Roark66

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by Roark66 6y ago
>Also, a few other EU countries (those that now have the highest vaccination rates) have already ordered vaccines on their own and there was no official reprove from EU. Another reason why it's silly to criticize Germany. If you don
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by Roark66 6y ago
How is my comment "factually wrong on many levels"? You didn't show any of my statements as false, you just added additional context. So you say: >Other than that: Germany was in advanced talks with multiple suppliers way
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by Roark66 6y ago
My understanding is that this works better because it is faster to hash their data (and compare with prehashed weights) rather than multiply the data and calculate activation functions. I imagine this could work for more layers easily,and u
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by Roark66 6y ago
Considering how well Israel dealt with vaccine procurement it is even more mind boggling how the EU Comission botched theirs. Not only they paid for the vaccine research upfront with no guarantees of preferential delivery, they also haggled
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by Roark66 6y ago
It is really cool we're getting (slightly) closer to the understanding how memories work. It is still basic research, but if I understand the significance of this correctly having a confirmation there are specific physical changes neur
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by Roark66 6y ago
>Debate? I’d rather rely on scientific guidance and updates as more information becomes available. And how this new information is supposed to reach everyone without being twisted? I heard so much crap being said by doctors, scientists,
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by Roark66 6y ago
There are no billing limits, but there are resource limits set by AWS upfront. I had to create many support cases to raise this or that limit. (for example we had a limit if 100 concurrent lambda workers, then 2.5k if I remember correctly).
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by Roark66 6y ago
>I'm skeptical of that. I don't think women in their 20's don't have kids because of a physical cost - they forgo because of a financial cost and social cost. Before having kids people want a family structure and to b
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by Roark66 6y ago
Exactly. I was recently considering a purchase of an ink jet printer for a specific purpose that requires very high black ink resolution. (I already have a laser printer, but its real resolution is 1200dpi). It was next to impossible to fin
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by Roark66 6y ago
I bet many more couples would decide to have children(in developed countries) if it didn't come with high probability of negative health consequences. Specially for older women the risk-reward ratio of having children is highly skewed
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by Roark66 6y ago
I can definitely see how that could happen in many places,but very unlikely where I'm at. We don't even have a cat shelter in my area(dogs only - no idea why). Also, and that really pisses me off, people here are generally of the
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by Roark66 6y ago
My neutered male cat sometimes disappeares but with exception of that one time I had to fetch him from the top of a 14m tall pine tree he always returns. My other cat (also a neutered male) never goes away for more than half a day.
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by Roark66 6y ago
I'm not quite convinced that "animals don't get lost". How many lost cats never return for every one that does? Did anyone ever make a real study? Also there are other questionable bits in the article for example "W
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by Roark66 6y ago
I was actually paid in crypto for few days of some programming work once. I wish I held to it all rather than spending most of it. Personally I think the biggest issue with crypto now is, one that it promotes huge value inflation and Ponzi-
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by Roark66 6y ago
Exactly. It pissed me off to no end when at the beginning of the pandemic the health minister of my country mindlessly parroted WHO in their initial "masks do not help" stance. How can anyone treat what we are being told seriously
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by Roark66 6y ago
>This is entirely a problem of our own making. >We give cellular providers hundreds of MHz of exclusive spectrum access, and then deprecate and auction off the old analog TV channels to give them hundreds more, but we expect everybody
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by Roark66 6y ago
I think reacting to scammy ads by banning all of them is an overreaction. There are many useful products and services I would've never found out about without ads. How about simply making all ad networks responsible for the content of
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by Roark66 6y ago
I'm not arguing to put him in charge of FSF nor that he is the right person to do PR. I'm arguing against "cancelling" him altogether because of few stupid opinions he held and few others that got blown out of proportion
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by Roark66 6y ago
Ok, I wasn't aware of this. I agree his point of view was narrow minded. I can't defend it. He did change it as he says (in 6th link) based on conversations with someone who explained to him the harm caused. People learn all their
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by Roark66 6y ago
> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way. I agree that you are accountable for the things you say. Unfortunately, people are attempting to hold RMS accountable for things h
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by Roark66 6y ago
>What did he do in the past 15 years outside of starting petty feuds that nobody cares about (the Linux name debacle) and being a horrible public speaker (there's heaps of stories of him being a dickhead to convention organizers, ot
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by Roark66 6y ago
>But what I gather from the discussion is that there is a _pattern_ of bad behaviour. This is such bullshit. There is no pattern of bad behaviour. There are some opinions that are considered controversial by mere fact of containing his a
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by Roark66 6y ago
For f**'s sake, when will people with money stop funding every stupid idea just because it involves (blockchain|token|social|web3.0)? This whole ecosystem starts to really remind me of Ponzi schemes.Im quite curious why regulators don&
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by Roark66 6y ago
The only way PoW crypto is superceded is if someone finally implements PoS. There is a lot of hope in ethereum "moving to" proof of stake, but I think a move will never happen. Miners will not allow it. It'll be a fork. Then,
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by Roark66 6y ago
Actually we can extract electricity from aluminium. A while ago someone proposed a "battery" that would consume aluminium as it provides electricity. Supposedly this battery was going to have 10x the energy density of today's
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by Roark66 6y ago
Seriously? Electric shocks? Last time I went to a dentist she did an xray of the tooth that hurt me. Then she showed me the high resolution photo on the computer screen where I could clearly see what looked like a "bubble of something&
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by Roark66 6y ago
This is cool. I hope some day someone invents a reliable way to stimulate neurons without having to use physical wires.
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by Roark66 6y ago
If the author was serious about promoting the idea the article would be published in an open manner (not behind a pay wall). The concept is good, but good luck enforcing it with closed source software companies. Anyone that is really intere
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by Roark66 6y ago
>I would agree "slave" seems a weird choice of a word I disagree, however I'm not a native English speaker. It is the most descriptive single word describing this mode of working. We can't ban master/slave as a w
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by Roark66 6y ago
>> If engaging with interactions is taking too much time away, one could simply, not engage with them. >This choice isn't always as simple as it sounds. There is, strange as it is, a real reputational risk to be known as a dis

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