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I’m not deferring to WaPo, but rather two academics at the London School of Economics. Their paper is linked in the WaPo article. I don’t believe either is affiliated with the US g…

I guess her answer stands either way, but the idea that sanctions killed half a million children is Hussein’s phony propaganda, and subsequent research has shown no increase in chi…

One important note for residents of California and New Jersey: if you live in one of these states you must pay state tax on HSA contributions and gains, the same as if it were a re…

Easy. If you want a real challenge, find me a hetero couple where the woman’s voice is deeper.

It is well past time for government to step in and get these dangerous cars off the road.

Ah, great. Thank you

Question, hopefully not too off topic: if I subscribe, can I get the weekly edition emailed to me like a newsletter? Or at least a notification when it’s posted? I want to subscrib…

I love FreeBSD but to me it doesn’t sound like a great fit for OP. It sounds like OP wants something that will work out of the box, and in my experience FreeBSD on the desktop is h…

Agreed. It sounds like OP would like Linux Mint. - Multimedia works out of the box. - No snap. - Since it’s based on Ubuntu, any problems are easily googleable.

> I honestly think it is a little stupid not to do any monetization. This may be a popular sentiment on hacker news but thankfully it is an unpopular view among the best programmer…

There are “free for non-commercial use” licenses, but that is inherently a non-free license. If you restrict what someone can do with the software, it’s not free as in speech.

The best source I know of for learning to invest is The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing. It doesn’t just tell you what to invest in, it explains the why.

Rather than trying to find some get rich quick scheme, I really recommend you find work you enjoy that pays money and prepare to work for another 10-20 years. Invest wisely and avo…

Lots are recommending CLRS, but IMO it is way too dry and dense for a first course. I taught myself algorithms with the Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena, and I strongly recommend …

Unfortunately the overintellectualized gibberish here is your comment. You have completely missed the point of the post

What does “serve 5TB” refer to? They expect 5TB of network bandwidth over some time period (a month?)? Or their database takes up 5TB on disk?

Normally I’d agree, but in this case the meaning of the acronym tells you nothing (it stands for Berkeley Packet Filter. Make sense?) and BPF is easily googleable. Also, it’s safe …

In engineering school (in the US), we used pounds mass (lbm) as the unit of mass, and pounds force (lbf) as the unit of force.

It sounds like you’re trying to determine if your tiredness is an inevitable side effect of a productive day, if unproductive days are just random, or if your variation in producti…

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It’s on the far bleeding edge as far as languages go, so I doubt any businesses use it. The largest practical ATS program I know of is polyglot: https://github.com/vmchale/polyglot…

I remember learning about locality sensitive hashing in school a decade ago, but since then I’ve never seen it used in an ML system in industry. Does anyone actually use this techn…

I haven’t used it myself, but I believe Simple Emacs Spreadsheets lets you write formulas in emacs lisp. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ses/inde...