. Guess this means I'm driving my 2nd gen 2010 Fit until the country runs out of
821.
by romwell 5y ago
Yes and no. It's a computer algebra system, of which Mathematica is an example. But the real power of Mathematica lies in its language. SAGE wraps many libraries in a Python syntax, so the core language is different.
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by romwell 5y ago
Compound interest? Exponential decay? Both apply here. Probability of surviving a night under a tree is (1-1/5000). 15 years of hunting is roughly 5000 nights. The chances of never getting hit by a tree over that period are (1-1/5
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by romwell 5y ago
In case you didn't know: American Institute of Mathematics is a research non-profit ran by one of the Fry brothers (of Fry Electronics). At least until recently, it's been run out of the back of the office space of their headquart
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by romwell 5y ago
Thanks for the awesome insight! One note: > That's the downside of "right to repair" - the hardware is repairable, but clunky I'd say there is no downside; cause and effect are swapped here. It's that clunky, exp
825.
by romwell 5y ago
The Right Thing would be to require an explicit -o <output filename> option to avoid modifying files without getting user's consent first. Especially because the changes it makes are irreversible (e. g. when a text file has mix
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by romwell 5y ago
The distinction goes back to typewriters . The author mentions that the typewriters had a return lever that could also do a line feed. What they missed is that: * You could still freely move the carriage without advancing the paper if you
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by romwell 5y ago
You could just backspace repeatedly, but it'd be a waste of bits.
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by romwell 5y ago
Why the fuck is Netflix even a thing that lives in a vehicle dashboard?! What's next, Microsoft Excel? I knew Tesla UX was, um, interesting, but this takes it to a whole another level.
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by romwell 5y ago
Right, and in the original scenario the defogger button would still be unused in critical situations... Because nobody would be able to find it in critical situations.
830.
by romwell 5y ago
Google has hired R. M. Larsen, who wrote PROPACK[1], and uses it internally. A heck of a lot of computation is still powered by Fortran. Ever used SciPy / NumPy? Deep down, FORTRAN powers it, via BLAS/LAPACK[2] A few years back in
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by romwell 5y ago
I still have my Hayes 33.6kbaud Voice SmartModem. I got it long after the BBS era. This was my first device to access the Internet with, around 1999. It was great. And I could even play StarCraft with a friend by dialing him up! See, this w
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by romwell 5y ago
I got this book when I was 4. Loved it to bits. It even had a crafting project of making a PC mockup with paper and glue (which I did). I remember reading about how everything's gonna have a microprocessor in it, and thinking it's
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by romwell 5y ago
Where did you find it?
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by romwell 5y ago
I feel like with this comment, the word "disrupting" has officially jumped shark and lost any and all meaning. Palantir isn't "disrupting" government contractors. It is a government contractor, țhe old-fashioned k
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by romwell 5y ago
In fact, forget the chessboards. Just make them chessmasters square it off in the ring. Chessmaster Deathmatch Season 1 Episode 1: Kasparov vs. Fisher
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by romwell 5y ago
An even more noteworthy protocol is MIDI[1], which has been virtually unchanged since its introduction in 1981, and is still the way that electronic musical instruments and software talk to each other. MIDI-over-USB has been popular for a
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by romwell 5y ago
It also happens to be a political slogan, so if it's mentioned out in the open, they probably don't mean the File Transfer Protocol.
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by romwell 5y ago
All I can say is that - yes, this sounds like an ADHD trait, but not necessarily something that you'd want to correct. Is time spent your only concern? If so, work with your brain, not against it. If this is ADHD, it's something p
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by romwell 5y ago
Me: why, I don't really consider myself a nerd Also me: laughs to tears about XMLambda for a solid minute Thanks for the much-needed break!
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by romwell 5y ago
Uh huh. Sure. There's a reason they call it Hollywood Accounting[1]. Not that Warner Brothers is new to this game either: >A Warner Bros. receipt was leaked online, showing that the hugely successful movie Harry Potter and the Order

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