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maxaigner··on Citeseerx.ist.psu.edu Archived, Breaking Tens of Thousands of Links
Since at least a month (https://github.com/SeerLabs/CiteSeerX/issues/87) all links to the open literature portal CiteSeerX redirect to the Wayback machine. The site was routinely used for academic literature references, of which at least 30'752 on Wikipedia based on Linksearch: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearc...
maxaigner··on Microsoft Azure Outage
Reported issues with Teams, Microsoft 365, etc
maxaigner··on Waterfalls of the Great Lakes Region and Beyond
As everyone seems to be adding 'classic' websites, here's a similar website about lighthouses and lighthouse conservancy:

http://www.michiganlights.com

Bonus:

http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/

maxaigner··on Text Matching Using Cosine Similarity
Hacker News has been going downhill for some time now, and articles like this are perfect examples. This article:

- Lacks a snippet of the data in question

- Lacks proper notation ("Vector(A) = [5, 0, 2]"? never seen anything like this)

- Has grammar and formatting mistakes everywhere, even failing to properly copy-paste Wikipedia's end quotes

- Uses a batteries-included sklearn implementation which doesn't go into any interesting details

maxaigner··on The Coders of Kentucky
At some point we should wonder what other strategies Silicon Valley has. The fact that coders are encouraged to work remotely is attractive to sustain these areas of the USA, but it hampers the formation of centres of specialisation and exchange with other fields: either these graduates stay and work remotely, disconnected from both local industry[1] and the tech hubs, or they move away and worsen the unemployment problem they were supposed to combat.

[1] Not to mention that coding websites and apps doesn't exactly make you an integral part of the economic tissue of Hueysville, KY, as opposed to the much-maligned coal jobs.