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another interesting fact: if you have to compute the fib of very large numbers mod n. you can use the fact that the fibonnaci numbers would repeat.( see: https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

is there something special about 2020 (regarding leap years)? the rule I know is divisible by 4 && ( not divisible by 100 || divisible by 400) so 2020 is not even an edge case.

for example Café M’Rabet – Tunis was created in 1630 and it is still operational till now. But it was not registered as a company at the time.

"Oracle now says this was an accident. According to a spokesperson, the site was temporarily flagged by anti-virus software but was whitelisted once the issue was noticed." stuff l…

I think it's just that writing is seen as the primary mean of communication. if something goes bad at work, someone (orally) always makes a joke to defuse the situation. This is th…

to clarify I'm asking about the meaning of dwm. The only term that I'm familiar with, and that shows up in google is Desktop Window Manager.

if the best candidate you interviewed is a fraud: - either the candidate was competent: then why did he need to lie to get the job? maybe you're over-filtering based on resume and …

the dwm? "Desktop Window Manager"?

- why are we providing the names and addresses as input to the neural network? they should be annonymized? humans may also act on the same information. The fact that you are less l…

I thought the whole point of backward compatible versions, is that you don't discuss, you just move.

while the disgust is warranted, I can't help but feel that you've created a toxic culture there. for example, the Keyboard scene, being horrified because someone touched your keybo…

"not offending others by asking sensitive questions/Avoiding awkward" is the polite thing to do. But a core part of being polite, is not hruting others through your actions directl…

Why should the system have access to the candidates' name? You've been denied parol because someone with a name similar to you skipped bail is unfair regardless of race. You've bee…

I'm not familiar with it, do you mean this one? https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ Rust, C, and Go appear to be on the top.

The thing I hate about java the most is: -that generics don't play well with primitives and arrays? I understand that jep218 aims to fix the first one. But it's been quite a few ye…

> It's simple, it's super fast to what baseline are you comparing it to?

I heard the same story when I was a kid but the general that did it was "Tariq ibn ziyad" in Gibraltar (the mountain is named after him). But I can't for the life of me find a enlg…

to be honest, I don't know much about probability. but my intuition says that if you pick all variables from the same distribution, this should still hold. At first, we don't know …

>Why do you believe that it’s more likely for several factors to have roughly equal importance than for one factor to be the most important? if you pick n numbers at random, it's n…

I'm asking why use java? it's not easy. it's not fast to run. it's not fast to write. it's not fast to read. it's not memory efficient. it's not fun (yeah, subjective but I'm yet t…

I don't understand why java wins? despite: - the mess with ".equals()" and "==". - arrays don't accepts generics. - no (non-verbose) partial application - awfully verbose syntax th…

- If I talk to someone about a problem and he gives me a suggestion. I know that he is trying to help. getting mad at him is unfair because he means well. In fact what's natural is…

Einstein, without a doubt? and it's not because Einstein was a brilliant physicits. Intelligence refers to how well you can reason abstractly, not to how successful, how competent,…

Israel is an apartheid state founded on ethnonationalism from day 1. I don't think it's a great example to follow. the parent's assumption is "if you have any empathy for X people"…