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by bcoates 10y ago
I wonder what Tablizer is up to these days...
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by bcoates 10y ago
He did articles for newspapers and webmagazines in the 00s, they had an Andy Rooney-ish "I hate people these days and everything they do" thing going.
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by bcoates 10y ago
You're thinking that the evil AI will be some sort of nagging scold, "eat your vegetables or I'll tell you to eat your vegetables again". It's more likely that it'll be like Gawker: "eat your vegetables or
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by bcoates 10y ago
Wonkblog recently posted about a study that claims to refute the "how doctors die" thing with evidence that doctors have roughly the same medical experience as everyone else when dying: https://www.washingtonpost.com&#x
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by bcoates 10y ago
Exactly. It's 2016 already, I expect to be happy and engaged sitting on my couch. Elevators are so 20th century.
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by bcoates 10y ago
If you're ever in Philadelphia, don't miss out on the Mütter Museum. It's an experience you won't forget.
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by bcoates 10y ago
This sort of strategy game AI in general works on a Dark Forest-ish theory, recursively evaluating what it would do if it were in the opponent's shoes to predict the reaction it will get to each possible move. Since Go is zero-sum the
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by bcoates 10y ago
I agree that fab commoditization is on the horizon, and I'm inclined to go a little further than you on the effect: I think we're going to see (in maybe 20 years) an ASIC design golden age where custom and semi-custom designs beco
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by bcoates 10y ago
In defense of the LA train system, most of the rolling stock on the Expo line are nice new trains, and Hollywood to Santa Monica via Downtown is almost the most pathological route between major destinations you can take in terms of car vs t
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by bcoates 10y ago
It's not just a change of perception -- in the last decade downtown LA has really blown up.
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by bcoates 10y ago
It's trivial to google the guy's name and confirm he's a self-identified anti-GMO crank with paper retractions. It's not reasonable to ask for citations on things you can easily confirm or deny yourself.
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by bcoates 10y ago
I agree with you and the parent post -- I think it's a neat idea that people will want I just doubt the total market being big enough that the "get investment and grow fast" model makes sense. I don't think anybody'
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by bcoates 10y ago
Edit: This may have come across as too terse to pass the not-just-civil-but-nice test so I've added more explanation to my choices I wasn't following the initial wave of submissions so here's my fresh-eyes take on the finalis
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by bcoates 10y ago
"Septiphobic Materials" seems to be free
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by bcoates 10y ago
The problem I have with Hal Finney == Satoshi is that by the early 2000s, Hal Finney knew more about the state of the art of proof of work functions than the author of Bitcoin. Lots of Bitcoin design decisions can be justified out of conser
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by bcoates 10y ago
Same problems with linters: people write weird code and/or introduce unnecessary changes to correct code that doesn't pass the check. Also, optional type checkers throw away a lot of the upsides of type systems (safe refactoring,
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by bcoates 10y ago
Projecting human social structures onto animal interactions almost always results in wrong conclusions about both.
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by bcoates 10y ago
Surely the exact submarine detection capabilities of a carrier group are a major military secret? It would be crazy to acknowledge a submarine that didn't announce itself even if you did or could have detected it.
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by bcoates 11y ago
It's bullshit. Cops (and the media) will repeat and exaggerate the most preposterous nonsense they can find if the subject is drugs. Doubly so if it lets them excuse things they were going to do anyway, like beat the shit out of a blac
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by bcoates 11y ago
Allow anything that passes basic validity checks, then send a nice email a few days later asking for updated payment info. This is easiest if you're a subscription service as you'll want to have a process for recovering customers
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by bcoates 11y ago
Because it's trivial for Vietnamese carders to pretend to be from any country they need to be if you're checking? They don't even need to actually get your delivery to win, they're just tasting for validity.
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by bcoates 11y ago
No he's right parameterized queries are how you prevent SQL injection (imo, the only correct answer). Doing a stored procedure for an SQL one-liner is just bringing a world of pain.
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by bcoates 11y ago
For the kinds of things medium-big spenders spend money on (mostly, largish amounts of network storage and the network to connect it to app servers) AWS was the first major provider to be decently competitive. I remember pricing this out at
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by bcoates 11y ago
If you're using sprocs to fix SQL injection you're Doing It Wrong.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Honestly I think the reverse panopticon is both a good idea and generally politically palatable. Deep down almost everyone is a good-government liberal if it doesn't break their arm or pick their pocket.
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by bcoates 11y ago
I think this is where the "community" metaphor breaks down; HN is not the equivalent of a civilization where a thousand flowers need to bloom to preserve the intellectual integrity of society; it is the equivalent of the club you
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by bcoates 11y ago
If you think WebAssembly (or asm.js) is a good idea, I would very much like you to do the thought experiment of what design decisions something like WebAssembly would have made 15 or 25 years ago, and what consequences those would have toda
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by bcoates 11y ago
I'm pretty sure people who have a not terribly high opinion of me would have it lowered still to discover I paid for porn.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Nah. If you're going to be pedantic about traditional definitions you get no credit for half measures, and engineering being an academic discipline as opposed to a generic term for an occupation/skillset is a relative novelty.
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by bcoates 11y ago
Heuristic Expiration is a case of documenting existing weirdness. Older browsers would have cache expiration policy be a setting the user could control, so you can't really leave off explicit headers with any expectation a default will

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