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by barrkel 2y ago
My old kindle is a Kindle 3 from 2010, and it's still my primary e-ink reader. I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Shocking that battery didn't work after a year. I still use my Kindle 3 from 2010; it still holds weeks of standby charge, days worth of reading.
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by barrkel 2y ago
I scarcely recognize the person I was at 19 as the same person as me. I have almost no recollection of school except for maybe a couple of dozen moments and a handful - no more than 4 or so - acquaintances. They were friends at the time, bu
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by barrkel 2y ago
The most common thing that causes me pain in git today is asynchronous review of a chain of commits. If you work in a commit to trunk model, every commit needs to build and pass tests and be a self-contained unit of work, ideally small, so
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by barrkel 2y ago
Gotos are edges in a graph of basic blocks - runs of code with only one entry and one exit. Once you have your code in the form of basic blocks, there's lots of resources. See e.g. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/course
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by barrkel 2y ago
Generational GC is based on the assumption that most objects die young, and objects that survive are around for a long time - a kind of bathtub object lifetime curve. This assumption is approximately true for GUI apps, and a lot more true f
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by barrkel 2y ago
I'd add a little bit more to that. Pattern identification and continuation can be applied to evaluate symbolic reasoning. You can see this in e.g. the semantics of a functional programming language if evaluation semantics are defined i
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by barrkel 2y ago
One problem is transaction costs; you need aggregators to sit in the middle, adding up the people paying and to be paid out. Structurally, aggregators are then in a position to extract rents. Which they will do, sooner or later. There are o
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by barrkel 2y ago
Brand awareness is zero sum. Spending escalates within permissible bounds, with ad inventory sellers acting like landlords, extracting rent. This mechanic is as true for benign as it is for malignant ads.
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by barrkel 2y ago
The underlying point is game theoretical: ads are driven to these methods because within their niches, they're zero sum games (and negative sum for society at large due to externalities). > Honestly it's hard to see how we get
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by barrkel 2y ago
With the modern trend of continuous updating of software, how can you expect MBAs to leave money on the table and not add ads after the fact?
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by barrkel 2y ago
Price discrimination is not a priori bad. A fixed price with enough margin to support the business may be too high for price sensitive consumers. If you can charge more to less price sensitive consumers, you can, at the margin, make a littl
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by barrkel 2y ago
This only makes sense if you enjoy the English countryside. I'm an Irishman. I grew up in the countryside, in the west, and spent 15 years living in London in my 20s and 30s. I can count on one hand the number of visits to the English
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by barrkel 2y ago
There's a way to phrase this comment better, which reflects sadness on the facts of the market, and isn't a kind of attack on the author.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Media consumption on airplanes. Headsets are too heavy. Compute and battery needs to be somewhere else. AR is better than VR. Passthrough with overlay opens up lots of interesting opportunities for AI learning about mechanical tasks, and AI
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by barrkel 2y ago
Fahrenheit 451 has the wife mindlessly listening to airpods all day, even while having conversations (requiring skill in lipreading to avoid interruption). The airpods are described as Seashells or ear thimbles, small radios with speakers t
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by barrkel 2y ago
I've been trying to switch from scrolling to reading my Kindle. I aggressively curate who I do follow; on Twitter, I mainly use lists. At this point, I'm mostly just interested in AI news. I'm also subscribed to an AI newslet
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by barrkel 2y ago
To my mind, it doesn't matter whether a murder actually occurred for Ulbricht's culpability. He thought he was ordering a murder, he solicited proof, he got proof, and he asked for more hits. In his frame, someone was murdered on
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by barrkel 2y ago
You shouldn't assume that because you shouldn't assume the converse either. The LLM will use the chain of thought, as it's being built out like a garden path, to explore different completion possibilities. It's not neces
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by barrkel 2y ago
It's quite tedious to have to write (or even say) full sentences to express intent. Imagine driving a car with a voice interface, including accelerator, brake, indicators and so on. Controls are less verbose and dashboards are more inf
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by barrkel 2y ago
Horse riding is about 10x more dangerous, for time spent, than motorcycling, IIRC. It is a seriously dangerous sport.
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by barrkel 2y ago
The performance is focused on correctness and the APIs work with individual images. The underlying models can be run with batches, but you need to extract the architecture code to run directly. As a result, while I started with DeepFace, I
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by barrkel 2y ago
It depends on the quality of the image. It's most accurate for a square head-on photo, like a passport photo, and can be wildly off for occluded or angled photos. It's more accurate for people under 30, for older people it often u
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by barrkel 2y ago
Compaq was always worse in this regard, making almost PC but not quite PCs.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Function names aren't wholly distinct from comments. They suffer from the same problems as comments - they can go stale and no longer reflect the code they're naming.
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by barrkel 2y ago
I travel from Zurich to Hannover fairly regularly (about 7 hour train journey) and it generally costs 59 to 89 EUR each way first class, booked supersaver (fixed train) a week or two in advance with a 1st class Bahncard 25. The return is us
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by barrkel 2y ago
You will have to factor in the CO2 cost of electrical generation mix. The tradeoff will vary widely depending on where you live.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Here you go: https://chatgpt.com/share/6754df02-95a8-8002-bc8b-59da11d276... ChatGPT regularly searches and links to sources.
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by barrkel 2y ago
Self-registration has a lot of problems. Global state, like you say - you can't merge two apps that use the same registration mechanism but use incompatible registered sets. Lack of discoverability in maintenance - it's a kind of
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by barrkel 2y ago
Another milestone was audio mixing / virtual devices, allowing multiple apps to play sound at the same time. This gradually came in around the Windows 98 / XP transition with WDM rather than VxD drivers. Honorable mention should g

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