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Welcome to America where everyone suddently has ADHD that needs to be treated with drugs...
It's actually better for workers when layoffs are announced in advanced. They can prepare for it and not make an important financial decisions e.g.: buying house while waiting
Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient on Saturday July 23, 2022 @01:25PM (#32205436)
Well the bigger question is how can we detect if AI is sentient or not?
Re:HashiCorp Raises $175M at $5.1B Valuation on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:24AM (#22602561)
1$ per secret a month sounds extremely cheap considered on how much does it host to run vault
Zoom and enhance!
Re:All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:59PM (#15708811)
The real question is are they all runix minix(Intel ME)
Well this survey shouldn't be trusted. Why wasn't Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia and even Norway included?
Re:The death of reading is threatening the soul on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:43PM (#14851222)
Reading is not a proxy for thinking. When you read a book about something you can get information which took the author of the book 10 or even more times to write. You cannot simply mindlessly read the book without thinking therefore you learn when you read
ETH is a premined coin, that is also much more centralized that bitcoin
Ethereum as a currency will never go mainstream with a price swings like this
I feel that the biggest strength of CS50 is its wide scope of technologies used. Provides a real great introduction to the field of computer science
Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:23AM (#14603514)
Haven't thought that Andrej is such a big star in tech and deep learning communities. Which him all the best, his deep learning course was amazing
Re:Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:38PM (#14555424)
Other companies use private ethereum blockchains. The worst part is that Ethereum community called Ripple a scam coin because banks don't actually use it for transactions but they didn't care to realize that ethereum is the same
Well, companies are not religious cults. And ceos are way overrated in the US. I feel like Travis is way to egocentric and that's bad for company http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/its-time-end-cult-ceo/leade...
Re:CS Interview Topics to Study on Sunday June 11, 2017 @05:27AM (#14531326)
Thank god I live in EU. I applied for many positions in different countries. They usually just ask for experience with different technologies and projects. All the algorithm problems that I was given were just to test programming logic (no big O, trees, heaps, etc)
Every millionaire wants their personal blood boy :)
Re:Self-Interruption and Distraction on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @07:03PM (#14456626)
Damn I couldn't even read the article without: 1. Googling something that came to my mind 2. Going to reply to my friend on facebook (later completely forgot why I went to facebook and kept scrolling) 3. Checking Hacker News comments 4. Writing a comment
Expected a short article but got 1000+ pages pdf
Re:An Indian village addicted to chess on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:40PM (#14371340)
I play 30 minutes games and still don't have enough time to think my moves though. It's amazing for me how people can play blitz or bullet games
Re:Source: Apple to discontinue iPad mini on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @02:06PM (#14351831)
Why would eldery users prefer smaller size screens?
You really can't. I heard stories of people selling MacBooks, buyer requesting a refund and sends an empty box back and you can't do nothing about it
I recently bought MacBook on eBay and it arrived with bended lid that was not mentioned in the description. Messaged the seller hoping that he could at least offer $50 compensation for that. Will see how it goes.
are there any open source alternatives to Moom?
Re:Best Linux Distros for Gaming in 2017 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:55AM (#14202218)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is based on Debian gnu/linux
Re:Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser on Monday March 20, 2017 @02:40PM (#13916564)
Haha, I had assignement to built a recursive descent parser for a simple Ada-like language just 3 days ago. It was fun task, but if this guide was posted earlier, I could have used it.
http://imgur.com/a/Oyjqt Can't even launch the application
Re:Machine learning basics podcast on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:41PM (#13646949)
The podcast is pretty good.Podcast form is not the best form for learning the introduction to machine learning but I like that you include the resources for learning more in depth concepts
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/programming-is-the-new-blue-co... A lot of coding is just a boring job that has to be done. I never met anyone who is passionate about writing tests etc. but everyone knows that it has to be done
Tested using Linux mint: calculator, google and other things didn't work, the only thing that was working was application launcher
Re:Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:02AM (#12816543)
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