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by smilekzs 8y ago
The histogram for Seattle looks unconvincing for me, because the entire downtown-pike-denny area is slanted to align with the coastline ( https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6090857,-122.3407184,15z ). Possibly due to weig
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by smilekzs 8y ago
I disagree to a minor degree, because humans can have widely different ability of night vision.
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by smilekzs 8y ago
> Q: Is GARGLE SUMMER OF COD considered an internship, a job, or any form of employment? > A: No. You're fucking getting paid in fish, for fuck's sake. Thank you for the hilarious FAQ. (read on)
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Cons: - The UI is lacking, esp. when viewing large diffs, compared to GitHub, VSTS-git, etc. - `arc` CLI is awful
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Paywalled. Scihub has it (DOI: 10.1145/3177540.3177542)
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by smilekzs 8y ago
quoting catwell: > I think they mean "embedded" as in "embedded in a program", not "targeting embedded hardware".
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Most likely making way for state-sponsored "innovations" (with "completely own intellectual property") to thrive instead.
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by smilekzs 8y ago
Denying / delivering fake data is #1 on my wishlist. Wechat (and pretty much all apps from China) needs to have absolutely minimum permissions. Currently I have to put them on a separate phone...
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by smilekzs 8y ago
> Most Chinese/Indian immigrants gravitate to low-risk jobs, specifically at larger companies, usually for visa/immigration related issues. Seems to me that the risk-aversion is caused by their (not-yet-)immigrant status, not t
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by smilekzs 8y ago
> She bought cheap phones I think I found the actual problem.
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by smilekzs 8y ago
It's funny because within the comment section there are already 2 different opinions on why this is not funny because $xyz is what every sane python dev should use.
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by smilekzs 9y ago
> (@uber_support) We're here to help! Please send us a note here; https://help.uber.com/h/c4699569-e59a-4e8e-950a-1ac0aa1bb6c1 … and our team will be able to help. /sarcasm We're here to help [you sto
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by smilekzs 9y ago
"1 vs l" distinction isn't very clear in the mono version --- wouldn't that be a deal-breaker for a code font?
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by smilekzs 9y ago
> Xu Guangyu, chairman of Beijing Kaiwen and a choral singer in college... > Westminster’s odd couple may not be such a mismatch, given Xu’s background as a choral singer at Peking University. In the early 1980s, his high-school music
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by smilekzs 9y ago
Anecdote: About a year ago when I was driving at night I almost hit someone, apparently homeless with dark-colored clothes, pushing a covered shopping cart across a 5-lane street with no crosswalk. Fortunately I was in one of the middle lan
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by smilekzs 9y ago
> Xue, an amateur car racer himself, tried opening the car door slightly to help slow the car down, which slowed to 60km/h, but nothing else could be done And likely push-button ignite --- otherwise you can just pull the key out.
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by smilekzs 9y ago
Risking asking the obvious: What is stopping us from having autonomous subways, considering we are almost gonna have autonomous cars?
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by smilekzs 9y ago
Then find a lawyer to sue them?
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by smilekzs 9y ago
I was on the same route as you. Fortunately we (me with my friend) were in an SUV with AWD, and had a lot of fun drifting through a trail (maybe not the same one you got) following advice from Google Maps. Oh yeah and we did get ahead of mi
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by smilekzs 9y ago
> Developers! Developers! Developers! A laughing stock turned into a respectable trend. Well done. I think with this, PowerShell needs to stop aliasing curl to Invoke-WebRequest by default (or at least try to deprecate that alias).
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by smilekzs 9y ago
M$ Edge on Android uses WebKit.
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by smilekzs 9y ago
> The user should have checked their email spam folder How about NO?
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by smilekzs 9y ago
> The Chinese people see 5[0] mao bots from 10 miles away > The very nature of the internet makes humanity question truth and authority The short answer would be, these aren't really targeting people who can tell the difference a
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by smilekzs 9y ago
During my internship on automotive cost engineering, I quickly learned that motorized anything on a car costs and weighs leagues more than its mechanical-only cousin. I am curious why Model 3 went down the path of total motorization, when i
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by smilekzs 9y ago
1. Everything other than foot soldiers are robotic. They are called "Zealots" for a good reason. Why risk your life when the bots can do all the killing while you sit back and eat popcorn? 2. Your foot soldiers don't just &qu
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by smilekzs 9y ago
Can you reprogram the part of an FPGA that is actively being used?
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by smilekzs 9y ago
More like you and a couple millions of buddies?
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by smilekzs 9y ago
Makefile was not originally designed to be a general-purpose language but eventually grew features and pretends to be one. If a proper general-purpose language with a well-designed library (possibly plus a general-purpose data-only configur
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by smilekzs 9y ago
I think the game subtly guides the players towards a investment-heavy strategy. Also, there is a built-in safety net that saves you from crashes... Won't spoil it completely but you can most easily achieve it right after you start the
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by smilekzs 9y ago
At 1% exploration you should already have exponential exploration growth (reasons are spoilers), and would be only a few seconds away from 100%.

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