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by ythn 8y ago
Won't this just lead to "laundering" platforms like what happened with Whois?
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by ythn 8y ago
You failed because: > One is counterfeit and is either heavier or lighter It turned out the counterfeit was lighter and you discarded it after the first weighing.
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by ythn 8y ago
In my company we use Cisco Jabber for official comms but Slack unofficially. So when Slack goes down, we fall back on Jabber.
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by ythn 8y ago
> In this instance, I feel creating something that behaves like a normal brain would not straightforwardly lead to an understanding. In the contrary, it may left us with more questions than answers. Depends on what level of abstraction y
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by ythn 8y ago
> is a health issue not a criminal one. It's both. Some drugs are so powerful, that you will lose your moral compass and do anything to secure more of the drug, including harming others. So, while I agree for the most part, certai
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by ythn 8y ago
It's almost as if God was helping Abraham understand what He felt like sacrificing His own son (Jesus) to the world.
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by ythn 8y ago
Great article, and was happy to see they got reasonable prison sentences.
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by ythn 8y ago
Maybe he meant you don't end up with a number with infinite digits? 10/4 = 2.5 vs. 10/3 = 3.33333...
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by ythn 8y ago
> Please share your experience which validates this point Sound like your story actually invalidates this point. You didn't have a price - you refused and didn't cave.
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by ythn 8y ago
> American mainstream sports tend to rely heavily on the authoritarian figure of the coach, who draws up plays for obedient players to execute. Which sports is the author referring to other than American Football? I played volleyball, an
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by ythn 8y ago
> The idea that artificial intelligence will be achieved by adding a few layers to a "deep" neural network, or by throwing more data at it is laughable. It's called "cargo cult science" and it's an important
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by ythn 8y ago
C++ is the worst offender: .cpp, .cxx, .cc, .h, .hpp, .hh, etc.
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by ythn 8y ago
From a reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8shzcu/yaml_pr... Seems like YAML tried too hard to be predictive of intent. I never got into YAML myself simply because it seemed lik
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by ythn 8y ago
I thought it was funny
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by ythn 8y ago
> WiFi is super shitty in XPS series. Holy cow, yes. My wife's XPS 13 had the crappiest Killer WiFi card, and Dell would not acknolwedge that it was the source of all of our issues no matter what I tried, no matter what evidence I
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by ythn 8y ago
If I were running the company, I'd just masquerade the demotion as a promotion: 1. Promote from principal engineer to technical manager 2. 2 years later -> this person sucks at management but they were a great engineer 3. "Prom
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by ythn 8y ago
Why not just have a configurable threshold (say, 2 years) where if the promoted person is determined incompetent in their new role, they are bumped back down to their previous role (keeping their same pay) where they are more efficient&#x2F
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by ythn 8y ago
Yes, exactly! Concisely put. That is my concern, supported by the StackOverflow survey results a few months ago
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by ythn 8y ago
Yes but must we always have Big Tobacco funding tobacco studies, Big Beer funding alcohol studies, etc.? It makes your publication reek of bias.
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by ythn 8y ago
Apparently my original comment was flagged and removed (I don't know why - maybe a moderator can shed some light). It said: > I read an article (semi) recently posted here where women and other minorities felt attacked on Stack Over
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by ythn 8y ago
> Also, why is the solution 'women and minorities need to toughen up' (If that's not the intended reading of your comment, feel free to clarify)? That's not the sole solution, no. But that's still part of the sol
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by ythn 8y ago
I hate this elitism attitude people have like everyone should have taken a 101 for every topic in the universe. If all bugs are shallow given enough eyes, all problems are "X 101" problems given enough people. "So and so help
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by ythn 8y ago
What's the definition of "low income"? It would vary wildly from country to country.
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by ythn 8y ago
> and document the behavior it will follow. So it's unspecified in terms of the standard, but specified by the implementation
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by ythn 8y ago
Why make an aircraft wing out of diamond when you could make it out of graphene?
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by ythn 8y ago
> Everything spelled out in the GDPR is a great thing for users and should have been there from the very beginning - being able to erase all their data, see all their data, export their data, and get notified when data is accessed. I hat
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by ythn 8y ago
To me it seems like a case of wanting to have the cake and eat it too. "I want to use your free service without participating in your monetization model. K thanks" -- EU citizens
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by ythn 8y ago
Just unsubscribe all subreddits, and only opt-in to interesting, niche communities. My feed got 10000x less toxic after I unsubbed from /r/politics, /r/news, and the like
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by ythn 8y ago
Such a system would be a huge GDPR nightmare. You'd need consent from every visitor to your house to collect data on them, and also you have to delete it if they ever request you to. Best not to even try.
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by ythn 8y ago
The original GameMaker was written in Delphi, iirc!

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