yangminded

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by yangminded 5y ago
Can't take this serious. The "Hu Line" is massively inconsistent in the various maps used here! In the topographical one, Sichuan is west of the Hu-Line, while in others it is east of it. Make up your mind. Don't fuddle
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by yangminded 5y ago
And that is why I buy Apple chargers to power my Arduinos and Raspberry Pis.
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by yangminded 5y ago
Thanks for the context. What a sad and despicable behavior by those people.
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by yangminded 5y ago
That's entirely feasible. Mind that 8 years ago was 2013 and systems like the recommendation system from Amazon was already online. Also it only specifies machine learning, pattern recognition, NLP etc - all of which are active researc
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by yangminded 5y ago
Yes, that is an interesting case! "Ä" is a separate letter in the Swedish alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet In German on the other hand, "Ä" is part of the language but not pa
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by yangminded 6y ago
Time zones a big factor. Note that this is about online classes (live), not a MOOC. I wouldn't want to expect a student in Sydney to stay awake at 3AM to follow a lecture at Harvard at 1PM. The same is true for office hours with profes
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by yangminded 6y ago
The public noticed the value of technologies MSFT offers. Not everyone who has money and invests understands what Cloud is or why MS Teams is something that might sell well. Covid-19 gave all those people a very visual example of the value
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by yangminded 6y ago
It caps the fee that the delivery service can take. You can still tip the delivery person as much as you like.
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by yangminded 6y ago
Totally agree. This is also why I keep donating to Wikipedia.
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by yangminded 6y ago
That makes it sound like the retail operation of Amazon was subsidized by AWS, which it isn't. Both are profitable. Amazon was losing money because they put every single dollar they earned (and more) into new projects and markets that
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by yangminded 6y ago
A combination of a traditional bank that has certain duties towards business clients and a transfer service like Transferwise might be best. An important part of certain banks like Sparkassen or state banks in Germany is the fact that they
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by yangminded 6y ago
I don't think you understand how much easier it is to repair an iPhone compared to any other phone on the market (apart of niche products like the Fairphone which does a great job!). If you open an iPhone, you will see a very well orde
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by yangminded 6y ago
AWS will offer ARM based EC2 instances. If Intel doesn't come up with a drastic turnaround, they are going to be Nokia'd. https://aws.amazon.com/de/ec2/instance-types/a1/
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by yangminded 6y ago
How much would you budget for this? I am actually curious, because on the other hand you would have all the constraints like development in less than 3 months, need for the app to be waterproof in a legal sense (data protection), additional
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by yangminded 6y ago
Jira -> Offers structure for bug findings, requests, ideas. Confluence -> Permanent place for information. Slack is greatly helped by integrations with tools like this. Otherwise you would only have chaotic discussions and then try to