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There's an "ACCESS DOCUMENT" link on the right of the page, which informs you that you can access it by visiting the Harald Herlin Learning Centre.

Which is a bit sad. My thesis is available online. Which might be sadder.

A thesis is more a proof that you can handle a particular type of research or investigation. I myself haven't touched the particular specialised field of my thesis since I submitted it.

It also doesn't mean that the Author particularly enjoys or finds the topic that interesting. I've often heard that if you have a favourite topic, you should at best find a thesis topic that is adjacent or related, and I'd tend to agree.

Things don't have to be real for them to hurt you.
Re:The most, and least, walkable cities on Friday July 26, 2024 @06:38AM (#41077493)
Auckland is a horrible car-ridden shithole.

You can't get from where people live, to where they work without a car and actually maintain a job.

Re:A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee on Friday July 26, 2024 @12:14AM (#41075719)
There is nothing saying that a product needs to pay for all the processes inherent in making that particular product.

There is value in having flat pricing across all your products. Especially if some of them aren't as popular, yet might driving purchasing decisions.

Consider cafes that need to stock decaf, but want to buy from a single supplier. If you don't have decaf you're not going to see their custom, despite their order largely being non-decaf.

So they'll want to supply decaf, but in order to encourage the sale of it (so they can reach a better economy of scale) keep the price the same as the equivalent non-decaf.

They needed to deal with degenerate data on the Web anyway. It's always been full of trash and spam.
People consider Sparrows pests?
I like to run from my problems too.
> an inflationary shock

There has been a recent marked increase in inflation. That is the inflation I refer to.

Learn to read maybe.

It's not greed that has varied. It was an inflationary shock. Greed explains why it hasn't gone back down once the shocks are gone. It's basically price collusion - nobody wants to be the first to decrease prices, so nobody does.

Before the inflation, there wasn't an opportunity to collude in this manner.

I don't know how to use those things, and I'll never learn. McD's are a public restroom to me.
Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 on Monday April 29, 2024 @06:30PM (#40204900)
I absolutely can. If it's not UTF-8, I assume it's worthless.
Yeah, those weirdos using AI to "compress" and "enhance" their videos with Cosine transforms. Get out of court!
Re:Banning Open Weight Models Would Be a Disaster on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:17AM (#39904072)
It's not a monopoly. It's America opting out of open research.
Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:08PM (#39415463)
Nah, I've seen more than one Aldi. Hence Aldis.
Seems like a very unreliable platform to me.
Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @04:12PM (#39388936)
I believe that's a limitation of using vectors of high dimensions. It'll be muddy.
Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:05AM (#39380227)
Actually it's 'Aldis', because we're talking about more than one.
The contents of books are also factual statements about their contents.
Re:An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021) on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @04:21PM (#39122803)
I didn't read your comment. I skimmed over it. I was expecting there to be ice cream... Disappointing.
Re:The math exams of my life on Sunday January 21, 2024 @04:43PM (#39083383)
If a school only accepts students capable of attaining high grades, in what sense is that school good? That's no proving the school teaches well, it's proof that they're trying to avoid having to teach.
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:53AM (#38950036)
Does this mean my phone will stop trying to interrupt and "assist" me despite disabling Google Assistant?
Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:56PM (#38945936)
No, we're going to ensure poverty. Climate is already fucked.
Re:Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:54PM (#38945906)
Marginal improvement? I'm not sure I can compete with that.
Re:Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:07AM (#38938938)
Nope. It was at it's highest in 2010.
Re:The teen mental illness epidemic is international on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @12:58AM (#38936749)
Continued growth is alarming on its own.
I've seen what comes out of their caselaw, I have zero respect for them.
Re:How Two Pharmacists Figured Out That Decongestants Don't Work on Thursday December 21, 2023 @04:48PM (#38727496)
Because if you're using a spray then you may as well use Xylometazoline.
yeah, just because they change things in their fanfic doesn't make it original.
Re:Nobody Knows What's Happening Online Anymore on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @07:30PM (#38703978)
Okay, let's go visit X to see how alive it is.

Oh, a login screen.

Yeah they're dead.

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