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by syrrim 8y ago
The quality of DDGs results is related in part to the number of users they have: - they use link clicks to determine coherence between query and result. More users => more clicks => greater coherence - they fund themselves using adve
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by syrrim 8y ago
The policy under which they might gain the right to mobility - proof of ancestral custom - fixes in place what would have been a continually evolving aspect of historical culture. The Orenda discusses a particular huron tribe picking up t
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by syrrim 8y ago
You could record a character wise diff of each name update, and apply all the diffs in succession. GP is saying not to do that, and instead to only apply one of the name changes and ignore the rest -just as you've described.
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by syrrim 8y ago
Motherjones had a reporter get a job as a prison guard. His experience was similar: if he doesn't play nice with the inmates they will make his life hell. This was at a private prison, so the under-staffing issue might be more pronounc
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by syrrim 8y ago
This is much more geared towards privacy then security. From a security standpoint there is nothing wrong with using google search or email, but it is obviously not very private. I suppose it also depends some on your threat level. For some
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by syrrim 8y ago
probably s/strimes/strives
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by syrrim 8y ago
note that in porn, "teen" refers to anyone young, and can be found on any major porn website referring to of-legal-age women.
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by syrrim 8y ago
Tiling wms support tabs and workspaces, not just tiling. Similar to how floaings wms support fullscreen and workspaces, not just floating
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by syrrim 8y ago
The salient point is that china as super power is negative independent of where you're sitting.
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by syrrim 8y ago
Add a file input -> the users taps it -> ios asks if they want to use an existing photo or take a new one -> take a new photo. Result on android may differ.
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by syrrim 8y ago
That's called kids being assholes, it happened long before the internet was invented, and it will continue once we eventually decide to shut down the internet once and for all. The school should have legitimate solutions for it involvi
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by syrrim 8y ago
I distinguish between recieving criticism and recieving correction. This is normally dichotomized as criticism and constructive criticism. I suppose when you write a blogpost, and many other tasks, you are implicitly assuming you've ma
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by syrrim 8y ago
Model someone as in your ingroup. You associate actions happening to them as happening to yourself. Criticising them feels like criticizing yourself, ie admitting you've made some mistake. This could be: knowing you've made a mist
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by syrrim 8y ago
As long as you're fine with ascii delimiters, strtok et al. work fine for utf-8 strings.
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by syrrim 8y ago
>The net neutrality laws were non-existent at that time and nothing of the sort happened that's wrong. Net neutrality was the norm, until a brief period after verizon challenged it in court. >The internet operated fine for many y
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by syrrim 8y ago
"Ads were my best friends - until they weren't" I used to love ads. Every time I saw a new ad show up, I'd get a little bit excited, knowing that it would be my friend for the next few month or years. When I saw an old f
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by syrrim 8y ago
>What do you expect the result of log(-1) to be? i pi, or more generally i pi n for odd n.
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by syrrim 8y ago
If 75 is a failing grade, then perhaps the average is merely shifted where you are compared to me. The thrust of my comment wasn't the precise value for the average, but that deviations from this average would be detected and reprimand
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by syrrim 8y ago
Well, free software is communism, so it's not surprising.
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by syrrim 8y ago
The problem is that people want open source software to be like their own software. That is, it is written like they would have written it, and in such a way that they can go through the source code and understand it and modify it, but with
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by syrrim 8y ago
>the purpose of going to school is to better yourself versus competing against your neighbors It must be both. In order to better yourself, you must challenge yourself. Your peers have similar capabilities to you, because you both met ro
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by syrrim 8y ago
My uncle is a professor. This is what he said is required of him. Perhaps universities like harvard have lower standards. In any case, consider that this system is in fact a solution to the proposed problem.
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by syrrim 8y ago
The average mark is generally fixed at around 75%. So a professor that systematically inflates grades will be called out.
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by syrrim 8y ago
> Isn't adding another potentially unknown maintainer generally better for the community than a project dying? no. What does "a project dying" even mean? The code still runs, and will for the foreseeable future. If it was
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by syrrim 8y ago
"Use the code on windows" and "support msvc" are orthogonal properties. Gcc and clang both compile windows binaries.
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by syrrim 8y ago
>Principal agent problem: for all payment techniques thus explored for online dating, the interests of the dating service are not in alignment with daters who want a monogamous LTR. The principle agent problem is a general refutation of
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by syrrim 8y ago
What if the actions are perfectly legal?
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by syrrim 8y ago
It launched a few days ago AFAICT.
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by syrrim 8y ago
Never gonna happen. Think about it: the principle of science is mapping the empirical world with a logical one. A null result represents a failure to do this. In a binary case (either this or that), a null result gives us information, but t
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by syrrim 8y ago
>"how is the mass number defined?" >"that's easy! we take the mass of one mole of atoms, and that's the mass number!"

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