amptorn

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by amptorn 10y ago
Having competitors doesn't mean you're screwed.
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by amptorn 10y ago
From this quote it seems like she didn't so much lose her bonus as voluntarily declined it.
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by amptorn 10y ago
Wait until robot personhood makes disabling one of these things equivalent to murder, then we're in real trouble.
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by amptorn 10y ago
Gov.uk and other websites have usability requirements beyond most people's worst nightmares because unlike the social media platform du jour , people do not have the option of just not using the website. Even if you want to file your
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by amptorn 10y ago
Weird Al goes in the same bucket as The Muppets and Homestar Runner - danged good clean fun.
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by amptorn 10y ago
There's a lot of Unicode variations on "google". Potentially too many to make that practical...
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by amptorn 10y ago
Well, when you put it like that, yes, all of them.
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by amptorn 10y ago
The other thing to remember is that Disney are completely at liberty to reject and re-render scenes when something doesn't look perfect. Arguably, this even applies to examples chosen for the demo video.
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by amptorn 10y ago
Software still botches leap years , which have been a fact of life for centuries. I think software generally isn't going to get any better.
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by amptorn 10y ago
Now I want to know what the album was
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by amptorn 10y ago
When I make a programming language, one of its core design principles will be that there should be no puzzles like this.
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by amptorn 10y ago
...Your solution is to just try at random? And if it doesn't work, give up?
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by amptorn 10y ago
Well, if their primary source of cash is investors rather than actual business...
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by amptorn 10y ago
Get it down to 280 bytes and you can fit one in a tweet: https://github.com/ferno/base65536
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Base1 encodes arbitrary binary data as an incredibly long string of “A”s(github.com)
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by amptorn 10y ago
> there are historical time zones that aren't representable as whole minute offsets from UTC either. Luckily we ditched all of those before we invented leap seconds.
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by amptorn 10y ago
What does "am" mean?
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by amptorn 10y ago
Do you know why we invented time zones?
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by amptorn 10y ago
This is from 2003, in fact.
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by amptorn 10y ago
That methodology is awful. And kind of embarrassing.
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by amptorn 11y ago
I still don't believe they've actually hacked it. There's no evidence that they have.
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by amptorn 11y ago
I don't care what you do or how you define them, don't have both `var` and `val` in the same language. Way too easy to confuse.
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by amptorn 11y ago
One of the interesting side-effects here is that while it encourages you to write very small packages, it also strictly caps the maximum number of packages which you can add as dependencies of your own package. There's only so many `re
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by amptorn 11y ago
I meant the legal definition of time, not the dictionary definition.
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by amptorn 11y ago
> DST is actually more comfortable to live with by allowing for more daylight after work hours. Or we could just work slightly different hours? But I guess we're more comfortable altering the definition of time itself ...
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by amptorn 11y ago
I'm in the same position, but the presence of all publicity and no real product is part of what leads me to believe that Watson is much like Deep Blue or AlphaGo: it was designed to solve an extremely specific problem, and its capabili
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by amptorn 11y ago
Watson is a red herring.
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by amptorn 11y ago
Seems like a stopped clock situation in his case. That prediction is from a year ago and came to relatively little; he didn't predict this at all.
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by amptorn 11y ago
Intimidation?
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by amptorn 11y ago
Yes, you do always need humans to enforce/interpret the laws. Don't be absurd. The alternative is kind of like that scene in Robocop, except ED-209 is a judge instead of a robot, it sentences you to death rather than killing you d

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