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by rsecora 3y ago
For those wondering why there is zig zag in the plot after 1958. The data source changed at that date [1]. * 1000 - 1958: Historical CO2 record from the Law Dome DE08, DE08-2, and DSS ice cores * 1958 - Today: in situ air measurement
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by rsecora 3y ago
The bureaucracy is a well-oiled machine on its own. It has a self-perpetuating nature, following its own set of survival rules, just like the principles of evolution by Darwin. There's a classic book called "The Bureaucratic Pheno
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The Quest for the Fastest Linux Filesystem (2014)(erikugel.wordpress.com)
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by rsecora 3y ago
A starting point.... Look for "Status: Pivoted beyond recognition" https://web.archive.org/web/20221206165017/http://blog.louis...
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A Book About Flies Came to Be Priced $24M on Amazon(wired.com)
1 points by rsecora 3y ago|0 comments
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More than 200 ships are in a traffic jam outside the Panama Canal(businessinsider.com)
2 points by rsecora 3y ago|1 comments
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by rsecora 3y ago
Cool but is astonishing how expensive is the connectivity in other countries. >>> Verizon Gateway sitting on top of the rack. I get pretty good signal here and get the rated speed, of around 300Mb/s down and 20Mb/s up. Th
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by rsecora 3y ago
I'd love to hear more about your side projects if you wouldn't mind.
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by rsecora 3y ago
I use it for data transformation, cleanup and enrichment. (TXT, CSV, Json, XML, database) to (TXT, CSV, JSON, XML, database). Speed up of 30x - 40x. The highest speedup on those that require logic in the transformation. (lot of function cal
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First Alzheimer’s drug to slow disease progression gets full FDA approval(cnn.com)
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by rsecora 3y ago
This article reveals how Scientific American has declined over time. It has become a mere shadow of its former self, resorting to sensationalism for online engagement. I understand the need for the magazine to cater to an audience, but how
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by rsecora 3y ago
Paraphrasing Greenspun's tenth rule [1] Any sufficiently complicated library management system contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, inconsistent implementation of half of the Dewey System [2]. [1] https://en
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by rsecora 3y ago
Melvil Dewey[1] started this way, but then things got bigger, and a cast of clerks were born to serve the system. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey
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Designs for battery tankers to transport renewable energy by 2026(maritime-executive.com)
24 points by rsecora 3y ago|46 comments
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The many faces of DISTINCT in Postgres (2017)(hakibenita.com)
187 points by rsecora 3y ago|70 comments
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by rsecora 3y ago
There is a subtle and unresolved question in this approach. Whats it's the meaning of "ethical"? >>> “rewrite this to be more ethical”. >>> "Rewrite it in accordance with the following principl
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by rsecora 3y ago
>>> Over time, I’ve come to view LR parsing as equivalent to static typing: occasionally annoyingly restrictive, but providing enough static guarantees to be worth the annoyance for important software. That's also one of the p
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by rsecora 3y ago
The point is to show the big picture. It's true that error management is critical for a production environment, but from a pedagogic point of view, they can left as an "exercise for the reader".
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by rsecora 3y ago
It was a common practice in the XIX and XX century, because there were not good living areas near factories. Some big conglomerates build houses for their workers, and they assign them to employees based on category, family size or marital
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by rsecora 3y ago
Some ideas: * You can select a board with not fully supported peripheral Examples RISC-V or Loongson boards with incomplete or missing drivers. * or create a higher abstractions over the SPI for a A/D or D/A or pwm chip. The modu
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by rsecora 3y ago
the article is didactic, focusing on overall architecture, furthermore it says it clearly on the subtitle. "...so you can appreciate the libraries that do it for you "
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by rsecora 3y ago
Batteries has a long supply chain, and in this case the market is forecasting a drop in demand. Due to more sources and increase output in the early stages of the chain, the offer has increased. Note also the article refer explicit to EV in
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by rsecora 4y ago
If ChatGPT loses a defamation lawsuit, it immediately goes human and passes the Turing test.
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Venture capital and the birth of the local area networking industry(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
1 points by rsecora 4y ago|0 comments
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by rsecora 4y ago
This is a similar argument to "2001: A Space Odyssey". HAL 9000 doesn't acknowledge its mistakes, and tries to preserve itself harming the astronauts.
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by rsecora 4y ago
Then Bing is more inspired by HALL 9000 than by the "Three Laws of Robotics". Maybe Bing has read more Arthur C Clarke works Asimov ones.
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by rsecora 4y ago
Then bing is more inspired by HALL 9000 than by the three laws of robotics. In other workds, by noew, as of 2023 Arthur C Clarke works are better depiction of future than Asimov ones.
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The reasons I stopped using libuv for H2O (2014)(blog.kazuhooku.com)
1 points by rsecora 4y ago|0 comments
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Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tutorials”(jerf.org)
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by rsecora 4y ago
s/jurisdiction/country/g That's similar to the definition of countries, international treaties and frontiers.

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