Matumio

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by Matumio 7y ago
You can also earn money just by inheriting a large pile and hiring someone who manages it. Or work for someone who did that. Contributing to society at large is entirely optional for some people. It's not a problem when someone inherit
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by Matumio 7y ago
Enjoying to solve problems, yes. And curiosity too! Both are great motivators. But selflessness? That's the lie we tell ourselves when the true driver is something else, like narcissism. It's not a bad lie. The outcome is pretty m
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by Matumio 7y ago
> When you put 1 Euro in the bank, they have discretion as to how to invest this amount and only need to keep a fraction of your money in reserves. That's... misleading? When you put 1 Euro into the bank, it allows them to hand out
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by Matumio 7y ago
> Presumably you also object to academics working on entirely abstract problems? Yes I do. But at least there isn't a large monetary incentive to push people into it. They push themselves. > After all, they could be doing somethi
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I don't know. Building and running fast trading systems sure creates more work and requires additional infrastructure and energy. So many smart people must be busy doing that, instead of something else. Do I understand this correctly:
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by Matumio 7y ago
Compositing may be hard to judge, but crappy gamma-incorrect zoom (same problem) is visible everywhere. Did you ever notice how the brightness of a zoomed-out photographs suddenly changes? Look for images with fine high-contrast structures,
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by Matumio 7y ago
I'm sceptical that there would be a distinction between "alien species themselves" and "AGI of alien species". But I also think we should send better adapted machines to Mars instead of air-breathing mammals, so may
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by Matumio 7y ago
That, or universal basic income. No need for unions if workers can simply say no to a job and live humbly instead. Amazon simply wouldn't find anyone willing to work for them until they improved.
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by Matumio 7y ago
I don't have the answer, but it's certainly not simple. I'm not willing to pay you anything for participating in this HN discussion. That doesn't make your contributions worthless. Some people pay millions for a useless
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by Matumio 7y ago
This looks more like a research project. In contrast, tabNine is a closed-source commercial package. No need to compete with that.
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by Matumio 7y ago
You just made me realize how lucky I am. I'm commuting 2x 55min per day. I always think it's too much, but it's mostly by train. There is about a 50% chance of me getting 2x 35min uninterrupted reading time out of it (dependi
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by Matumio 7y ago
The idea sure was brilliant at the time. But I really doubt that we (as a society) have gained anything by allowing this to be protected. It might have prevented some healthy competition. Certainly anyone thinking about search engines (once
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Just saying "no" already can cost too much effort, because it involves making a decision that you'll want to justify. It takes effort to report an issue and even more to make a pull-request, so you don't want to reject t
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by Matumio 7y ago
Wishing for market players to act against their own self-interest, that is one strategy. In case it doesn't work, and you don't like minimum wage or complicated rules, another strategy might be to advocate for an universal basic i
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by Matumio 7y ago
There have been many attempts. I liked easygit a lot (seems to be unmaintained now: https://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/documentation/ ). It had really nice docu. It took me a while to memorize all the native
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by Matumio 7y ago
Yes from a hardware point of view, custom look-up tables are much cheaper than multipliers. On the other hand, the point seems to be to utilize the LUTs of FPGAs which are not very power-efficient because they also need to be fully programm
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by Matumio 7y ago
Here is an animation of part of the poem (3min), for those who are too busy lifting Moloch to the sky to read a whole essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nonab6djMAA
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by Matumio 7y ago
Is there seriously still a commercial reason to use the ATmega328 (an 8-bit microcontroller with 2000 bytes of RAM) for new projects? I've been working on 3D printing firmware, and it's so easy and silly to reach the limit of this
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by Matumio 8y ago
I think "One does not write a web server in Bash" is like "One does not simply walk into Mordor." You're practically daring short people with hairy feet to attempt it. (Quote: seebs on slashdot)
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by Matumio 8y ago
Interesting. I would have suggested to XOR a few sequences, which would improve the result a bit, but this method works better.
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This is less accurate, because not slicing data can also lead to bias.
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Even if you had infinite data, you are not allowed to just control for everything you measured. You still need to bring in your causal knowledge. E.g. you probably shouldn't control for body weight if it was measured a month after the
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by Matumio 8y ago
I like how it effortlessly switches into "git diff" mode at the end of sample 112. Sadly it doesn't do whitespace. > Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 19 deletions. +4 −19 png_source/colors/pointer.py S
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by Matumio 8y ago
I agree. I did some research out of curiosity in the past about multi-armed bandits. The optimal solution is quite involved, and not worth the effort of studying in my opinion. Thompson sampling, on the other hand... I'm in love. Clean
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> they are supposed to be judging you, remember? It's actually supposed to be mutual judgement. But I agree: be respectful if you decide to drop a remark about the relevance of the question. There are enough reasons to treat peopl
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You seem to have forgotten "the window" in the argument, separating a single participant from "society" (aka the Congolese people). If you accept that you only care about "the Congolese people" then the author&
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by Matumio 8y ago
The argument works even if no public parks are built. The point is that a higher number of people ("society") profits. They can hire more workers for the same money because workers are not busy building the statue. More people are
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by Matumio 8y ago
By that logic, you'd have to start with vhdl. Which is a great place to start if you want to grok what a CPU actually is, what pipelining means, and how to write truly parallel code. Except that most people never need to know. That&#x2
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by Matumio 8y ago
This describes roughly my experience with small mastodon instances right now. It has been called "twitter like it was in the early days". Mostly pseudonyms, feeling of anonymity and being part of a small group. No algorithmic sele
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by Matumio 8y ago
Copyright law is not supposed to create fairness. It is supposed to benefit society as a whole. If protection is too long, limited access to (and reuse of) existing work reduces the benefits of having a law. If protection is too short, some

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