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Much of theoretical computer science is math, like much of modern theoretical physics is also math. “Computational science” brings up images of computational complexity theory, com…

I was thinking we could run what is being said in a call from an unknown number through a scam detector. The detector, upon noticing an established fingerprint of scam activity, wo…

My impression (I work at Google) is that internal interfaces to some of these services have a lot of Google-specific stuff that are hard to map to non-Google requirements.

You also have to see how easy these will be to use, with a dedicated app and all, compared to hiding a camera. In practice, if I spot a hidden cam on someone interacting with me in…

I gave up on it after the free trial. The search extremely shitty for anything except popular Western music, and oh the recommendations! You like some Shiv Kumar Sharma? How about …

Yeah, more like 20 (19 CHF/h). Switzerland is expensive, and Starbucks ensures that their prices reflect that -- "caramel frappuccino" is 8.90 CHF for the big bucket of a cup they …

Yes I confirmed, this was what happened. The shitty part is that there was no obligation for this person to declare, they did it to be transparent, and their contract was never ren…

> A spokesperson for Starbucks said in an email in response to the union organizing drive: “While Starbucks respects the free choice of our partners, we firmly believe that our wor…

Why flag the account and report it if the only goal is to politely prevent people from uploading? Like you say, a “code change can do anything” and we simply don’t know how the cur…

I grew up and studied in Kolkata, and have lived elsewhere in India, but I haven’t quite seen anything like the daily adda outside of West Bengal. The article is spot on with most …

मुफ़्त (muft) means free of cost, मुक्त (mukt) is free as in freedom. मुफ़्त नहीं। मुक्त (muft nehi, mukt) reads like "not free (of charge), but free as in freedom."

I was replying to the comment above -- Go or Rust did not simply rename exception related keywords, they have a completely different approach. I don't know of any language that doe…

Panic/recover isn't used nearly as much for error handling in Go as in Java. An online resource being unreachable does not cause the net package functions to panic.

Git+your OS make it easy to acquire this software, Your browser and OS collude together to make it easy to run it, The elecric supply to your house makes it easy to run the compute…

Sorry, I cannot exhaustively list all possible issues with the country's politicians everytime I have something to say about the current government that is supposed to be accountab…

Why does speaking up about the Indian government inevitably bring up questions like this? Ambani's relationship with this government bothers me a lot (among many other things about…

I used to work at a Perl shop. The language makes it so easy to use regexes that you risk abusing them, but nevertheless that exposure has helped me become quite proficient with re…

Yes, I think this is what they'd argue too. But something to think about: Recently Google was asked (in France[1]) to start paying publishers for including news snippets in search …

See the talk "Hammock driven development" by Rich Hickey on the topic: https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

That seems pretty patronizing of that "crowd". Is the topic of this thread (the top-level, not the topic of audio latency) something that matters to that crowd you represent?

Internet access was cut off recently also in the states of UP and Karnataka, where terror attacks are totally not the norm. It was done in response to protests against the CAA. Edi…

I see, I guess then that's where we disagree. It is very confusing for people from my limited experience, for little gain. Plus you make it harder to do things like put these token…

I kind of understand what you describe, but I still don't understand why the type needs to be private. You can return opaque objects of a public type just as well for this job, can…