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The annual budget of the entire NSF is $8.28B. The NIH is $42B Google's net profit was $40B in 2020. Apple's was $94.6B in 2021. (all according to wikipedia). Edit: The above is net income, so AFTER paying all the exorbitant salar
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Ah nice! I was interested in looking but don’t know the codebase. That method does look better. My idea assumes that the method has already been checked to see if it is a valid method, which has its own cost. Otherwise, POSABC would be pars
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A bit of a micro-optimization, but couldn’t you interpret 4 bytes (including the trailing null on the three-letter verbs) as a 32-bit unsigned int and then do integer comparisons or a case statement?
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I’ve realized the idea that the “Hacker” part of “Hacker News” is no longer here, and just a nod to some ancient, possibly apocryphal, past. Discussions now are about how you shouldn’t run your own server, and you should use popular stuff s
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I wish there were some “intermediate” websites for cooking. There seems to be a missing middle, where I don’t know exactly to do, but know enough basics to only meed a little bit of direction. Ie, not step by step, but more general. Let me
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But then how do you deal with unique constraints or things like upserts? If I want to add 10 entries, then I need to know that all have been added and not pre-existing, or else the code for adding new entries doesn't actually get teste
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Maybe related to the Rosenhan experiment? Also one of my favorite psychology stories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
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I don’t believe we have a good way to compute various macro properties of something like steel. We can compute density and what not, but how much it holds its sharpness or something is something I haven’t seen. So I am not sure how to get t
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I agree. But imposter syndrome is exacerbated by thinking/feeling that everyone around you knows so much more than you, when in reality they (probably) don’t. The site was dedicated to breaking down the illusion that everyone around
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There was a website once where people would (anonymously) admit to things that they should know but don’t. Like a developer admitting they didn’t know basic command line commands and stuff, or a scientist admitting they didn’t understand ca
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> Which world events do you consider important and directly relevant to yourself? I find this kind of view depressingly common. Knowing about world events breaks us out of our various bubbles and makes us aware of what is going on with o
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This is the paradox of tolerance. A truly tolerant society would tolerate intolerance, which makes the society not truly tolerant anymore. So a society would need to be a bit intolerant to stamp out intolerance, making it overall more toler
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I understand this. But am also aware of how processes work out over longer timeframes. Not too many people get caught, review team gets downsized since it is not a revenue generator. Maybe we can replace it with ML! How many stories do we h
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This is almost a real life version of the Bottle Imp paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Imp
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This is correct. If you have an application (lets say offlineimap, which is one I use), then you have two options: 1.) Install via a package manager (if they have it) 2.) Install via pip (or whatever) But #2 is a step backwards. Imagine hav
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This is a bit like the Blue Frog anti-spam project from years ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Frog
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Nitter.net is down due to DMCA complaints(github.com)
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For those who don’t want to click - it’s a proposed new area to search. They haven’t even looked there, yet. The title is very misleading (to me) Quote: “ No one had the idea before to combine Inmarsat satellite data, with Boeing performanc
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Hard to quantify, but how that sentence is said and the corresponding body language dramatically changes the meaning. Is the person smiling? Yelling? Pointing angrily? Making a motion like they are thirsty? Making puppy eyes? Laughing like
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I’ve been getting more and more w3schools for non-web python development. Even ranked higher than python’s standard library docs. And thats on DDG as well. Top-tier SEO there. Same with geeksforgeeks.
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The flip side is deflation, though. Which isn’t exactly pretty. If the value of my fiat money is increasing, then I will hold on to it, which is good for me. If everyone does that, then the economy grinds to a halt. The stock/bond mark
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Mostly. Ham is meant for play, not as a primary means of communication or for commercial purposes. If everything is encrypted, how could you tell? How could you even tell that the users were licensed?
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I am hoping they explained why. Most people who complain about the encryption regulation just completely disregard the reason for encryption in the first place (ie, all other regulations become unenforceable if encryption is allowed).
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I have found, at least in my own use of python, lists are for "homogeneous" collections of indeterminate length. But these are not strictly homogeneous - there may be None entries, for example. So I do use the heterogeneous capabi
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> Especially if there was more money flowing into R&D, and more regulatory efforts. You won’t hear any argument from me there. To put it into perspective, the annual budget of the entire (US) National Science Foundation is $8 billion
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> A lot of the things we rely on every day have toxic byproducts And we should stop and fix that. Why do we accept this as ok? Of course. But it is not always easy. You can’t always wave your hand and make non-harmful alternatives. Somet
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So the user knows if they should stop waiting, reload/refresh/restart, or just hang tight. If a progress bar or loading animation does not stop when something goes wrong, the it is conveying zero information and shouldn't be
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Which is kind of funny when you think about it. Who would watch a pronunciation video if they already know how it’s pronounced? Not discounting what you said. Just found it amusing :)
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Maybe? True beginners often lack the context to understand which of the multitude of answers the internet provides is the best for their situation. Or they think they understand the answer, but really don’t, and end up making a mess. Basica
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Well, then, they are part of the 10,000 https://xkcd.com/1053/

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