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by unishark 6y ago
You also save clock cycles by avoiding the extra calculation each time you compute 2pi or whatever by defining TWO_PI once. So it was lot more common in Fortran and C programming days.
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by unishark 6y ago
I'd call it petty more than sleazy. Drama queens on both sides.
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by unishark 6y ago
The question is whether that Twitter exchange was an isolated outburst (of the kind that reminds us all to stay away from social media, at least using our real name) or an example of typical behavior that led to this firing.
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by unishark 6y ago
> I'm reminded of how retailers once they cross a certain threshold of popularity and distribution penetration begin rolling out their own branded products. Amazon Basics is an example of that but is true of almost any medium/l
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by unishark 6y ago
I thought the point of those nomadic lifestyles is to earn the same trifling money anyone can earn over the internet with a little effort, but live where the money goes farther.
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by unishark 6y ago
Opportunity is not luck. It is everywhere. Saying opportunity is necessary is like saying air is necessary. The "luck theory" is the one that is damaging. Because the biggest real problem is people don't know about opportunit
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by unishark 6y ago
I view it as more like developing country capitalism. I remember a BBC description several years ago about what the internet was like in the middle east and India. It was awash with annoying ads and privacy violation but people didn't
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by unishark 6y ago
Not only that, but it's a choice for "lowest-common-denominator" users, not power users. So they will by definition make a trade off in lower real-world functionality in return for ease of basic use or other things. Like the
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by unishark 6y ago
Luckily I need to do research on my desktop so always insist on Linux, which the IT department isn't able to administer. I made the mistake of asking for a windows laptop once even though it was supposedly for research and I had admin
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by unishark 6y ago
I meant required of the school. I think you're vastly overstating the social pressure. It's nothing compared to adolescent pressure to wear the right clothes and ingest the right chemicals. Among adults, the far right wingers get
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by unishark 6y ago
> Given that the first market for AI-driven vehicles seems to be western nations, specifically the US, it is no surprise that google gears its captcha program to objects from that area. This is a roundabout way of just saying the most ob
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by unishark 6y ago
Religion would seem culty since a cult is literally a religion.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think there's a few states where it is not required. And the state requirements only apply to public schools so who knows what all the private and parochial schools are doing.
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by unishark 6y ago
In what way is it like a cult? It's more like cheering for your country in international sports competitions. If that's a cult then I guess fans of any competitive sports are a cult to you. If you're talking about the actual
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by unishark 6y ago
I assume the 4 means parking district four. They give people some limited room to hunt for street parking near their home by breaking the city into small districts. https://www.culvercity.org/Home/ShowDocument?id=1928
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by unishark 6y ago
> I don't know, I just don't think we can reasonably expect people to retrain on their own time... especially if they're dealing with financial stress already. Many govt programs criticized in the article do support people
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by unishark 6y ago
I think it's more about the energy level needed to get over the learning curve. Like learning a new language, if you aren't really serious it isn't going to happen, and going at it slower makes it take disproportionately long
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by unishark 6y ago
you'd have to compare it to the result of that same brain power doing something else.
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by unishark 6y ago
> ...but the blocks can be circumvented by sufficiently motivated individuals. As I understand it, using a VPN to get past the firewall is a crime for Chinese nationals. And the govt is constantly blocking them anyway as they find them.
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by unishark 6y ago
> American internet users have had a very good 2020: according to research performed by FairInternetReport, median US internet speeds in 2020 doubled to 33.16mbps, up from 17.34mbps in 2019. Covering the five years of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2
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by unishark 6y ago
I suspect you're talking about individuals while the TS is talking about the press. Press outlets will certainly make bad faith arguments to get ratings. For example by twisting someone's words into the most outrage-provoking inte
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by unishark 6y ago
"Expert systems" were the hot research area in AI prior to machine learning (data driven methods, basically). Old methods and problems from that era like automated reasoning still have some research and applications going on, but
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by unishark 6y ago
Don't senators get (armed) govt security protection anyway when they are threatened?
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by unishark 6y ago
But the issue in question at the moment isn't about whether we get to rub things in the face of apple-loving posters. The question is about whether this individual wields the supposed power Apple has in this situation.
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by unishark 6y ago
> As someone who lives outside America, the obvious answer to me is unless your product is directly related to politics, a company as an entity should have no public stance on politics. > From the outside looking in, American politics
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by unishark 6y ago
If you increase their income by giving them jobs where they can be more productive, poverty decreases even if the rich also get richer. Consider building factories in a poor country. People can both contribute and earn a lot more in factory
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by unishark 6y ago
Or that bad parents also are bad employees and earn less money.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think judges can seal records for anyone. A friend of mine had it done after his conviction several years ago. Sure enough I can't find him in the database. He still notifies potential employers about it though.
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by unishark 6y ago
> ShapeRank also seems to take vector algebra "tensor" concept to the extreme and to be honest it's better to based on "versor" since geometric algebra is probably the future of computer algebra [4]. I'm cur
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by unishark 6y ago
You mean unless you pay for a special policy? I think it typically comes with its own warranty. The replacement prices differentiate between in-warranty and AppleCare versus "out of warranty" price. Which seems to imply they do pr

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