walrus

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by walrus 2y ago
Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but is this the "extend" step in "embrace, extend, extinguish"?
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by walrus 3y ago
This was my first thought as well. It is linked to from a .gov website, though: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/notices/facebook-privacy-settl...
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by walrus 3y ago
It's fine as long as bike paths are physically separated from cars and are maintained to the same standard as roads. My college had a network of pedestrian/bike paths that they plowed in the winter, and I and many others had no pr
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by walrus 4y ago
Here's Seattle's network of protected bike lanes: < https://i.imgur.com/vEDhqoz.png >. Note that many of them are flawed in one or more ways: * There are frequent car crossings at blind alleys and driveways, o
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by walrus 4y ago
The "trekking bike" and "safety" profiles seem to work pretty well. The safety profile produces routes I would take any time of day and the trekking bike profile produces routes I would take outside of peak road rage hou
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by walrus 4y ago
> WTF is a bike doing in the middle of the road? I used to ride as far to the right as possible on roads without bike lanes, but then I got hit by a driver trying to squeeze past me without changing lanes.
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by walrus 4y ago
What are some limitations of OpenCASCADE that are holding back CAD tools built on it?
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by walrus 5y ago
It appears to use C3D as its CAD kernel, which is proprietary. You can't build it without a copy of C3D. I'm guessing the source will be available for inspection, but the binary will cost money.
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by walrus 5y ago
In about:config, change browser.privatebrowsing.vpnpromourl to an empty string.
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by walrus 5y ago
F#
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by walrus 5y ago
The trackballs are listed as "completely open-source" on their website, but the mouse is listed as "open-source firmware". This is consistent with what's available on their GitHub page—the Altium and STEP files for
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by walrus 5y ago
A journal can publish a retraction. The website Retraction Watch[1] aggregates these retractions and provides a database that you can query. Reference management software like Zotero[2] can use this to monitor your collection of papers and
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by walrus 6y ago
It depends what I'm doing, but I typically use one of the following (starting with the most frequent): 1. IPython with Pandas if I expect to do any in-depth exploration/manipulation of the data. 2. A short Python script like `pyth
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by walrus 6y ago
> Money laundering is the process of making illegally-gained proceeds (i.e. "dirty money") appear legal (i.e. "clean"). Someone should let FinCEN know that their definition is incorrect: https://www.fincen.
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by walrus 6y ago
I'm just speculating (and haven't read the paper yet), but it may be possible to achieve similar speedups on GPUs by pruning the smallest 20% of blocks of size ≥K×K to produce block-sparse weights[0], rather than pruning the small
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by walrus 6y ago
The following instructions are for Linux or macOS. It may work on Windows too, but I'm not very experienced with Windows. No special hardware is required (you can run it on a CPU; no GPU needed). Install pyenv[0] and pyenv-virtualenv[1
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by walrus 8y ago
My experience corroborates this. I worked at two small ISPs, each with a fiber network spanning a few US states. They had their own databases to track this information, but as far as I know there was no central database. One of them used OS
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by walrus 8y ago
Yeah right. They'll find a way to sell it while claiming they don't share it.
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by walrus 8y ago
It's not the case that malloc always works under Linux. It may return NULL if the memory is not available. Try it out! Write a program that allocates half your memory, fills it with 0xFF, then sleeps. Run two instances of it. The mal
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by walrus 9y ago
I had the same issue. I disabled them in xmodmap for several years, then eventually decided I was never going to use them and cut out the rubber dome. Here's what it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/Bm6KtIN.jpg
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Clever ideas that failed (2010)(yacoset.com)
159 points by walrus 9y ago|24 comments
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by walrus 9y ago
zfec is an implementation of Reed-Solomon coding, the class of codes discussed in the first part of the slides.
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by walrus 9y ago
They are being recorded and posted to YouTube as unlisted videos. You can find links to some of them on Twitter[1] and ResearchGate[2]. It looks like highlights of the lectures are being posted to Twitter and the full lectures are being pos
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by walrus 9y ago
What is 'LexisNexis style querying'?
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by walrus 9y ago
Can you give a sketch of how you would like these examples to look? Any language is fine; you can pretend that libraries for GPGPU, backprop, and gradient-based optimization already exist. I tried to do so myself and couldn't come up w
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by walrus 9y ago
> There’s no way I’d deploy it to production. I've seen this stated by a few people, but never justified. What are some reasons for not deploying PyTorch in production?
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by walrus 9y ago
No copyright infringement. They share a common ancestor: http://www.zorinaq.com/papers/md5-amd64.html
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by walrus 9y ago
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about. Here's roughly how it works, if I understand correctly. First, a normal male endocrine system looks roughly like this: 1. The hypothalamus produces GnRH. 2. In response to s
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by walrus 9y ago
Was ZFS determined to be the problem in the root cause analysis, or was it another part of the storage system that failed? It's easy to pass the blame down to the lowest level of the system because no one wants to take the blame. If it
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by walrus 9y ago
The core complaint is the lack of typeclasses. If your coding style relies heavily on generics, maybe Elm isn't for you.

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