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by a-priori 7y ago
I ran a fairly normal fantasy scenario where I found a missing son of a local knight. Then the king's guards attacked me on the street and killed me. So I chose to keep playing, resurrected myself by transforming into a demon, and kill
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by a-priori 7y ago
Next step: apply an adversarial learning algorithm to the shooter, so the two can co-evolve automatically.
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by a-priori 7y ago
I've worked at two companies that have a definite set of values: Amazon and Shopify. In both companies the values serve two purposes. In decision-making, they act as something you can point at when you weigh choices. And in performance
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by a-priori 7y ago
You're assuming that you're 'friendly' enough with your users that they want you to use their given name.
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by a-priori 7y ago
What's the purpose of structured modelling of names? Why does it matter which parts are family vs given vs whatever else? Lots of the W3C International Examples they give use a `<text>` field. Why not just use that? https:/
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by a-priori 7y ago
Pick the one that seems most mysterious and scary.
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by a-priori 7y ago
To me, C is a tale of the perils of maintaining backwards compatibility: there are lots of parts of C, and particularly its standard library, that should never be used because there's no way to do so safely, but can never be removed an
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by a-priori 7y ago
Yes, it could. Actually that's one concern I have looking forward past the current climate crisis: that the current push to solve climate change will spin up a huge industry of carbon capture and sequestration, which will turn the word
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by a-priori 7y ago
Yes, once you sort out the industrial process the price of manufactured gasoline would be driven by the local price of electricity at the production site. Thermodynamics isn't the only thing to consider. There are parts of the world wh
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by a-priori 7y ago
As one example, imagine that someone invents a process to manufacture gasoline using carbon extracted from the air, at a price that's cost competitive with gasoline extracted from the ground. Any car running on that as fuel would immed
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by a-priori 7y ago
You should start charging money for this today. Don’t wait until it feels “ready”.
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by a-priori 7y ago
Which American cities, they mean. There’s a whole world out there, folks.
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by a-priori 7y ago
But if you're talking about having human operators in the loop then any communications latency would be in addition to the reaction time of the operator.
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by a-priori 7y ago
Yes and that's a tall order considering even we humans do not even have general intelligence. Our minds are just a federation of special intelligences.
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by a-priori 7y ago
The Earth is 134ms around at the speed of light. That's how long it takes to communicate in real time with the other side of the world (your antipode). No technology or routing policies can change that. This sort of real-time control w
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by a-priori 7y ago
This isn't a sign that one architecture is better than the other. It only indicates that the tools are more mature for debugging monoliths than distributed architectures (including event-driven) for tracing causality and data flow thro
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by a-priori 7y ago
The jobs I'm talking about are the median software development job. According to Payscale, these developers make about $70k in the United States. This is over twice the median individual income, so yes they are well paid. https:/
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by a-priori 7y ago
A large majority of all software could be called "dull line-of-business apps" and statistically this is what most software developers do. These jobs are stable, safe, and pay a good salary. It's awfully elitist to frame this
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by a-priori 7y ago
It's not a nice blog post and it's horribly incomplete, but I did write this JIT-compiled programming environment for a Scheme-like language in Rust. https://github.com/michaelmelanson/risp
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by a-priori 7y ago
I did some quick math and with their current annual return rate of 5.8%, the returns from the the Oil Fund could finance the government's budget entirely once it gets to be about $2T in size. That's about 2x its current size. That
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by a-priori 7y ago
So what? He sells $1B every year to fund Blue Origin alone. Maybe this is one of these transactions? On the scale of Bezos' fortune, this is not a significant amount of money.
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by a-priori 7y ago
I say they extract it from the corporate officers by declaring any bonus payments they've returned over the last several years to be invalid and requiring them to be returned. Then if there's any leftover money owed, forbid the co
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by a-priori 7y ago
This same algorithm could be applied in three dimensions (X, Y, time) such that the seam connects along adjacent pixels through time as well as the Y axis. The seam here would be a 2D plane, rather than a 1D line as it is for a single image
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by a-priori 7y ago
Since the human visual system is so highly sensitive to faces I think the best approach here would be to apply a facial detection algorithm, then boost the energy for the regions where faces are detected. Basically you'd apply a heuris
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by a-priori 7y ago
Skilled carpenters use hammers. That doesn't mean a hammer can't cause a lot of damage if used incorrectly.
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by a-priori 7y ago
We have basically three programs to provide income to retirees: 1) Canada Pension Plan, a worker-funded defined benefit pension managed by the government via an arms-length investment board. 2) Old Age Security, a guaranteed income program
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by a-priori 8y ago
> As of 1 January 2008, Germany’s corporation tax rate is 15%. Counting both the solidarity surcharge (5.5% of corporation tax) and trade tax (averaging 14% as of 2008), tax on corporations in Germany is just below 30%. https:/&#x2
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by a-priori 8y ago
Could you explain the difference, in your own words? The most obvious way I see to support this feature is to build up a big table of contact connections, so that when I join and put in my phone number it can send up my list of contacts and
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by a-priori 8y ago
In other words you have to harvest the parties' contact lists in order to do this matching?
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by a-priori 8y ago
It's a style difference. The Guardian is a British paper. In British English, acronyms are usually written in title case, rather than all-caps as they are in American English.

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