adamc

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961.
by adamc 6y ago
This is a nugget of great wisdom. (I will likely get downvoted for such a useless comment... so be it.) Trying to do everything for everyone makes for very complex systems that are too abstract to be easily used.
962.
by adamc 6y ago
It's pretty different. My kid had it, and there were some things we did early to help him study, but nothing like either of those disorders. It's more tied to very high empathy. However, you do have to learn how to avoid taking on
963.
by adamc 6y ago
You might just be an HSP: https://www.amazon.com/Highly-Sensitive-Person-Thrive-Overwh... I've had this problem in many contexts. Some of it stems from childhood circumstances, but it's also that I often read peop
964.
by adamc 6y ago
Yep. I've been gradually replacing them because of that.
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by adamc 6y ago
So, this is the claim I thought was interesting: "Every paper is SOTA, has strong theoretical guarantees, an intuitive explanation, is interpretable and fair but almost none are mutually consistent with each other" How can that be
966.
by adamc 6y ago
My interpretation is that the results aren't very certain.
967.
by adamc 6y ago
Having a sinecure from which you can make forays into new ideas is far from the reality of most jobs. It is more akin to the "gentlemen scientists" of yore. Whether this is actually a good way to stimulate knowledge accumulation s
968.
by adamc 6y ago
SD cards are kind of slow, though.
969.
by adamc 6y ago
It's gradually becoming a ghetto. They do somethings well, and at one time it was a much better experience than Windows, but I don't think I would say that today. When I replace my Macbook Air, it will probably be with a Windows o
970.
by adamc 6y ago
This was very interesting to read. It contributes to my sense that MacOS is not really a top priority at Apple any more. Recent OS upgrades there have been quite painful.
971.
by adamc 6y ago
Currently not. At one point in my brother's career, he came pretty close.
972.
by adamc 6y ago
Horses for courses. If I had to lug it through airports everyday, I'd want the lightest laptop I could possibly live with. Although I don't really care about how thin it is, per se. Weight is what matters.
973.
by adamc 6y ago
Sure. Unless their security policies are completely broken, any laptops they are using should also have disk-level encryption.
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by adamc 6y ago
Nah. I watched a four-year-old nephew basically go 3+ days without eating anything (long weekend in a cabin). There can be other things at play.
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by adamc 6y ago
This made me laugh. Admittedly, I don't eat much meat, because I get sick of it so easily. Somehow I imagine roots and berries were a sought after alternative.
976.
by adamc 6y ago
Presumably, they want to keep the pressure on Russia. I don't know why we would sanction Crimea rather than all Russian-held territory, though.
977.
by adamc 6y ago
It works because many FB users (probably the vast majority) don't fact-check anything. I've lost count of the number of times I did and found it to be untrue.
978.
by adamc 6y ago
Any military decision that could trigger nuclear war has that potential.
979.
by adamc 6y ago
Rewriting in Rust, however, would likely introduce many new bugs, as most rewrites do. The economics of it would be terrible.
980.
by adamc 6y ago
Doesn't scale. To do it correctly, you would want a different secret in each case, and our inability to remember so many secrets is exactly why we use password manager in the first place. For a small number of key accounts, sure.
981.
by adamc 6y ago
This. When so many are caught cheating, "character" is not a sufficient explanation; there is something systemic going on.
982.
by adamc 6y ago
Although trusting Oracle is a stretch. Look at the JVM.
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by adamc 6y ago
If you are in the field , attempting to contribute, then I don't think authority is a good rubric. But for those of us who aren't, I think it's necessary. The world is too complex for all of us to make up our own minds on ev
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by adamc 6y ago
Even some who don't mind commercial will. Oracle has a well-earned reputation of being difficult in licensing negotiations (there was even a Gartner piece on it at some point)... And what they did with the JDK just underscored that.
985.
by adamc 6y ago
Arguably, IBM has done a lot of short-term things in recent decades.
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by adamc 6y ago
It will hurt indirectly, because a lot of developers/devops/sys admins get skills working on CentOS which are then portable to RHEL. Now they won't. Network effects of being popular are significant.
987.
by adamc 6y ago
I see it as gradually hurting them, as organizations switch to other server Linux versions, and that diminishes the value of RHEL knowledge.
988.
by adamc 6y ago
Seems like RedHat wanting to make CentOS a less "safe" alternative to RHEL.
989.
by adamc 6y ago
Not so much an attack, but my reaction was something like the post you respond to: "GPL3 doesn't work because people are abandoning GPL 3" seems like a self-reinforcing prophecy. I am OK with people using whatever license the
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by adamc 6y ago
At one point I built a "Steam Box" that ran Windows (because, at the time anyway, lots of things didn't run on Linux), and hooked it up to the TV. The only problem I ran into was that lots of games don't do controllers w

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