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by veqq 4y ago
Use the book "Lingua Latina per se illustrata" to learn Latin. It's quite magical, you just start reading Latin which is comprehensible due to similarities to English and it stacks on this without using anything but Latin. It
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by veqq 4y ago
Your Chinese thread's too old to reply to, sadly. But as another learner of many languages: check out "Colloquial Chinese: by Ping-cheng T’ung and David E. Pollard. (Not newer versions by other authors!) It covers the language onl
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by veqq 4y ago
> what they expected out of EMs vs engineers, as it varied a lot I'm curious about the rough models which exist.
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by veqq 4y ago
It's been in use for ages in other languages which I read a lot. It isn't "different". It is concretely worse to me and many others here.
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You can buy a portable [Chinese] quantum computer for under $9K(pcgamer.com)
4 points by veqq 4y ago|6 comments
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by veqq 4y ago
> The Gemini and Gemini Mini are the cheaper options ... 2-qubit machines or 8-qubit simulators > Triangulum ... 330W power draw ... weighing 40kg ... 3-qubit
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by veqq 4y ago
Some days, nearly half the links I click are dead so I've found myself relying on the waybackmachine more and more over the past few months. It's really shocking just how fast digital obsolescence reared its ugly head. Of course a
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by veqq 4y ago
> I really don't see a place for Python I agree. Around 2008, I was drunk on "the zen of Python", considering myself a Pythonista, writing elegant solutions, making unmaintainable one liners etc. But really Lisp was so muc
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by veqq 4y ago
The comment seems incorrect. Herds are good for the soil. They flatten grasses keeping moisture in, allowing for more growth. In the past, people believed the opposite - and this is perhaps still believed in parts of the world. Such flawed
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by veqq 4y ago
10,000 years ago monsoons hit the sahara, but they stopped about 5000 years ago and it turned back to desert. There are carved stones of giraffes and such. The society with Pharaohs etc. emerged around the time the sahara dried. https:&#x2
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by veqq 4y ago
The best part of Julia for me is just that it has numeric primitives built in, so the different ML etc. libraries don't have to implement their own (incompatible) versions. So Julia code can be 1/10th the length in Python, because
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by veqq 4y ago
Go is mostly devoid of this. The general approach is all stdlib and the idle extra dependency. Of course, a lot of fields are inaccessible. Lisp can enable fantastic development speed allowing you to build your own primitives. Racket's
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by veqq 4y ago
How does it taint the kernel?
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by veqq 4y ago
This seems entirely justified. Tiktok apparently shares more data than any other app (e.g. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more... ) I am curious how close we are to a panopticon at th
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by veqq 4y ago
A bit tangential, but what can you share about the computer rental industry? When did it die out? What sort of customers were there? How long until computers would leave the rental circuit? Would they just be sold?
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by veqq 4y ago
It's rather impressive that they managed to go 12 years without a rate increase. But now that the fed's started everyone else must too. I'm curious to see how cloud costs increase over the short to medium term, as many of the
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by veqq 4y ago
It seems they're cutting their losses with everything. 4 years ago, IBM was putting out blockchain commercials but following their links e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQsMwNCqZ8 you see that they've been r
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by veqq 4y ago
Does anyone have an idea how much they were spending on compliance moderation? Fines of these types seem rather low normally, so I could imagine reducing a few blocks of 10 100k jobs (in reality costing the firm perhaps 1.5 million, includi
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by veqq 4y ago
It's rather impressive that they managed to go 12 years without a rate increase. But now that the fed's started everyone else must too. I'm curious to see how cloud costs increase over the short to medium term, as many of the
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by veqq 4y ago
For anyone interested, such topics are covered very widely under "cost disease" in the "rationalist sphere". slatestarcodex had quite a lot, then the subreddit dedicated to it discusses it nearly weekly with new proposal
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by veqq 4y ago
Explosives are not generally very fragile. They require special detonators to go off and are otherwise mostly inert. Landmines have already been dropped from aircraft for decades - and also by rockets: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by veqq 4y ago
In a world where "data is the new oil", how much do vendors receive for it? Does anyone have examples of how much data selling can impact margins? Now, of course, these are more likely used for internal analytics (save distant sce
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by veqq 4y ago
It's interesting to see how popular this saga is, with punch by punch updates in the main tech communities. Now, losses may be piling up - but Twitter was always unprofitable. Burning money at a higher rate - and even finding new ways
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Go to Receive Multipe Error Wrapping – Fixing a Common Complaint(github.com)
2 points by veqq 4y ago|1 comments
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Verbose error handling's the most common complaint about Go and this goes a fair way toward minimizing it. (I would argue the core model is a boon and most in the community prefer to be part of a community placing such importance on er
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by veqq 4y ago
Online's already booming. Western Governors University -> Georgia Tech is becoming a common quick way to go from nothing to a MA in comp sci in 3 years. These pipelines will continue developing while in person opportunities will be
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by veqq 4y ago
Have you ever heard the word "colonialize"? Spell check doesn't accept it, google doesn't either. Colony->colonize->decolonize Colonial is an adjective from colony. You can add -ize to the noun, no need for this in
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by veqq 4y ago
How do you find clients for this hobby? What sort of message or phrasing do you use?
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This is one of the first concrete steps to moderating inflation. Discounters will be another. Hopefully this keeps up and we'll be in the clear after all.
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Some clearnet domains still work, though currently just displaying onion addresses with downloads disabled. Any guesses on how long it'll take them to get back like before? Everything was recently mirrored, incidentally. The organizati

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