Afforess

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by Afforess 9y ago
> Examples include: - having to chase down specific individuals and sit down with them to walk them through my code review - waiting for approvals on code reviews while other engineers, not wanting to be blocked on my work, copy and pas
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by Afforess 9y ago
I don't think undereducation is correct here. You could spend 50 years re-experiencing K-12 education in America and that will not earn you skills that are simply not taught there.
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by Afforess 9y ago
The solution can't be to hurt innocent traffic because a malicious user has some of the bandwidth. I agree some ISPs are complicit in the situation, but tit-for-tat approaches ultimately will hobble ISPs and create an irate and a distr
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by Afforess 9y ago
Badly. Education processes are not built around learning, nor around meta-learning (learning how to learn new information). Education is still built largely around _retaining_, testing, and hoarding knowledge, without interest in discovery
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by Afforess 9y ago
I love a good pitchfork and torch session as much as the next rabble-rouser, but let's remember Cloudflare got popular because they _solved*_ a hard problem: how to deal with a DDOS, as a small or medium size website. Cloudflare's
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by Afforess 9y ago
I agree with everything you said. What needs to be feared is complacency. If you ever feel that things are going too easily - that's when to be afraid. I will be the first to admit I let many _months_ of complacency pass me by before I
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by Afforess 9y ago
My favorite graph is this one: http://i.imgur.com/ZgJaXCy.png - you can clearly tell 2016 was the year we broke away from all the others.
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by Afforess 9y ago
The 'jlp' landing instruction in particular sounds like a sensible addition to the x86 instruction set. While it doesn't solve code injections... limiting the scope to places where control flow changes intentionally - existin
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by Afforess 10y ago
Won't happen. All the signs point to more and more developers understanding less and less of what is going on underneath the covers. If anything, we are < 50 years away from only AI and machine learning algorithms understanding chip
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by Afforess 10y ago
Gwern curates a monthly mailing list and changelog for gwern.net: https://www.gwern.net/Changelog I highly recommend it.
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by Afforess 10y ago
Damn. From the horses mouth: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl... I might be a small minority, but I _like_ Unity 7. I have never used Unity 8, and I thought the Ubuntu phone was mi
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by Afforess 10y ago
>why do people (at least here on HN) stick with it despite these major issues? Before I switched to lastpass, I had maybe 10 different passwords I shared across 100 sites. This was terrible, and now that I use Lastpass, every password is
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by Afforess 10y ago
This is why you should purchase put options instead of short selling. Exposure to short selling is theoretically infinite. Exposure to put options is just the price you paid for the option. Shorting generally should only be for companies
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by Afforess 10y ago
I might be alone here, but I always felt Gattaca was misunderstood. The dystopia was that society allowed non-enhanced humans to be born. Allowing an underclass to exist, voluntarily, was the mistake. Genetic-engineering healthier, better
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by Afforess 10y ago
The NGA is up there with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in lack of public exposure. The NRO launches a lot of the satellites the NGA also uses for GEOINT and spying in general. NRO launches are part of the public record, but their
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by Afforess 10y ago
Do you need 1000 days of training to properly dress hair? Because that's the average training required to acquire the license.
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by Afforess 10y ago
I love Matt Levine, but he's wrong that "Bulk Regulations" don't exist. They are called licenses, and you have to have them do operate many types of businesses. See hair salon licenses, landscaping licenses, etc. There i
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by Afforess 10y ago
For the record, the ACLU supports the above House Bill, because the term _Guardian_ is overly broad. See the ACLU argument here: https://waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/AC... The ACLU
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by Afforess 10y ago
The government needs to change education to a protected status, like gender, religion, etc. Make it illegal for employers to ask for candidates educational background and degrees. The core issue here is that companies use degrees and educat
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by Afforess 10y ago
Sure. The most challenging areas to forecast are typically areas with poor data availability (Mountains) or with topological features that impact the weather significantly (Great Lakes affect winter forecasts significantly). I imagine the R
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by Afforess 10y ago
Weather forecast accuracy is a statistic anyone can measure and generate. Put the forecasts and the actual weather outcome together in a spreadsheet, examine the results each day for the 1,3, and 5 day forecasts. NOAA and the UK Met Office
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by Afforess 10y ago
>Basically, that person, like many I suspect, voted for Trump out of protest. They didn't think he would win, so it was safe. Well, it wasn't. You're right, but you're missing the point. The constant attack on support
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by Afforess 10y ago
I think it's important to remember that the "us vs them" dichotomy that is polarizing your beliefs is a fiction. Humans build up the idea of tribes because its cognitively cheap, not because they actually exist or map to real
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by Afforess 10y ago
Security. 90 day passwords, with multiple internal sites & servers each needing unique ones? I don't understand why we don't have automated client certificates and auto-generated ssh keys.
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by Afforess 10y ago
> Observe that in these scenarios the AIs are evil by default, just like a plant on an alien planet would probably be poisonous by default. I believe this is a core misunderstanding. Bostrom never says that a superintelligent AI is evil
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by Afforess 10y ago
Your analogy is pretty and while I agree with the sentiment I disagree with the scenario presented. I am glad I don't remember everything, yes, clearly perfect memory would be a burden. Rather I am frustrated by my lack of violation, I
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by Afforess 10y ago
I'm on no prescriptions of any kind. I am not describing memory loss, but instead the amount of thoughts lost in "filler time". What were you thinking about between the parking lot and the front door? What did you think abou
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by Afforess 10y ago
I find it very frustrating that spaced repetition is the best recourse we (humans) have to remember information. I am regularly concerned with the number of thoughts and interesting ideas I have each day, and don't manage to write do
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by Afforess 10y ago
No. You're correct, causation is complicated, A-Z and all the greek letters too are part of a single cause. But the situation is worse than that. The reason humans are superstitious is that we don't seek answers, we seek narrative
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by Afforess 10y ago
Google has a fundamental problem with solving challenging issues, especially those in the realm of physical "meat-space". Really hard problems, problems that might reveal that Google is not omnipotent, where Google might not succe

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