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ur-whale
3y ago
This only points to one things: developers strictly don't understand how politics work. They keep harping about JXL's technical superiority (who disagrees btw?) when at this point it is utterly clear that the choice to boot it fro
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ur-whale
3y ago
Very nice sim, but looks like the self-intersection problem isn't solved ... the crane example under strain goes sideways.
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3y ago
> but I'm shocked by how few IE grads can program their way out of a box. It's a shame, really. These days, you could replace the "IE" in your sentence by any of many, many disciplines and still be correct. As much as
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3y ago
> Sorry to be pedantic As always, a guaranteed way to make friends.
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3y ago
https://archive.is/ipo0g
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3y ago
https://archive.is/A4IHT
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3y ago
https://archive.is/c6pt7
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3y ago
>It's about money Quite the American-centric pov on University education, I would say. But then so is the NYT article, so what we've got here is a localized storm.
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3y ago
https://archive.is/daY3S
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3y ago
> Isn't that a contradiction in terms? "The beatings will continue until morale improves"
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3y ago
Getting corporations to do things that are your trivially obvious right usually require armies of lawyers.
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3y ago
The missed the key 5th benefit: Allows you to sudo apt-get purge snapd without annoying unwanted consequences.
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3y ago
> Respectfully, it sounds like a young person's ideals LOL, thanks for the compliment, but - assuming the standard definition of the words "young person" - and also assuming you're talking about me and not the OP'
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3y ago
This seems to be based on the assumption of the existence of a "tribe" you're supposed to belong to... what if: - there is no such thing - you made it your life goal to belong to no such thing in the first place
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3y ago
> The Bakery Algorithm's unique feature is its ability to ensure mutual exclusion in concurrent programming without requiring atomic reads and writes. This is the key, and somewhat surprising. Had someone told me critical section wa
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3y ago
I thought Graphene was just a form of Carbon, and mostly produced from regular carbon through some sort of process. Are you saying Graphene can be found in nature?
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3y ago
So, and assuming it is true, we now know which company not to buy appliances from.
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3y ago
> Is A.I. The Death of I.P.? One can only hope.
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3y ago
> WASM would seem to be preferable for that use case. Doesn't he explicitly address WASM as an unfit backend in the article ?
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3y ago
https://archive.is/9pz3M
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3y ago
https://archive.is/odRa4
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3y ago
Here's an interesting experiment. Replace the word "AI" by the word "Computer" in the other's text, this will give you a good insight into the way the author's mind works. What is uniquely dangerous is peo
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3y ago
> One concerning thing that I haven't seen reported is that my leadership chain is almost entirely Indian, Yup, that's a very visible pattern at this point. The other one is when entire reporting chains are mainland Chinese (or
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3y ago
> "Buy orders are not currently accepted for this security," Emphasis on "currently". Not something described as a policy, so maybe it's a little early to call in the fire brigade.
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3y ago
> it's more about lack of investors. And why would you say, aren't there any large investors? If the labor market conditions were good (and taxes, and work ethics, and ... the list is very long), the investors would come, even
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3y ago
I am only saying that there is no such thing as intrinsic value. Or to put it differently, it is an idea that has little to no predictive power and therefore is of no great value. There is only one very reliable principle to reason with in
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3y ago
> Why not in the US? How many large tech. companies has Europe produced ? Why would (or even: could) anyone start/build a cutting-edge tech. company in Europe given the hell that labor laws are over there ? Labor laws in Europe are
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3y ago
I thought reading long and boring documents and answering questions about them was what ChatGPT was for, no ?
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3y ago
> No intrinsic value The rest of your long rant is basically useless, because the last 2 words above have strictly no meaning when put together
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3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority But I must admit that using your actual dad as the source of authority is quite a stretch.
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