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by efoto 5y ago
"The biggest source of problems might be multi-threaded programs with concurrency-related bugs that have been masked by the GIL until now."
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by efoto 6y ago
It would appropriate to quote one old saying, possibly originated in armed forces of a certain country: "do not rush to execute an order, it will likely be canceled"
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by efoto 6y ago
I've lived in a couple of countries where bribes are a way of life. I'm happy it's not the case in CA. Still, does anyone here know of a country, where artificially limiting resources do not encourage to bribes? Better yet, i
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by efoto 6y ago
I'm surprised that OP didn't notice misspelled vocher prominently visible on multiple screenshots.
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by efoto 6y ago
Very interesting indeed: "In fact, more small-particle pollution comes from the action of car brakes and tyres than from the exhaust fumes of current internal-combustion engines – a testament to the effectiveness of catalytic converter
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by efoto 6y ago
Sounds like a misconfigured filter or a mistrained AI. Garbage in – garbage out.
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by efoto 7y ago
I would not be this dismissive, considering the studies showing starkly different effects of acute vs chronic stress, for example [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3788324/
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by efoto 7y ago
Not that fast. Unfortunately, "Why We Sleep" appears to be rather controversial. [1] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ [2] https://www.wired.com/story/stop-obsessing-over-sleepyo
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by efoto 7y ago
"Studies have shown quality control of this supplement to often be low." [1] -- which one are you using? [1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-dhea/art-203641...
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by efoto 7y ago
Feeding the licence plate databases junk is a neat, but rather expensive idea. Here is link to the recent Defcon presentation: https://adversarialfashion.com/pages/defcon-27-crypto-privac...
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by efoto 7y ago
As it often happens, the paper is ignoring people with DSPD aka night owls. We almost never see sunrises, and I wish we had a permanent DST to have later sunsets and longer daylight.
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by efoto 7y ago
Bitcoin crypo (sic!) in the title is funny. Update: cool, the title is fixed, this comment downvoted.
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by efoto 7y ago
In an unfortunate act of self-censorship, the video has been now removed from YouTube. Update: while the video linked by the article has been removed, here it is: https://youtu.be/dQpKcw-n330
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by efoto 8y ago
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14295-delayed...
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by efoto 8y ago
A nice one by Julius Comroe: “Serendipity is jumping into a haystack to search for a needle, and coming up with the farmer’s daughter.”
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by efoto 8y ago
Not necessarily Google AI. But AI is already at pro poker level. https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-reveal-how-poker-p...
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by efoto 8y ago
(ready to get down-voted) why would I want to opt out if somebody uses my anonymized DNA to try discovering a potentially life-saving drug?
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by efoto 8y ago
I am over 55, software engineer from SF Bay Area. I was laid off in March and just accepted one of the offers. So, no, not leaving the tech at all.
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by efoto 8y ago
TL;DR A dormant FB account gets highjacked, but the amateur thief forgets to change the email associated with the account. This allows the owner to deactivate the account. I doubt the authors conclusion about russian troll though: a FB acco
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by efoto 9y ago
Not in the US, where majority of mortgages is 30 years fixed.
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by efoto 9y ago
This is exactly the idea Robert Shriller suggests in his recent Narrative Economics lecture. https://youtu.be/b8l6wLSPnYY
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by efoto 9y ago
1. Google engineers took the challenge personally and there is no evidence suggesting Prisma capabilities were regained. 2.I tend to agree in a sense that it is rather difficult to delete all the data. But no more difficult, than to find it
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by efoto 9y ago
TL;DR imagining yourself dying every day, meditating on it, will change your brain in a way that will make you a better person. This technique is about one thousand years old.
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by efoto 9y ago
Google search uses HTTPS and, unless you personally is a target and/or your devices are hacked, the content of your searches is not visible to anyone except Google. Your citizenship doesn't matter.
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by efoto 9y ago
The linked Intel page is a mess. It is titled "Linux* Processor Microcode Data File Version: 20180108 (Previously Released) Date: 1/8/2018" Below, however, you can see highlighted "A newer version of this software
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by efoto 9y ago
I apologize for missing your question. Well, first I used the new brackets to calculate the tax and found us slightly in the black. Then I dug out my last year tax return, added four numbers -- income tax, property tax, mortgage and donatio
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by efoto 9y ago
Not taking property and mortgage interest into account, this tool is misleading at best! I just did my projections. This calculator shows our family will benefit slightly, when in fact our taxes will increase approx. 25K or 40% per year.
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by efoto 9y ago
The concept you described is what LAToken guys are working on. https://latoken.com
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by efoto 9y ago
The post is from 2011 and it's been awhile since I started using 'ip' instead of 'ifconfig', but everybody, myself included, seem to continue using 'netstat' and not 'ss'.
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by efoto 9y ago
an afterthought: and make Equifax pay for it.

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