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by xen0 5y ago
I've never claimed to be good at command-line-fu, but damn me if I can ever get a find command right first time. Honestly, I just run 'find . | grep' to achieve what I want these days.
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by xen0 5y ago
In a previous job, I knew a scientist colleague who obtained their PhD in this manner. The number of Universities that allow this is quite small, I believe he said 'two' (in the UK), and he still had to undergo a viva/defense
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by xen0 5y ago
I can't wait for Google to open offices world wide. Oh wait...
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by xen0 5y ago
A case of rabies is, 99% of the time, a case of death.
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by xen0 5y ago
Asking for three letters from a password and/or PIN is quite common for UK banks.
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by xen0 5y ago
Sure, for a graduate position, targeting someone out of Uni; there are not many of those in Germany for €66k outside of FAANG (although I'm sure they exist). And that is unlikely to be what the OP was offered from Amazon (they said &qu
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by xen0 5y ago
That is not my experience in Germany. Maybe for base salaries; but not for total compensation.
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by xen0 5y ago
I briefly worked in that space for my first job; a small company that would essentially resell you your own credit report for a 'not insignificant" monthly subscription. The TV advertising for credit score checking was just about
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by xen0 5y ago
Funnily enough, despite the advertising, there really is no such thing as a Credit 'Score' in the UK. Lenders get information about you from a Credit Reference Agency and will have their own internal systems to make decisions base
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by xen0 5y ago
In code I have written, understand how things come together, how things control and data flow from one subsystem to another, I find I don't really need a debugger and print statements provide the same information. In these cases, I&#x2
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by xen0 5y ago
And yet, the Enterprise Java meme.
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by xen0 5y ago
When you do something physically intensive, fighting to hit someone who's doing their damnedest to stop you and hit you back, in a high pressure situation, it can be really hard to not shout/scream when you succeed, or even jus
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by xen0 5y ago
No, foil fencing definitely _not_ one-hit epee and is not part of the modern pentathlon. Note, I'm a foil fencer.
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by xen0 5y ago
So, the very first attack gets better protection on their attack than a foil fencer? And simultaneous attacks just look like sabre? And what about subsequent attacks after that? They're just normal where the threat of the counter attac
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by xen0 5y ago
One-hit Epee is a thing. First touch wins the bout; double hits aren't counted. It's part of the modern Pentathlon.
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by xen0 5y ago
I think it's certainly doable; it's 9 years away. I don't necessarily think that it'll be done in that time and a 2040 deadline just makes that even less likely.
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by xen0 5y ago
I work at Google. SO definitely comes up during copyright/IP training. The basic idea is 'reading SO answers to learn how to solve a problem is fine, copying/transcribing the code is not'. Google is quite paranoid re. co
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by xen0 5y ago
£910 - you pay 9% over the threshold. In my experience, student loan repayments are, until you are way above the threshold, a relatively minor number on your paycheques; dwarfed by income tax, national insurance, and pension contributions.
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by xen0 6y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to compare the scales of the impact of social media and drugs, simply because far more people engage in one over the other.
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by xen0 6y ago
> Travelling characters looked like they actually travelled. Not sure I agree with that. I don't recall Tyrion and Bronn being very well equipped for long travel when they first journey together. Or Jamie and Bronn when they set ou
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by xen0 6y ago
"It's one of those irregular verbs isn't it? I have an independent mind. You are an eccentric. He is round the twist."
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by xen0 6y ago
The UK holds elections on work days and does not mandate time off. However, there are a lot polling stations, your assigned one will not be far away from your registered address, and you just need to arrive there by 10pm. And it's easy
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by xen0 6y ago
Windows -> Dosbox -> DSL -> Wine?
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by xen0 6y ago
Even if you completely removed all factors deterring women from going into CS tomorrow, drastically improved the gender ratio in courses beginning next year, it would still take years for that to affect the ratio in industry. And then you s
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by xen0 6y ago
I wonder the consequences of having an account blocked or suspended if your employer used Github. And including your employer to an account you used for harassment would not, I think, be unfair grounds for "disciplinary action".
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by xen0 6y ago
I'm assuming the repo, once hosted and the paper is published, is "fixed" and cannot be changed by the authors. But commit ids work just as well.
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by xen0 6y ago
My first thought: Demand the journals provide hosting for a code repo that is part of your paper. For every numerical result, specify the version (e.g. a git tag) used to generate your result. And if that means scientists need to learn abou
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by xen0 6y ago
I've always been a bit curious as to what use cases people have for HDF5 files that involve frequent changing of data. I wonder how read/write performance scales with the _size_ of the dataset in question, in particular, the numbe
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by xen0 6y ago
That's averaging close to 200 commits per working day, which is higher than I would have expected for a single project (even WoW).
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by xen0 6y ago
There is some nuance. If I were writing software to control missiles then I had better be comfortable with how those missiles get used. But if I were writing a compiler for a mainstream programming language, then I don't think I could

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