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by confounded 3y ago
At least according to the Meta employees in the article, people are terrified of voting with their feet, because of the current job market. As a result, many are communing hours a day, to sit on zoom calls. Wasting their valuable time on ea
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by confounded 3y ago
Out of interest, do you use Emacs as an alternative to Jupyter for interactive work (examining plots etc.)? If so, which modes and packages do you use?
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by confounded 3y ago
They are ruled by an avowedly Marxist (state-capitalist) government, who have lifted hundreds of millions from abject poverty, in the largest economic miracle of our lifetimes. I'm not saying it was pristine. But you make an extremely
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by confounded 3y ago
The whole idea relies on a hierarchy of power so unnerving it's the basis of folklore across human cultures. Unlike costmetic surgery, your gain depends on someone else's loss. There are likely to be supply/demand issues in a
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by confounded 3y ago
Had never heard of these plates. At least the current models may well make the problem worse: > "In addition to the flexibility of the display, the digital plates also sport a tracking device that will alert the police to the locat
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by confounded 3y ago
You should write to to the author, to scold them directly!
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by confounded 3y ago
Ah, famously easy to measure knowledge worker productivity!
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by confounded 3y ago
Out of interest, what kind of work do you do, on Linux, on a laptop, in a swimming pool?
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by confounded 4y ago
Where will you go?
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by confounded 4y ago
That might be a different type of S&M team
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by confounded 4y ago
https://archive.ph/v01jZ
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US lawmakers warn Apple on using Chinese group’s chips in new iPhone(ft.com)
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by confounded 4y ago
After spending more time and money than on fancy keyboards than I'd like to admit, two of these side by side (an informal 'split' keyboard) is by far the easiest on my wrists and shoulder blades.
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by confounded 4y ago
Because managers are evaluated on their ability to grow teams and increase their scope. Organizations intrinsically "want" to hire. What's unusual about the last 20 years is that there's been so much available capital to
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by confounded 4y ago
The question is, after this superb yak shaving, did you actually buy a house?
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by confounded 4y ago
What is HA?
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by confounded 4y ago
I got blocked as fraudulent and banned before I could even transfer my savings in to Betterment. (No problems with Wealthfront, and now a happyish customer).
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by confounded 5y ago
If this is on the M5 data set as a benchmark, Prophet wouldn't be a great model choice at all. It's fantastic for dense, long, univariate time series with strong seasonality. M5 is very very sparse and intermittent. The M5 competi
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by confounded 5y ago
Is this stealth promotion for Go?
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by confounded 5y ago
Excellent work! If there was a way to pay for semi-permanent links (a month?) I would probably cough up!
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by confounded 6y ago
But what if your company ultimately acts as a selfish individual, too? Perhaps it even has a fiduciary duty to do so? There's a good argument that most venture backed software companies are exactly "a selfish and cynical bargain
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by confounded 6y ago
It's pretty easy to compile the documents; it's all just R functions (rmarkdown is a wrapper around knitr and pandoc). I've been writing Rmarkdown docs for many years in Emacs without hiccups (or without hiccups from rmarkdow
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by confounded 6y ago
TFA: > But the Mountain View, California-based company has adapted to similar requests in other countries without cutting off search. Google stopped showing news results from European publishers on search results for French users last y
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by confounded 6y ago
Why are the government doing it?
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by confounded 6y ago
This one is actually linked from TFA and is very short and readable as a pdf.
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by confounded 6y ago
As someone who was plonked before a blinking BBC Micro cursor to entertain themselves as a kid, I consider this cheating!
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by confounded 6y ago
Anyone on macOS having trouble with “Find in page” not finding text recently?
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by confounded 6y ago
I’m strongly opposed to just about everything the UK government has done or proposed involving the internet, but the ‘Free Speech Union’ is an awful source to have on HN. The FSU is entirely a product of the “culture wars” of the outrage ma
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by confounded 6y ago
> Because no one cares? The BBC is there to provide a service to the public, if the public doesn't care about... Unfortunately in Britain, the BBC largely decides what people care about, or are even aware of.
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by confounded 6y ago
> After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling. Same situation, I use ‘yabai’ on macos, which is similar enough to i3 for me.

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