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by pungentcomment 4y ago
I read somewhere that it's a huge money loser for Amazon. Alexa being such a big part of Amazon's identity, could they shut it down without losing face though?
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
I wish I could upvote you more than once. I'm not a bus driver but a truck driver though lol.
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
It's all garbage collector.
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
I took classes, not the fancy 6 months full time course, but a part time 6 or 8 (can't remember) weeks course that showed me the basics. I like to drive so this was not a hardship for me. Did not buy my own rig. I just got out of self
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
I did this 15-20 years ago. I had a small internet/consulting business that I ran out of my house, with a full T1 mind you lol. Got tired of staring at the walls and tired of the f'king servers that chained me down. An error messa
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
Chances are that the site will be hosted outside the US and the DMCA is a US only copyright law afaik. I don't think it's applicable outside the US.
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
You get that kind of response anytime the subject matter is vi or vim. Still more if it mentions nvim, nano or, god forbid, emacs(!)
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
Saying it' maths is simplifying it a bit. They use simulations. They can simulate how an object orbits and eventually fall down to earth. They can test those simulations everyday by predicting where a know object in orbit will be in th
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
CS came first. At the end I had a small internet business at home that chained me to the computers. An alarm about a defective RAID just as I was starting a short vacation triggered the career change. I couldn't see myself go back into
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by pungentcomment 4y ago
Trucker with a CS degree here. I'm very skeptical of the feasibility of autonomous highway trucks that can drive outside very tightly defined parameters or ideal situations. That being said, it just occurred to me, how will these truck