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by linspace 4y ago
What if the pacemaker is the cheating device?
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by linspace 4y ago
> Henin was placed in handcuffs because police in New Jersey thought the car was stolen. That was because, months earlier, the car had been courtesy towed in West Philly, and she reported it stolen as police advised. Henin followed up wi
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by linspace 4y ago
It's a tool for you. Being also a tool is a happy accident.
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by linspace 4y ago
Short term memory is very important for problem solving. Euler continued to work and publish mathematics after becoming blind
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by linspace 4y ago
I find it completely unpythonic. Python has become too important to do the right thing, there is money on the table.
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by linspace 4y ago
Refusing to compile takes the position that the compiler knows more than the developers. Or maybe are the compiler writers thinking they are the ones that know more? Maybe I'm being biased because I could consider using it in my free t
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by linspace 4y ago
Sincerity under payment has to be taken for what it is. I expect and appreciate to be treated nicely when going to a restaurant but I'm under no illusion that it's because I'm going to pay for it, otherwise I doubt all that p
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by linspace 4y ago
I think the problem is libraries implicitly affecting code outside the library. This time has been related to optimization of floating point operations, next time it will be other thing. Why bother having lexically scoped languages if the r
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by linspace 4y ago
> Also, it is interesting that outside of SV and HN crowd, we thought MATLAB is awesome. We had all the toolboxes, there is a gazillion of them. Even obscure RF related stuff. You just can't find a library for something like a phase
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by linspace 4y ago
Engineers are frequently not entirely honest in their CVs, I wouldn't expect too much from the marketing department of a company.
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by linspace 4y ago
> flooding market with free money called quantitative easing isn’t anymore putting selective pressure on efficiency of company On the contrary I think that selective pressure is brutal. That's why everyone is trying to predict the f
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by linspace 4y ago
Your comment cheers me up, but you are assigning to much blame to individuals. Everybody notices that companies could function (even better actually) with something like 1/3 or less of their workforce. The other 2/3 are just doing
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by linspace 4y ago
> People are severely underestimating how complicated it is to host a private server People underestimate consistently how complicated is to build reliable things, hardware or software. There is a world between "it works for me&quot
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by linspace 4y ago
> Should I Switch From Turbo Pascal to Turbo Modula-2? The million dollar question. More seriously, I love Pascal and similar. My first two books were Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Pascal) and Algorithms and Data Structures (M
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by linspace 4y ago
I was expecting something about (paper) page grammage. I suppose disambiguating by adding _web_ page is out of the question given the audience.
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by linspace 4y ago
> General-purpose computing is just too economically valuable to be gotten rid of. General-purpose computing is a just a local optimum for profit extraction. Nevertheless it feels like guessing the correct answer for the wrong reasons. I
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by linspace 4y ago
> Good times create weak men They give you strong science, economy and as a byproduct strong military. > You often see a growing discontent among wealthy societies where everything is taken care of. Like in Sri-Lanka, what a decadent
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by linspace 4y ago
What a pity Epic is not publicly traded, I just checked if it was possible to buy stock
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by linspace 4y ago
For what I've seen Tango is a general dag/pipeline that happens to have some facilities for PyTorch. I don't see any deep learning specific. You could execute sklearn or whatever.
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by linspace 4y ago
We are terrible at maintaining 100% concentration over extended periods of time while nothing is happening. People fall asleep driving. The mind starts to wander. We get distracted by our children. I don't think it's about believi
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by linspace 4y ago
> On the other hand: are humans really able to explain their inner workings of the brain, or aren’t we as well describing what kind of input features motivated our decisions? That's really an interesting question. Even mathematical
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by linspace 4y ago
My case is more biomechanical. Running will decrease hunger much more than cycling or the gym as it gives the stomach much less rest.
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by linspace 4y ago
There is no money in interface innovation. Certainly not for keyboards, over which only programmers obsses (me included). Most people is interested in how it looks at best, not in how effective it's going to be for typing or if they wi
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by linspace 4y ago
But we have neural networks for NLP, who could read the spoilers.
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by linspace 4y ago
> I don't want to do all development-related tasks in my web browser You don't need to use a browser to do remote development. Emacs has been able to remote dev through SSH for ages. Not only opening files, but also launching
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by linspace 4y ago
I think the quality of content is not related to whether is for or against some part of the population. As a matter of fact I find it quite dull and artificial when is so obsessively centered on some aspects like race or sexuality. It remin
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by linspace 4y ago
As an underpaid European I welcome insanely high salaries in USA. It sets a precedent and it has also influence in the global wage market.
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by linspace 4y ago
It's a completely different thing to produce something of value and to get paid for it. There are plenty of examples. Immediately come to mind operating systems or compilers. Or a lot of completely underfunded but fundamental open sour
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by linspace 4y ago
> I can't wrap my head around this "the assets but not the liabilities" argument Because it's impossible. Take a loan, acquire the money and not the debt, repeat. It's a mental bomb planted by corporate drones to
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by linspace 4y ago
And prices change. Surprising for a trading company it seems. It's funny to see so many people trying to justify the ridiculous. My children try this all the time.

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