Reelin

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by Reelin 7y ago
> it's already more reliable than humans Only when comparing aggregate statistics. Not all humans are equally (un)safe drivers; insurance rates vary based on driving record for good reason.
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by Reelin 7y ago
Not just WWIII - what happens when (not if) a large solar flare [1] hits us or if Yellowstone [2] ends up erupting? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by Reelin 7y ago
It's the only one I know of applying standard semiconductor wafer techniques. If it works out, I think this one ( https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/environment/a-gl... ) is a more promising batte
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by Reelin 7y ago
Is this the recent announcement you were thinking of? https://xnrgi.com
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by Reelin 7y ago
> if languages like ... can operate either at/near the performance of C That depends entirely on how you define and measure performance. If total throughput is your metric, then it's no problem - for example, Go is perfectly ac
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by Reelin 7y ago
Unless they knowingly and intentionally broke criminal law, that's completely over the top and unnecessary. Fines should presumably start small and have a graduated structure to prevent the "just a business expense" approach
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by Reelin 7y ago
Privacy preserving electronic transfers of some sort would be amazing (not Bitcoin, I mean in native currency and via my bank). I'm not really sure what that would look like in practice though - neither the bank nor the retailer is lik
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by Reelin 7y ago
I'm not a huge fan of the current state of affairs wrt privacy, but... aren't credit cards also a form of insurance for all involved? The consumer avoids carrying potentially large quantities of cash, and the business reduces thei
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by Reelin 7y ago
Actually, it's not clear to what extent such laws are constitutional in the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law#United_States ). Anonymous speech (among other things) is very clearly protected, but thre
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by Reelin 7y ago
It's not limited to Google. For example, this TI mmWave sensor ( http://www.ti.com/product/IWR6843 ) has an associated reference design for gesture control ( http://www.ti.com/tool/TIDEP-01013 ).
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by Reelin 7y ago
According to at least one expert in the field, it's a bit of both. ( https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp... )
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by Reelin 7y ago
Having worked in a lab environment heavily subject to OSHA regulation, I think you are both correct. I've been personally subjected to brain-dead interpretations on multiple occasions, but I'm also absolutely certain that in the a
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by Reelin 7y ago
> but without having all GPU vendors on board to continue supporting OpenGL, Khronos won't be able to do much to keep it alive Please don't make things up. OpenGL 4.6 was released in July 2017. According to Wikipedia, modern AM
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by Reelin 7y ago
It seems like sbrk is a bad idea because it's a legacy API that manipulates global program state in a very error prone manner. Is there ever any reason to use it instead of mmap? More generally, I was very confused by the entire stack
705.
by Reelin 7y ago
I think this is an issue of what is meant by the term 'pull'. I used it to refer to physical consumption of alcohol, and by analogy spending time browsing the internet or similar. I'd quibble that the way you're using it
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by Reelin 7y ago
I'm reading your combined posts as you having had mild anxiety that you weren't consciously aware of (aka high strung), and that the medication (partially?) addressed this without your realizing it. That the effects were lasting (
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by Reelin 7y ago
> If you are under a deluge of noise, you have the power to control that. Let's flip that around to illustrate the systemic issue here. Earlier today, there was a front page HN submission that touched on alcoholism. It seems to me t
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by Reelin 7y ago
You hold the copyright to code you write by default (at least in the US). So you could choose to license it to the public under (for example) GPLv3 and you would still hold the copyright - others just have permission to use it in accordance
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by Reelin 7y ago
> things I need to take into consideration Some thoughts, in no particular order. * Would it bother you if someone used your code in a proprietary product without paying you? Without even crediting you? * Would it bother you if someone r
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by Reelin 7y ago
Is something like this ( http://www.ti.com/product/IWR6843 ) relevant? There are also older products such as this ( https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/a/acconeer-ab/a... ).
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by Reelin 7y ago
> I wonder how much we have to blame ITAR restrictions on >1555nm lasers ... I tried looking up information about this (restriction details, otherwise feasible uses beyond that wavelength, etc) but it's hard for an outsider to qu
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by Reelin 7y ago
> it seems like a very reasonable expectation that the state would maintain it As a matter of principle I'm inclined to agree. However many (possibly most?) US cities require the property owner to maintain the sidewalk fronting thei
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by Reelin 7y ago
Unfortunately it's complicated. There are many OEMs, and each configures things to their liking. Then there are carrier branding deals which (often) result in per-carrier customizations on top of that. Typically, "uninstallable&qu
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by Reelin 7y ago
I suspect that there is indeed no winning, and that under such circumstances every possible course of action is likely to be perceived as racist by some number of people. This is because the population at large doesn't seem to be able
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by Reelin 7y ago
> ... finding novel paths of solving the problem at hand ... This only applies to reinforcement learning (and similar). Classification problems (and similar) are fundamentally conservative, because you feed them with a finite set of pree
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by Reelin 7y ago
I'm puzzled by your comment. The GPL fails to prevent use of software within a proprietary cloud-based system (as has been the cause of much drama lately). AGPL or a similar license is required for that.
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by Reelin 7y ago
> World poverty has decreased and yet population has increased. I think the demographic transition model applied on a per-country basis explains that quite well (and also makes clear that there is no immediate cause for concern based on
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by Reelin 7y ago
Isn't WebGL a fairly direct wrapper over OpenGL ES? The basics get you up to speed with the JS take on this otherwise standard (and very old) API, particularly integrating with the DOM and Web Workers. After that, any OpenGL book or tu
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by Reelin 7y ago
To summarize the linked post (which I completely agree with), just provide officially recommended sane defaults and then get out of the user's way . In my view, that's how nearly all software ought to be written.
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by Reelin 7y ago
Across a specific project, team, or org, sure. That's what style guides, formatters, linters, and pre-commit hooks are for. The core language is the wrong level of abstraction for this stuff.

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