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811.
by wiz21c 4y ago
I'd say that the biggest change for me was migrating string to unicode. But since I usually work outside ASCII, migrating to Unicode has made python much saner to me...
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by wiz21c 4y ago
Maybe there's an ongoing cyber attack ? :-)
813.
by wiz21c 4y ago
compared to Scratch, it looks pretty dull, not sure my kids would love it. And at first sight it lacks something I would find very useful, that is a timeline of execution (where you can go back and forth in time). However, the comments seem
814.
by wiz21c 4y ago
I protect my machine from as many commercial interests as I can. This removes a whole class of issues. For the rest, the thing is so complicated nowadays I can't really say anymore. I spent my youth on 8 bit machines. At that time I wa
815.
by wiz21c 4y ago
One question is missing : "what if we had to pay for our environmental footprint" ? Since so few ask it in a meaningful way, I dare to say it is still, unfortunately, a pretty extreme questions for those it should be asked to.
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by wiz21c 4y ago
What about a Game Of Life drawing ?
817.
by wiz21c 4y ago
no problem, just chill out
818.
by wiz21c 4y ago
and GL/SL IIRC ...
819.
by wiz21c 4y ago
Flying Tentacle Monster ?
820.
by wiz21c 4y ago
Is the carbon footprint better if I host my own RPI instead of using a cheap virtual server somewhere ? Having a Raspberry on all the time will consume some electricity I gues...
821.
by wiz21c 4y ago
Fortunately, this statement is true for many plans of the elite :-)
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by wiz21c 4y ago
On old computers, you could go even faster by precomputing tiles representing little segments at various angles and then copying tiles. The trick here is to realize that you don't need many tiles to represent all the lines. The downsid
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by wiz21c 4y ago
For me it's : 50% of software development occurs outside the computer
824.
by wiz21c 4y ago
Same stuff here. I practice tai chi and as you may know practicioners usually work in group. Keeping in sync with the others is 100% part of the practice and is impossible to do if one is not really concentrated on its surroudings. There&#x
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by wiz21c 4y ago
There's also Tintin in 1952 the landing https://youtu.be/819TMe9-Oyc?t=2183 the comics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_on_the_Moon
826.
by wiz21c 4y ago
really good video that updated my knowledge from thirty years old to 15 years old. All the probabilistic modelling is really cool!
827.
by wiz21c 4y ago
Punk is not dead !
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by wiz21c 4y ago
Is there an explanation of why they abandoned it ? It seemed very cool at that time...
829.
by wiz21c 4y ago
I practice tai chi and I'm not elderly (though not exactly young either :-) ) tai chi is actually very hard to do well because it requires a lot of flexibility, I mean a lot).
830.
by wiz21c 4y ago
I like Bukowski a lot because under what you describe, I feel an immense sense of humanity. Without that sub-level, it'd be indeed gross and depressing...
831.
by wiz21c 4y ago
Euh ? In a few paragraph you basically say that even if fusion works, getting energy out of it will be almost impossible in a meaningful way (you're showing order of magnitudes of difference). But, don't the engineers at ITER and
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Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth(news.uliege.be)
145 points by wiz21c 4y ago|132 comments
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by wiz21c 4y ago
on one side: > To be fair, I worked for a very large Fortune 50 company and had over 10k licenses of MATLAB. on another side: > Absolutely outstanding support. I think I see a pattern here...
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by wiz21c 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what are some other, powerful, statistical branches besides those used in "data sciences" ? (honest question, I just completed a MSc in data sciences but I must admit I don't know much besides that)
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by wiz21c 4y ago
Moreover, an algorithm is not the whole story. Execution speed versus compression a ratio is important as well as the availability of trade offs between the two (comparing zpaq to lz4 for example).
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by wiz21c 4y ago
Blade Runner stuff !
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by wiz21c 4y ago
Hmmm... Now you said that, I realize that on my be_BE layout keyboard, ":" and "=" keys are adjacent and don't even need "shift" to be typed where as "<" and "-" are on the extremes
838.
by wiz21c 4y ago
>> a pervasive absence between le mayo and le ketchup. LA mayo, it's feminine :-)
839.
by wiz21c 4y ago
really sound "too-much-beef-sceptic" video... A lot of water drank by the cows stays in the cow (it may be a fraction of the overall water) Things that cows eat are not human edible. Ok, maybe we could just something else instead
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by wiz21c 4y ago
If only the sailor could have an open discussion with the Orca's, they could have some mutual agreement...

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