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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Beer helps, but only at the sweet spot of 4 cans of %5 alcohol volume. Any more and productivity drops dramatically. Looks like you found the Ballmer peak . https://xkcd.com/323/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The server is open source. https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I'm not sure the two are comparable—OP's article is about 1 million ML predictions per second, while your link is about 4 million queries per second.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/automatic-business/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> CSV itself is not standardized Actually, CSV is formalized in RFC 4180. Adherence to that spec is another story, of course. :-) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4180
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> The joke I heard was that AI only refers to technology in the future, and not the past. This is actually known as the AI effect . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I believe Java also got record classes, beginning with version 14.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
In industrial automation, one old and popular analog signal scheme is the 4–20 mA current loop [1]. Why 4mA instead of 0mA? Because that way, you know 0mA specifically indicates a fault caused by a failed sensor, break in the line, etc. [1]
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Example, I referenced 'the paperclip maximizer' when someone asked about useless startup ideas during a game, there was no response from the group, basically 6 people ignored the statement i just mentioned. After seeing that
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by sidpatil 4y ago
"Sorry, we're not able to serve your requests this quickly."
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The toilet paper holders we got for our bathroom renovations are metal, and from The Home Depot if I recall correctly.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Perusing the possibilities at lowes and home depot showed plastic and fake chrome when I would have paid extra for high quality brass or even metal. It was just gone. Both Lowe's and Home Depot sell metal faucets, taps, knobs, etc
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Entirely non-Unicode. International text is supported, but it isn't based on Unicode nor requiring any unified character encoding. What are some of the issues you see with Unicode?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> Increasingly though, so much of the U.S. looks so much like the rest in terms of retail/food that I begin to feel the entire country is in fact a mall of sorts. Here's a good video on the subject: https://youtu.be&
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Heh. I always thought it was named after the star system [1]. Never knew. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Ideally cities and townships would build physically-segregated dedicated bike paths and related infrastructure. This would keep cyclists safer and motorists faster.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> 99% of trips can be done in a 400kg LEV or even a 30kg single occupant vehicle, but some tasks legitimately require a 3 tonne truck. If that's the case, it might be more economical to do the majority of work with a smaller vehicle
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> I forgot a third development, which is thanks to Stripe and other mobile-friendly payment processors. All you need is a smartphone, and they send you a mini card reader that plugs into your phone. Did you mean Square? They were one of
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> To put another one out there, there's no universal and practical way to electronically transfer money from one person to another. The only options are cash, checks, wire transfers and ACH. Wire transfers are expensive and ACH is d
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I do the same thing, and second the Moo.com recommendation. I splurged and got the tri-layer card for mine.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I thought it was a joke too, judging from the date of submission—almost exactly one week before April Fool's Day.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What differs the flow battery's liquid electrolyte from the fuel cell's fuel? If I called the liquid electrolyte fuel, would that mean the flow battery is just a fuel cell?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> I like VisualStudio / VSCode but one recent issue I have had is with their parentheses/brackets/braces coloring. It doesn't add a lot of value as I am used to matching parantheses/brackets/braces using the
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What you're describing is generally known as interprocedural dataflow analysis . (Interprocedural because it handles dataflow across function calls.) You can look into building a tool that can extract all or at least part of that data
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> And if that’s what you want to stick to, I guess you could program in that style by making the “object” the first method argument, and wrapping the functions along with the struct definition in a module. You might not even need to do t
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Just to clarify, 1.8 hasn't been released yet (currently at release candidate 4).
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by sidpatil 4y ago
What's the difference between a flow battery and a fuel cell?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Link to the actual booksite: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mitchell/ftp/mlboo...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/979/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
These are great for booting from USB drives on systems that are too old to support that natively.

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