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by trobertson 9y ago
Agreed to it under compulsion. It isn't feasible to go without a banking account / credit union account. Modern society relies on these accounts. And all of these accounts have these reporting measures in their legalese. There is
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by trobertson 9y ago
That doesn't pass the smell test. They've been paying huge sums of money for some people (deep learning, and Levandowski's $100 million). Their process is far more arbitrary and open to negotiation than that summary claims. M
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by trobertson 9y ago
Would you be willing to share that script? I'm heading to grad school in a month, this would be very useful.
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by trobertson 9y ago
Yes.
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by trobertson 9y ago
At a guess, previous generations would talk in terms of distance-to-destination, whereas we talk in terms of time-to-destination. They would think of a highway and a neighborhood as having the same "speed limit" (foot or horse-and
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by trobertson 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton#Units_of_mass.2Fweight Metric ton / tonne: 1000 kg Imperial (long) ton: 2240 lbs (1016 kg) (UK) Imperial (short) ton: 2000 lbs (907 kg) (USA, Canada)
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by trobertson 10y ago
> a lot of the responses sound emotion driven, with the overwhelming emotion being the fear of change. I got a different fear out of it. They are afraid that their current circumstances are going to be permanent. The majority of Trump vo
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by trobertson 10y ago
You have fully understood the absurdity. People are paying hundreds of real life USD for a new texture for their gloves.
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by trobertson 10y ago
> Is this typical of games these days? Do a crappy "main" game but "fix it" with DLCs? A lot of AAA devs have started using games as a platform for DLC. Valve, for example, just launched glove skins [0] - 300 USD for
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by trobertson 10y ago
You'll note that those results all start appearing in July - after the DNC shoved Sanders out of the race. When the corruption was relevant, the "reputable" media was silent.
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by trobertson 10y ago
> the official narrative across the media industry - much of it literally state propaganda - has been consistently proving hallow and unreliable. > The "fake news" surge is a grasp by establish monopolistic forms of misinfor
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by trobertson 10y ago
If you "feel bad for him", you are not looking down on him. If you "feel bad for poor him", you are referring to him in a way that implies his position is lesser. "Poor $noun" is nearly always derogatory toward
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by trobertson 10y ago
> expression of sympathy Whether you intend it or not, it's an expression of condescension. It states that you are in a position where you can look down at (feel bad for) a lesser (poor Stallman). You may not mean it that way, but i
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by trobertson 10y ago
> the language is an unsurmountable pile of poorly-thought-out and impossible-to-compose new ideas on top of the least interesting pieces of Haskell For a Haskell programmer, what he tried to do (use typeclasses) is extremely common. It&
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by trobertson 10y ago
It's funny that every single game you mentioned is a "theme park" open world game, and exactly zero of them are "sandbox" open world games.
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by trobertson 10y ago
Considering motion blur, "pixel-perfect" is a difficult requirement.
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by trobertson 10y ago
A good type system will expose the existence of side effects. However, it is true that good type systems are very rare in industry.
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by trobertson 10y ago
> But he lies so much and makes so many factual errors how can you trust him on anything? This applies to Hillary too, you know? The most awful thing about this election is that neither candidate is trustworthy. They are both blatant lia
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by trobertson 10y ago
If that's what you do, then yes. If you choose instead to only advertise your positions at women-focused conferences and programs, the legality changes. You haven't prevented men from applying and being accepted, you've inste
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by trobertson 10y ago
Everyone has something to say. The achievement of writers is being able to suitably express their thoughts to their audience. Regarding Bukowski, you should check out his Wikipedia page. I'll snip some highlights, and draw some conclus
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by trobertson 10y ago
The point of the (grad and above) academic treadmill is to become a scientist. KKKKkkkk is saying that the author did not mention this at all, which means the author may have been misguided or under false pretenses.
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by trobertson 11y ago
Stylish lets you write your own CSS. It doesn't give you a GUI for it, it expects you to look up the elements yourself. I have custom CSS for a number of sites, and find Stylish sufficient.
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by trobertson 11y ago
It will be interpreted as Republicans shutting down the government... again. Moderates and Independents, and Centrists on both sides tend to strongly dislike that, and it could swing the election to a Democrat victory.
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by trobertson 11y ago
Generally speaking, people who give talks have them prepared beforehand. They practice speaking it, to make sure that it's clear and understandable. So to say that it's easy to write a transcript for a planned talk isn't real
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by trobertson 11y ago
> jitteriness of digital video Not the same thing, but "film grain" is a thing.
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by trobertson 12y ago
The common opinion is that Scala is a poor man's Haskell, with few of the strengths and more weaknesses. It's seen as, at best, a stepping stone from imperative languages to "real" functional languages.
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by trobertson 12y ago
Rather than single out engineer and UX guys, it would be more accurate to say that some person(s?) foresaw the problem, and their concerns were dismissed by someone above them.
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by trobertson 12y ago
Only after the learning curve, though. It isn't immediately approachable as an imperative language.
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by trobertson 12y ago
For those new to OpenGL or graphics programming, there is also this [0] repo on github, which contains a variety of OpenGL examples and single-file projects. [0]: https://github.com/progschj/OpenGL-Examples
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by trobertson 12y ago
I've got a T530, and have had several distros on it at varying points. I highly recommend ThinkPads as well.

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