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811.
by a-dub 4y ago
sometimes? depends on how close to the train the stops are and if the bqe is involved/randomly backed up (which it appears to be right now). right this minute i'm seeing comparable drive times to the g train for north brooklyn to
812.
by a-dub 4y ago
this looks nice. generous free tier! seconding the idea that it would be nice if gitops (flat config files in git) was a first class interface to configure everything. that would be a differentiator for me.
813.
by a-dub 4y ago
in my personal experience (with both transit and non-transit friendly locales): within NYC: bikes are the absolute fastest for short distances, the subway is comparable but generally fastest overall once things stretch out a bit, cars get h
814.
by a-dub 4y ago
the subway is fine. visitors are always taken aback by the general grittiness of new york. traffic in the city is unpredictable and cars often spend a lot of time sitting at lights. parking is a nightmare. post pandemic reliability has redu
815.
by a-dub 4y ago
i think a better approach might be to wrap destructive actions with preview functionality that is carefully tuned to summarize succinctly what is unique about resources that are going to be deleted along with the cardinality of the operati
816.
by a-dub 4y ago
is the tail fiber bare or in standard shielding (rubber sheath?) for this setup? either way, this is clever and fun.
817.
by a-dub 4y ago
handshake is at handshake.org in my mind they're both decentralized and distributed peer to peer systems which aim to provide global public internet infrastructure (which is what i find to be the interesting part). handshake has a cryp
818.
by a-dub 4y ago
i think handshake and gns are pretty cool.
819.
by a-dub 4y ago
a lot of gnu software is excellent to read, although sometimes portability concerns can obfuscate it a bit. codebases written in functional languages are also good. in general, when there's a higher barrier to entry, higher quality wor
820.
by a-dub 4y ago
also "lions commentary on unix" does the same, but with 6th edition unix if you're feeling like a "great books" approach to operating system software design.
821.
by a-dub 4y ago
Was there anything specific about Bell Labs or working for the Bell system that influenced the design of UNIX and the userland tools? Did the needs of the Bell system influence any of this work, or was it pure computer science research (an
822.
by a-dub 4y ago
good question. i sent al aho an e-mail. hopefully he'll reply with some interesting history. watch this space!
823.
by a-dub 4y ago
> hyperspeed card shuffling i think that's mostly scientific computing where you want the ability to control the RNG and even intentionally use deterministic seeds for reproducibility. i think if the kernel is going to provide secur
824.
by a-dub 4y ago
perhaps the kernel, but i suspect that much of the userland (which is a lot of what i reference here when i say "unix"- all the command line utilities, shells, the C programming language) was influenced by the needs of both the re
825.
by a-dub 4y ago
i think the windows registry probably sucks because windows was primarily built to enable developers and end users to use microcomputers to make money (where messes are acceptable as long as it makes money) and unix differs in that it was b
826.
by a-dub 4y ago
nod and please understand that i am not criticizing your app (which looks excellent), but rather lamenting the sad state of (im)personal mobile computing. the engineering effort would have been better spent making web technology better ra
827.
by a-dub 4y ago
i've always just seen it as a wrapper for updating multivariate linear models when the inputs have noise that can be modeled with gaussians. linear models meaning anything that can be described as a matrix vector multiply. (which is a
828.
by a-dub 4y ago
> So this seems to buck the trend of needing enormous models, by being smarter about taking into account the output from running the AI-generated program on test cases. i'd be curious if it finds degenerate solutions and what they l
829.
by a-dub 4y ago
OT but same. jobs was right, it all belongs in the browser. apps pose too much of a privacy and security risk.
830.
by a-dub 4y ago
you should definitely fix this! find "Messages -> Emails" here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.tapforc... and as per the google play documentation: --snip-- Messages Emails Your
831.
by a-dub 4y ago
this looks cool but the data collected label in google play claims that it collects emails (under the messages heading). i believe it's probably meant to indicate that email addresses are collected, but the way it's presented it s
832.
by a-dub 4y ago
it's an open area of research as far as i know. the technical terms are "private information retrieval", "private information query", "homomorphic encryption" and "secure multiparty computation."
833.
by a-dub 4y ago
i'd probably use a constant string by writing a script and build tooling that takes my binary and spits out a source file (c?) which is then compiled in...
834.
by a-dub 4y ago
this is cool. next up, row level encryption with private information retrieval methods for enabling queries and searches homomorphically (on data encrypted by the client that the service provider never has a key for).
835.
by a-dub 4y ago
sure. but i think i'd rather see biologists debunk prevailing theories in biology by doing biology while in the process getting better at biology rather than dabbling in forensic image analysis. (although, who knows, maybe said dabbli
836.
by a-dub 4y ago
forensic image analysis is cool and all, but i think maybe instead of: "A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease." it would be better to
837.
by a-dub 4y ago
the op explicitly states that they feel like an outcast in that specific workplace, not that they suffer from generalized social anxiety. i am happy to hear that you have overcome your generalized social anxiety. i caution you against sugge
838.
by a-dub 4y ago
if the people at your work, or the job itself, are bumming you out, you should get a new job. in my experience this sort of thing is rarely fixed, even if attempts are made to fix it. (sometimes the fixes are worse than the problem.) they w
839.
by a-dub 4y ago
it kinda reminds me of the whole aca website debacle. in both cases, they tried to use one of these large, general outsourcing firms for technology work and in both cases it ended up with nobody on either side knowing what they were doing.
840.
by a-dub 4y ago
incidentally conedison still operates commercial steam delivery in manhattan to this day. https://www.coned.com/en/commercial-industrial/steam pneumatic signaling is cute. it makes me imagine the french mob, runni

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