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by garrison 11mo ago
This reminds me of an earlier blog post by the same author: https://web.archive.org/web/20121111234839/http://www.altdev...
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by garrison 2y ago
There is https://www.fda.gov/drugs/resources-information-approved-dru...
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by garrison 2y ago
It also inherently takes at least 5 years from when a study starts to show that progression-free survival is at least 5 years.
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by garrison 3y ago
Looks neat. A screenshot or video would be much appreciated.
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IBM's Jerry Chow on the future of quantum computing(theverge.com)
1 points by garrison 3y ago|0 comments
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by garrison 3y ago
If OpenAI remains a 501(c)(3) charity, then any employee of Microsoft on the board will have a fiduciary duty to advance the mission of the charity, rather than the business needs of Microsoft. There are obvious conflicts of interest here.
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by garrison 4y ago
My recent solution to this problem -- for an entire static site -- was to use HTTP Basic authentication with CloudFlare Pages: https://github.com/garrison/cloudflare-pages-shared-password
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by garrison 4y ago
The final point, involving labels and references, could be improved by mentioning cleveref: https://ctan.org/pkg/cleveref?lang=en
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by garrison 4y ago
Similar correctness issues are a big part of the reason that, several years ago, I submitted a series of pull requests to Julia so that its entire test suite would run without memory errors under Valgrind, save for a few that either (i) we
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by garrison 5y ago
> I'm giving Basecamp the benefit of the doubt It's not clear that they deserve the benefit of the doubt, if we are to believe Casey Newton's article, "What really happened at BaseCamp": > Employees say the fo
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by garrison 6y ago
I have had great luck with "reMarkable Connection Utility." It bypasses reMarkable's cloud, which I have never once connected to. http://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/
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by garrison 6y ago
I tried deploying a static site. DO App Platform makes the file page1/index.html available both at /page1 and at /page1/. If the page contains any relative links or images, it is impossible for both URLs to reference t
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by garrison 6y ago
It sounds like MDN could benefit from being the work of a 501(c)(6) business league, which is how the Linux Foundation's work is funded. Money could initially come from the big existing browser vendors. It is in everyone's inter
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by garrison 6y ago
Brad Smith in 2007: Linux violates 235 MS patents, and the FOSS community must pay up. https://web.archive.org/web/20070514143032/https://money.cnn... Brad Smith in 2020: We Need a Hippocratic Oath for S
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by garrison 6y ago
Several years ago, I gave a presentation on quantum computing to the Los Angeles Hacker News Meetup. The slides are at https://jimgarrison.org/quantumcomputingexplained/ . Unfortunately, there is no video recording so
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by garrison 7y ago
> the much more powerful, out-of-order, Cortex-A72 core Does this mean the new Raspberry Pi is now susceptible to Spectre-type vulnerabilities?
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by garrison 9y ago
This is effectively how Amazon Smile works, although the technical details are different: instead of soliciting "donations" they promise that 0.5% of each purchase is given (by Amazon) to the user's charity of choice. But th
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by garrison 10y ago
There was a long thread about Julia / Julia Computing here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/1zIlXQYb... . Viral said in the first post that "We will respond [to questions] back
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by garrison 11y ago
As for an ATM card, I make a special point of keeping my wallet in my hands while I am using the ATM and my ATM card (or anything else that belongs in the wallet) is not in my wallet. If I put my wallet back in my pocket while something is
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by garrison 12y ago
I see many mentions of YAML in the comments, but why not TOML? ( https://github.com/toml-lang/toml )
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Sandstorm Wants Web Users To Gain More Control Over The Apps They Use(techcrunch.com)
7 points by garrison 12y ago|0 comments
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by garrison 13y ago
> The only option is to revert to the original title, which is at least what the author intended. This is true when linking to blogs, but frequently in the media it is the editor of a publication, not the article's author, that ch
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by garrison 13y ago
I don't believe that quote is what she had an issue with. See http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137390362508794&w=2
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by garrison 15y ago
I don't know much about the MIT project, but a criticism of a related project is available in a nytimes op-ed at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/opinion/01srivastava.html I have strong doubts that mass-produced anything is the key to so
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by garrison 15y ago
> The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. More likely, it's because all said software is proprietary. If people got the source code to their cars' comput