walrus

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by walrus 9y ago
> Is there a more polite way to go about this? This is the usual process for submitting a large change to a project: 1. Check the issue tracker or mailing list for an existing discussion about Python 3 support. If there is one, read th
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by walrus 9y ago
Maybe you just happened to work in industries that don't need it? I've had 5 software development jobs, two of which used ZFS. At one of them, it was an integral part of their product: at the time their product was launched, there
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by walrus 9y ago
> I'm sorry to be blunt, but if this is the case then your skills are very much rock bottom. Job-finding skills, maybe. But those don't necessarily correlate with job-doing skills. All of my job searches have been >3 month
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by walrus 9y ago
Here's the commit where the "UPDATE .. SET ROW (col, ..) = (col, ..)" syntax was added as an alternative to "UPDATE .. SET (col, ..) = (col, ..)": https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql
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by walrus 9y ago
Thanks for the explanation! update comment set (modified, body) = (select now(), 'edited comment') where id = 123; You're right, it works the same without the `row` keyword in 9.6.
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by walrus 9y ago
What's the significance of the `update .. set (..) = row (..) ..` syntax? update comment set modified = now(), body = 'edited comment' where id = 123; vs update comment set (modified, body) = row (now(), 'edit
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by walrus 9y ago
If your driver or ORM is insufficient, you can use views: create table reservation (room text, duration tstzrange); insert into reservation (room, duration) values ('A100', '[2017-04-30, 2017-05-07]'),
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by walrus 9y ago
Specifically, here's how that would be done in Postgres: create table reservation1 (duration tstzrange); select * from reservation1 where duration && '[2017-04-30, 2017-05-07]'; In a database without range ty
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by walrus 9y ago
Firefox: open about:config, set network.IDN_show_punycode to true. Next time you open the page, the address bar will show https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/ instead of https://www.apple.com/ . Better yet, alway
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by walrus 9y ago
I find it annoying when people do this, so I'll save others the frustration. "The one that doesn't exist" is probably referring to LUElinks (that's their little in-joke). It's a pay-to-join + invite-only forum&
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by walrus 10y ago
I've been informally A/B testing the terms machine learning , artificial intelligence , and computational statistics : - Machine learning : "Oh, neat, what are you working on?" - Artificial intelligence : "What
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by walrus 10y ago
I don't understand what a fail-deadly drive would look like. Can you give an example?
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by walrus 10y ago
Can you explain? I've found it more focused on systems and security than HN, but it seems like a generally smart and capable crowd.
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by walrus 10y ago
> What we have here is literally a blank page, that offers no value to the reader. Q: Why isn't there any content here? A: All personal web content is hidden on back pages to conserve bandwidth. Also, they're ru
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by walrus 10y ago
I think they're referring to the momentum parameter at [1]. The exponential moving average (EMA) of the batch mean/variance is used in the batch normalizing transform (Algorithm 1 in [2]). The momentum ranges from 0 to 1. If it&#x
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by walrus 10y ago
Butterfly keyboard demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLj3aCfqzOM
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by walrus 10y ago
Another great product by the same company - Pentel Twist-Erase III: http://www.pentel.com/store/twist-erase-iii-mechanical-penci... Some nice things about it: - The tip is metal, so it doesn't flex and break the l
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by walrus 10y ago
On my system: gcc -O3 1m40.302s gcc -O3 -ffast-math 0m5.110s rustc -C opt-level=3 0m9.278s gcc (GCC) 6.3.1 20170109 rustc 1.15.1 (021bd294c 2017-02-08) Edit: Looking into this a bit more, I think 'rustc -C opt-leve
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by walrus 10y ago
The smaller SE sites tend to be more tolerant of discussion. I've asked a couple blatantly subjective questions on math.SE that were answered by moderators and didn't get closed.
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by walrus 10y ago
I'm not aware of an open source BMS, sorry. Just wanted to put that out there in case anyone reading the thread was looking for an open source DCIM.
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by walrus 10y ago
> Do you have ANY Libre DataCenterInfrastructureManagement/BuildingManagementSystem that can really be used in production? An open source DCIM that's used in production: https://github.com/digitalocean/ne
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by walrus 10y ago
One possible approach is to take a class/read a book on coding theory. Algebraic block codes rely heavily on linear algebra over finite fields.
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by walrus 10y ago
You probably have HTTPS Everywhere installed.
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by walrus 10y ago
Have you watched any of them? I just watched "Build a Self Driving Car in 5 Min" and the content was good. My only complaint is that his demo used end-to-end learning, which isn't how most self-driving cars actually work (but
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by walrus 10y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but there's a professor at UC Davis whose blog I've followed for several years who advocates open, reproducible science. Your daughter might be interested in the the workshops his lab runs: https://d
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by walrus 10y ago
Interesting! I independently ended up on nearly the exact same style. The only difference is I don't indent join clauses.
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by walrus 10y ago
There was a nice demo of using stenography for programming by one of the Open Steno Project developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w
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by walrus 10y ago
Speculation: her ID is probably outdated. The author is trans[1] and transition in the UK is notoriously difficult. In particular, it takes at least 2 years to change the gender marker on one's ID[2]. [1] https://libreboot.o
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by walrus 10y ago
The Burning Man GSM base station writeup was a fun read: http://openbts.sourceforge.net/FieldTest/
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by walrus 10y ago
Never grep -R again! I'm also a fan of this software. Link because the name makes it hard to search for: http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/ https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

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