Cogito

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by Cogito 9y ago
As dang discusses here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16053051 it got flagged by users. The title is incredibly misleading, which seems to be the most likely reason anyone would flag this piece.
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by Cogito 9y ago
That's really cool, thanks for taking the time to go through the details. It's always interesting to see how other people manage projects and collaboration.
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by Cogito 9y ago
How does the other side work? Do third party changes get brought into the external project, and how do they get brought back into the internal project? For example, would a third party contributor need to rebase their work when pushing in o
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by Cogito 9y ago
Makes a lot of sense. What happens in the case of a series of commits that belong together? Is there a way of making sure they are applied to the project correctly (say in a branch or something)? I guess the point is moot if internally you
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by Cogito 9y ago
Do you go through a process to clean those commits for open source? It sounds really interesting - I assume the tool is mostly just for marshalling commits (or parts of commits?) that touch external projects, but I would also assume that so
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by Cogito 9y ago
With scan card access system, the security guards need to scan their passes when doing the rounds. Pretty easy to look at their scan logs and infer what they were doing. Using bar codes seems relatively easy to fake, but if you have the inf
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by Cogito 9y ago
I think I first discovered Egan on HN, so for anyone unfamiliar - go and read his books! Probably my favourite living author, which perhaps says more of me than him, but well worth the read (and re-read in many cases).
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by Cogito 9y ago
In case you're not aware, the reds and blues are not random. The 'deck' of the game has 12 cards in it[1], 4 ones, 4 twos, and 4 threes. These are shuffled and then played one at a time. After all 12 have come out, they are s
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by Cogito 9y ago
He said "Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate". He did not say they were lowering the bar, but that by rejecting (proportionally) a greater number of
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by Cogito 9y ago
I keep hearing people say this but didn't read it in the memo. Can you point to the bit where he says they are biologically inferior, or the sources he links to that say it? The best I can come up with is the bit where he says Google l
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by Cogito 9y ago
That is a deep well to dive down. It's similar to the feeling I get when I am procrastinating on the weekends - I want to be 'productive' which in that case means spending some time playing one of the games I have going. The
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by Cogito 9y ago
Not that it's worth wading too far into this, but there is no good reason to believe those people were there specifically for harassment. For one, if they were there to harass, you would expect them to have done some harassing. I have
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by Cogito 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus
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by Cogito 9y ago
Has anyone played with the tool they mentioned, diffoscope? Sounds interesting and wonder how good it is at, for example, comparing excel files with VBA code and formulas etc.
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by Cogito 9y ago
That's not true, at least for the even number apart example. The prime method will sample songs p apart from each other, and it's easy to find examples of N and p where p is even, for example N=5 p=2 . More generally, thi
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by Cogito 9y ago
Not at SpaceX but read /r/spacex a lot. The general consensus from arm chair rocket scientists is that the expendable version of the F9 will eventually be phased out completely. The one place it may remain is for customers who wan
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by Cogito 9y ago
Yeah for the most part that works, but I'm also often itching to give my own feedback to the streamer, and that is difficult to do without having it open :D I will say, in the circles I move in, many content creators are also running a
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by Cogito 9y ago
I replied down thread to a similar point you made - I think you are redefining "believe" to the point where it loses value. Responding as if someone is acting in good faith means that - you believe that - they believe that - they
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by Cogito 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean here by belief, but it seems like a redefinition that causes the word to lose value. "Believe" has always implied to me "understands to be true". How can I believe anything based only on
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by Cogito 9y ago
No that's ridiculous. Take measures based as though the complaints are made in good faith. If you assume them true then you would act as if the investigation has already taken place, and determined that they are true. If you're go
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by Cogito 9y ago
I pop out the chat and put the video in theatre mode. You can close the chat window if you want, but I'm normally watching things where the streamer is engaged with the chat and volume is fairly low.
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by Cogito 9y ago
Thanks for coming back. I agree that overselling ideas, with the intent of duping people, is a bad thing. Be it snake oil or a piece of technology that can't actually change the world, there are a lot of ways to mislead people into par
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by Cogito 9y ago
Sorry I wasn't clear; I was hoping you had more to add in support of your position. I believe your argument, to use your words, has been that "this Elon Musk character is [not] genuine" and that "his intentions are [not]
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by Cogito 9y ago
>> why does that relevant to a discussion on plans to go to mars? >It is not relevant to the idea of going to mars. But it is relevant when considering the credibility of the person who is proposing this idea. The idea either holds
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by Cogito 9y ago
You've mentioned the hyper loop thing a few times now, what exactly are you upset about? He wrote, and had some engineers from his company help write, a proposal for a high speed transit system. Some companies have been started to try
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by Cogito 9y ago
This probably shouldn't link to the google amp page... Correct link is https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/1/15724520/tesla-fires-femal...
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by Cogito 9y ago
I couldn't see any way to export data, once I had filtered or pivoted it. Is this supported at all, or do I need to use the copy mechanism? I have a ~4GB file to filter down and analyse, and this almost looks like a nice tool for busin
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by Cogito 9y ago
While dkarapetyan used the term factory, which awakes deep rooted emotions in anyone who learned Java at university, the point is not really one of using a pattern or not (even though the pattern may make sense here). If you have a curve
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by Cogito 9y ago
Yeah I agree with you, the value in this case is probably pretty small. I think it comes down to two things, how useful it is to understand the detail of the geometry, and how much easier the printed model makes it to understand. It's
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by Cogito 9y ago
Hard to say. Is it much more enlightening for a doctor to hold a model of a medical scan in their hand, or rotate it on a screen? There's potentially a lot of information to be interpreted in a 3D model, being able to use our natural s

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