joexner

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by joexner 3y ago
So, German pun. Nice.
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by joexner 3y ago
Checked exceptions give you, essentially, syntactic sugar for handling just a few kinds of exceptions and re-throwing the rest. It's useful when there are one or two error cases you want to retry or handle specially, but you want to ju
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by joexner 3y ago
Same here! But for me it was "Title (year in Sumerian Ur dynasty calendar).type" The only format that stands the test of time, IMO
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by joexner 3y ago
But is it advanced enough?
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by joexner 4y ago
They didn't try very hard to train this system. It wasn't even a prototype. - In the excerpt, Scharre describes a week during which DARPA calibrated its robot’s human recognition algorithm alongside a group of US Marines. The Mar
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by joexner 4y ago
> Capturing in this game is a little bit goofy. Basically, if your piece overlaps the opponent's piece it is captured, and you cannot move past the first piece you overlap. > One interesting side effect of this is that you can ca
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by joexner 4y ago
It makes sense if you substitute "recognizes" for "sees". Westinghouse (well, Cameco/Brookfield Renewable) recognizes what a disruptive tech this could be, whereas others have overlooked it, maybe?
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by joexner 4y ago
Or through water?
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by joexner 4y ago
The balloon would probably move toward the front when accelerating and toward the back when the bus slows, if it moved at all. It helps (me) to imagine an air bubble in a sealed, nearly-full fish tank on that same accelerating bus. The heav
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by joexner 4y ago
Who, Gary? Yeah, go for it. No one will miss him.
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by joexner 5y ago
Vector indices are the novel part of vector databases. Let's hear more about them. The rest is just BLOB CRUD.
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by joexner 5y ago
Idempotent resource cleanup tasks are the ideal use case for k8s crons.
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by joexner 5y ago
The article says kids make people (Europeans, anyway) happy except for the financial stress.
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by joexner 6y ago
If presenting these viewpoints misrepresents the views of your employer, they're fully entitled to cancel you. Judy Woodruff couldn't drop the n-word in anger on national TV and expect to keep her job.
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by joexner 6y ago
Couldn't you just subscribe for one month for $9 and see what's ready now?
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by joexner 7y ago
I got a similar sinking feeling just a few days ago right after booking a flight through Kayak. It was a too-good-to-be-true rate on a flight from Boston to Barcelona with a company called Vayama. Vayama runs lots of little scams, like sell
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by joexner 9y ago
If you don't sweat playing it, it ain't a sport.
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by joexner 9y ago
figuratively