mkhattab

4 ms·

1.
OpenAI Wants Federal Backstop for New Investments [video](wsj.com)
2 points by mkhattab 10mo ago|2 comments
2.
by mkhattab 11mo ago
As a muslim, I hope he doesn't eff this up, Obama style. But the fact that he won, although not the blowout as some were expecting, restored a bit of my hope in the common man. Cuomo's attacks may have swayed some of the vote but
3.
by mkhattab 11mo ago
These deal numbers have lost all meaning for me. There’s been some buzz around the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which I visited last month. That project took 1.1 to 1.2B USD. Double its original budget estimate but still t
4.
OCaml 5.4.0 Released(ocaml.org)
5 points by mkhattab 11mo ago|0 comments
5.
by mkhattab 1y ago
> Go prioritizes not breaking the ecosystem; this allows to assume that Hyrum’s Law will protect certain observable behaviors of the runtime, from which we may infer what can or cannot break easily. If this assertion is correct, then eff
6.
by mkhattab 2y ago
Does anyone know of an up-to-date or live visualization of the amount of scientific fraud? And perhaps also measuring the second order effects? i.e. poisoning of the well via citations to the fraudulent papers. It's hard to tell at thi
7.
by mkhattab 3y ago
Sorry! Just realized that when I checked the docs again. My bad.
8.
by mkhattab 3y ago
Minor annoyance: Yesterday I was reading the docs and one of the first things I tried is the following, copy and pasted, which didn't work, using version 0.71: COPY (SELECT 42 AS a, 'hello' AS b) TO 'query.json'
9.
Nhtsa Information Request to Tesla [pdf](static.nhtsa.gov)
1 points by mkhattab 5y ago|0 comments
10.
by mkhattab 6y ago
My manager used to do this all the time. Typical scenario: Manager: hey <an hour or so may go by> Me: what's up? Manager: nvm
11.
by mkhattab 6y ago
I don't believe Arabs are under the illusion that their government is non-tyrannical. I live in Egypt and there's not a single person I've met that doesn't think their government is corrupt, oppressive and inept. So ther
12.
by mkhattab 7y ago
Yes, one usually does and can repair all those things. Except for the pacemaker, which I’m not sure.
13.
by mkhattab 7y ago
I agree. Who are all these people that pull backups, that maybe GBs or TBs in size for offline storage? How does that even work in practical terms in disaster scenarios like this where resolution times are expected within hours and not days
14.
by mkhattab 8y ago
Perhaps we need to distinguish, if at all possible these days, between the military and the military industrial complex. I don't believe the military is inherently evil but think it's necessary to the defense of the country. The m
15.
Company Culture: Crutches vs. Wings(linkedin.com)
2 points by mkhattab 8y ago|1 comments
16.
by mkhattab 8y ago
Over the years, I've had an older MacBook Air, pre-touchbar MacBook Pro 13" and 15", and the second generation MacBook. Order of preference: MacBook > MacBook Air > MacBook Pro 15" (pre-touch bar) > MacBook Pro
17.
Company Culture: Crutches vs. Wings(linkedin.com)
4 points by mkhattab 9y ago|0 comments
18.
by mkhattab 9y ago
I believe '/courses' and 'student/1234/courses' mean two different things. The former implies a list of courses and the later implies an association between a student and a course. POSTing to '/c
19.
by mkhattab 11y ago
> At times Mohammed only spoke to one or two people when revealing surah. Having thousands of people memorise a number of separate orations exactly without any problem of conflicting versions is really impossible. And that's the po
20.
by mkhattab 11y ago
Variations existed in the written form not in the recitation because diacritics (tashkeel) were not standardized. It's a common misconception that the Quran is memorized through the written text. This is not how it is transmitted. Look
21.
by mkhattab 12y ago
I'm curious as to why this project is using Django templates (as opposed to Jinja2)? Django is a heavy dependency if you're just planning on using Django templates. Also, from what I've read, it appears that Jinja2 is more ex
22.
by mkhattab 12y ago
How about the Linux kernel? Essentially, it began as something very basic in 1991 when communication methods were much different than we have today (e.g. video conferencing, etc.)[0]. There are many other examples of high quality open sourc
23.
by mkhattab 12y ago
I'm reminded of a scene in Louie where Louis CK is approached by a Hollywood producer to discuss movie ideas[0]. The producer asks him for his best idea for a movie. Yeah? All right, well well, you know how movies, there's always
24.
by mkhattab 12y ago
The full transcript of Crichton's lecture at Caltech: http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers...
25.
by mkhattab 12y ago
I'm planning on going old school and re-learning C and Assembly for x86 and, in particular, ARM architectures. My reason for doing is that I want to get back into embedded systems. I also plan on picking up Rust and somehow integrating
26.
by mkhattab 12y ago
I haven't personally run any memory or cpu performance tests. There are online LaTeX editors out there; ShareLaTeX comes to mind. My point being that if online services like ShareLaTeX exist, then the conversion process shouldn't
27.
by mkhattab 12y ago
I'm using Org-mode which can export to LaTeX -> PDF [0]. I use Org-mode for invoices [1], reports, time-tracking, etc. Using org-babel you can use Gnuplot[2] or R [3] to embed charts and other visuals. [0]: http://orgmode
28.
by mkhattab 12y ago
Very true. I'll often ask when I'm dining out whether something was cooked with lard, especially at Mexican restaurants. Nearly everything in Mexican restaurants is cooked with lard.
29.
Riverside Community College campuses students' data breached(blog.pe.com)
1 points by mkhattab 12y ago|0 comments
30.
by mkhattab 12y ago
Let's say the Swiss set the minimum wage to $25/hr or even half that, $12/hr, what kind of ripple effect would we expect on other salary groups? Would they increase by the same proportion?

More ›