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by AQXt 4y ago
> especially since the images are stylized / colored anyway The thing that I don't like about the new images is the abuse of star flare effect. The colors are okay, but the flares... that's simply too much.
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by AQXt 4y ago
That's an interesting way to illustrate the myth of meritocracy: random luck is enough to create a society of rich and poor.
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by AQXt 4y ago
Amazing! I'll try it with my kids. :) Suggestion: create an app so we can see the results immediately.
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by AQXt 4y ago
Excel is great for simple use cases. For complex problems, you should look at Jupyter notebooks. https://jupyter.org/
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by AQXt 5y ago
So, you are re-implementing Altavista, Lycos and other old search engines. They used the naive approach: you searched for "steak", and they would bring the pages which included the word "steak". The problem is that peopl
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by AQXt 5y ago
I searched for "giraffe evolution" (without quotes) and received the following links on the first page: - Evolutionist scientists say the theory is unscientific and worthless - Seven Mysteries of Evolution - OTHER EVIDENCE AG
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by AQXt 5y ago
Differently from most countries in the world, Colombia allowed corporations to buy and distribute vaccines to their employees. The result? Hunger Games: Food Delivery Company Giving Vaccines Only to Best Gig Workers As COVID deaths in Co
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by AQXt 5y ago
> I can understand where the author is coming from, but this is the cruel reality of the world. This article was written in 2015, when this kind of dilemma (who would you save) was purely theoretical. Fast-forward to 2020/2021, and
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by AQXt 5y ago
That's one of the coolest programming demos I've ever seen! Suggestion: make the completed rows fade asynchronously.
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by AQXt 5y ago
Before Present? (Just guessing)
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by AQXt 5y ago
The first part of the article can be summarized as: 1. Initiate as few attacks as possible 2. Let your enemies break up each other’s continents; 3. Take only one country per turn The problem is that it doesn't explain which country to
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by AQXt 6y ago
> What thing that violates a type check would be "perfectly fine to do"? A typical example, in dynamic programming languages, is to treat numbers as strings and vice-versa; evaluate lists in boolean context; and so on. > If
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by AQXt 6y ago
Your conjecture may only hold for tiny (< 500 lines of code) problems. But when you deal with big problems -- millions of lines of code, written by hundreds of developers over a period of years -- you'll definitely see the benefi
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by AQXt 6y ago
How about `npm`, `pip`, `cpan`?... We have seen bad updates breaking the entire Javascript ecosystem, but they were not intentional. All it takes to inject a bad dependency is a burned out developer willing to delegate his free project to s
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by AQXt 6y ago
...which happens all the time in the free software world, when you type `apt-get|yum|brew update`. What are the odds of one dependency being taken over by a shady anonymous entity?
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by AQXt 6y ago
> Apparently recent versions of this extension have been taken over by a shady anonymous entity... That's something that worries me, whenever I install a software with trusted privileges. Software companies can sell their products -
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by AQXt 6y ago
Can AI generate a better tutorial? To test my theory, I asked the OpenAI API to complete the following sentence: This tutorial will guide you through writing the "Hello World" program in the C programming language. And h
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by AQXt 6y ago
Exactly! The author assumes the reader doesn't know what a terminal is, and goes from a "hello world" to a cross-platform graphical "hello world" using GTK-3 without explanation. "Trust me, I don't have ti
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by AQXt 6y ago
The problem with philosophy is that you can't tell the difference between an honest effort to seek the truth and a frivolous attempt to display erudition to win the debate. Science is not perfect, but it provides evaluation mechanisms
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by AQXt 6y ago
That's the coolest thing I have seen today. Thanks! :) Suggestion: replace the blue button text ("I have completed the level") with something simpler, like "Run", "Check", "Test" or "Go&quot
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by AQXt 6y ago
> Some signs that the candidate is good in communicating: > 1. They number each point. This helps person replying to address each point separately. I disagree. For me the most important sign is that: * They use bullets instead of numb
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by AQXt 6y ago
> I recommend hiring at least one person who actually knows how to get the job done. I totally agree. Having "strong writing skills" is a plus -- but it is way less important than being qualified to the job.
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by AQXt 6y ago
First of all, writing skills != good communication. As someone else said, hire the person who actually knows how to get the job done -- even if they are not great writers. (I don't think J. K. Rowling would be the best candidate for ma
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by AQXt 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this. TIL Linus has a little brother called Rerun.
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by AQXt 6y ago
> that's why Brazil and India are nearing herd immunity with basically no serious medical infrastructure saturation. [citation needed]
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by AQXt 6y ago
Booking.com, a $73 billion company, uses Perl. It is both "legacy" and "active development". s/legacy/valuable/g;
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by AQXt 6y ago
"PHP is an embarrassment, a blight upon my craft. It’s so broken, but so lauded by every empowered amateur who’s yet to learn anything else, as to be maddening." https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/p
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Decoding the overlap between autism and ADHD(spectrumnews.org)
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Interpreting Covid-19 Test Results: A Bayesian Approach(medium.com)
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by AQXt 6y ago
This is quite impressive! I don't know any other programming language that implement grammars in such a clean way.

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