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Comment #40105596
Off topic, but Douglas Self is also the author of several remarkably good audio electronics books. For example, http://www.douglas-self.com/ampins/books/ssad3.htm .
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Comment #40091711
I've used prosemirror enough to have written custom nodes, commands, and custom code around its collaboration model. I got good results with all of this and I don't know any other …
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Comment #39332557
> tends to score high in agreeability, >> Hard disagree. “Maximum confrontation and/or defiance” has never been a goal of good leaders
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Comment #38664992
> Pretraining a GPT 4-class model from raw data requires trillions of tokens and millions of dollars in compute, And millions of documents authored by people that weren't compensat…
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Comment #38398026
(2018)
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Comment #37999279
They hire an attorney with good relationships at USPTO.
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Comment #37986089
As a beginner gardener, I'm curious. How is this applied in practical terms? (eli5)
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Comment #37697757
> implementations in various languages Rosetta Code is a good resource for that. https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
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Comment #37181532
This is a pretty good description. "The primary distinguishing characteristic of systems programming when compared to application programming is that application programming aims t…
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Comment #37175947
This is what they're referencing with that comment. I don't know that there's a "Japanese" style of Ruby, as much as there is a style that looks and reads more like systems code. h…
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Comment #36673446
I started using Foam[0] a few years ago, but the more I used it, the more I dropped all the tedious bits, and it became nothing more than a big, evolving markdown repo. I switched …
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Comment #36379846
If you're using Chrome, there's Scroll To Text Fragment, and it works on any page regardless of its markup. https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 Doing this manually is…
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Comment #35927974
There's a lot more interesting detail in the wikipedia article, including a full description of the algorithm, and Perlin's own improvement of using simplex noise. https://en.wikip…
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Comment #35584319
All those domains can still be pointed at the same deployment. The only extra cost is registrar and DNS, which is not much. Usually the reason for this kind of setup is better SEO.…
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Comment #35307154
I'm confused. You're better with the C Diff infection?
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Comment #35202458
Your written English is good! Good blog too.
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Comment #34659588
Scalability doesn't matter until it does. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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Comment #34540274
Slack replaces in-person conversations, which have the same deficits, and many of the same benefits. It works best for remote and hybrid teams, where the in-person discussions aren…
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Comment #33700850
You can cellar your own wine. Lots of people do it, but cellar conditions matter and it's an expensive hobby. It's nice to not need to know five years in advance what you will feel…
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Comment #33700030
It looks like no one has said this yet. Many of the higher price/quality wines are expected to be cellared for a certain number of years after release. Opened too soon, they will h…
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