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by scribu 7y ago
"Post-modern" as in it questions grand narratives, such as Code Is Eating The World? /jk
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by scribu 7y ago
A comparison with AWS's own offering (SageMaker Model Serving) would be helpful.
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by scribu 7y ago
> There's nothing that keeps non-US citizens from investing in US market ETFs. Actually, there is. Unless an ETF provider publishes key investor information documents in the format required by the EU, EU citizens are not allowed to
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by scribu 7y ago
> Interestingly, farmers view water usage as a trade secret I wonder why. Do slight changes in irrigation patterns have a significant effect on crops?
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by scribu 7y ago
Formatting articles as jupyter notebooks might help with reproducibility, but it wouldn't necessarily help with understanding. distill.pub has a journal that strongly encourages interactive articles: https://distill.pub&#x2F
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by scribu 7y ago
> We've observed that [leaving children unattended] becomes unsafe in places with high density populations. Is that factually accurate, or just a false impression that people get? Let's assume it is objectively more unsafe. Is
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by scribu 7y ago
A generic construct implies some sort of hierarchical relationship between two things, so the answer would always be 100%. Perhaps give some examples of "non-collectiony" applications in order to clarify your question.
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Zombie ants do not have infected brains – only muscles(wired.com)
1 points by scribu 7y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 7y ago
The senders do NOT control the cursor by hand. From the paper: > The Senders convey their decisions of "rotate" or "do not rotate" by controlling a horizontally moving cursor (Figure 8) using steady-state visually-evo
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by scribu 7y ago
I'm pretty happy with Notion. A note is composed of blocks, which can have child blocks and so on. This makes it much easier to organise things, compared to a typical "modern" free-form note editor. Pros: - good UX - na
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by scribu 7y ago
Interesting! I imagine churn will still happen, except it will be in the library/framework ecosystem around the language (think JavaScript fatigue).
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by scribu 7y ago
There are fundamental reasons why stealing is "looked down upon" in most social systems, not just our current one. Having said that, I am prepared to accept that it's probably a good idea for society to give individuals a &qu
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by scribu 7y ago
But is the Shopify brand featured prominently during the shopping experience? I would assume no, given the article's assertion that Shopify is just a facilitator, which lets the shop's owner shine instead.
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by scribu 7y ago
Hardware noob question: How do you figure out when a packet of 24 bits starts ? From the diagram in the post, the clock signal seems to just be identical blocks of 4 bits. Edit: Found the answer in one of the linked articles: > Between
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by scribu 7y ago
Because you want the most salient piece of information at the start. Otherwise, the front page of a financial site would look like this: * Analysts miss target regarding Tesla * Analysts are optimistic about Q2 returns for Boeing *
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Making Protein Using Air, Water, Electricity, and Microbes(theguardian.com)
61 points by scribu 7y ago|19 comments
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by scribu 7y ago
It's interesting that every company in that list (except Walmart) had a massive spike in contributions to the blue team starting in 2016.
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by scribu 7y ago
> The ecosystem has moved on Just ouf of curiosity, what tools are people using instead of Storm?
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by scribu 7y ago
> Build a reputation for competence and integrity so that those contacts think and speak well of you. That's all well and good when you've already got a business up and running. But is there a way to start building those sorts
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by scribu 7y ago
The Slatestar Codex blog post linked in the article is a much more entertaining read, I think: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev...
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by scribu 7y ago
If by "crowdfunding" you mean Kickstarter, then no, that's not like investing at all. Putting money into a Kickstarter project doesn't entitle you to any future profits. However, equity crowdfunding platforms do exist.
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by scribu 7y ago
Yes, sorry, I meant checking that the output didn't change (instead of checking that it had a specific value).
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by scribu 7y ago
The nice thing about metamorphic testing is that it seems easy to implement. You don't need a complex testing framework, like Quickcheck. Just alter the input in some fairly simple ways and check the output.
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by scribu 7y ago
For me it's the smells. Whether it's a scent I love or hate, it's very distracting.
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by scribu 7y ago
Wikipedia has pretty good overviews: Americas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_... Asia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations
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by scribu 7y ago
Hi, I work at a startup that's developing an influencer marketing platform. It allows you to manage the entire process: finding the right influencers, running and tracking campaigns etc. It's currently in closed beta. Send me an e
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Lashon Hara (Evil Tongue)(twitter.com)
1 points by scribu 7y ago|0 comments
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by scribu 7y ago
> If I'm to spend 8+ hours a day doing serious work in a web browser, the browser needs to be better. Agreed! Jupyter notebooks are great, but I miss my Vim keybindings when editing code in cells. (Plugins like Vimperator always col
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by scribu 7y ago
They already programatically replace reference URLs with links to archive.org for those URLs.
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by scribu 7y ago
Thanks for the answer. > queries that fetch hierarchies of objects 2-3 levels deep [...] efficiently in SQL or NoSQL isn't as simple as it sounds It doesn't sound simple and it isn't simple. :-)

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