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Re:Google’s top search result is Google on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:27PM (#23983284)
the data that google shows from websites is provided by websites as structured markup, websites started providing this with the expectation that it would provide better ranking. Nowadays, however, google could probably just render the same thing thorugh nlp without any additional hints from the sourced pages
Re:The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design on Sunday July 05, 2020 @10:09PM (#23744019)
From a CSS perspective, shadows, opacity, round borders, and other transformations are very expensive, so flat design is also a matter of resources constraint, they might look fluid, because with time the rendering backend got GPU speed ups, but they would still consume more power/ run a device hotter; this is probably less relevant on native guis..
https://github.com/weld-project/weld this is in the same domain of vaex I suppose, the scope is much larger though
Re:Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020? on Friday July 03, 2020 @10:29PM (#23729526)
it would be more like different courses are best at teaching the same thing in a particular way that works best with a subset of people, so the top would be made of the set of courses that works with the majority of the population. The problem is that the way humans learn is not exactly understood, is it even a finite set? And what is its diatribution? Can it change through time/culture? Can it be identified in genetic traits? So if the learning methodology changes through time the best courses would also follow with it
some isps are even running their own streaming services!
Re:GitHub reinstates Popcorn Time code on Sunday May 24, 2020 @11:58PM (#23297632)
indeed thats probably also one of the most important reasons why they went on funding their own shows, and I don't think that there is another company that tries to bootstrap regional quality shows like netflix. As setting up your own streaming platform becomes easier most of the advantage netflix would provide is maybe just easier service offering outside of the main region of the network and less legal burden
Re:Pop OS 20.04 LTS on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:12AM (#23039518)
check out bedrock linux
Re:Understanding Duolingo’s quiet $10M raise on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:21PM (#23014960)
My experience with russian or swedish is that the comments give a lot more insight on many excercises and what it is they are trying to teach and the grammar part of things. If you just chug along without taking the time to browse around then very little remains with you. I am not sure this is a compliment to Duolingo though as I am mostly praising the usefulness if their users...
try tribes ascend, or savage 1
Re:A principled approach to system design and programming on Saturday March 21, 2020 @12:13AM (#22644380)
thats why usually the best approach is public owned and private leased..
Re:Engineered healthier sugar that tastes good on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @12:18AM (#22532694)
probably this is also why other natural sweeteners arent that widespread, since the problem is not the calories, but the actual sweetness
although there was an IP to bittorrent for that :(
Re:On Voice Coding on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:44PM (#22410756)
I use a powerball
Re:SEO case study: 8k to 200k monthly organic traffic on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:30PM (#22262994)
there is a minimum basket of SEO optimizations that are worth keeping track of and are 'natural', like proper site hierarchy, meta tagging, linking out to connected social accounts, the rest of the time is better spent on what the site is actually about.
its quite comparable to the web...as it got more widespread the density of likeminded people adjusted to the true average...this does not mean there are no more good places to talk and develop cc, just they are clouded by all the noise above board.
afaik some explain this with resentment for not having seen the signs of a good investment before time, considering all the wits that should float around here.
bitcoin electricity cost is the equivalent of a couple of small nations, or the full power of a nuclear power plant, its hashpower is equivalent to the top 500 supercomputers. (this info might be outdated by now). what secures it though is not the giant mountain of resources by itself but MAD (mutually assured destruction) which is hardly game theoretic. Its basically a way for people to park their money akin to real estate, so they wont ever attack the network as long as it keeps their money warm and fuzzy. Its not really decentralized (more like denationalized) and strongly vulnerable to regulations. However just like safe havens if a nation bans it others will welcome it, thats why it is unkillable. China despite having all the resources to crack down on bitcoin mining they wont do it because for the better or worse its like controlling a global currency, which they have been trying to turn the yuan into for a while
checkpoints == unrecoverable network partitioning risk
Re:Go's Tooling Is an Undervalued Technology on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:45PM (#22124645)
have you tried (ana)conda?
Re:Goodbye, Clean Code on Saturday January 11, 2020 @10:18PM (#22024236)
tragedy of the commons for code :)
Re:EA is permanently banning Linux players on Battlefield V on Friday January 03, 2020 @10:16PM (#21952621)
you can inspect it yourself, I assume the format is the demo record which has been available in source games since decades
Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:56PM (#21625342)
there is also gridcoin but they are not useful pow. they are proof of stake where the stake is the amount of contribution towards boinc projects and the likes, and they are affected by the oracle problem
Re:Emacs 25.2 released on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:13AM (#14245037)
the main need for threads is a non blocking ui...another example of a very extensible software with a ui that locks at any step because of how extensible it is, is kodi :p
Re:Tmux and Vim – better together on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:40PM (#14228627)
frame -> X window

buffer -> tab

window -> tile

Re:The Mac Pro Lives on Sunday April 09, 2017 @02:15AM (#14070772)
sc2 works on wine, even on gallium9 if you have an amd card, tried it personally.
It has the doom and gloom vibe all over it, always, you know something bad is gonna happen eventually.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @02:14AM (#13983848)
replying to save list, thanks
I think what you are looking for is the us international keyboard layout, which has support for altgr combinations
Re:The end of smartphone innovation on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:38AM (#13974582)
when I think about smartphone innovation I generally think about all the level of automation that could be done with for example tasker for android, if only smartphones could pull sensors data and substantially eliminate overheating, we could have a seamless experience with very little interaction needed, probably not even touch inputs. Smartphones today are sleeping most of the time, they are not dumb, but very much lazy. The benchmarks war has done a ton of harm...look! this device hits 200k on this benchmark, too bad battery dies after 3hours if you keep that up, btw you might also feel an uncomfortable heat in your hands...
Re:The end of smartphone innovation on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:28AM (#13974550)
there are smartphones with 10kmha, not sure what you mean for awkward file transfer, changing tracks depend on your pair of earphones and the app you use, a lot of apps allow controls through eg bluetooth earphones or simply the mic button on wired ones.

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