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by abraxas 4y ago
For me it has felt like that since the early 2000s. I was born in the seventies. Is it an age thing? I can only get into a couple of games that were made after 2000. But I beat every cave on all 5 levels in Boulder Dash!
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by abraxas 4y ago
He was huge in Poland in the eighties, at least in the circles I hang out in. For the more geeky kids he was as well recognized as Michael Jackson among the pop listening crowd. Marek Biliński was a very distant second.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Some narrators never should have had their jobs to begin with. I'm viscerally angry at the narrator of "Permutation City" on Audible. Such a great book that could not have a more bored, disinterested narrator who clearly does
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by abraxas 4y ago
Linux is a prime example of a technology that was at first far behind its proprietary counterparts but eventually dominated and nearly extinguished all non-free competitors.
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by abraxas 4y ago
90% of small and medium apps could be redone with a simple UI toolkit that gives you a box of widgets and callbacks. I built a geoscience 3D application in the mid 90s with FLTK and it was the last time I made something UI based where I did
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by abraxas 4y ago
Even if it seems like it's outdated somewhat due to the breakneck progress of machine learning in the past few years the legendary Cs231n is still the course to start your ML journey with. Especially as taught by Andrej Karpathy. You s
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by abraxas 4y ago
To my eyes ChatGPT is a milestone that rivals the arrival of the Internet as a mainstream technology. I think the potential for changing the way we interact with the machines and the data they store is undergoing a shift that will make enti
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, the Remarkable looks like the most likely candidate to be able to displace a sheet of paper but my hangup is that the lack of colour will hinder its usability too much for me. I always use a few coloured pens when I scribble my notes.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Not everything needs to live for decades. Sometimes the ephemeral capture is just as important in sorting out your ideas. What doesn't work for me with these tools is that once I've gone deep I still need a tool that offers the ab
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by abraxas 4y ago
You can backtrack to any arbitrary point but yeah it is a NP hard problem and this algorithm cannot bypass that. Also there is no guarantee of convergence on a solution.
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by abraxas 4y ago
yeah, I still find that ChatGPT seems to understand the intent better than Copilot. Maybe it's the type of stuff I tend to ask.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Honestly I get more value out of ChatGPT than I do from Copilot even though both generate the wrong stuff now and then. But I like to describe the desired functionality by writing in plain English than trying to goad copilot in the right di
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by abraxas 4y ago
Server side systems that do a lot of CPU bound compute. I'm thinking Spark, Flink, that kind of stuff.
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by abraxas 4y ago
This is tangential to your post but from the rumours I read Carmack is not the Rockefeller of tech you'd expect given the contributions and the impact he's made on the entire industry. While it's not plainly stated his fortun
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by abraxas 4y ago
I think he probably just watched his own keynote that he was forced to give through that Metaverse avatar. It was a much better experience as pure audio.
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by abraxas 4y ago
I’m still unsure I understand the source of excitement. As far as I know Python even in its latest version is still at least an order of magnitude slower than native compiled code. It would seem to me that a native Python compiler would ben
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by abraxas 4y ago
I really want to see how testing goes for MobilEye when they start to open up their prototypes a little more. Of the youtube videos I've seen theirs is by far the most impressive and I have a lot of respect for Amnon Shashua.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Do they (Prisma) still rely on a Rust sidecar? This caused multiple issues with container deployment and the CI/CD pipeline of my employer.
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by abraxas 4y ago
Yeah, meanwhile a guy who has millions of followers and keeps spewing conspiracy nonsense about stolen elections is allowed back in because of course nothing bad could ever happen out of inciting that.
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by abraxas 4y ago
How is this at all different from iPython in say, a Jupyter notebook? Not only is it fully interactive but the Python system gives you rich visualization options for your data and flexibility in how you use it (e.g Colab vs local setup).
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by abraxas 4y ago
I stand by my point. It was all reactionary stuff. I went to the conferences and saw the talks by those bright eyed young developers. Their disdain for RDBMS and SQL was as fervent as it was misguided. They hailed a new era of Big Data and
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by abraxas 4y ago
Is there a version of Windows that lets you pay your way out of this bullshit? I may need a Windows machine for work next year and this shit is terrifying. I haven't touched Windows since around 2006 so I'm not familiar with their
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by abraxas 4y ago
Absolutely on point. Postgres can and will scale to workloads that average developers can't comprehend. I've used Postgres professionally since 2003 doing everything from run of the mill web work to high volume log aggregation sys
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by abraxas 4y ago
If I'm writing React and Prisma code here... what exactly does Wasp solve? Can someone explain this to a relative web stuff layman?
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by abraxas 4y ago
it still blows my mind that fossilized bones can remain intact for tens of millions of years. I know it's mostly minerals at that point. Still, it blows my mind that anything is able to retain its shape over tens of millions of years.
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by abraxas 4y ago
It is only a limitation of the interface that we're interacting with. There is no reason it couldn't backpropagate towards a better solution when told that it's wrong. OpenAI probably aren't letting it train online lest
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by abraxas 4y ago
Oh, wow that's such a great explanation! Thank you!
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by abraxas 4y ago
Oh, that makes a ton of sense. Thank you!
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by abraxas 4y ago
It's great in terms of question understanding but its responses are extremely verbose. It feels like someone who is talking at you rather than with you. Almost like an Aspberger sufferer who memorized all of Wikipedia. It is definitely
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by abraxas 4y ago
> if you want to compete in the job marketplace, or to be considered on dating apps, or just in general to participate in society it's almost a necessity to compare yourself to your peers. Obviously we should all be like the Buddha

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