9NRtKyP4

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Morning cancer treatment could boost chances of survival(thetimes.com)
11 points by 9NRtKyP4 17d ago|1 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 2mo ago
You don’t exist in a vacuum. Pretending the politics doesn’t exist is itself a political position. Excluding it is how we’ve ended up with technically impressive but socially awful systems.
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by 9NRtKyP4 3mo ago
Anyone remember GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS? I learnt to program by fiddling with these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)
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by 9NRtKyP4 3mo ago
Oh the irony of this giant repo for a prompt. Is this the new leftpad?
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by 9NRtKyP4 3mo ago
https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-c...
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by 9NRtKyP4 7mo ago
I don’t use a notebook and have done fine over the years - for those of you that are reading this and getting anxious you’re not doing your job the “right way”. I don’t have a particularly prodigious memory. I’ve sometimes thought there’s a
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by 9NRtKyP4 8mo ago
The authors clearly don’t intend this to happen but that doesn’t matter. Someone else will do it. Maybe this can be stopped with licensing as we tried to stop the SaaS loophole with GPLv3?
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by 9NRtKyP4 8mo ago
Remote attestation is another technology that is not inherently restrictive of software freedom. But here are some examples of technologies that have already restricted freedom due to oligopoly combined with network effects: * smartphone de
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by 9NRtKyP4 9mo ago
It’s not just a tunnel, it’s a game-changing lifeline
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The idea that people aren't stupid(theseedsofscience.pub)
3 points by 9NRtKyP4 10mo ago|4 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 1y ago
https://archive.md/zI0nc
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I was alone on shift when Newark air traffic control went dark(thetimes.com)
3 points by 9NRtKyP4 1y ago|1 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 3y ago
Jane Street has a compilers team who do OCaml: https://signalsandthreads.com/future-of-programming/
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The 2-MAXSAT Problem Can Be Solved in Polynomial Time(arxiv.org)
61 points by 9NRtKyP4 3y ago|102 comments
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LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100%(phys.org)
6 points by 9NRtKyP4 4y ago|2 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 6y ago
It’s still under development but some at Google are writing a quant library in Tensorflow. https://github.com/google/tf-quant-finance
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by 9NRtKyP4 7y ago
Here’s a link to the actual pricing: https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/pricing/ This doesn’t show up for me when googling “AWS savings plan pricing”.
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by 9NRtKyP4 7y ago
> I would suggest, as a more hopeful-looking idea for getting an improved quantum theory, that one take as basis the theory of functions of a complex variable. Nailed it.
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MegaDos TRS-80 Running Windows 8(mechanicalarcade.com)
3 points by 9NRtKyP4 9y ago|0 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago
200/20 is available from Openreach as fibre-to-the-premises but it's rare and only a handful of providers offer it.
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C++ parser for ASX 24 ITCH messages(github.com)
2 points by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago|0 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago
I enabled 2FA on my Pro Dropbox account because they allowed my account to be hacked back in August. Now I have to pay for their security mistakes?
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by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago
> There has never been any "study" showing that "women talk almost three times as much as men", although this non-existent "research" has been cited by dozens of science writers, relationship counselors, cel
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TalkTalk's wi-fi hack advice is 'astonishing'(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago|0 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago
Yes. Hull is the canonical, if dry, text graduates in banks are told to read.
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Code golf – Regex that only matches itself(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
1 points by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts about Brie Code’s ‘Video Games Are Boring’(rockpapershotgun.com)
1 points by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago|0 comments
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Interplanetary Lobbing(strudel.org.uk)
3 points by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago|0 comments
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Thinking the unthinkable: What we cannot think in programming(tomasp.net)
3 points by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago|0 comments
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by 9NRtKyP4 10y ago
I'd love to see this expanded to London, as someone who is fast approaching old geek status.

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