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by sidpatil 5y ago
"Sell 30 April at 142!"
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by sidpatil 5y ago
This article touches on a similar concept for Linux: https://www.google.com/amp/s/lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2013/01/12... Input device routing should be a standard feature in PC operating systems. It sho
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by sidpatil 5y ago
You can't fight fire with fire, but you can fight Monty with Monte. :-)
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Apparently there’s no equivalent for less? That complaint doesn't even make any sense. `less` is a standalone utility; it has nothing to do with the shell.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk673M5BoA
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> If I start a new taco truck company and put "burrito.services" or "burrito.catering" or "burrito.ai" in a huge font on the side of the trucks, a fairly large number of people aren't going to immediate
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by sidpatil 5y ago
"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." —Linus Torvalds
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by sidpatil 6y ago
There's an xkcd comic for that: https://xkcd.com/979/
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Also, check out the Paley Center for Media. They have an interactive exhibit on video games and systems. https://www.paleycenter.org/exhibits/paleygx-gaming/
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Take the BART. This is so obvious in hindsight. I should have done this just to avoid the southbound evening traffic on I-880.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
This sounds interesting to me. Can you please provide an example so I can understand this better?
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by sidpatil 6y ago
In this case, it'd likely get "recognized" as a Goa'uld mothership.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I remember seeing Wei Dai's name as an author of one of the references in the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> The Car Rental Center at SFO is the worst in the world so far as I know How so? I've used that car rental center a few times and have had no problems with it. (Then again, that's the only car rental center I've ever us
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Gottfried Leibniz suffered no small amount of flak for his conclusion that the reason the world looks the way it does is because it's already "the best of all possible worlds": you may think you see an improvement, but y
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Generally speaking, we already do. That's why it's called auto pilot .
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by sidpatil 6y ago
VMS Software, the newest maintainers of OpenVMS, have continued the hobbyist program. https://vmssoftware.com/community/community-license/
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Docker in my experience is the same way, people see docker as the new hotness then treat it like a Linux box with a shell script (though at least with the benefit you can shoot it in the head). "Adapting old programs to fit new ma
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Iran is one of the few countries left that isn't party to a copyright treaty Is this why many movie piracy sites are hosted on .ir domains?
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by sidpatil 6y ago
What are some examples of limitations you've run into with various non-Fortran languages?
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Baofeng I didn't know Baofeng made phones. I thought they only made radio HTs.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
This was the example I encountered: https://medium.com/coffee-in-a-klein-bottle/deep-learning-wi...
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Python has had a much longer head start, so it's no surprise it's still widely popular. You also bring up a good point regarding Julia's changing syntax and behavior—I've encountered the same issue trying copypasted code
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I believe this is more generally known as table-driven methods , and I also enjoy using them. They feel more ergonomic than conditional statements, and they're also more flexible—you can dynamically modify the conditions and actions b
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> If they aren't, it'll tell you that in 20 years everyone will be having -0.2 children and all the other species on the planet will start having to birth human babies just so they can be thrown into the smoking pit of bad stat
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I.e. using bleeding-edge decision-tree models to disrupt the oral hygiene space.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
This reminds me of annealing, and why it's implemented as a technique for finding optima.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
That won't make a difference unless the underlying algorithms can be perfectly parallelized. That's the whole point of Amdahl's Law.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Neither would I. I'm just clarifying, for the benefit of other readers.
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> Isn’t something like the MIT License open source but not “free software” in the rms sense because it does not encumber people who build on it to in turn produce free software themselves? No. The FSF considers the MIT license to be a Fr

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