UmbertoNoEco

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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
That's a scary and realistic future. Any good (fiction or non-fiction) book on this? By "this" I mean governments trying to control overtly or secretly the use of computing resources. Bonus points if it is not Charlie Stross
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
So just like every other human being but without the power, money, social standing or connections. I love MA writings (Seneca too) but I dont take their personal lives as any example of fight against adversity. They are like boxing coaches
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
You of course can disagree, but my experience matches OP too. I understand every country likes to hype up its writers, but at least outside America this is more or less the assessment of its writers: - Great, incredible writers, worthy of
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Thanks, I, in fact, did that already, so good to know it is setup.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Is this on by default? I just installed Ubuntu 22 in a new VPS and was just thinking about this.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
People here dont deserve you :)
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
OK, it has been 6 years, so fair enough, let's wait and see at least for the 1.0
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
OK, since it is for a teenager I would assume just basic computer competency (how to install programs and stuff like that) but nothing else, so apologies if some of these things are pretty obvious/basic.. I would (assuming zilch knowle
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Oh those were the days were I was young and naive and I thought Linus was going to change the world (again) blurring the lines between 'software' and 'hardware'
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Probably, who knows? But a "shitty" developer is not "1X"
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
If you are a truly a 10X developer(TM pending) and this is not one of those copy-paste kids love these days, you could found your own company or consulting agency.With the huge competitive advantage you have (probably unique in the world )
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
As I pointed here originally, you need to be very careful about what you ADD to a language, because once the cat is out of the bag there is no going back, people are going to use that stuff. That's why I dont begrudge the attitude of t
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
The problem are not the new traits per se. The problem is that the complexity of a language grows super-linearly with the number of things added to it. There is beauty (and productivity) in simplicity. When you need to do 2 things and there
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
You can get more processing power and true unlimited time with any semi-competent graphic card (probably costing less than 1 year of Colab Pro+). Pro+ is a scam, you are not told what kind of instances you will be running at, and you dont
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
No. The ugly truth is that these courses will be useless to 99% of the people. Machine learning is dominated by big corporations with gigantic amounts of data and processing power. If you want to work in one of them or create competing ML
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Depends, how much linear algebra, probability and python do you know?
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
There is surely some "law" in some place of the internet that says something like: "Every programming language valid construction no matter how ugly, obscure,verbose,old,etc will find its way to lots of codebases". See
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Correct, this is more or less like remarking that having to learn Kanji/Hanzi makes learning Japanese/Mandarin very difficult is a superficial complaint.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
This advice aligns beautifully with my experience. It's obvious you have walked the walk.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Give me some of your ideas, I will do the boring stuff
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
> The coach was the famous Mike Krzyzewski of Duke. The coach was Chuck Daly. In any case, all of this is just the usual self-serving blah blah of top executives to rationalize to extract as much value as possible from the employees wh
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
> Theory and empirics are difficult, so regulators are to some extent fumbling in the dark a bit. So, just like economists!
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Dont most of them match your specs?
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Bye bye C. Bye bye ehhh. Linux, Windows, OS X, Postgres, Android, Python, Sqlite, Redis...
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
https://servercheap.net/ The prices listed are slightly higher but every time you visit a 15% discount code will pop-up. So far, so good. The server is in Chicago and I get 1 GBps (symmetric).
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Let's see, I host Dokku in a VPS. For 7 USD/month I get: 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, uncapped bandwith (at least in theory) The days of DO offering the best prices are long over.
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
I am very partial to open borders, but I concede there is not a practical solution yet. There is a book (I forgot the title at this time) of an economist where he "shows" (fwiw) how open borders could multiply the world productivi
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
They still have a point though. I have had some friends, co-workers or acquaintances who from time to time express what there are to me very outlandish opinions, but most of the time I just let them slide or jokingly counter them because I
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by UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
Not trying to be argumentative (on the contrary), but a couple of points: - W3schools is European - The Indians sites mentioned are not "low quality" per se (as in the info being totally wrong or misleading), they are just simply