zekrioca

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by zekrioca 6y ago
> It takes at least a generation of time for a word to evolve to that level of offense. Not true, maybe you are biased towards English words. Take Spanish or Portuguese, where the word “negro” (not to confuse w/ any English slur) re
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by zekrioca 6y ago
> which requires mal-intent by definition Not always, and within these types of assumption lies the key problems. There are a lot of words which had their meaning changed or become less used with time to accommodate racial biases. Even i
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Seeking an ‘exit plan’ for leaving academia amid coronavirus worries(nature.com)
25 points by zekrioca 6y ago|11 comments
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by zekrioca 6y ago
> and it's in their best interest that things are complicated as they can make money out of that. Care to supply some evidences for such claim?
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by zekrioca 6y ago
It would be good to emphasize this applies to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf](bankofengland.co.uk)
15 points by zekrioca 6y ago|0 comments
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The machine learning community has a toxicity problem(reddit.com)
143 points by zekrioca 6y ago|187 comments
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by zekrioca 6y ago
It is only interesting that someone comes to comment about morals for a text written almost 3000 years ago..
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by zekrioca 6y ago
This is about their browser, not their search service.
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The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider(scientificamerican.com)
146 points by zekrioca 6y ago|225 comments
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by zekrioca 6y ago
Yeah, I thought about the conceptual idea, similar to what MS did: https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/teardown-windows...
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by zekrioca 6y ago
Yes, agreed. And the examples exposed are not fair. There are a lot of optimizations one can do in Docker, specially when dealing with I/O workloads (dd example in the article). Cloud providers have been doing this for long, long time
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by zekrioca 6y ago
I guess someone will port Docker to JVM, and use the JVM optimized to whatever ARM processor there will be.
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by zekrioca 6y ago
This will always be a problem, unless one emulates the x86_64 architecture, which is then again the other problem w/ Docker. I assume main libraries (i.e. dependencies) are already or will be ported, so theoretically recompilation shou
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by zekrioca 6y ago
It is crazy how much CPU on Linux Skype uses. And it used to be very light weight. I simply closed it to avoid making my computer slower. And I only open it when in need to answer something that my phone notified me..
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by zekrioca 6y ago
> "Deeply hostile to capitalism". They are avoiding a monopoly to surge. > "Brazil is poor". I guess one has to travel.
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Bias-Free Communication Writing Guide at Microsoft(docs.microsoft.com)
1 points by zekrioca 6y ago|0 comments
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by zekrioca 6y ago
0.5 exascale
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Yes, kinda.. but lustre is for data, whereas popcorn is for computing..
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Requirements are a bit overloaded though..
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Automatic vertical scaling without changing applications. One needs to rewrite apps in order to get the advantages of Hadoop/Spark/MapReduce in general, and not all problems are solved by simply doing that.. It is a different thi
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Social and familiar needs are linked with someone being smart or not. You can’t have one without the other, they are interdependent. You can’t just count on someone — specially an young one — sneaking in to get access to Wikipedia and find
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Parent my have a StackOverFlow CV.. :)
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by zekrioca 7y ago
The second figure could have shown the client receiving the HTTP response to its request. Also, isn't HTTP/3 (QUIC) already supporting something like this?
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Google released new datasets from Borg(github.com)
3 points by zekrioca 7y ago|0 comments
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Does any one have any knowledge at how Zoom is architected? I know they own some datacenters, but so does Microsoft, which has a worse service than Zoom.
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by zekrioca 7y ago
It is more than maximum number of characters
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Bill Gates says we can’t restart the economy soon and simply ignore dead bodies(vox.com)
17 points by zekrioca 7y ago|17 comments
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Thanks for article. It really seems the strategy behind Sweden’s decision is to allow old people to get infected to they can use the health care system before it floods. As you said, one cannot really control how the spread among 60% of pop
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by zekrioca 7y ago
Yes, this is just based on actions/decisions. It is even trickier since population seems to have accepted it very well. Life in Stockholm and other cities seems rather normal when compared to other countries. Bars, pubs, and elementary

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