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> When this solver backjumps, it forgets the failure as soon as it lands, so if the same dead end comes up in a different part of the search it gets rediscovered from scratch. Mode…

Location: Canada Remote: Preferred (could do ~2 days/week on-site) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Various optimization tools (CPLEX, Gurobi, OR-Tools, etc), Python, C++, som…

I do feel like we as a society are moving in the direction discussed by the article, as a general trend. But this is not my personal experience. We live in typical suburbs, and we …

Kind of: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/7966/what-are-ta...

Location: Canada Remote: Preferred (could do ~2 days/week on-site) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Various optimization tools (CPLEX, Gurobi, OR-Tools, etc), Python, C++, som…

Location: Canada (Montreal) Remote: Preferred (could do ~2 days/week on-site) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Various optimization tools (CPLEX, Gurobi, OR-Tools, etc), Pytho…

You can force a Proton version in the game settings. "Proton Experimental" almost always fixes any issue you may have.

A common issue with most package managers is that if you have A installed, and then you install B which depends on C, and that C happens to also be an optional dependency of A, the…

> And that's the real problem for the nay-sayers. They know that they don't have to live forever if they don't want to. They just don't want other people to live forever. They want…

I have found that duplicated tabs can be useful e.g. for pages where footnotes are not hyperlinked in the text. When this happens I open a duplicate tab and scroll to the bottom of…

I remember this from a taxi ride in the early 2000s. Even then they were pretty rare.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_programming

SEEKING WORK | Canada | Remote | Operations Research I'm Phil and I have a PhD in computer engineering, specializing in operations research (mathematical optimization, constraint p…

Are you talking about the patterns found in the linked website of the parent comment? Because there clear patterns there.

I switched from Arch to NixOS and I know many others who did too. For users inclined to use a distro such as Arch, NixOS feels like the natural next step.

Kind of, in the sense that you need to make a decision about something mid-way when there is still some unknown information ahead of you.

These are probably the only exceptions.

> This is why we have a justice system, so that there is one place where you can say "that is wrong" and "that is right". In most (all?) Western countries, cheating on your spouse …

SEEKING WORK | Canada | Remote | Operations Research I'm Phil and I have a PhD in computer engineering, specializing in operations research (mathematical optimization, constraint p…

> would just be a very heavy bike for the rest of the stage Bikes in the Tour de France have a minimum weight of 6.8kg imposed by the UCI. So if you manage to build a normal bike t…

`org-mode` used with Emacs is the tinkerer's dream playgound. Apart from the basic markdown stuff, there are so many wild things you can do. For example, org code blocks are not ju…

When my wife was pregnant and had to stop working, she got bored so I got her this game. At first she said she didn't like it "because the graphics suck". A couple days later she w…