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Re:How the Heck does Shazam work? on Thursday April 23, 2026 @12:31PM (#47877768)
I find Youtube's watch history helpful, having that across everything I watched on my device would be even better.
Re:Llama 2 – Meta AI on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:38PM (#36778755)
But this is wrong in at least two ways:

> Additionally, if the hash contains duplicate keys, swapping the keys and values may not have the desired effect.

You can't have duplicate keys in a hash.

More importantly, their implementation adds the swapped pairs but does not remove the original k/v pairs, which is both incorrect and does not match the output it prints.

Re:My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards on Monday July 06, 2020 @04:46PM (#23752556)
There's a great episode of the podcast "Reply All" which digs into some of these questions: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk/
Re:Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:02AM (#19272282)
> How is that turning out for everyone?

Dramatically increased life expectancy, reduced childhood mortality, etc.

There are problems with the modern health system, but it does seem to produce much better outcomes than what came before.

Re:Apple introduces macOS Mojave on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:40PM (#17233289)
> It would be pretty hard to express the sentiment the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoji can, and even if you put the effort into writing it, you'd lose the immediacy.

"meh"

From the article:

> The 2017 call records tally remained far less than an estimated billions of records collected per day under the NSA’s old bulk surveillance system, which was exposed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.

You may be thinking of http://newsdiffs.org

Here's the page for the article in question: http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.nytimes.co...

Re:High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables on Monday December 04, 2017 @07:49PM (#15848926)
If you found this interesting, you might also like this classic Neal Stephenson piece for Wired, "Mother Earth, Motherboard": https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Re:Is Filecoin a $257 million Ponzi scheme? [pdf] on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:41PM (#15818296)
Re:Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures on Friday July 21, 2017 @04:19PM (#14823529)
To go further in this direction, check out Piet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#...
Re:Optimizing React Rendering on Thursday May 25, 2017 @01:20PM (#14418657)
You can partially apply the function where you know the parameter; i.e. assign onDelete to: this.handleDelete.bind(this, i)
Re:How much your computer can do in a second on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:44PM (#13962349)
68M per second == 68K per millisecond
Re:Research Debt on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:57PM (#13937103)
One of the greats; luckily a lot of it is available on Youtube: https://youtu.be/j3mhkYbznBk?list=PLLzGzdSNup63lMYeOpU9Hax6M...
Re:To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @08:12PM (#13816937)
Uber doesn't let you put in a destination as a driver.
Re:Why I don't believe in Uber's Success on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:57PM (#13440587)
From your first link:

> After turning a slight profit in the in the first quarter of this year, Uber lost $100 million in the U.S. in the second quarter. The loss increased in the third quarter, the person said.

That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of their U.S. business.

Re:How Antarctic bases went from wooden huts to sci-fi chic on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:14PM (#13394758)
Maciej has a great post about his visit to McMurdo: http://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People on Thursday December 22, 2016 @07:00PM (#13241627)
Don't the people who control military technology in our current time already have "practically unlimited power over everyone else"?
Re:Parkinson’s disease ‘may start in gut’ on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:46PM (#13093281)
See also liftware.com
Re:A Bed for Fifty People? on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:25PM (#12970503)
"Twin" is the smallest common bed size in the US and is typically used by one person.
> ended Newt Gingrich's career

Apparently not.

Re:Smartwatch sales are tanking on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:46PM (#12783192)
Yes, if you have an Android phone.
Re:Not OK, Google on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:32AM (#12644698)
What about an Android phone?
In terms of browser support: http://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl
Re:Hello from Orkut on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:33PM (#12235164)
Re:Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon on Monday July 25, 2016 @06:11PM (#12161998)
Here's the quote from the original source[0], it doesn't make it entirely clear but may add some context:

> Later at Stanford, Mayer found herself in a group setting that was less social, more comfortable, and more familiar for her. As an upperclassman in symbolic systems, she was tapped to teach a class.

> She took to it naturally.

> Computer science professor Eric Roberts, still Mayer’s mentor, supervised her teaching. He says she was “unusually good at it” and “extremely effective.”

> After Mayer taught a course in the spring, Roberts took a survey of her students. The results were astounding: They loved her — even if she did sometimes talk “a mile a minute.”

> Roberts asked Mayer to stick around Stanford to teach another class over the summer; she readily agreed.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130826113249/http://www.busine...

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