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by wiz21c 2y ago
this is very spot on. There are tons of artists who have a job so they can sustain their own personal creativity.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
for a start, zed doesn't work on Windows. I'm not exactly a fan of MSFT but at work, I must use Windows...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
FTA: "Voyagers 1 and 2 have been flying for more than 47 years..." That should be written on a poster that is put on each desk of each employee of each car/washing machine/fridge/television manufacturer.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
FTA: "Setting expectations for software engineers is tricky for all managers." What about: "Setting expectations for managers is tricky for all software engineers." ?
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by wiz21c 2y ago
What's the difference between Pollen and Latex ? A quick read of the Pollen home page didn't told me so I aks here...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
- As a pro: hydraulics simulation - As a geek: my accurapple Apple 2e emulator
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by wiz21c 2y ago
In my experience, people who are really good at something usually are at least average on many others. Thus they can do the minimum in other courses to pass, it's just a matter of working enough. In my country, there are several studen
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Microsoft gives a product for free. It is free to add whatever features it wants in it. No? (and that's why I use emacs...)
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by wiz21c 2y ago
The online demo returns "Error" :-( My prompt was a picture and the question was "what is written on that screenshot" ?
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by wiz21c 2y ago
totally agree. More time spent questionning the students about their work would make AI detection useless... but somehow, we don't trust teacher anymore. Those in power want to check that the teacher actually makes his job so they want
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Maybe they don't upgrade because currently installed PG instances are enough? Meaning that Oracle still holds the "big" deployments ?
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Although I agree(stuff bought with tax money should go to tax payers), you do realize that many people don't see it that way. Especially when their career rely on withholding the stuff in question. Another example: if people have acces
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by wiz21c 2y ago
I get that, sure. But the language forscape proposes will soon need to be a general one if one wants to do big projects with it. (And I'd love to rewrite my simulation code with something like forscape, because then the math code would
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by wiz21c 2y ago
So did Mossad listen to the pagers ? I mean, instead of putting a bomb inside, spying would make more sense to me...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Why a new language ? Honest question ? Couldn't it be done on top of say, Julia ? The typography thing is really cool, but having to code in yet another MatLab-clone is a bit annoying (or maybe I'm missing the point)
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by wiz21c 2y ago
> Linux-compatible ABI Does it mean it can re-use the drivers written for hardware to run with linux ?
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by wiz21c 2y ago
$499 is not cheap. At all.
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by wiz21c 2y ago
I always wonder why your generation avoids such calls... Voice calls are so much more efficient to get the things you want from the person you call...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
The mother of all the demoscene !!!
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by wiz21c 2y ago
I don't have a Clu
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by wiz21c 2y ago
I certainly hope so. Ocean are polluted enough and although such a ship is just a, well, drop in the ocean, the ideq of accepting to pollute more is unbearable to me, especially for a world class company like SpaceX...
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Let me check, we're not the first of April, are we ?
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by wiz21c 2y ago
my CPU does that all of the time, it is speculative execution :-)
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by wiz21c 2y ago
It's a discovery system: but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_system_(AI_research) And from that wikipedia article: "The dream of building systems that discover scientific hypotheses was pushed to the
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by wiz21c 2y ago
At that time rules systems (expert systems) were very popular
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by wiz21c 2y ago
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LGPLStaticVsDynami... You can have the LGPL'ed code but the price to pay is that your users give your objects files (i.e. pre-link stuff; but not the source code) so that
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by wiz21c 2y ago
I do some systems programming, use rust for that and I am exactly the person you describe :-)
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by wiz21c 2y ago
When you write tooling, do you mean "please use our HR platform to enter your resume", and then one has to enter for the 123rd time his whole career with every single date ? If it's that, that's not tooling, that's
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by wiz21c 2y ago
Nothing to do with rust, but this one, although much less wide tha DosBoxX, is impressive too: https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc
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by wiz21c 2y ago
FTwebsite: "Get the Full Release via Torrent (638GB)" Ouch!

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