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by sevensor 1y ago
Just cross your fingers and hope for the best if your data is at any point decoded by a json library that doesn’t support bigints? Python’s ability to handle them is beside the point of they get mangled into ieee754 doubles along the way.
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by sevensor 1y ago
“Don’t go, the drones need you. They look up to you!”
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by sevensor 1y ago
Oh no! Just when I was finally getting it out of my system, there’s a remake! Cruel. I wonder if you can still get units with negative numbers of figures in them when lionheart wears off. Maybe I need to buy it and find out.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Don’t know how that never occurred to me! I always put drop pods on them.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Back in college, I would listen to AM radio while I worked on my computer. The radio would pick up electrical noise from the keyboard and the mechanical mouse. I wonder if this sounds anything like it.
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by sevensor 1y ago
It really was.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Where are these people who use Matlab properly? All I ever see in other people’s Matlab code is for loops. Their idea of speeding up their code is using parfor. Obligatory licensing rant: you have to pay extra to use parfor, as I found out
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by sevensor 1y ago
There is a middle school in my town that was built with no windows, in the 1970s. For this innovation, it won a design award. The roof leaks terribly.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I knew a man who had been in the Navy, in the Pacific, during WW2. Not many men of his generation had tattoos, but most of the ones who did were sailors, and he was no exception. Large tattoo on his forearm: a jester, with the hat and bells
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by sevensor 1y ago
A friend of mine is a volunteer fireman. Since the fire engine sits higher than just about anything, he can see what people are doing behind the wheel in their SUVs. I’d be shocked, he reports, to know just how many of them are absorbed in
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by sevensor 1y ago
I like to take the “programming as theory building” approach. Every program is an experiment. When it stops working, you have more information about the world. At that point, you can revise the program, or you can let it go. Either way, you
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by sevensor 1y ago
The worst is when somebody has a custom domain, but it’s actually medium so I don’t know not to click on the link.
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by sevensor 1y ago
For me, the whole point of the resume is that the applicant has highlighted those parts of their experience they consider relevant. I then pick the points that look most interesting to me and go really deep in them in the interview. So, ok,
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by sevensor 1y ago
I think the Sicilian Expedition would have better served the point here. Cannae is a disaster, but the Republic bounces back. Syracuse was a point of no return for Athens.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Yeah, this was bad generalship, albeit on a much bigger scale than the Republic was used to. The Romans were no strangers to military disasters, but they were unusually resilient. The conquest of Italy was far from a sure thing, and it incl
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by sevensor 1y ago
This seems like the sort of thing that’s only going to work if you have great leadership. Which oxide has, no doubt. It takes a truly unusual leader to channel the ego into making something great for humanity. A lot of executives pay lip se
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by sevensor 1y ago
I’d heard US rice was heavily contaminated with arsenic due to having been planted in regions that formerly grew cotton. And cotton was once treated with arsenates to control boll weevil ( https://a-c-s.confex.com/a-c-s/
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by sevensor 1y ago
You see this with internal projects at larger companies too, just with fewer constraints. At big companies, the same impulse leads to empire building and vanity projects. Far too few people ask, “how does this deliver value for the company?
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by sevensor 1y ago
The world didn’t have enough json variants. I’m doing my part and inventing a new data interchange format. Don’t worry though, it’s not compatible with any of the others. Edit: in case this sounds like a piss take, I’m serious about it. My
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by sevensor 1y ago
Parable of the Sower is set in dark times but has a hopeful note. We may not live in a better future, but we can fight for one.
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by sevensor 1y ago
Ooh, I have a sweet R31 I might try this out with, if it's not too old!
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by sevensor 1y ago
What this story tells us more than anything is that Lindell cannot convince a competent lawyer to defend him, so what he gets instead are clownshod phonies. Either he’s out of cash, or he’s such a terrible client that nobody with a shred of
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Computing large powers of large numbers is enormously unstable and needs to be avoided under basically all circumstances, that is what makes dealing with those polynomials difficult and cautioning people against this is obvious correc
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by sevensor 2y ago
Reformatting data is the very last thing I’d trust an LLM to do. What if it picks numbers it likes better? Compiler won’t catch that.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Heated blankets are ok, but you have to arrange them just so, and then you can’t move without fussing with the cord. It’s the last resort after layering warm clothes before bumping up the thermostat.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Not unrelated to a longstanding policy of suppressing regional languages: > Depuis plus de deux siècles, les pouvoirs politiques ont combattu les langues régionales https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France
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by sevensor 2y ago
Adding social media to your thing is so 2018. Is the next big thing really just a warmed over version of the last big thing? Is sama just completely out of ideas to save his money-burner?
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by sevensor 2y ago
Linus has moderated his approach quite a lot, and I think he’s a great example of growing self awareness in someone who used to be in the top right quadrant of the genius / asshole plane. He’s moved a long way towards “stern dad” from
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by sevensor 2y ago
> many noble clerkes have endevoyred them to wryte and compyle many notable werkes and historyes to the ende that it myght come to the knowlege and understondyng of suche as ben ygnoraunt, of which the nombre is infenyte. From The Game
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by sevensor 2y ago
I think they’ll have a hard time pushing that much energy through the atmosphere without striking a plasma. Indeed, at least one of the concepts relies on striking a plasma in atmospheric gas by reflecting and focusing the incident radiatio

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