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by sqrt17 5y ago
Hetzner provides exactly that: a VPS. They're also cheaper than DigitalOcean, I assume, because EU web hosting is way more competitive and US VPS offerings have traditionally been way overpriced. Let's also be realistic here: Clou
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by sqrt17 5y ago
The difference being that BTC has no utility that people depend on. They can refuse to buy the BTC from the now-GenZer or even the Winklevoss twins if they'd rather have food or shelter or a chanel bag rather than BTC. The real world p
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by sqrt17 5y ago
At our (fairly large) company, you can query by team (and maybe job role) but it will hide responses where the sample size is smaller than a set number (I think 8 or 10). So yes it can be done but people have to actually care about it. The
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by sqrt17 5y ago
It takes substantial effort to build a good dataset, proportionally more if it gets bigger, and people like big datasets because you can train more powerful models from them. So I am not surprised that people tend to gravitate towards datas
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by sqrt17 5y ago
Probably i don't watch any of the YouTubers you're watching either - the long tail is exactly why people watch YouTube (and maybe a handful of 10k-1M subscriber channels) rather than, or in addition to, TV programme and streamable
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by sqrt17 5y ago
Some of the more well-known YouTube creators are also on - Curiosity Stream/Nebula (Adam Neely, Mary Spender, Ali Abdaal, Thomas Frank, Super Bunnyhop) - LBRY/odysee (DistroTube) - FloatPlane (Linus Tech Tips) None of these has a
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by sqrt17 5y ago
False dichotomy. What you call "not studying" would vary between effectively dropping out (for the people who are only at uni to get drunk and end up with a degree at the end), gaining a more thorough holistic understand of the ma
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by sqrt17 5y ago
Daimler (Mercedes) is quite close, and they complained loudly when Boris Palmer decided to drive a Prius rather than a Daimler car when he became mayor of Tübingen. So yes, the auto lobby is quite powerful but the extent to which they can i
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by sqrt17 5y ago
Skimming code is a legitimate task. At a large/FAANG company you will often have a 400k sloc code base and only a vague idea which bits of code you need to study more intensively to find out what you need.
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by sqrt17 5y ago
> The more I work with parsing, parser combinators and writing grammars for little languages, the less often I find myself using or wanting to use any regex at all. Surprise: The most common parser combinator libraries do backtracking. T
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by sqrt17 5y ago
> to turn one of those kids into someone worthwhile The basic insight here is: kids with learning disabilities, or who have a home environment not conducive to learning, are worthwhile people. And school as the institution taking care of
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by sqrt17 5y ago
So, delegating both responsibility and power to people with an agenda (because those are the only ones to step up when they get formal power, in addition to or rather than just informal responsibility), rather than adopting practices of de-
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by sqrt17 5y ago
I was assuming someone had an attack on the Alpaca altcoin. So if you throw in a random word, it could be either or all of a garage rock band, an indie game, an altcoin, or a software vulnerability. And probably there are three or four acad
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by sqrt17 5y ago
Most likely they wouldn't stay at home but either would start their own small business (which would be more competitive now since people with employees have to pay them a livable wage) or, if they can be supported by their partner and
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by sqrt17 5y ago
Agree that it's exciting to see, but what's the actual potential? Flutter developing into a latter-day Macromedia Flash?
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by sqrt17 5y ago
Ok, I've lived in Schwaben but only ever visited Bavaria, and never ate Pretzels in the US. So Bavarian Brezeln are not completely hard and dry but they're definitely less squishy and soft than Swabian ones.
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by sqrt17 5y ago
If you have a Masterclass subscription, they have a course on making sourdough bread (from the owner of a Parisian bread shop that has been making sourdough bread for some >100 years). Or Joshua Weissman has you covered https:/&#x2
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by sqrt17 5y ago
One subtle difference/fact: Brezeln are different between Bavaria (southeast) and Schwaben (southwest) - soft Brezeln are common in Schwaben, whereas Bavaria mostly has the salty hard stuff that was the parent of the salty hard stuff y
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by sqrt17 5y ago
there's no operator precedence if you don't have (multiple) operators that could precede each other. In LISP-like languages these are simply functions (or more correctly, forms) which have other expressions as arguments, like any
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by sqrt17 6y ago
A wallet is two things: - a private key or set of private keys which are used to sign transactions - hardware wallets store this inside the "hardware wallet" thing - a program that interacts with the Bitcoin/Ethereum network,
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by sqrt17 6y ago
err ... it's kind of what you'd get from Textkernel or LinkedIn Recruiter, probably at a similar price. But with nicer fonts, so ok.
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by sqrt17 6y ago
does gold qualify as a ponzi scheme? Tesla stock? Google stock? 2000s dotcom stocks? There is a difference between overbought assets and scams, and it usually goes along the line of, the easier it is for a small group of people to walk away
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by sqrt17 6y ago
Google did an auction: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/08/19/es-took-off-but-the-auction-... For many pricing problems, auctions are the answer. Doing a roadshow and tickling investor's interest is a separate
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by sqrt17 6y ago
It highly depends on the corpus and you can check for yourself. I'm being lazy, but the results for Gutenberg books you can check online at http://labs.statsbiblioteket.dk/dsc/ - man is to woman as doctor is to r
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by sqrt17 6y ago
How about: US citizens saved $34B by not having to stay in the highest COL areas? Why should we sympathize with a minority of rent-seekers?
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by sqrt17 6y ago
There's a difference between selling flowers in a shop and randomly going around and pointing your gun at people holding flowers and asking them to pay up. The alternative to buying flowers is just spending your money on other things,
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by sqrt17 6y ago
> and they built it all on the back of open source. That is exactly the point of permissive open source licenses. Freelancers and commercial companies can build stuff on top of it that makes them money and brings real benefits to payin
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by sqrt17 6y ago
In late 90s/early 2000s the mainstream thought around numerical optimization was that it was easy-ish when it was a linear problem, and if you had to rely on nonlinear optimization you were basically lost. People did EM (an earlier sub
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by sqrt17 6y ago
What pain points would it have saved to write the scientific paper in org-mode? Usually there's a dozen dirty little corners where you want fine-grained control and the org-mode-to-latex converter isn't giving you that by default.
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by sqrt17 6y ago
porn already works within a well-defined legal framework. There are model releases, people getting paid etc. So if a reputable porn company interacts with their models and their consumers, everything is well. However, there are still non-le

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