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Welder's Anthrax(arstechnica.com)
5 points by wazokazi 9mo ago|0 comments
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by wazokazi 9mo ago
The workers sit idle for n-1 out of n time slices. As n gets larger, amount of work being done approaches zero.
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by wazokazi 2y ago
I got this >> To determine the winner, we need to calculate the time it takes for each car to complete the 100-mile race. For Car A: Speed = 10 miles per hour Distance = 100 miles Time = Distance / Speed = 100 miles / 10 mil
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by wazokazi 3y ago
Was there ever any consideration given to building a "testing harness" to physically simulate the F35 landing? Something like the "dead load" testing that the EMALS undergoes. Just in reverse. Anyway, that was great read
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Scalable extraction of training data from (production) language models(arxiv.org)
105 points by wazokazi 3y ago|14 comments
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by wazokazi 3y ago
A different comparison would be the following (from the manufacturers sites) ---- Ford Lightning Pro: $50K 240 Mile EPA-Est. Range – Standard-Range Battery and RWD171 0-60 MPH in 4.1 seconds - Standard Range Battery\* Wirele
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by wazokazi 3y ago
Mearsheimer was prescient when he advocated Ukraine be allowed to keep a strategic nuclear stockpile in the early 90s when the US admin was pushing to disarm Ukraine, post breakup of USSR. The Case for a Ukrainian Nuclear Deterrent Mo
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Marc Benioff: “I don’t work well in an office”(fortune.com)
128 points by wazokazi 3y ago|117 comments
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by wazokazi 3y ago
Remote is ok if your personality doesn't mesh with an office. And you are the CEO. This should do wonders for feeling of "ohana" at salesforce.
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by wazokazi 3y ago
10 micron tolerance on body panels sounds like a typo. Coefficient of thermal expansion of steel is 6.5 microns/in/F. So, a 2 degrees F change in temperature will put parts over an inch out of spec. Imagine a 3 foot (36in) body pa
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by wazokazi 4y ago
The total cost($) vs total runtime(s) graph doesn’t look correct. Longer runtimes should cost more, so the dots should cluster in the top right quadrant.
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US says SVB depositors will have access on Monday(bloomberg.com)
12 points by wazokazi 4y ago|1 comments
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by wazokazi 4y ago
I would encapsulate the set of supported operations in a class along with the rounding mode and scale. Something like: ------ class MathOps{ public MathOps(RoundingMode mode, int scale) { this.mode = mode; this.scale
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by wazokazi 4y ago
Take a gigabit network switch over to your friends house and connect both the machines to the same switch. Use windows to discover the shared folder on your friends computer and copy it to yours.
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by wazokazi 4y ago
[Snakes on a plane| https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/ ] is a hoot!
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by wazokazi 4y ago
I am an ESL speaker. That said, I did learn English at a very young age and it was the language of instruction at school.
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by wazokazi 4y ago
Your score is 97.52, higher than 99.83% ———————- paternity chocolate snowblower troglodytes sediment dictionary ricochet ———————— This could be a fun wordle type game that one could play everyday.
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DeFi Project Known as Wormhole Hit with a Potential $320M Hack(bloomberg.com)
2 points by wazokazi 5y ago|0 comments
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by wazokazi 5y ago
It is supposed to roll out this quarter, they gave me a $100 rebate check for not having it available at the time of delivery :) Edit: Forgot to mention, it is an additional $600 option to get hands free driving feature.
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by wazokazi 5y ago
I finally got mine last week, took over 6 months after placing the order! It is very well built, unlike any ford I have ever driven. Drove it for about a 100 mile trip in the Columbia gorge last weekend, it was a blast. That said, even with
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by wazokazi 5y ago
Are incentives even necessary anymore? Regardless, this just shows how well Ford understands the truck market. This will sell like hot cakes, and they will have trouble keeping up with demand.
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by wazokazi 5y ago
I bought a Ford Mach-e, after comparing the mileage, build quality and pricing with model Y. The Tesla drives better, performance wise they felt the same, but build quality and cabin noise is way better in the Mach-e. Also, surprisingly act
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by wazokazi 6y ago
>> How effective is the Oxford vaccine? >> There are three figures doing the rounds - 62%, 70% and 90%. The first analysis of the trial data showed 70% of people were protected from developing Covid-19 and nobody developed sever
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by wazokazi 6y ago
From what I can gather from public information, the loan volume is ~$300B/year and growing rapidly. If they have to hold a 3rd of that on their books, that’s a lot of capital they have come up with. And maintain a loss reserve. I gues
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Humans are going to launch into orbit from America again(arstechnica.com)
2 points by wazokazi 6y ago|0 comments
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by wazokazi 6y ago
Could this not have waited a few months? In the middle of an pandemic, to cut off funding to the only organization that is coordinating the global response is just crazy. The pettiness of this administration seems to know no bounds. Even if
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AWS RDS supports Postgres 12(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by wazokazi 7y ago|0 comments
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FDA approves point-of-care coronavirus detection test(cepheid.com)
1 points by wazokazi 7y ago|0 comments
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by wazokazi 7y ago
It may have been a glitch. I can create new Aurora Postgres instances, with version 11.4 as the newest supported. RDS (non-Aurora) instances have support for 11.5. None of the big 3 cloud vendors support PG 12 yet. AWS generally is the firs
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by wazokazi 8y ago
Is there support for loading data from Parquet files?

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