thealig

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by thealig 2y ago
think you're grossly misunderstanding what social safety net means - public spending is not the same thing as a safety net. the public healthcare system that countries like Gemrnay have is an example of a social safety net.
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by thealig 2y ago
That claim that news outlets in general are free to express their opinions without censorship is unfortunately, not really true in practise - most outlets may express opinions but might face sanctions, bans or other forms of censorship, dep
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by thealig 2y ago
THe way current empirical models in ML are evaluated and tested ( benchmark datasets) tell you very little to nothing about cognition and intelligence. Mainly because as you hinted , there doesn't seem to be a convincing and watertigh
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by thealig 2y ago
> all its ideas were absorbed into Stockfish don't think that is true, Stockfish incorporated NNUE techniques through a fork https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfishnnue-strongest-ches... being transparen
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by thealig 2y ago
events with historical significance are far more interesting than these kind of movie/popular references that don't mean much
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by thealig 2y ago
Well, in itself that doesn't mean much - irregularities and power struggles within indian political paries is routine. Plus given the track record of the law enforcement agencies to arrest/Crack down with an agenda, usually along
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by thealig 2y ago
sorry, what do you mean by "Consciousness regularly/usually claims to have omniscient knowledge of all that is, something which is not supported by physics."? i do not follow what you mean by consciousness claiming to know so
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War Clouds over the Indian Horizon?(rusi.org)
3 points by thealig 2y ago|0 comments
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by thealig 3y ago
I don't think personal and family issues are necessarily edge cases. Plus it also depends from where the person is and what the technology industry scene is like there. Nowadays jumping companies is easier and more acceptable (atleast
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by thealig 3y ago
it might be easier, but that doesn't mean all criticism should be ignored. In the spirit of cliched reductive "feel good" statements of this whole comment section, ignoring criticism is also easier than building something t
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by thealig 3y ago
This story is about his anti counterfeiting exploits though, which usually requires skills not necessarily related to intellect. he was dutiful and unforgiving which is why he had some level of success in it. Same reasoning applies to his i
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by thealig 3y ago
For that matter no one's respect really means much however you look at this particular excerpt, not sure what you trying to say with this line of argument
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by thealig 3y ago
FYI the title stated in the github readme itself is misleading and incomplete.. in the fine print clarifies that this is in polynomial time "in the size of the input text for a fixed number of backreferences in the pattern."
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by thealig 3y ago
Yikes, didn't they discuss this in their daily standup? Maybe open a task in Jira to handle high cliffs on Mars? (/s)
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by thealig 3y ago
Tangential question: is there a way to participate in the demoscene,as a beginner or in serious competitions? Looks like the popular meetings happen in Europe, and looks like are in person
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by thealig 3y ago
What does banking mean here? Managing bank accounts online in your browser
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How to do distributed locking (2016)(martin.kleppmann.com)
103 points by thealig 3y ago|18 comments
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by thealig 3y ago
Finding out what you don't know to start learning is also a part of learning, and it is a bit difficult to trust LLMs like ChatGPT when it had a tendency to spout correct sounding answers that are incorrect, inaccurate etc. Search eng
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by thealig 4y ago
have you tried firefox sync? recently gave it a try and on android it works seamlessly. Cross browser integration is an extra step though.
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C++ Rvalue References Explained (2013)(thbecker.net)
2 points by thealig 4y ago|0 comments
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by thealig 4y ago
Bit late but ill try - perfect hashing is a variant where the set of keys is known( say N) and the hash table size is set large enough (N^2) such that the no of collision is 0 in a nutshell (expected no of collisions to be precise which is
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by thealig 4y ago
interesting writeup, and detailed examples. i was wondering about the use case, from what little i've read, assemblyscript is an alternative for devs who want to stick to typescript style language with some fine grained control for lo
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by thealig 4y ago
not really what i was trying to say, read the other reply in the thread. the political affiliations are not quite relevant (to some degree) as far as working and relationship between government and state apparatus and journalistic outlets
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by thealig 4y ago
Think you're missing the point, its about a healthy environment where having multiple viewpoints (including criticism of the government regardless of ruling political coalition) are expressed through journalism and other media which i
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by thealig 4y ago
The "majority" of Indians watch and read from a small set of media outlets, most of them biased pro-government news media which feed only news showing the Indian government and authorities in a positive light while completely lea
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by thealig 4y ago
pop music in general is somewhat popular specially in the bigger cities in India. never heard country music playing anywhere though, dont think its that popular as you claim. local music (bollywood number, south indian film industry etc) is
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Why Google Will Never Have Competition (2021)(gigablast.com)
2 points by thealig 4y ago|0 comments
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by thealig 4y ago
ok, i'm curious, could you elaborate on what literary sources/narratives are you referring to? are those one the lines of "Gun, germs and steel" for example(criticised for floating inaccurate narratives)?
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by thealig 4y ago
being on the top 30 annual revenue list does not necessarily tell you anything about productivity or presence culture of the companies in question. it could also entail those companies having more customers and better marketing budget, whi
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by thealig 4y ago
FranklinMailot's comment is good advice I think. Getting professional help would be best here. I also face similar symptoms like how you describe - persistent procrastination with tasks (initiation, or even continuing from where you l

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