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by GuiA 7y ago
Ok, now I get the point you were trying to make. The lottery parallel still doesn't feel the most apt; the definition you specify ensures that you will always have such a person (who lived to be the oldest, and who had the largest gap
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> that her claim however improbable (someone has to win the lottery) is completely correct That line of reasoning does not apply here. Someone will win the lottery given enough time as the possibility space is bound - but there is no s
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Game theory suggests that the designers of said services wouldn’t have any incentive to give you that control.
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The Disneyland-like software companies you describe are that way because they must signal success, coolness, etc in order to attract employees to hire, investors to write checks, customers to sign up, etc. In another word, it’s a cost of do
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by GuiA 7y ago
I am in the last few months of my 20s, and I would say that I have suicide as my ultimate end of life plan. It's not a financial thing - I am generally quite frugal, have built up decent investments, and don't think I'll ever
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by GuiA 7y ago
This feels like post hoc rationalization. Read page 4 for an actual side by side comparison. You’ll see that all you really need to get a library card is present a form of identification, and perhaps a utility bill to prove your current add
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Statistical models fed by massive data that no single human can fully understand are still “science”, but it’s definitely a very different paradigm for science than what we’ve had for the past few centuries, and it seems to be what we’re he
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If the goal is to stop fare evasion, BART can put agents at every gate to control passengers. It is a much more human situation than designing urban architecture that can physically hurt people (particularly if they’re old/in a wheelch
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by GuiA 7y ago
I believe Space Engine core is developed in C++. However, one can embed Python for scripting - it’s not rare, but I know game developers tend to prefer lighter languages like Lua. As far as developing games in Python only, it’s certainly do
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Unless the tooling makes it trivial - which is still a long, long time away, if possible - I’m not sure there is a world where the increased cost of formal verification (mostly in terms of engineers who know what they’re doing) makes sense
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> literally famous for being famous [...] not battle tested > “[no other] viable high performance language with the same ecosystem, support and tooling” This comment strikes me as deeply contradictory. I have qualms with C++ as an
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The CEOs of those companies aren’t committing securities fraud or insulting random people on Twitter, for starters.
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Has there ever been a widespread, harmful teen phenomenon that wasn’t an overblown moral panic? Whether it’s tidepods, sexting, or fortnite bullying, it seems like journalists and politicians would rather focus their energy on this kind of
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I’ve been to a number of museum presentations, general audience scientific talks, etc recently where the speaker presents the evidence for climate change, future predictions, etc., and their main takeaway is “try to drive your car less and
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A lot of people take whatever jobs they can get, and their pay barely covers their housing/food/childcare/medical expenses. The caricature you are offering only really works for overpaid tech workers.
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Obviously this is a very personal thing, but that is not the case for me. I often can “see” entire chunks of code in my head, and typing out those 20 lines ends up feeling slow and frustrating. Of course that’s not systematically the case -
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Different people learn differently. Very few people learn all they know from a single source. Therefore, having many sources presenting a same subject in many different ways is a wonderful thing. Gilbert Strang’s book is wonderful! Some wil
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I’ve been told the ones in Tokyo are to repel rats and other (non human) pests, but no clue how legit that is.
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Think of computer vision tasks. Until modern deep learning approaches came around, it was built on brittle, explicitly defined pipelines that could break entirely if something minor about the input data changed. Then the great deep learning
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> I wonder if there's any living on comets? Wikipedia article on nematodes: Nematode worms (C. elegans), part of an ongoing research project conducted on the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107, survived the re-entry breakup.
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Shadow Biosphere(en.wikipedia.org)
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Except you're measuring a population of France Télécom employees, not the average population of Normandie. Suicide may be high in Normandie because of unemployment, something that employees of France Télécom are not affacted by. Other
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What kind of freedom are we talking about? Every kg of CO2 you contribute to pushing out in the atmosphere is a little bit of freedom taken away from the generations coming after you that will have to deal with the consequences. If airplane
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Kudos to the developer for seeing a need and building something that fills that need with a clean UI. As a developer, I get that the quickest path to building a well featured eBook reader meant building on top of ePub.js. However, purely fr
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Are we talking about financial success, or making quality products? I get that shareholders care about the former, but as hackers we should care about the latter. Pixar movies have become crappy sequels made to sell toys. Instagram has beco
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Apple/NeXT Exception that confirms the rule though.
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If I understand you and OP correctly, it’s a kind of joy derived from doing something for a while, being acutely aware of the limitations and frustrations that come with it, and then discovering a brand new way of working that doesn’t invol
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This is a need I’d like to see addressed more broadly in software. The computing needs of many in my non-technical entourage have not changed meaningfully in the past 10 years - they crop photos, write letters, put together videos of family
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Hopefully that professor didn’t teach anything close to electronics/physics/chemistry.
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It’s a weird feature of humanity. Once an idea (or meme in the original Dawkins sense) starts spreading, it’s very hard to make it disappear, no matter how ridiculous it is. See flat earth theories, various nutty religious theories (“Jesus

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