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realslimjdon Removing the Sony A7 Viewfinder

This should be marked (2017)

The Jeep Grand Cherokee has always been a unibody SUV and it came out in '92. You could make an argument that it was the first crossover, but it certainly wasn't the first unibody SUV.

realslimjdon Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt

The monthly cost of fiber in Austin has gone up a bit since you last checked. Google and Grande charge $70/month. AT&T is up to $80.

realslimjdon Excel Adds JavaScript and Power BI Support

They never promised Python support.

realslimjdon The Mess at Meetup

It's not a typo

realslimjdon High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War

Two quarters (~1 semester) of Calculus is required, so a lot of integration is left out. Discrete Math is part of the CS curriculum, essentially as an introduction to proofs to prepare people for Algorithms [1]. Linear Algebra is a recommended prereq for some classes, but a lot of people don't take it because more fundamental algebra is covered in classes like Analysis.

[1] http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/computerscienc...

realslimjdon High Salaries Are Weapons in the AI Talent War

At UChicago CS didn't have a mandatory core of statistics or math classes, but all the AI/ML classes had higher level statistics or math prerequisites.

realslimjdon Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (2015)

Not only was it fixed in Java, but Python patched the bug in one day.

https://bugs.python.org/issue23515

realslimjdon Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (2015)

It was literally impossible for it to occur. The numbers it required were so large that there's no device with enough memory for the bug to show up.