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by vivegi 4y ago
> Python is the only language to do a breaking change, and survive Hardly. ANSI C was a huge breaking change from early K&R C.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Two words--Value erosion. A lacklustre catalog (except the occassional interesting ones), poor originals, price increases over the years and customer unfriendly moves--all these seem to have made Netflix lose sight of what their customers w
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by vivegi 4y ago
Probably off-topic. Has anyone done a security review of ublock origin chrome extension?
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In a complex workflow that has queues acting as buffers for work items between processes, the intermediate queue sizes depends on the turnaround time promised to the end-customer (which is another way of saying rate of customer demand). If
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by vivegi 4y ago
I think we are in agreement. The problem I have with the principle of forced telemetry is I have no way (or more precisely, time) to understand that their telemetry red-line stops with command line logging/analysis. So, I have to ass
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by vivegi 4y ago
It is probably something to do with Safari/WebKit (assuming you are printing from your iPhone/iPad). The page uses a media query for print in the CSS sheet linked to it. That does most of the heavy lifting for laying out the print
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by vivegi 4y ago
The print version has the Recent Writings rendered at the end of the document. On my machine with "US Letter" page size and "No header/footer" I got 72 pages. The main article was 69 pages and the last three were th
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by vivegi 4y ago
> not a single drug has been developed in India that has come to market Not true. <excerpt> The first modern synthetic drug to be developed in India was Urea Stibamine in 1922 by UN Brahmachari against visceral leishmaniasis.3 Visc
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by vivegi 4y ago
I am reading the original webpage on Google Chrome on Win11 and I have the Microsoft Print to PDF driver installed. A simple print to PDF through this virtual printer seems to give a decent PDF file.
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by vivegi 4y ago
If I want to understand my program and where it spends time, I use a profiler. If Go maintainers want telemetry, they should provide an optional profiler that adds telemetry and whoever wants to opt in can use it after twiddling the appro
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by vivegi 4y ago
One of the early uses of machine learning back in the ‘80s was Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Even that had character confidence levels to indicate how confident the engine was in recognizing the character from the image. When end use
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Ask HN: GPT for classical CNF-SAT problem
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by vivegi 4y ago
If the training data set is truly open, the raw inputs (or URLs to the sources) should be available. Isn't a direct image lookup on the source data a better way to do attribution? (For example: using methods similar to a Google Image S
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by vivegi 4y ago
I agree with you that the pandemic era hiring went off the rails. We don't hear any media mentioning The Great Resignation anymore. It is all just doom and gloom. Labor cost is the major cost driver for big-tech. They just decided to
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by vivegi 4y ago
This is obviously false. Layoffs do work. 2003 - 2007 is not a sufficiently long enough period to assess layoff impacts on a company. For example: >Apple Computer Inc. said late Friday it was slashing its work force by 4,100 in a last-di
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by vivegi 4y ago
After AI is injected into Microsoft Teams , we get the interesting anagrams - mortifies scatoma - footers miasmatic - atomism factories
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by vivegi 4y ago
I think the OP means the strike price of $2 was the FMV when the options were issued. The current value is the company's estimate of FMV right now. Estimate is used since the company hasn't IPOd yet. So, valuation is private.
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by vivegi 4y ago
Industrial Relations -> Personnel Department -> Human Resources
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Not so novel. I have been getting around two emails a month for the past three months.
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A support role is a great place to understand the interface between your company's product/service and customers. A few ways for you to look at this differently: 1. Carve out some time (I know this might sound difficult when being
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by vivegi 4y ago
This is a very music recommendation engine. The best feature I guess would be the serendipitous finding of unknown artists we might not hear otherwise. Great job!
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Most Ancient Indian battlefield depictions featured war elephants. Of course, it wasn't called India then and they were multiple warring princely states under dynastic rule. The Tamil phrase ரத, கஜ, துரக, பதாதிகள் refers to Chariots
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by vivegi 4y ago
If you are in the US, here is a Food and Drug Administration Food Defect Levels Handbook that gives the standard for contamination. From the handbook: > Chocolate and Chocolate Liquor > Insect filth > (AOAC 965.38) > Average
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by vivegi 4y ago
Canceled them yesterday. I had been dragging my feet for a while; had been using a 4-screen plan and with their recent price changes and these policy changes and not-so-great content lineup, the cancellation decision has been easy. I am s
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by vivegi 4y ago
There's some great advice here for batch ETL work. The Create Table .. As Select (CTAS) pattern is your friend and a great aid in testability.
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B-schools had the J&J Tylenol recall case study as one where corporate communications excelled. I wonder where the J&J talc-gate would appear and what lessons it would teach.
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One of the tricks that I have used with SQL, particularly during development, debugging and unit testing is to use the pattern of INPUT + PROCESS -> OUTPUT. INPUT is the transactions we wish to process and PROCESS is the SQL that takes t
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by vivegi 4y ago
In the press release they mentioned that it was a proactive response to investor concerns about the recent decline in stock price.
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When 80+% of GOOG's revenue comes from advertising, it is bound to cause pressures to cut costs especially when the leading indicators are showing a broad recession across the board. If Sundar had just kept the headcount betting that t
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Ask HN: MS Surface Pro 4 charger issues
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