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So, German pun. Nice.

Checked exceptions give you, essentially, syntactic sugar for handling just a few kinds of exceptions and re-throwing the rest. It's useful when there are one or two error cases yo…

Same here! But for me it was "Title (year in Sumerian Ur dynasty calendar).type" The only format that stands the test of time, IMO

But is it advanced enough?

They didn't try very hard to train this system. It wasn't even a prototype. - In the excerpt, Scharre describes a week during which DARPA calibrated its robot’s human recognition a…

> Capturing in this game is a little bit goofy. Basically, if your piece overlaps the opponent's piece it is captured, and you cannot move past the first piece you overlap. > One i…

It makes sense if you substitute "recognizes" for "sees". Westinghouse (well, Cameco/Brookfield Renewable) recognizes what a disruptive tech this could be, whereas others have over…

Or through water?

The balloon would probably move toward the front when accelerating and toward the back when the bus slows, if it moved at all. It helps (me) to imagine an air bubble in a sealed, n…

Who, Gary? Yeah, go for it. No one will miss him.

Vector indices are the novel part of vector databases. Let's hear more about them. The rest is just BLOB CRUD.

Idempotent resource cleanup tasks are the ideal use case for k8s crons.

The article says kids make people (Europeans, anyway) happy except for the financial stress.

If presenting these viewpoints misrepresents the views of your employer, they're fully entitled to cancel you. Judy Woodruff couldn't drop the n-word in anger on national TV and ex…

Couldn't you just subscribe for one month for $9 and see what's ready now?

I got a similar sinking feeling just a few days ago right after booking a flight through Kayak. It was a too-good-to-be-true rate on a flight from Boston to Barcelona with a compan…

If you don't sweat playing it, it ain't a sport.

figuratively