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Re:Commit messages guide on Saturday April 20, 2019 @02:33AM (#19705130)
I don't think the grammatical structure of the sentence matters too much, the important part is "explain the commit in one line".
Re:Commit messages guide on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:24PM (#19704657)
The repository does not follow its own guidelines.

Also, there's a lot of unnecessary stuff in there. Capitalization and imperative? Not at the top of my list.

The relevant points are nicely summarized by Linus Torvalds: https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk/blob/a48494d...

Re:Australia’s beloved kangaroos are now controversial pests on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:56AM (#18975995)
Perhaps it's also a language thing?

In my native language, Kangaroos are closely associated with Australia, but New Zealanders are never called Kiwis.

Re:Bessel Beam on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @06:47AM (#17857785)
> What does "unbounded" mean in this context?

The radial intensity distribution of a Bessel beam is described by Bessel functions, which are not square integrable (integral is not finite), see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Be....

Realizing a true Bessel beam would thus require infinite power.

A true Bessel beam is created by interfering (in 2D) two plane waves, see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Be.... You can see in the image that the "Bessel beam" area is bounded, it is the conical shape where the beams overlap.

> What is an example of a "bounded" beam?

A "standard" Gaussian laser beam, see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/La...

Re:Amazon Aurora Serverless on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:11PM (#17730185)
Assuming this hasn't changed since the preview started:

> The cool down period for scale-down is 15 minutes since the last scaling operation. The cool down period for scale-up is 5 minutes since the last scaling operation.

The author of this story clearly does not know what "reverse engineer" means.

This is reverse engineering AI companies: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943

To be fair the notice does tell you how to prohibit/deactivate this "feature".