screature2

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by screature2 1y ago
Not entirely disagreeing, but Intel feels more like a poster child of buybacks that (in hindsight and in comparison with their peer group) would have been much better spent reinvested into the company https://www.ineteconomics.or
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by screature2 1y ago
Yup, this is an emulator for a book published in the 1980s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Adventure (part of a series of 10, looks like the emulator has 6 of the books already!). I remember seeing these books in m
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by screature2 2y ago
Really? Jetbrains has their own AI? Their terms seem to indicate that they use 3rd party models. https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/jetbrains-ai/serv...
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by screature2 2y ago
Maybe Nougat? The examples look pretty impressive: https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/ https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat Though the model weight licenses are CC by NC
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Commerce Department Prohibits Russian Kaspersky Software for U.S. Customers(bis.gov)
5 points by screature2 2y ago|2 comments
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by screature2 2y ago
the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a Final Determination prohibiting Kaspersky Lab, Inc. (as well as its affiliates, subsidiaries, and parent companies), from directly or indirectly providin
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by screature2 2y ago
I think the bloomberg article was summarizing a study utilizing the wehe mobile application: - i believe this was the study: https://wehe.meddle.mobi/papers/wehe.pdf - the app and the data has continued to be collected
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by screature2 2y ago
Propublica has also been covering RealPages including senate and DOJ investigations + proposed legislation * (2022-10) https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r... * (2023-03) https://www.
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by screature2 3y ago
I think the closest I've seen to a SQL experience for JSON is how steampipe stores json columns as jsonb datatypes and allows you to query those columns w/postgres JSON functions etc. - https://steampipe.io/docs&#x
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by screature2 3y ago
Helpfully, the first author published this on his website. http://www.akakhbod.com/uploads/1/3/9/6/13965273/kkls_fininf...
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by screature2 3y ago
Here's some detail from CNBC (w/out a paywall) https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/16/ev-maker-vinfast-is-now-wort... .
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by screature2 3y ago
The number of U.S. farms continues slow decline: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery... Note the relatively constant amount of farm land and corresponding increase in farm size. See e.g.
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by screature2 3y ago
Thank you for sharing a glimpse of the ecosystem in Poland! By the way, Parcel lockers do exist in the US (at least for Amazon package deliveries) https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=..
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by screature2 4y ago
When enough blood, sweat, dirt, and grime builds up on the IDE to paint it black. More seriously, I see some plugins for reskinning to dark themes https://thonny.org/#plugins (e.g. https://github.com/ranelpa
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by screature2 4y ago
For scientific papers, depending on the field, order of listing actually is some indication of role. I think the convention in bio research is 1st author is the primary creator of the experiment and paper while last author is the lab PI. Pe
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by screature2 4y ago
Conda's actually a pretty well respected python distribution package manager from Anaconda.com (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(Python_distribution) ). Anaconda has a lot of the standard scientific
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by screature2 4y ago
I think d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is the md5 sum of "nothing", e.g. md5 reverse will get you a zero-length stream of characters. (granted this is entirely without looking at the data) but my guess is that they MD5 hashed wh
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by screature2 5y ago
I tend to use python (usually in a jupyter notebook) and pandas. Lots of experimentation with pandas' json_normalize() function. https://towardsdatascience.com/all-pandas-json-normalize-you... then just call to_csv() o
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by screature2 5y ago
re:FOSS music players I liked foobar2000 for music, esp. if you wanted to play lossless formats like FLAC files re:parent comment, i feel like the streaming "free" music app/services are more iterations on radio stations rath
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by screature2 5y ago
In a similar vein, but more broad (and less optimistic) I thought The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr was pretty good.
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by screature2 6y ago
Also, I love the cookbooks that Chris Albon put together https://chrisalbon.com/ I make especially heavy use of the data wrangling recipes everytime I can't figure out how to do something in pandas.
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by screature2 6y ago
Security Onion leverages ELK/Elastic stack + to aggregate and visualize output from security tools https://securityonion.net/
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by screature2 7y ago
I really enjoyed Hyperion! I think it's referring to John Keats though. Also: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44473/hyperion
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by screature2 8y ago
Oops sorry for posting somewhat of a non-sequitur. I'm definitely not a designer (pixel art or otherwise), but Gamasutra often has solid community content and interesting deep dives across game design issues (like in the parent!). See:
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by screature2 8y ago
This totally brought back memories of drl (the DoomRL) evolution. 1. First built with an ascii tileset focusing on very tight mechanics and borrowing everything else from Doom (including sound set, music, setting, and theme). https:/&
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by screature2 8y ago
I feel like this already started happening with discovery/e-discovery? https://www.lawtechnologytoday.org/2015/11/history-technolog...
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by screature2 8y ago
Obligatory shoutout to the Oatmeal's writeup on mantis shrimp. It's still my favorite love letter to a (non-human) species. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
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by screature2 8y ago
They list themselves as having money transmitter licenses across the US. see e.g. https://stripe.com/us/payments and https://stripe.com/connect (under "Rigorous Compliance" and "Complian
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by screature2 8y ago
It is, in this case "double taxation" is a term of art and denotes the shareholders' perspective because the shareholder is taxed first on corporate income (as "owners" of the corporation) and second on receipt of t
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by screature2 8y ago
Haha, looks like Victorinox did actually propose a "Presentation Pro" which was to include a bluetooth remote for powerpoint presentations. Doesn't seem to be for sale on the Victorinox website though. https://www.

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