Same experience here. But I think the key argument for local is about being able to leverage "non castrated" models. But maybe this is not relevant at all for standard coding tasks.
Yes, strings appear like an afterthought, and sadly the Octave version has slight incompatibilities which may be a PITA for any non trivial script which aims to be compatible.
For my thesis I did something similar: bash scripts to extract raw data from a Subversion repository, to be preprocessed with PHP scripts (now I would prefer Python but had more experience with PHP) for text extraction and csv output, and finally Octave did the math magic, generating tables and saving graphics in png format, ready for import into my Lyx document.
In my experience, it is from technical management in medium/big companies you'll listen some good things about Oracle as a database product (regardless of its actual merits), like stability, scalability, compliance checks, and other "enterprisy" features (like database encryption). Also, it is offered as a default database option for many enterprise applications from their vendors.
While many people points to Postgresql as "the alternative", in many places outside USA its commercial support is not available, or too limited.
Other commercial alternatives (like MSSQL) have the (more or less) the same bad reputation regarding licensing costs.
Of course almost all startups expect a long live, but strategically it may be better (for the founders) to close when the fundamental assumptions are no longer valid, in order to do a future clean restart in a brand new endeavor (usually after a detox period).
Hope some day Muslims (in all Arab countries) just accept the right of Israel to exist. Else, this attack/retaliation dynamic will continue for ever, with people taking sides from a blob of propaganda channels disguised in news platforms.
At least on TV I occasionally catch randomly interesting ads... sometimes. On YT, I'm stuck with the same obnoxious commercial from a company whose service I strongly dislike, playing on loop ever since they associated me to some related product category. They think pestering me with more interruptions will win me over, but their analytics are working in reverse. I can't understand why they're so clueless.
Applets died because of many reasons, like absurd startup time for the JRE (often just for silly animations), absurd memory requirements (for the time) and associated crashes, weird compatibility issues in the initial releases of the Java platform, a silly security model based on the assumption that only good actors will be able to get a CA certificate in order to do whatever they want in your PC, an immature sandboxing technology in browsers (not only IE), etc.
> What's I find more interesting, is methods that have worked for someone for years.
From 2020 I use a three column worksheet (Libreoffice in Debian): one row per day. One thin column for the date, the second for pending tasks, the third for the "done" ones. Theoretically I just copy-paste between the "pendings" to the "done", but I also add notes as the day progress, so it is also a kind of personal diary. At the end of the day tasks not achieved get moved to some rows below, and new ones are added as needed.
The spreadsheet is configured to start automatically on session login, so I can't forget to see my daily assignment.
Not perfect, but (mostly) works for me.
Right, epiphenols. And despite some BPA-free options there are many alerts about the risks of the replacements.
Maybe is time for a cool old style matrix receipt printer using regular paper?
Hibernate... a real PITA every time the application needed something beyond basic single-table CRUD queries; sadly for me it happened 99% of the times.
After some months of torture, plain JDBC with their stupid checked exceptions was refreshing, even without wrappers.
Writing from a country with dysfunctional judiciary, I think this is a logical way to overcome crime, at least temporarily. There isn't a "hygienic" alternative when judges are continuously bribed or blackmailed by gang members.
The #38 is controversial as noted. To me it represents the branching of Unix flavors, mostly derived from the AT&T and BSD versions (represented by the glasses.)
> to distribute applications in the form of what are essentially tarballs of entire Linux systems.
No so bad when Linux ran from a floppy with 2Mb of RAM. Sadly every library just got bigger and bigger without any practical way to generate a lighter application specific version.
True, but code from those utilities may eventually be used in the network (for example, through copied functionality and shared libraries). Also, a creative pipeline may actually involve them (think of the Unix philosophy.)
Eventually plain C has to die or be relegated to unavoidable places like in the assembly cases, even if Rust is not the best alternative after all.
Beginner here. A takeaway I got from the Andrew Ng's Coursera course (specifically for neural networks) is that adding more neurons and layers than the "minimum needed" is usually okay (that is, no risk of overfitting when considering reasonable regularization terms.) Sadly, there is no rule for that minimum, so you must do trial and error; on the other side, carelessly extending the network will be inefficient and eventually slow.
For the activation functions, the output layer's is mostly determined by the problem being tackled, and for the inner layers you usually start with ReLU and then try some of the common variants using some heuristics (again related to the current problem.)
Of course you should consider other successful models for similar problems as your starting point.
> it shows that you should never give up your nuclear weapons for any agreement or treaty
This is something every related country already knows, think of Pakistan and North Korea. Are you expecting China and India to drop their nukes because of some nice treaty?
> World needs to help out Ukraine...
... to achieve peace ASAP, because thousands of lives are being lost.
Great for you! Could you give the name of such drug in order to ask some feedback from my doctor? Some years ago she prescribed one which got me sleeping but I woke up awfully tired (left after a week.)
I agree with your sentiment. I was kind of "forced" to use (and eventually fully migrate to) git because the IDE integration to SVN became more quirky every year. Instead, git is already integrated in IDEs these days.
> I'm no expert but I have to believe it would be far cheaper and easier to solve Earth's problems.
Nor I, but maybe the Earth's problems can't be solved at all, so -at least some people think- the next best thing would be to have an alternative for saving the human species.
A friend of my mother in Peru had those books. I'm fond of my memories about Milú (the dog, not sure about the spelling), the captain, the scientific, the silly detectives, and Tintin. Specially the book about the travel to the moon (in those years the moon was a hot topic.)
> Be your own advocate and research the things your doctor tells you
I share your concern but I think there is no definitive advise about how to prevent these horrible outcomes (besides the usual "do regular exercise", "lower sugar consumption", "avoid stress", etc.) Did you find anything more concrete?