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> Idiomatic Python is just much clearer and more straight forward for most. They explicitly spent time to minimize how many language concepts and constructs you need to get basic things done. [...] The syntax/grammar are often more
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The (forementioned) article, I would imagine.
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No need to conflate the frontend (the end-user interface that 'most people' use when trying to 'find the book they're looking for') with the mirroring/archiving backend (the distributed/p2p technology used
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by wgjordan 7y ago
> That's the AI effect. Indeed- as that coined term suggests, "AI" has such a philosophically-tied definition with moving goalposts, that in practice it gets slapped far too liberally on anything 'magical' having
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> I have a hard time someone at the Apple Store doesn’t already have access to internet elsewhere to do their research. Perhaps someone at the Apple Store is there to purchase a device that will give them access to the Internet which the
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by wgjordan 7y ago
Thanks, I appreciate your followup. I'm genuinely interested in discussion on this topic. I was hoping there was something more focused summarizing the academic consensus in a given field of study that you were alluding to, but it appe
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> The especially pre-2000 era Disney content is absolutely damaging and well documented in the academic community for that. I'd be interested in follow-up reading on the academic research you're gesturing towards here- do you h
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If the software is indeed open source, it's entirely reasonable to expect to be able to use it unencumbered- I would be a bit bothered and would also complain if that were not true.
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> As for AZ outages... in practice, a cross-AZ system is often just as vulnerable to problems from the outage of a particular AZ, especially if any autoscaling is involved. If a system is not resilient to an outage of a particular AZ, by
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> this proves that too many discussions on StackExchange are about people and not about technical issues ... They should focus again on technical issues StackExchange is a network of Q+A sites covering a diverse range of topics, many of
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> I have to ask. Isn't this just microservices ? Considering 'microservices' wasn't a well-known term for another decade [1], maybe better to ask: isn't 'microservices' just this ? [1] https:/&#x2
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https://openai.com/blog/fine-tuning-gpt-2/#bugscanoptimizefo... (Someone didn't read the whole article..)
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Misspelled: spelled a word incorrectly Mispelled: an example of Muphry's law in action
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"A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained [...] if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of t
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That brings back memories! I actually reverse-engineered that exact sprite compression (at least the G/S variant) back in 2001, when I was involved in the early ROM hacking community [1]. I stared at disassembled Z80 machine code for m
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by wgjordan 7y ago
Does Amplify Console support the multi-account usage pattern described here? That's the part responsible for most of the complexity + headaches in this setup.
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> A great engineer that I knew at AWS once said: > > When you see hoof prints, think horses not zebras. Looked this one up and the original medical aphorism dates back to the 1940s and was 'When you hear hoofbeats' [1], i
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by wgjordan 7y ago
Any sources on that assertion? A quick bit of Google searching [1] shows me only ~10% market share for PostgreSQL, compared to ~46% for MySQL. [1] https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/databases/postgresql-v...
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Gee, I don't have a direct answer for you on that question; but tell ya what, I'll run it up the chain and circle back to you on it in a few weeks!
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Summary: > Between 9:21 AM and 2:36 PM PDT we experienced increased query failures and latency in the US-EAST-1 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally. > The issue with the Data Catalog APIs started
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From the linked Edge article [1]: > Then there's the contemporary modus operandi that gives the console its name. Every Monday, via WiFi, owners receive a new game, the notification light on top of the case blinking to announce its
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Likely apocryphal [1], possibly inspired by a true story from 1878 about a court case involving well-known painter James McNeill Whistler [2]: > "Oh, two days! The labour of two days, then, is that for which you ask two hundred guin
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I don't think there is any confusion on definitions of insolvency, there just seems to be disagreement on whether there is any risk iFinex can get their frozen/missing funds back at all , not how long it will take to collect them
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The 2009 statement linked above was not removed; a 2015 update of the position statement was retracted and re-published in 2016 [1][2]. The position has been formally endorsed until December 31, 2021. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
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The 2009 statement linked above was not removed; a 2015 update of the position statement was retracted and re-published in 2016 [1][2]. The position has been formally endorsed until December 31, 2021. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
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> The question is, does that really matter? Legally speaking, it really does matter (18 U.S.C. 2511(2)(d) [1]) [my emphasis]: > It shall not be unlawful under this chapter for a person [...] to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic co
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> actions? I think this is speaking for itself: [link] The link is to a packaged, binary distribution of the 'OSS only' features, the assertion was regarding 'significant intermingling of proprietary code into the code bas
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> Nothing is being given back to the community To be specific and on-topic, Open Distro for Elasticsearch is being given back to the community under an Apache 2.0 license.
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Actions speak louder than words. Amazon's words [1] were backed up by action- specifically, the public release of Open Distro for Elasticsearch and several useful, advanced features under an Apache 2.0 license. This post from Elastic c
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by wgjordan 8y ago
Thanks, that's a helpful example. This does sound like a great way for residential solar users to offload excess production, particularly if they can't tie it back to the grid directly (e.g., SDG&E's Net Energy Metering p

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