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So, mathematics, for instance.....you'd start with differential equations and work your way down to......addition/subtraction?
This is friggin' amazing. What I would have given for something like this 10-20 years ago. Great job!
Re:The Problem with Git Flow on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:09AM (#23628724)
I think what he's saying is from a production standpoint, the new feature is feature-flagged, and that feature flag has the feature disabled. From a test environment standpoint, you can then enable that feature flag/combination of feature flags, test until your heart is content, and only enable in prod if things go pear-shaped. And if they do, well...it can be as simple as turning that feature flag back to disabled, unless state changes prevent that.
Re:A one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @09:34PM (#23484351)
> Trans women are women

Trans women are women from a gender perspective, and not from a biological perspective. Unfortunately, the biological perspective is what the separations of men's and women's sports a thing, because of inherent biological sexual differences (primarily testosterone). I mean, if they want to get around the issue, then let's go all in - disband men's/women's sports and just have sports. Then anyone can play with anyone. That's never going to happen though, for political, cultural, and safety reasons, so we're stuck with a situation where gender is bumping up against biological sex hard.

Re:Rovio lays off 110 people as Angry Birds hype fades on Friday December 05, 2014 @10:17AM (#8704896)
"dumb and flat"? Maybe it's just the fact that I have a 5 year old and a 3 year old, so I've become somewhat of a connoisseur of animated shorts, but I've actually been fairly amazed with the quality of most of the animated shorts. With no real dialogue to speak of, there is an awful lot of humor packed into these, and the voice acting combined with the animation in some of the shorts is pretty damn impressive, often conveying a surprising amount of emotion and expressiveness that I would not have expected.

I'll give you dumb possibly, but flat? Watch a good number of them again and see if you still say that.