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by 0xbear 9y ago
Looks like you’re right. Epic fail if so. Good for gaming, useless for workstations. Thank god there’s AMD to pick up the slack.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Hermetic is good though. Hermetic means reproducible.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Bazel is not just a build system though. It’s also dependency management system, parallel test system, cross language build system, cross platform build system, and a bunch of other things, with build file syntax a 10 year old could learn i
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by 0xbear 9y ago
40 PCIe lanes is good news for those of us in need of reasonably priced quad GPU workstations. I’m really looking forward to this.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The press has never been about distributing facts. It’s mostly about manufacturing consent, with small, and quickly corrected deviations from its main purpose.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
“Holding” an index is the trivial part of a search engine. That’s something a single Google engineer can put together in a week (no crawler, just storing and primitive ranker). What’s going to kill you is ranking (especially in the tail) an
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by 0xbear 9y ago
People seem surprised, but it's perfectly predictable. To maintain an index of sufficient quality and size costs billions of dollars a year. Heck, engineering cost alone is probably $500M for MS, and more for Google. DGG doesn't e
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And Yahoo, in turn, gets its results from Bing.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You get the behavior you reward. If consumers buy their products for their privacy features, we will get more privacy features. What's not to like?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I believe they initially used Google as their backend. Don't quote me on that though. One thing I know for sure is their search is not really provided by them.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That wouldn't make any sense given that DDG is thin UX veneer around Bing, and it doesn't maintain its own index.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
>> MNIST is a dataset, VGG is a software model Strictly speaking, true. But one discovers early enough that you can screw up a number of things when training a model on something as simple as MNIST and the model will still work, becau
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by 0xbear 9y ago
That’s where identity politics US politicians have been carefully cultivating for decades will bite them square in the ass.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
So brown nosing with comrade Jinping did not have a desired result. For those not aware: Zuck asked him to name his first born. Jinping declined. :-)
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I meant I’m now listening to audiobooks instead.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Do people still listen to podcasts? I lasted 3 months, and then moved to Audible.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
This is modern day phrenology. It _cant_ work.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Because it’s really freaking hard to beat humans on visual tasks.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
As a human I can’t predict whether someone is gay or not most of the time. Most gay people I know don’t show any of the stereotypical “gay” cues. I don’t see how a machine would be able to determine something like this, so this story just s
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Literally is true. In the presence of patents BSD license alone (and MIT, too) would basically mean you’re infringing on their IP, and they can and will bring action against you on the basis of your use of their software, even if your legal
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It’s asymmetrical in the sense that your license terminates even if you sue them for something that’s not in the software you’re using. I.e. they rip off your feature, and you’re using React, you’re f##d.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Why not Apache 2.0 though? That would have been a logical choice.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It’s also apparently well over twice as fast as the latest Android phones. Essentially the latest Android phones are about as fast as iPhone 6s on realistic workloads. iPhone 6s is two years old. That’s what happens when you derive revenue
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Facepalm. Russia is 1155 years old.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Kissinger, yes. Dude knows his geopolitics. The book is _really_ good, once you account for Kissinger’s well understood biases.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Sure, she wasn’t one to turn down an easy buck and a bit of fame. Can you fault her? Libertarianism was never viable. It goes against human nature, just in the opposite direction from communism. Communism postulates that lazy people deserve
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Ayn Rand was not an idiot. You just misunderstood what her book was, as did many other people who have never lived under a communist regime. I have lived under a communist regime, and I remember it well, so I can tell you that her book is b
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Guaranteed in the top 10 on Google's internal Memegen: "WTF are you doing cat" gif.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Invasion of Donetsk and Luhansk has never been proven. Crimea, sure I will concede that. For the record, I don’t approve of it, even though Crimea has been under Russia’s control for hundreds of years, and was only given to Ukraine by Khrus
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The alternative to not “carving up Poland” was to not sign the mutual non-aggression pact and essentially enter into war with Germany before it thoroughly fucks up Britain and France. Britain and France would be quite delighted if Hitler pu

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