b3kart

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   by b3kart 6y ago

   Are you an engineer? How is your time divided between building (i.e. coding) and deciding what to build (meetings, gathering requirements, understanding the problem, etc.)? First we will automate sooner or later. The latter will be rather m
2. 152.▲
   by b3kart 6y ago

   If they are critical: why not? If they aren't: you can live with missing a corner case or two. :-)
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   by b3kart 6y ago

   > When will they learn a p2p system/network can never truly be taken down so long as Human's have personal agency. I do think they have learned that by now. However their goal is not to take it down completely, just to make it
4. 154.▲
   by b3kart 6y ago

   Unit tests will help with this.
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   by b3kart 6y ago

   > Programming as a career is rarely fulfilling to anyone. I think this is unnecessarily controversial. "Rarely to anyone" needs evidence. Plenty of happy programmers around. I get your (or Zed Shaw's?) point though. There&
6. 156.▲
   by b3kart 6y ago

   > I am something you could consider smart Oh boy. > 90% people have brain fog for some stupid fixable reason [citation needed] > avoid relationship until your life is in order. Huge time sink and ruins concentration. A healthy soci
7. 157.▲
   by b3kart 6y ago

   I hear the same thing is happening with all grocery deliveries (at leat in the UK), Amazon Fresh isn't special in that regard. You probably know current times are rather exceptional.
8. 158.▲
   by b3kart 6y ago

   Sounds like a recipe for producing a handful of brilliant scientists and a generation of traumatised students.
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   by b3kart 6y ago

   I am not sure how one can avoid being sarcastic here. You honestly believe top execs at these companies have sat down and decided to ban OSS contributions because that makes for exhausted, overworked employees? Not saner, more flexible work
10. 160.▲
    by b3kart 6y ago

    Yeah, this rule is clearly enforced by companies to protect their employees' well-being. Just billion-dollar corporations being sensitive and protective, as per usual. /s
11. 161.▲
    by b3kart 6y ago

    I think what the original poster meant is that the tail is really long, and it's hard to cover it, hence these bad examples.
12. 162.▲
    by b3kart 7y ago

    Question is, for how long? I am dreading the day when I can no longer switch to old.reddit.com whenever my laptop is begging for mercy.
13. 163.▲
    by b3kart 7y ago

    Apple web dev: It’s butter-smooth on my maxed-out Mac Pro, what are you on about? /s
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    2020: the Shetland Islands of unemployment charts. (For context: https://bit.ly/2UEV5H5 )
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    Couldn’t agree more. Know someone in the art history field, and all their academic texts are insufferable . People aren’t trying to deliver a point in the simplest way possible, instead they engage in some sort of linguistic masturbation.
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    We just don't have a very good definition of what "intelligence" actually is. Hence we're trying to set the bar somewhere. "Surely a machine that can play chess is intelligent". Nope, that's not it. "
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    Your point? If you're saying we haven't made progress since: I beg to differ.
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    > Forget X, the real challenge for AI is Y. As soon as Ys become Xs over time, and we come up with new Ys: we’re making progress.
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    I've never worked in a large team that has used a dynamically typed language. To me it sounds like a nightmare, especially given that I know how little time is typically left for documentation. I see that it could work if you enforce t
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    Reformat your example slightly, and suddenly it's not so bad: public function html2wikitext( PageConfig $pageConfig, string $html, array $options = [], ?SelserData $selserData = null ): string I a
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    To say the least.
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    I am sorry, you come across as extremely over-enthusiastic, without too many specifics beyond “we’re just about to figure it all out”, “you just wait”, and “it’s gonna revolutionize everything ”. We’ve seen this before with ImageNet, didn’
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    I am starting to get somewhat disenchanted with the whole “the Mac just works” thing. I suppose their recent dip in QA effort is to blame to some extent. But also, whenever something doesn’t work, and Apple doesn’t care enough to fix it —
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    I am not convinced the explanations we’d get from these models would be interpretable enough to drive their conceptual improvement. Deep nets just don’t learn nice interpretable features, nothing in the training objective makes them do so.
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    > 1000% learning experience for me, having to seek into the darkest corners of the language to find solutions to problems I didn't even know existed. Sounds like the experience has been beneficial for you, but this excerpt reads lik
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    Does it not suggest that node_modules in the source directory isn't a good idea to begin with?
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    Shout out to http://cht.sh , which could be used without installing anything: curl cht.sh/tr
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    Never seen this image before. Fascinating. A damning visualisation of Google's slow but steady descent into a soulless money-making machine.
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    Sure, some of it might be. But so are many other habits that we have. Marketing is a part of our culture know, and is inevitably influencing us, for better or worse. Charles Duhigg talks a bit about this in his "The Power of Habit&quot
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    by b3kart 7y ago

    I’d play the devils advocate re. it being a “trap”. People get bored of things. Changing UI for the sake of changing UI is a sensible business decision if it scratches the customers’ novelty itch. At least a good short-term decision.