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by rubinelli 7y ago
A redditor created a torrent with the full content: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/el4ghb/3d_buzz...
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3D Buzz has closed its doors and distributed all its material free of charge(3dbuzz.com)
4 points by rubinelli 7y ago|2 comments
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by rubinelli 7y ago
It was translated to Portuguese by Devir in the early nineties, and I distinctly remember a sidebar discussion on whether separate wide-area networks would eventually join to become "the Net." It was the first time I saw the word
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Copyright is not like trademark. Amazon can choose to enforce it selectively, and it should not influence any specific case.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
The latest DLC added some environmental effects to the game, but nothing on the scale that SMAC had.
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YouTube burnout is real. Creators are struggling to cope(edition.cnn.com)
14 points by rubinelli 7y ago|9 comments
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Law-enforcement agencies in the UK, to name one relatively liberal country, had no qualms about using their anti-terrorism tools to track and arrest minors during, after, and even before climate change protests. "Think of the children,
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by rubinelli 7y ago
No Starch Press has several books in a bundle for a few more days: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/data-science-no-starch-bo...
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Visual Studio Code. It feels like every other week there is another release with one or two very useful features.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
I wonder if there is something like a Hawthorne effect for diets that would explain why almost any dietary change leads to some weight loss. Simply changing when they eat seems to make people ingest fewer calories.
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Having too much on your plate means nothing gets done(bbc.com)
3 points by rubinelli 7y ago|0 comments
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by rubinelli 7y ago
A puzzle will more often than not have one right way to do it, unlike real engineering problems which are made of trade-offs, and that one way is unintuitive, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a puzzle at all.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Data Engineering is far from saturated, so I'd highlight my experience and focus on that, instead. And don't forget you just need to succeed once.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Maybe not computing, but cathode ray tubes were used as RAM in the forties: https://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/williams_kilburn_williams_...
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by rubinelli 7y ago
One thing to consider is the Pygmalion effect[0]: If you and the people around you believe you inherently lack the moral fortitude to resist those impulses, you are much more likely to make irresponsible choices. Your weakness becomes a sel
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by rubinelli 7y ago
An economist would say that customers and workers are capturing most of the value of the transaction, so that would be close to optimal.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
It is easy to look back and say, "I should have made this modular," or "I should have isolated that external dependency." It is easier to see how another level of indirection would have saved you work after the fact, bu
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GitHub is creating an Arctic code vault(youtube.com)
3 points by rubinelli 7y ago|0 comments
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by rubinelli 7y ago
That's what the industry looks like among early adopters, but most developers wait for clear winners to emerge on new niches before they commit.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Dancer is actually really nice, but that ship has sailed.
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Dovpanda – hints and tips for using pandas in an analysis environment(github.com)
3 points by rubinelli 7y ago|0 comments
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Stasis is probably one of the worst cards to play against, to be unable to do anything as your opponent slowly chips at your life total or makes you draw your whole deck, but at least that gives you a lot of time to admire the lovely art.
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Zstandard v1.4.4(github.com)
2 points by rubinelli 7y ago|0 comments
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by rubinelli 7y ago
As someone who lives in an apartment building close to several bars, a simple white noise app did wonders for my sleep. I just leave it on a mix of sounds I find soothing, and it hides most of the noise that would keep me awake.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Only the use of violence isn't enough; you have to ban the incitement to violence. Authoritarian causes never lacked martyrs.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Had they done it fifteen years earlier, I think Perl could have been the language to learn for Data Science. It still is a fantastic language to slice, clean up, and extract information from text files, and it was already very widely used i
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Not only their neighbors, they will go all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. Last year, a Chinese tuna fishing vessel rammed and tried to sink a Brazilian one in Brazilian waters.[1] They ignore the law knowing Beijing will throw its weight ar
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Redditors are already talking about going in Rockets gear and Winnie the Pooh shirts.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
The requirement was zero maintenance, not zero cost. If you have a web app, a hosting cost is expected.
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by rubinelli 7y ago
Apparently the news that a million Muslims are kept in concentration camps [1] and that Falun Gong members and other political prisoners had their organs harvested for transplant [2] were being conflated. [1] https://www.nbcnews.

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