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It's jsonld, using w3c verifiable credentials. ( https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ ). Using the context ( https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1 ) you can look up information about t
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Onedrive (or rather the Office365 variant, I don't know about the other) still complains about such things. Just amazing in this day and age.
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5y ago
See https://academictorrents.com/ . We serve a couple of datasets using this, in addition to our regular system, due to their size.
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5y ago
Seems like clear case that is _was_ the case, unless Steve Jobs liked to ensure his intended features were very secret indeed, and delivered late.
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5y ago
I used Excel recently and it added a BOM, which is pretty awful. Is there any way to stop that nonsense?
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5y ago
If you are looking for datasets I would try datacite ( https://datacite.org ). While they are primarily a provider of DOIs I think it is fair to say that they are the de facto standard, and a good point to start searching for data
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> In addition to sites such as those listed, Universities often provide institution-level data hosting. (For those that haven't spotted it, these are permitted under 'Generalist repositories') > An advantage is that the
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5y ago
Forked by dev team as MyBatis. It's a different approach to Hibernate, but has similar ends. We recommended it for teams who were comfortable with writing SQL directly.
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5y ago
Does the LINQ expression tree stuff complicate things? I don't know how that works with respect to parsing.
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5y ago
Your first paragraph is a fair encapsulation of what Java was intended to be from 1994: a mullet of a language that is deliberately unexciting at the language end, but brings in a number of (at the time exotic) features at the VM end. Thing
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5y ago
Same here. This is "Quick, Draw!". The punctuation is important. Like "Works on Contingency No Money Down".
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6y ago
Java has Enums, so why would you bother with all of this?
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6y ago
Supposedly good (I know someone who works for them). However, bizarre fact: > The bank was founded as an anthroposophical initiative and continues to honor the work of Rudolf Steiner as the inspiration for its approach to banking. As fa
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6y ago
It's a quote (hence the ''). If you read the article you'll see it comes from https://thewalrus.ca/for-everyone-a-garden/ , which (as others have said) says it 'failed' to be housing for ev
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6y ago
"It is illegal to market to kids,[...]" I only know the UK law (a little), but from Consumer Protection Regulations 2008 it's often technically illegal to directly market to children. No idea whether it's really been app
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6y ago
Literally first line of the article: > A UK grandmother has become the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination programme.
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6y ago
That seems to be a (minor) alteration in the original plan, possible due to the storage requirements for the vaccine.
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6y ago
> that's almost certainly a colloquialism. Probably, although sometimes these become terms of art, i.e. words or phrases with quite a specific meaning in a particular field. (Think of the people who hear 'significant' as &
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6y ago
This literally is geojson (RFC 7946), which they do say (but don't really spell out). geojson basically give you a way to describe a geometry, state its type (e.g. 'lake'), an associate some arbitrary properties with that reg
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6y ago
I think the medicalxpress article might have been pushed by Oracle PR? The article itself includes Oracle in the acknowledgements, together with the various University of Bristol HPC systems used, and Archer.
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6y ago
International TLDs encoded in punycode ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode ).
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6y ago
Title probably ought to be "a reactive database". Though, used properly, you should be able to reduce latency it doesn't make any guarantees.
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6y ago
It's language evolution, in part. 'Radar' and 'scuba' are famous examples which have become regular names. At some point all-caps started to look pedantic, I suppose, or odd because their origin was not familiar to
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6y ago
It's an initialism vs acronym thing: when the initials are treated as a word (e.g. NASA, but not BBC) you don't have to capitalise the whole thing (Hence 'Nasa' is ok). See https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs
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6y ago
As the article says So much water is now being used that ground water levels in Helmand are estimated to be falling by 3m a year. The fear is that pretty soon the water will simply run out. "Maybe this boom will not last longer
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I'm struggling to see how this anything more than Bohm's theory with a dubious interpretation of the guiding wave (which, to be honest, Bohm himself was guilty of). Like Bell without the 'Beables'.
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6y ago
Those are structs, though. This work is about providing similar performance advantages for objects (in certain conditions).
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> What this does on top of that is then to cover the corner case where an object would be safe for SRA, except something requires the object to have the same layout as on the heap. I'm a little surprised that see such noticeable per
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You'll find the detail in https://github.com/microsoft/openjdk-proposals/blob/master/s... This is about stack allocation of objects where safe (i.e. when you can prove they don't escape the loc
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On G1 you used to be able to use `-XX:+UseStringDeduplication`, which gives you back something like the string sharing used pre-whatever it was (8?).
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