Viewing profile — efoto

"The biggest source of problems might be multi-threaded programs with concurrency-related bugs that have been masked by the GIL until now."

It would appropriate to quote one old saying, possibly originated in armed forces of a certain country: "do not rush to execute an order, it will likely be canceled"

I've lived in a couple of countries where bribes are a way of life. I'm happy it's not the case in CA. Still, does anyone here know of a country, where artificially limiting resour…

I'm surprised that OP didn't notice misspelled vocher prominently visible on multiple screenshots.

Very interesting indeed: "In fact, more small-particle pollution comes from the action of car brakes and tyres than from the exhaust fumes of current internal-combustion engines – …

Sounds like a misconfigured filter or a mistrained AI. Garbage in – garbage out.

I would not be this dismissive, considering the studies showing starkly different effects of acute vs chronic stress, for example [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles…

Not that fast. Unfortunately, "Why We Sleep" appears to be rather controversial. [1] https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ [2] https://www.wired.com/story/stop-obsessing-over-sleep…

"Studies have shown quality control of this supplement to often be low." [1] -- which one are you using? [1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements-dhea/art-203641...

Feeding the licence plate databases junk is a neat, but rather expensive idea. Here is link to the recent Defcon presentation: https://adversarialfashion.com/pages/defcon-27-crypto…

As it often happens, the paper is ignoring people with DSPD aka night owls. We almost never see sunrises, and I wish we had a permanent DST to have later sunsets and longer dayligh…

Bitcoin crypo (sic!) in the title is funny. Update: cool, the title is fixed, this comment downvoted.

In an unfortunate act of self-censorship, the video has been now removed from YouTube. Update: while the video linked by the article has been removed, here it is: https://youtu.be/…

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14295-delayed...

A nice one by Julius Comroe: “Serendipity is jumping into a haystack to search for a needle, and coming up with the farmer’s daughter.”

Not necessarily Google AI. But AI is already at pro poker level. https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-reveal-how-poker-p...

(ready to get down-voted) why would I want to opt out if somebody uses my anonymized DNA to try discovering a potentially life-saving drug?

I am over 55, software engineer from SF Bay Area. I was laid off in March and just accepted one of the offers. So, no, not leaving the tech at all.

TL;DR A dormant FB account gets highjacked, but the amateur thief forgets to change the email associated with the account. This allows the owner to deactivate the account. I doubt …

Not in the US, where majority of mortgages is 30 years fixed.

This is exactly the idea Robert Shriller suggests in his recent Narrative Economics lecture. https://youtu.be/b8l6wLSPnYY

1. Google engineers took the challenge personally and there is no evidence suggesting Prisma capabilities were regained. 2.I tend to agree in a sense that it is rather difficult to…

TL;DR imagining yourself dying every day, meditating on it, will change your brain in a way that will make you a better person. This technique is about one thousand years old.

Google search uses HTTPS and, unless you personally is a target and/or your devices are hacked, the content of your searches is not visible to anyone except Google. Your citizenshi…

The linked Intel page is a mess. It is titled "Linux* Processor Microcode Data File Version: 20180108 (Previously Released) Date: 1/8/2018" Below, however, you can see highlighted …