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Title from article: "JPMorgan hit with $200 million in fines for letting employees use WhatsApp to evade regulators' reach"
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"When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop." —Alan Perlis
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> Ad hoc, it would be The Homer of programming languages if allowed to grow unfettered. For those who don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPc-VEqBPHI
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It looks like the project is released under the MIT license, judging from the LICENSE.md and the license information in the README.
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> Before COVID, I would never dream of calling my daughter in the next room, but now I do it all the time - not (only) because I am lazy, but because the call or text is less intrusive than knocking on the door and therefore has better U
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These are specifically known as cutting stock problems [1]. Example of a possible application: I used to work at a home improvement retailer, and one of my responsibilities was to cut plywood boards for customers, to the dimensions they s
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Which field(s) of engineering did you have in mind? One obvious application would be to find the minimum dimensions for a box to contain a number of identically-shaped physical parts. This would be a three-dimensional packing problem. Anoth
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> like those content aware scale picture memes, but to create the shortest possible audio Are you referring to seam carving [1]? Your description of your personal project reminded me of it. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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I'd prefer to think that in the alternate universe, the machines aren't building-sized. In that alternate universe, maybe Swiss watchmakers are the ones driving innovation in computing.
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Here's [1] an example of a CPU with the same functionality that the parent poster is interested in: the ISA being implemented in what amounts to microcode. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
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If they're that advanced, they might not even consider us to be intelligent by their standards. To them, we might appear as an ant on the sidewalk would appear to us. And as such, they might not even notice if they accidentally step on
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You might be interested in company-mode [1]. [1] https://company-mode.github.io/
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Rényi was the one who stated that. According to Wikipedia, he was a colleague of Erdős, and Erdős was known for his coffee habit and later amphetamine use.
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And that follows from De Moivre's formula, (cos(x)+ i sin(x))^n = cos(nx) + i sin(nx). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Moivre%27s_formula
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I was curious, so I searched that typewriter ad. Turns out there are a whole bunch of copycat sites with that ad too. https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Remington+Portable+Typew... The ad in itself doesn't actually so
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It reminds me of Weebo from Flubber (1997). https://www.google.com/search?q=flubber+weebo
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They did, in the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin
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Huxley's Brave New World featured a similar concept. The dead would be cremated, and basic elements would be recovered from the remains.
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> For some reason it always seems to map nicely back to whatever the current problem I am focused on is. This is the case with many combinatorics and optimization problems. The specifics of the problems may differ, but the underlying mat
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The next paragraph in the article explains the joke.
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Looks like a tonsure to me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsure
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I don't have a Compose key, and I really wish I did. I tried mapping my left Alt key to act as a Compose key, but I couldn't get it to work on Linux. As a workaround, I mapped a keycombo to pull up a rofi [1] menu with a list of c
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Make sure they're really solar-powered. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uLTDuGhqE2w
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I'm not sure what you mean by the universality of math. There exist different algebras which define addition differently. In the case of 2+2=4, this is formalized by the Peano axioms [1], which define addition of natural numbers. Howev
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29183657
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PowerShell takes an interesting approach in that it accepts any truncated variant of a long-form flag as a short form, provided it isn't ambiguous (i.e. if the interpreter can't decide which long-form flag to expand a short-form f
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Wouldn't the filesystem suffice for this? It already tracks creation and modification times, so all you'd need to do is sort chronologically in your UI of choice. If you wanted something Web-based, you could use Google Drive, Drop
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Maybe you will find this helpful: https://github.com/gcalderone/ReusePatterns.jl It includes an implementation of concrete subtyping.
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Pash was an open-source third-party PowerShell implementation for Linux. Now that the original PowerShell has been open source and available on Linux for some time now, the real risk of the name collision is probably low.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106398

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