Elrac

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by Elrac 8y ago
I'm not sure in what way your Eclipse experience was so atavistic, but I'd like to point out that at least for several years I was aware of, Eclipse had a significant competitive advantage: Incremental compilation. You could make
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by Elrac 9y ago
Good thing he didn't do that!
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by Elrac 9y ago
I'm going to chime in to the growing chorus of HNers trying to explain to you why you're wrong. There's no such thing as "any other science." There is science as developed and practiced by qualified researchers all
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by Elrac 9y ago
Am in my late 50s, can confirm. Memory, concentration, attention, and a bunch of other faculties, both mental and physical, are trending disgustingly downward. I know there are things I could do to fight it, but motivation is another one of
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by Elrac 9y ago
Just a personal opinion from an American who's effectively European, so take it for what it's worth: I get the impression the USA has been in a slow general decline for a decade or more. A whole bunch of indicators of societal hea
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by Elrac 9y ago
Some people would say China is _already_ using its market as a weapon. It's just that China at the moment seems to be a bit more subtle in applying leverage than the US is. Even ignoring Trump, I'd say subtlety is not exactly a bi
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by Elrac 9y ago
Once you have your own server, you can of course upload whatever you want. But you're probably asking about booting from an ISO image. As a few other people have said, Hetzner offers a "boot from rescue image" service which a
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by Elrac 9y ago
I'm a (happy) Hetzner customer. A few years ago I ran some services with easily guessable/forceable passwords and my host turned into a node of a cracking botnet for a day or two. Hetzner got nasty mails from a couple of "vic
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by Elrac 9y ago
When a CEO/CTO uses the words "straight talk" I prepare for a copious load of meaningless waffling. Was not disappointed!
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by Elrac 9y ago
Now you've made me wish I'd read Grapes of Wrath! Thanks for the explanation. Those may not be good reasons, but they're understandable reasons that help solve the puzzle for me.
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by Elrac 9y ago
What you write sounds good, and you seem to have the experience to back yourself up, but the overall picture doesn't make sense: You say that people who stop doing this back-breaking, underpaid work end up better off. If that's th
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by Elrac 9y ago
Sorry about the "me too" but I'm another example of someone who programs non-science in FORTRAN. I work on a crew management system for a major airline. Most of this and related applications engage in data shuffling rather th
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by Elrac 9y ago
Language quibble: > "Function arguments are specified in brackets after the function name." No they're not! They're specified in PARENTHESES after the function name.
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by Elrac 9y ago
Sort of. Here's a sloppy analogy off the top of my head: Evolution explains your musical taste in the same way that gravity explains why much of the rainfall on the Alps ends up in Lake Constance. It's not a detailed, step-by-step
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by Elrac 9y ago
I'm no expert, but yes, I think you're wrong about that. This explanation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-godels-th... , a little closer to layperson level, uses integer arithmetic as a simp
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by Elrac 9y ago
> _I don't think Google has fundamentally different deep-learning technology than everyone else._ That's true, and I never claimed otherwise, but that doesn't help you argue your point - in fact, you just proved yourself w
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by Elrac 9y ago
Absolutely! The goal of the game is to reproduce. To be more specific, it's reproduction at the individual level and survival at the species level. The genome is a kind of algorithm for hardware to implement a strategy to win at this g
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by Elrac 9y ago
The human brain didn't design itself either - it's the product of millions of years of evolution via natural selection. But this fact is irrelevant to the topic of whether the approach of DeepMind is fundamentally different from t
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by Elrac 9y ago
Maybe you have some legitimate concern about Googles' claim as per their press release and my comment. Who knows, maybe they have some reason to lie about what they did! But then I wonder why you aren't asking the same question of
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by Elrac 9y ago
I strongly disagree. You don't seem to be aware of the difference in approach between Deep Blue and DeepMind. Deep Blue was hand-led directly and specifically to solve the problem of chess: It was provided with a library of opening mov
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by Elrac 9y ago
To me, this read like Alan Sokal's Postmodernism troll piece. I understand Tegmark is a reputable physicist, but the abstract could have been written by Deepak Chopra after skimming a math text.
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by Elrac 9y ago
If so, that served him right for running a 70 KW Diesel engine to operate a 0.5 KW freezer. If he was ignoring regulations on energy efficiency, it's very possible he was also ignoring regulations on health and hygiene.
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by Elrac 9y ago
Related topic: In the eternal and tiresome dispute between religious Creationists and modern science, a favorite talking point is that "it's only a theory!" As a result, some science-minded people are proposing that scientist
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by Elrac 10y ago
This may or may not be a Good Thing - I'm not qualified to make that call. But this article isn't doing the effort any favors. Labelling the technology _exclusively_ as "fusion" comes dangerously close to what's tod
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by Elrac 10y ago
I reached the same conclusion at the end of Part I, where the author compares Trump with the Mule. Either his understanding of Asimov's story was shockingly poor or he's shamelessly grasping at straws: The Mule is a truly exceptio
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by Elrac 10y ago
I'd like to echo what you said. I tend to be a victim of analysis paralysis, spending hours thinking up the most clever design. Go offers far fewer alternatives so there goes the temptation. Given a smallish task, I simply sit down and
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by Elrac 10y ago
Cynically, I'd like to counter that the procedure was not experimental but well-proven. As the quacks informed us, they've successfully performed thousands such interventions. To make my above statement true, you need only conside
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by Elrac 10y ago
> As as side-note, an article like this should at least mention which OS and shell the author is using. Very much agree! I just tried this on my 2.6.32 RHEL system, and it's never heard of "-l". It outputs very similar-loo
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by Elrac 10y ago
I mostly agree, but I'd like to propose that "the capability" you speak of is one that needs training. I may have the capability to figure skate, but you don't want to watch me try! I think the big point here is that rea
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by Elrac 10y ago
> How would an AI know the truth? There's been some research on this. I think I even saw at least one article about it here on HN, though I can't find a link any more. What I remember seeing is a kind of world (?) map of the In

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