santaclaus

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by santaclaus 9y ago
> I do think some NIMBYs would be less NIMBY if improvements in transportation took place at the same time as new buildings. There is opposition in San Francisco [1] (and Oakland) to development directly on top of BART stations... I do
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the reason housing has become unaffordable for so many. Well, that and decades upon decades of meager housing construction.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
I was just thinking how much better The Gifted would be if it were animated like the 90s cartoon. Somehow comics don't translate well into low-budget live action TV.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Real important question is why is there no Stanford bunny in this database?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
It would be cool if this let you search the database based on topological properties similar to Thingi10K: https://ten-thousand-models.appspot.com This is super useful when finding models to test or benchmark algorithms.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> for some reason the git diff visualizer doesn't really work anymore Yep, exact same issue with recent releases VS Code releases on RHEL. Every few days VS Code starts diffing against an old version of the code and I have to comple
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Enviros and Developers: A Love Story(grist.org)
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Uber Might Make More Money This Year Selling Real Estate Than Selling Rides(slate.com)
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Half of the top CS programs are public. Well, 40% -- four of the top ten CS programs in the US are state schools.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Research scientists to discover that perfect mix of herbs and spices.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Compared with NY Metro You end up walking a lot in NYC, too, it isn't some panacea. I had a ~25 minute walk from the N train to my apartment in Queens when I lived in New York.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> $2.25 in NYC $2.75 now! Depends where you are going on BART on how the fares match up to NYC. I'm often traveling from West Oakland to Downtown Berkeley, which is 2 bucks, and hence cheaper than NYC.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> In the Bay Area, you’re unlikely to have easy access to San Francisco at all if you’re not in San Francisco proper. Eh? It is pretty easy to get to San Francisco from Oakland or Berkeley. Hell, its easier to get to fidi or soma from Oa
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Most of a company's tangible assets aren't taxed. Doesn't Switzerland do precisely this?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> which is further north than anywhere else that isn't in WA (except for that little piece of MN). Alaska?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> I don't know of the same thing can be done in the bay. Walk by any of the BART stations in the East Bay (even Downtown Oakland), and you'll see vacant fields and mostly empty parking lots. The area near MacArthur BART could
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Good to hear! A couple years ago, it wasn't unusual to see friends getting 25 or 30% increases in their rent in Portland.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> tax free pay Wow what? Is the US? I def got taxed -- and audited because the funding agency screwed up some paperwork -- on my PhD income, while on federal fellowships no less.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Eh? Yea there are crap games out there. There is also crap music. And crap health IT software.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> you could be improving people's lives I'd say games (and any art, for that matter) can and do improve lives.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> if you were a law, cs, or engineering professional Isn't game developer in fact a class of CS professional?
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by santaclaus 9y ago
It is Qt, not QT!
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by santaclaus 9y ago
Image stitching is pretty fun!
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Memorisation It is memoization, not memorisation! Although for two weeks in algorithms class I did in fact think our prof was just pronouncing memorize in a cutesy manner.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> The main difference is that MIT has more reputable professors and the children have richer parents. Harvard, maybe. MIT? Their undergrads are great — of the interns we get, MIT and Cal Tech undergrads are leaps and bounds above those f
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> But so far as I can tell, no such thing exists. The core guidelines are working to be precisely that.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> then act, vote, and do everything in their power to make it exactly like SF I won't lie, during my time in Portland I def experienced some schadenfreude when California-native drivers complained about tickets for failing to yield
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> Her background is pretty non-traditional. Howso? There are quite a few Ivy League physics grads in the bay.
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by santaclaus 9y ago
> also they were Yale Depends what you are studying. Their CS department is notoriously shoddy (I know the Yale undergrads were up in arms about this a few years back).
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by santaclaus 9y ago
University of Chicago is private, right? So this falls under Federal purview (unionization issues at state schools are under state jurisdiction). With the NLRB in the current administration, I can't imagine a friendly ruling towards th

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