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by nmrm 11y ago
There's some speculation about where the next breakthroughs will come from at the end of the chapter; it will be interesting to look back in 10-20 years and see if Knuth was correct.
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by nmrm 11y ago
> The US seems to have been in a cultural decline for much of the last 100 years. Can you explain what, exactly, you mean by this? Looking back 100 years, I can't help but see an enormous amount of improvement in culture, at leas
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by nmrm 11y ago
And in fact, if you read the article about Tide, the people who are buying Tide, no questions asked, from anyone who wants to sell it to them are committing felonies and are tracked down in sting operations.
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by nmrm 11y ago
I've worked with a lot of contractors. Invariably, if you bitch about guberment and then have a polite chat with the ones who make these kinds of offers, they're trying to get around paying taxes. This might be anecdotal, but it&#
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by nmrm 11y ago
> (in fact, just today a contractor offered me no tax if I paid him cash...) Which means he's probably not paying tax on that himself. Which is tax evasion, pure and simple. Which is illegal for good reasons.
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by nmrm 11y ago
>Those are still executed in some order. Not really. E.g. there's no ordering in function composition that isn't also in high school math. Also, you shouldn't depend on e.g. maps processing elements in a given order. My im
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by nmrm 11y ago
> which incorporates the notion of time and communication of proof. Certainly constructive logics (typically) incorporate a notion of evidence/proof. But constructive logics don't incorporate notions of time or communication (o
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by nmrm 11y ago
I think the point of the bulk of the document was to demonstrate that lots of good hypotheses aren't being tested (in the US).
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by nmrm 11y ago
> i didn't get whether they were able to show an actual path of how UA could have occurred I think the answer is no -- there was never a clear demonstration of an extant buggy execution trace. Just a preponderance of evidence that s
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by nmrm 11y ago
I believe that when the recalls occurred, at least several models of Toyota/Lexus cars were affected. Ultimately, it's impossible to know without being inside. I would imagine there's a fair bit of reuse within each manufactu
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by nmrm 11y ago
> Are the police allowed to act on charges and arrest individuals? Yes. Although the arrest can happen before the charge, typically a judge will issue an arrest warrant as soon as the charges are filed. And given the >90% conviction s
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by nmrm 11y ago
I think the logic goes that out of everyone at this company -- probably dozens or hundreds since OP says it's well known locally -- OP was the one that the plaintiff knew about and called up. Probably because the OP is a big-mouthed
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by nmrm 11y ago
Of course if you conflate logic with just traditional first order logic then all the interesting fruit has been picked. But there are many logics that can be used to reason about stochastic and probabilistic dynamics.
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by nmrm 11y ago
From the article: Situations Where A Client/Server RDBMS May Work Better... High Concurrency: SQLite supports an unlimited number of simultaneous readers, but it will only allow one writer at any instant in time. I've used SQLit
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by nmrm 11y ago
There are Ikeas in the US. If you are not near an Ikea and can't think of an excuse to do a day road trip to the nearest one, you might consider some of the motorized/adjustable desks on Amazon (just search for those terms).
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by nmrm 11y ago
He did nothing illegal, but (admittedly) acted a bit dodgy with the wrong (or right, if you want a good story) sorts of people.
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by nmrm 11y ago
Arbitrary page limits cause far more harm than good in academic writing. Dissertations and journal articles are some of the most readable and useful academic publications in computer science precisely because this attitude of "16 pag
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by nmrm 12y ago
3 cups of espresso would be a fantastic amount of coffee. You'd actually have a medical condition of you drank that much espresso every day: ~64 mg caffeine / ounce in espresso 64 mg/ounce * 8 ounces * 3 = 1536 mg From wikipe
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by nmrm 12y ago
It is. Typically if you publish in a respected and peer reviewed journal, you are required to disclose sources of funding in the article. Especially if those sources include for-profit companies, you're in for a world of hurt if yo
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by nmrm 12y ago
> The research[1] says that billboards help sell stuff. So do online ads. Unfortunately there's no RL ad block for those of us who don't like ugly. > I'd argue these[2] are anything but. I'll take nature or archite
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by nmrm 12y ago
Yes. And ugly.
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by nmrm 12y ago
Graduate degrees make sense almost always, as long as the prestige and quality of the graduate program is an order of magnitude better than your undergraduate alma mater. The calculation is trivial -- top masters programs often publish entr
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by nmrm 12y ago
I tend to both agree and disagree with this assessment. Highly skilled programmers, as well as programmers whose jobs are dominated by both design and implementation, will probably be one of the last professions to be replaced by AI. But
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by nmrm 12y ago
I think the OP's point is that the phone is never going to replace cash/cards because going without an mp3 player or notebook during a night out or work day is NBD, but surviving without any access to money can make things very
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by nmrm 12y ago
Would you consider a (perhaps accelerated) degree program? I understand this might not be possible in your situation, but if you can find an evening, on-site, accelerated program at a local non-flagship state school then you might be missin
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by nmrm 12y ago
> A business wanting to make more money by charging for their good/bad/ok product? how evil. A business encouraging governments to throw people in jail for something which has never been considered a criminal infraction in or
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by nmrm 12y ago
This was the concept between some subsidized housing in the mid 20th century, and was for the most part a failed experiment in architecture. The two significant differences here are 1) government officials and law enforcement are part of th
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by nmrm 12y ago
"And I think that's what a lot of professors forget - BE MORE INTERESTING. Have a better presentation style. Take public speaking classes. Do something to make yourself stand out above the distraction of internet and devices.&quo
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by nmrm 12y ago
The distinction/dichotomy is over-blown. It may be that most people you work with have CS degrees, but that doesn't mean most people you work with aren't self-taught. That's because most self-taught programmers end up wi
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by nmrm 12y ago
> You can have endless domain knowledge, and not an original thought in your head. I hear this a lot, and don't think it's at all true. It's pretty difficult to get to phd-level background in an area without having some th

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