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by twic 2y ago
The Grand Malort Seizure?
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What thfuran said was: > You absolutely do not want multiple (even just two) copies of what's meant to be exactly the same functionality, since now they can accidentally evolve separately. But coupling together things that only happ
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by twic 2y ago
I had a job about twenty years ago where at some point a sort of freelance tea lady started coming round. Basically had a van full of bacon rolls and a tea urn, and would drive up to office buildings and offer to come in and sell tea and ro
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by twic 2y ago
Oh, that's nice. Chrome and Edge both fail for me!
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What does the dialogue say in Japanese? Neon genesis or new era?
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by twic 2y ago
claß is much more concise.
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Dutch also has a digraph-which-counts-as-a-letter, "ij". But that doesn't get title-cased internally - there is a city called IJmuiden, not Ijmuiden.
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by twic 2y ago
My guess would be that because it's an integration with a sprawling native library, there is a lot of code which touches Python's own C API. That is not entirely stable, and it has a lot more source stability than binary stability
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by twic 2y ago
Next step, design a drug to block it, and we have a new contraceptive that doesn't involve throwing a spanner in the works of anyone's endocrine system.
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by twic 2y ago
> People don't understand the fundamental problem of fusion. It's a problem of energy loss. Of enormous energy losses. I'm not sure that's even true, because if you manage to crack that, you still have the problem tha
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by twic 2y ago
Perhaps this is what you were alluding to, but immensely popular survival horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's is set in a thinly veiled Chuck E. Cheese.
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by twic 2y ago
FWIW the LEP collider accelerated electrons to 104.5 GeV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Electron%E2%80%93Positro... But that was a ring five miles across, not a sphere roughly the size of a sumo wrestler.
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by twic 2y ago
It's possibly worth mentioning that Java is getting a vector API which explicitly abstracts over some of the details of SIMD, including width. You have a type Vector<T> which represents enough of some type T to fill a vector regi
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by twic 2y ago
I left a job about ten years ago, leaving behind a desk with a computer and various piles of paper and bits and bobs. That company then moved offices, and my desk moved with it, computer, papers, bobs and all. I got occasional updates from
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Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EW
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by twic 2y ago
I run a WireGuard server on my wireless router. The router itself is not tiny, the size of a two-inch-thick trade paperback. But the marginal size of the WireGuard device is zero, because i need the router anyway.
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by twic 2y ago
"If it ain't broke, open it up and see what makes it so bloody special." -- The BOFH
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by twic 2y ago
You know, conkers is exactly the sort of sport that makes a good anime. Everyman protagonist finds the world's hardest conker, takes on a series of increasingly absurd super-conkerists, Baki the Grappler style, with frequent informatio
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by twic 2y ago
Do you think that inference on a thirteen million parameter neural network is more lightweight than running a conventional physics engine?
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by twic 2y ago
It's trained on moving around dust2, so as long as the previous frame was a view of dust2, the next frame is very likely to be a plausible subsequent view of dust2. In some sense, this encodes a map; but it's not what most people
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by twic 2y ago
Sounds great. But the focus on the competition with in-house sequencing is odd. When i was doing a PhD twenty years ago, we never even considered doing it in-house - i would just post tubes to a commercial sequencing service and get results
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by twic 2y ago
"In house" could mean in the institute, though. I never worked anywhere that had in-house sequencing, but better-funded places like Lincoln's Inn Fields did. Those places were big enough to make it cost-effective, and it&#x27
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by twic 2y ago
Oh, sorry. I'm at work, and my company uses some dogshit safe browsing wrapper service. Sometimes i forget to trim the prefix off before posting a link. Fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.
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Skill issue, Warhammer painters are all over it: http://razzaminipainting.blogspot.com/2016/07/non-metallic-m...
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by twic 2y ago
The purpose of using markdown is to make editing simple. The purpose of using git is to use a well-known and rock-solid history-preserving file store. Both of those purposes are orthogonal to method of delivery and tech stack used. So no. I
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So if they used a genetic algorithm, they could have got the prize for biology?
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> Amazon S3 Select is no longer available to new customers. Existing customers of Amazon S3 Select can continue to use the feature as usual. :( But you and patrickthebold are spot on in pointing out Athena. I've always thought of it
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Since we're talking object storage, a question for the collective brain: are there any object storage solutions, cloud or on-prem, which support any sort of "operator pushdown"? By "operator pushdown", i mean any ab
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The only exception i can think of off hand is "uP" as a very rare abbreviation for "microprocessor": https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/microprocessor
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I think in both British and Australian English, it's what you call someone when you are a hair's breadth away from walloping them.

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