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by wbillingsley 5y ago
I don't think it's Oracle's coders that people worry about so much as its sales model and lawyers. Particularly, that it makes it too easy for end-users to stumble into using components that do not come under its open source
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by wbillingsley 5y ago
"Root vegetable" is the common (non-botanical) one.
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by wbillingsley 5y ago
reddit
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by wbillingsley 5y ago
> A "Logo" for the modern web is something that I've felt has been missing for a while. Not nearly as pretty and cool, but here's another https://theintelligentbook.com/thinkingaboutprogramming&#x2F
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by wbillingsley 5y ago
The solution I've tended to use in classes (where there'll always be some student who hasn't installed LFS) is to store the large files in Artifactory, so they are pulled in at build-time in the same way as libraries. This se
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
Incident report: shortly before the meltdown, we believe the safety supervisor was knocked unconscious by an improperly secured axe head that became detached from the handle swung by the junior safety officer. We recommend increased testing
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
Ah this etymology mythology... We all know we learned the word from the Vermicious Knids on the space station...
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
Will it still go through 3 farms and hope you don't mind pushing your car up a hillside goat track?
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
Social media does bear responsibility for how it is designed. From AI algorithms that detect what you react to (actively learning to show you your triggers) to upvote/downvote mechanisms that promote the most reactionary content. Befor
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
AZ set up a separate supply chain in each major jurisdiction. As I understand it, the EU interfered in its member countries' contracts, delayed them 3 months, delaying the EU supply chain from starting. Ridiculously, from what I can se
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
"A near 17% improvement!" - Google marketing department
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
> In Australia we usually have to pick our major before we finish high school. On paper. In practice, it's not very hard to begin one degree but then switch to another. > I start a degree in Computer Science, in most of my classe
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
We already have that. They're called universities... (The majority of my students are online. The same is true for many other Australian universities outside the biggest cities.)
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
This is a little like asking "how to kill the school", "how to kill the hospital", "how to kill the fire brigade". Universities are defined by national legislation and regulation and are (in most countries) lar
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
> Consider this: the CIA kidnaps and tortures people You're clearly a lot more invested in this than I am. I'm not aware of any CIA kidnappings; I am aware of news headlines on HK media executives being arrested and am aware th
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
I really don't think it had much to do with whether they had access to Facebook... This seems to be getting caught up in general "pro-US"/"anti-US" or "pro-China"/"anti-China" sentiment
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
> Note there is a difference between saying one thinks TikTok is a national security threat to the USA, and saying one thinks the U.S. government should ban it (or so on). In this case, I'm not convinced there is - the nature of the
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
It's not very surprising. It is a reasonable assumption that the CCP, which has expressed ideological opposition to the spread of democracy, will not be using information it gathers on US or European citizens in order to defend or prom
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
This article seems to have the common failing that it never really gets past page 2 of Bloom's paper. Bloom's paper is mostly cited in the intelligent tutoring systems world for it's title and first page (the identification o
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
What the article proposes (the government setting the maximum level of loan it will provide for a course) is essentially the Australian system. The other aspects in the Australian system, though, are a "Commonwealth contribution"
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
https://music-grid.surge.sh/#584-584-288-144-72-544-32-544-2... For those for whom Baby Shark is just too listenable Edit: someone suggested the Google version. Just to ruin your day twice... https://g.co/do
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by wbillingsley 6y ago
For a researcher, that means running an experiment changes from "running the experiment" to six months of meetings with higher management establishing business cases, budget justifications, getting competitive quotes from differen
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
It was cancelled so fast after its hype, I recall thinking there must have been some kind of bust-up among different layers of management. Google cancel things, but usually not that quickly. Particularly, I wondered if Google in the US thou
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
An online version for the lazy :) https://theintelligentbook.com/circuitsup/#/latches/1/2
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
Personally, I use a bit of an ecclectic mix depending on the class. Online classes can be nicely informal in some ways. (I used to teach for an Australian metro uni, but have been teaching mixed on-campus / online classes at a smaller
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
If you're on a Mac, you can connect an iPad and record its screen (over the lightning cable) from Quicktime
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
Zoom can share an individual window. (Including the PowerPoint one).
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
> Exactly. In 2007, The BBC believed that the UK == The World with iPlayer The complaints you make are largely directives from the regulator. The BBC has only recently managed to get the regulations relaxed so it is permitted to keep p
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
The Indian Ocean Dipole event did nobody much good. It's been attributed for the very low rainfall (and bushfires) across Australia in 2019 as well as the higher than usual rainfall (and locusts) in east Africa. Also an impressive feat
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by wbillingsley 7y ago
Scala's collections API also uses some mutable internal data structures locally (and temporarily) within some functions that present a pure API. List[T] is one of the classic immutable data structures, and a List[T] cannot have its con

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