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by ThJ 7y ago
This story doesn't really explain what killed lard in Europe. They don't sell Crisco or any other kind of shortening here in Norway, for example. Norwegian recipes often call for butter, but rarely for lard. Few things are ever de
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by ThJ 7y ago
That site doesn't like my ad blocker.
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by ThJ 7y ago
I used to run one named ArtGrounds.com between 2005 and 2012. It was one of those small and cozy Internet communities. Three things killed it: 1. I kept twisting knobs to make it grow faster until people got fed up and left. 2. Internet art
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by ThJ 7y ago
I didn't understand half of the terms used in this article, but it actually did make me start thinking about certain things in a new light...
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by ThJ 7y ago
This reminds me so much of my own lost heritage. My parents were Sami and Kven, but they didn't teach us, the children, their mother tongues. When they were growing up in the 50s and 60s, Norwegian schools would punish children who spo
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by ThJ 7y ago
I've been at this since 1990 and I'm not only blind, but stupid! That's why I'm a programmer. You have to ask really dumb questions to be one, because computers aren't very smart, and you have to point out obvious t
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by ThJ 7y ago
It's definitely the case that reading other people's code is much harder than reading your own. It's also the case that, if you write some code and let it sit around for a year, and then accidentally come across it, you'
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by ThJ 7y ago
At one point, naive Bayesian classifiers were considered machine learning. Now we use them for spam filters. Chess playing algorithms were also considered machine learning at one point. We keep moving the goalposts. We won't ever reach
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by ThJ 7y ago
Machine learning libraries have been around for a long time also. I remember seeing them around and playing with them in the late 90s, without really knowing what to do with them. For some reason, few people cared about them then, much like
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by ThJ 8y ago
What? The article literally starts off by explaining that 98% of dieters fail to keep their weight down long term, and that dieting bodies go into starvation mode, impeding weight loss. That's the bit that no one talks about. That die
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by ThJ 8y ago
The United States is in the privileged position of attracting the best and the brightest. Also, it, together with the rest of the anglosphere, attracts the people who speak English. Many of the people who come to countries like Norway, Fran
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by ThJ 8y ago
This talk didn't hook me, but then again, it looks like it's aimed at developers who jumped on the NoSQL bandwagon and now need to be told why SQL is clever. I feel that much of what we do with map, reduce, sort and filter on arra
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by ThJ 8y ago
English has a serious problem with ambiguity around the word "free". In the closely related Scandinavian languages, there is a difference between "fri" (as in freedom) and "gratis" (as in free of charge). Unlik
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by ThJ 8y ago
The EU would like to have a word with you.
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by ThJ 8y ago
I think it's the other way around, given the age of the ad. The old man looks like he was the inspiration for that character.
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by ThJ 8y ago
We often fall into the trap of placing ML algorithms in awkward situations that even humans would have trouble with. For instance, we feed a flat still image to an ANN and expect it to detect things that a human would need lateral head moti
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by ThJ 8y ago
Don't count the servers. Count the people. Only people who work in tertiary industries tend to have corporate email accounts, and they rarely contain personal data, only data owned by their employers. Many businesses have switched to F
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by ThJ 8y ago
I feel there is a difference between putting your home up for short term rent while you're away versus buying multiple homes that you never stay in and operating them as a self-service hotel. There's nothing wrong with this, but i
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by ThJ 8y ago
Huawei is an interesting case. It normally isn't a problem to operate out of a country like China, but telecommunications infrastructure is sensitive. We are essentially seeing a rare case of differences in political systems having rea
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by ThJ 8y ago
Perhaps the fault isn't so much with Google itself, but with its user base. Mainstream is mainstream and if you're making a search engine for the masses, you're going to get results for the masses. Garbage in, garbage out. Ma
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by ThJ 8y ago
What will Wile E. Coyote say?
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by ThJ 8y ago
Next: Boolean logic, branching and loops? Oops. I just made CSS Turing complete.
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by ThJ 8y ago
Isn't this how bugs are handled in most software companies? I have never seen anyone ever fix a bug that I report as a user. I have been asked for plenty of irrelevant diagnostics logs, seen bug tickets get relegated to low priority or
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by ThJ 8y ago
The author seems to have missed out on the fact that information theory is a part of physics now. Not only are human brains computers. The entire universe is a computer. The author seems to think that a computer must use bus lines, clock si
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by ThJ 8y ago
I'm a Hackintosh user. I already owned a Macbook Pro and wanted a decently spec'ed desktop system for running macOS on, and wasn't too keen on paying though the nose for the non-modular non-upgradeable Mac Pro. I'm not s
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by ThJ 8y ago
If you let go of your attachment to the cloud and take a critical view of it, it's easy to see that the cloud itself is a big part of the problem. If the humble broadband router sitting in your home could manage these devices, there wo
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by ThJ 8y ago
In cases like these, we're often guilty of not finding something else to do in the meanwhile. There's almost always something productive one could do, even something so simple as taking a quick look at your open issue tickets an
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by ThJ 8y ago
It's funny to read such articles hypothesising about Facebook being gone. I left Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn about 1 year ago. I was hardly getting any use out of it anyway; not even Messenger. I did a similar thing to Reddit. Quit
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by ThJ 8y ago
Don't compare Europe to China. We're nothing like China.
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by ThJ 8y ago
This sounds similar to the state of affairs in Scandinavia. The part about there being little pride in being a soldier rings especially true. Scandinavians have died in military operations in Afghanistan, but you never hear about it. No one

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