Reelin

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by Reelin 6y ago
> It’s technically possible today to wear a mic and record everything you hear and say for your entire life, but no one does that, and most people would find anyone that did very weird. I suspect that is largely due to technical limitati
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by Reelin 6y ago
My guess is that they lack the jurisdiction to regulate how (for example) Facebook processes images on their platform. Rather, the ordinance only applies to entities while they are within the city. So without the social media exception, it
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by Reelin 6y ago
A lot of the comments here seem conflicting, to say the least. The article has: > use by private entities in public accommodations Which still doesn't fully explain it for me. In an HN comment someone linked what appears to be the o
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Additionally the first amendment seems to only apply in this context if it pertains to freedom of the press. That wasn't my understanding. I thought that SCOTUS had repeatedly ruled that you had absolutely no expectation of privac
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by Reelin 6y ago
> glfwCreateWindow(..., "The spinning triangle that took 1397 lines of code", ...); I get it, Vulkan is low level, but still.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Best to have a single implementation that everybody agrees on -- like the winner of the graphics API wars, Direct3D. Ah yes, D3D, well known for its broad cross platform support! In all seriousness, would a Linux D3D driver even be leg
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by Reelin 6y ago
I think the person you responded to was comparing OpenGL to Vulkan middleware wrappers from the perspective of API usage. From that angle, whether or not OpenGL drivers are provided at all is completely irrelevant. The API itself will presu
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by Reelin 6y ago
Can't you (ie the programmer) still use them though? You can write C11 code which freely calls the C99 API. By using C99 the API is compatible with a wider range of compilers and callable from a broader range of languages. (Also where
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by Reelin 6y ago
> When should you stop doing things manually and automate them instead? When your best estimate is that spending the time to automate it will be a net benefit in the long run. ( https://xkcd.com/1205/ ) This is hardly
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by Reelin 6y ago
> I also think that there is a strange magical thinking-esque hang-up against any UI that can't be drawn in a terminal. There's nothing magical about it. I prefer text based interfaces whenever available as they are generally m
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by Reelin 6y ago
> customize the UI of IDEs and hide menus and such That's not even half of it. TUI programs are designed to be keyboard driven from the start, not as an afterthought. All the IDEs I'm aware of are hopelessly outclassed here. Th
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by Reelin 6y ago
How many GUIs are keyboard driven though? Vim isn't CLI, but it's significantly more pleasant to use than a GUI for me. Honestly if someone showed up with a keyboard driven GUI that completely lacked mouse input and had a modal pa
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by Reelin 6y ago
For me at least it's more than "simply satisfying". It gets the UI out of the way . It's removing a number of mild distractions and nuisances that are otherwise there all the time . It's not about typing speed at
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by Reelin 6y ago
I knew many of them were rated to 20 amps in spite of the form factor but I didn't realize they all were. TIL. In that case I guess the cable that triggered the article in the first place is no more dangerous than (for example) the 8
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by Reelin 6y ago
Can they typically deny coverage even if the violation wasn't related to the fire?
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by Reelin 6y ago
Depending on where you are in the US GFCI breakers might be required these days in certain scenarios. Dual AFCI/GFCI breakers are certainly available at the hardware store. They're expensive though so it seems most people don&#x27
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by Reelin 6y ago
> If it's not a molded connector, someone cut the end off an extension cord and put that connector on. That's almost certainly what was done. You can buy a loose L5-20R at the local hardware store. Typical PC power cables are p
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by Reelin 6y ago
That cable doesn't bother me at all. What I find alarming is that it doesn't have a bright laminated warning label affixed to it in a _very_ permanent manner. On the plus side, as long as the electricians who wired the place up we
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by Reelin 6y ago
> this is no different from using a dumb, unprotected PDU I would caution that depending on exactly what electrical components are inside the PDU, under certain conditions (say, on plugging it in) it might briefly draw much more curren
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by Reelin 6y ago
Not true. Breakers are most definitely intended to protect against overcurrent situations regardless of whether it's user or equipment caused. (For example, unintentionally plugging 30 amps of kitchen appliances into a single 20 amp ci
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by Reelin 6y ago
> an LLVM based Lisp or Scheme language Clasp is exactly that! ( https://www.cliki.net/Clasp ) There's also SICL, which includes the Cleavir framework (used by Clasp I think?). ( https://cliki.net/SICL
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Infinity != Everything More precisely, infinite sets come in different sizes. For example, there are provably more real numbers than natural numbers even though both sets are infinitely large. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Reelin 6y ago
> The way I interpret the lottery ticket hypothesis is that you don't actually need the full sized networks (with their structure and parameters) in order to perform well at some tasks Actually that's not the point. Pruning typ
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by Reelin 6y ago
The earlier comment claimed that the GPUs (!!!) were located elsewhere on the network; I suspect that the scenario you describe is what they intended to refer to. (IIRC AWS offers compute optimized instances with a volume that's guaran
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by Reelin 6y ago
I agree that there are clearly algorithmic improvements remaining to be made. However, a counterpoint to your specific example would be the lottery ticket hypothesis and related weight agnostic neural networks. https://arxiv.org&
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by Reelin 6y ago
There's actually a paper that attempts to quantify the scaling characteristics of NLP models from early this year. ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 ) Even if scaling alone ends up solving everything (I doubt it),
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by Reelin 6y ago
Lacking in raw physical power by comparison, sure. But what health issues do we avoid? Do new health issues arise? Optimality in a complex environment is inevitably a nontrivial trade off; we aren't forced to hunt animals with primitiv
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by Reelin 6y ago
Presumably that depends on maximum PCIe bandwidth consumption before your workload bottlenecks elsewhere? A 2018 benchmark ( https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/PCIe-X16-vs-X8-with-4-... ) seems to indicate that x
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by Reelin 6y ago
> I understand the desire to be contrarian I assure you that's not my motivation at all. I'm not an expert in that field so I tend to trust the metrics used by the health professionals I encounter. > BMI is widely regarded a
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by Reelin 6y ago
> would that also require the setuid bit to be set with ownership as root (like sudo)? Doesn't setuid just change to whichever user owns the file? So with setuid root only needs to own it if you want full administrative privileges.

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