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by undoware 5y ago
Well, damn. And here I'd thought the premise of _Donnie Darko_ was unrealistic, but here it is, with a meteorite instead of a jet engine, no less. Someone better at stats than I am: What is the probability of getting hit in the face b
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by undoware 5y ago
If I'm right about this: D-Wave, please fire your marketing team. This is beneath you. At the very least pay for an actual journalist to put their name to a thing.
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by undoware 5y ago
This website appears to be content marketing. There is no indication of who put it up, or why; there are no credentials listed, and it has a singular focus on a specific quantum computing technique. `whois` gives no indication as to the act
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by undoware 5y ago
welp, it's been a slice, Firefox. I will never forget the excellent MDN docs and of course the gift of Rust. I will miss your little furry logo henceforth.
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by undoware 5y ago
One of the best books I've ever read. Not only that, the prequel, _A Deepness in the Sky_, has the most plausible managerial villains I've ever read. Vinge, man. Vinge.
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by undoware 5y ago
[adjusts evil business marketing hat] Soft-pitch. We buy cycles on some advanced text-to-speech service, do some ML training or whatever, and make a device that can watch your plant and then conversationally answer questions about its healt
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by undoware 5y ago
So, ok, without attempting to justify here, what's going on is that the word 'woman' (used in OP) and the word 'female' (used by you) are taken by some folks (an increasing tranche) to mean different things. Like, I
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by undoware 5y ago
I de-mystified this by considering the boys as a spiral. Move the wheel, the spiral increases by one node. In summary, this puzzle is puzzling because we are given a wheel and keep thinking 'circle' instead of, "is it actuall
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by undoware 5y ago
I installed linux to fix this problem (it did, at the cost of the camera, which stopped working.) Under linux, tho, I've watched my battery max-charge decline 32% in about eighteen months. My theory is that the XPS uses some sort Wind
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by undoware 5y ago
That's a cool idea. I was doing this in ~2008, and IIRC OCR was barely grabbing "ISBN" in 12pt Times on a white page, let alone RANDOM_FONT on a book spine. (Unrelatedly I also had a gig OCRing books for someone with a visual
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by undoware 5y ago
I processed a few thousand books this way. It scales nicely. (also, why is this on-topic, strictly-procedural comment I spent 30 minutes writing downvoted? Hacker news, you are fickle)
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by undoware 5y ago
I had a gig doing this once in grad school. Here's my method. It worked great: First, close the library (or library section) until your work is complete. It's critical that the books not go wandering or get rearranged during this
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by undoware 5y ago
I'm quite fond of KDL and intend to use it in a future project. Quick said-contras: Q: "Another markup/config language?" A: Yes. We actually do get (slowly) better at solving already-solved problems. Evolution of spec d
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by undoware 5y ago
I cannot recommend https://obsidian.md highly enough. - Vim-like bindings that don't suck - Growing and fantastic set of community plugins, including a presently-in-alpha plugin offering Jupyter support (!) - Markdown-based
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by undoware 5y ago
...except that it's not nasal equipment that's damaged by SARS-CoV-2, it's the 'smell-related resources' themselves (in the brain) that go missing: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology
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by undoware 5y ago
Unlike the flu, SARS-CoV-2 causes micro-clots, which damage tissues that are capillary-heavy. This doesn't matter so much for, say, your liver, which (given time, and luck, and otherwise decent health) can recover, but matters greatly
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by undoware 5y ago
This pattern held me for a while, but I intentionally reversed it, and my WIS and INT scores shot back up. Lose books at your peril. It isn't the format itself, it's the length that is Exercise. You cannot train for a marathon by
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by undoware 5y ago
....quietly reminding the "good, Java sucks anyway" crowd that a vast amount of actually-quite-important commercial software has the JRE as a dep. Like, ok at my end, I kind of shelled out for a license for JetBrains DataGrip, and
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by undoware 6y ago
What I find worrisome about this piece: 1. it at no point mentions what the fellow is actually alleged to have said. I'm sure I could find out with a few clicks, but what's up with that? 2. This is mostly an anxiety-rant about an
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by undoware 6y ago
'polarization' only began in the nineties? Good lord, please do not google WWII
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by undoware 6y ago
This is the funniest possible take about a platform that sells itself on being a space safe from the 'hallway monitors' of mainstream (and now conventional social) media. If you weren't already exhausted by this genre from th
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by undoware 6y ago
I appreciate the suggestion that cabin fever makes you murderous, but I can't help but think that this is not a widespread psychological feature, and may mark a significant difference between yourself and others. Have you been assessed
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by undoware 6y ago
Dearest ones, we have only just begun. See you next summer.
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by undoware 6y ago
Having read both this and the NYT Opinions Manjoo article, I found the argument in this article a bit weird. Seems to go like: - There was an Opinion column in a newspaper, focused on a book review, that had a headline that was clickbait-y
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by undoware 6y ago
Odd Go (game) allusion, but it keeps suggesting itself to me these days. In Go, the object is to get two 'eyes', or _meh_, which stabilizes a structure. Often getting two _meh_ first is almost (but not always) the same as winning.
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by undoware 6y ago
I get routinely modded down on this site for pointing out issues that are ostensibly too political, like workplace discrimination. But on this same site, somoene can literally carry on a discussion echoing the (proven false) propaganda poin
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by undoware 6y ago
This has to be the funniest take on the release of a whole new CPU architecture.
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by undoware 6y ago
Recalling, however, that transgender people, such as myself, 'annihiliate Man as the image of God' (which seems to presuppose a lot about what gender God is but I digress). He's tried to do some PR stunts lately with trans is
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by undoware 6y ago
reminds me of this Onion: "CHICAGO—Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criti
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by undoware 6y ago
I'd be interested to know the rationale for the downvote.

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