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by sidpatil 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34703478
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Data Scientist's job is to launder management's intuition using quantitative methods :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAichhoZrKs
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> What's most interesting is that the beginning of that movie, Neo's life is portrayed as being horrific drudgery. Gen-X cynicism was a running theme in the 1990s — Office Space , the Dilbert comic strip and TV series, etc.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Does anybody else think this overly-simple art-style of pastel colors and thick black lines seem very very _very_ childish? You see it in a lot of corporate branding, advertisements, etc. It's known as "Corporate Memphis&quot
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Scaled beyond a single tree-sized entity I mean. Sure you can put a lot of trees together to do more, but each tree has to do its own small scale sourcing of water, sun, air, etc. Vertical versus horizontal scaling. > You can take e
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> And we're expected to believe that networking is either done in person or not at all? Where did OP make this claim?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Is a damp towel going to help when it's humid outside?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What are the advantages of this versus a PATA disk-on-module, a CompactFlash card, or an SD-to-PATA adapter?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> And a server owned by Jesus McJesusFace in WhereTheHellistan propped up by shitnickles funds. No you don't. Just use Home Assistant or openHAB — fully local control by default. I've been using the former for a while now, and
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> ext4 still has an inode storage quota that is a fixed fraction of the total space available, so for small files, you will run out of inode space before you run out of block storage space. This would explain why Web hosting providers of
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I gave up on USB file transfers off of Android phones for that reason. A faster option is to install an HTTP or FTP server app on the phone, then download the photos through the network.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
To be pedantic, those are methods, not techniques.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
There's no connection. Where did you see that there was one?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
This technique is generally known as indexed color . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed_color
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What are some reasons for that?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> I imagine this is the way many of machines of the 1970s were configured as well Which machines are you referring to?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The article mentions that the doge image and subsequent meme predate Dogecoin.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
This brings to mind Chesterton's fence.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Input Leap is an active fork of Barrier. It looks like Barrier is unmaintained. https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap/issues/1414
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Somewhat relevant: https://xkcd.com/465/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I believe they no longer use the burning method [1] for measuring food energy, since it overestimates energy of high-fiber foods (fiber doesn't get burned when in the body, but it does get burned during measurement.) I believe nowadays
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Tim Wu wrote an essay on this a few years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-co...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
My default these days is the solid teal color common on Windows 95 installations.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Another term for this is typestate analysis . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typestate_analysis
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by sidpatil 4y ago
From the GitHub page, it looks like Divio is actually a fork of Diátaxis. divio/diataxis-documentation-framework is forked from evildmp/diataxis-documentation-framework, and evildmp is Daniele Procida, the creator of the latter re
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by sidpatil 4y ago
This could have to do with whether you're waking up in between versus in the middle of a sleep cycle. From what I understand, the former is preferable to the latter.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> "Yes I often find my cracking buddies with their super computers just give up hacking my online user service when I bumped my user token length from 159 to 160 length", said nobody, ever. Reminds me of this sketch: https:&#x
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Fair point. He does describe his reasoning within the accompanying article though.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/about/about.html Bottom of page.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I wish all technology naming would follow this rule. Fast Ethernet is my favorite example.

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