shadowphex

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by shadowphex 6y ago
I agree that NYT has a bias. But they at least _try_ to appear objective (or at least objective with a left leaning slant). The article you linked is an opinion piece by a NYT writer and not the official stance of NYT (as far as I know). Al
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by shadowphex 6y ago
No, but my comment is in reference to those posts. But what makes this one especially egregious is that Reason has not pretenses about being an objective new source. The first line of their about page is: "Founded in 1968, Reason is th
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by shadowphex 6y ago
Why are we posting things that come from explicitly biased political websites that have nothing to do with tech? I can understand it if is breaking news, but this is an opinion piece. I have noticed more political opinion pieces posted here
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by shadowphex 6y ago
Obviously if you are not writing your programs in binary by manually magnetizing a hard drive, you are not a _real_ engineer. I personally only use CPUs that I have hand made from the organic metals mined in my backyard.
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by shadowphex 8y ago
It means he makes money off of it, i.e. he works in the field.
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by shadowphex 8y ago
The perl here is not really that crazy to remember. -a autosplits each line by whitespace and puts each element into the array F (this was inspired by AWK). -n loops through each line of the file, and -E executes the perl. $. (NR in AWK) is
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by shadowphex 8y ago
It will be different, but concurrency, mutability, structured programming, and scope are very relevant. Concurrency: Not all genes are run at all times. Gene regulation can look a lot like code. Ex: if(curr_temp > DANGER_TEMP){temperatur