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by beagle3 3y ago
I haven’t been keeping tabs, but this seems very much like RIP / Achilioptas version of the Johnson Lindenstrauss lemma. Perhaps the rest of the JL lemma promise applies as well - compressing the number of parameters by a few orders of
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by beagle3 3y ago
It doesn't at all matter how it looks on the mailing list; What matters is the web. The reality is, that with every passing day, there are more websites that break on anything that isn't Chrome, despite Firefox (last independent m
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by beagle3 3y ago
Chrome is an act of “Embrace & Extend” the web. It may have started as a “preserve the web” against IE in the IE 5.5 / 6 days. But once that war was won, it became an act of Embrace & Extend.
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by beagle3 3y ago
This was the 128K spectrum. The original ones (16K and 48K) had a 1-bit CPU driven speaker, worse than the PC’s original speaker (which could do background square waves thanks to a programmable timer). Even the 48K had interesting music, wh
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by beagle3 3y ago
Yes, I have been guilty of enforcing correct behavior in an informal culture. In that sense, it is an insider view.
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by beagle3 3y ago
I was not saying "psql is all you'll ever need". I was just replying to >>> "Applied consistently, this logic would seem to preclude becoming familiar with anything." As a general principle.
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by beagle3 3y ago
For projects where I have a paying customer, this rule is absolute; I do not experiment on my client's time (and dime) unless they specifically request it. But I do have projects which I finance myself (with myself as customer), and wh
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by beagle3 3y ago
To me this argument sounds like “I don’t have time for hobby projects, so I’m going to treat this professional one as a hobby”. I always start a professional project with technologies I am intimately familiar with - have used myself, or hav
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by beagle3 3y ago
I actually think it will be the informal cultures who will have an easier time integrating it. Because pockets of “Sir, I recognize you are my boss but you still need to do this properly through the regular channels” are, in my experience,
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by beagle3 3y ago
I used to submit math assignments in Word for Windows 2.0 (or 6.0, whichever was current in 1994) equation editor - i didn’t have access to a reasonable latex setup at the time. The reason was that my handwriting was slow, messy and hard to
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by beagle3 3y ago
Except .. there’s no effective authentication protocol in place to verify that a specific person is indeed in a specific role (or is indeed person they claim to be).
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by beagle3 3y ago
That would work in Australia. In most places in the US and Britain as well. I can imagine Israelis calling the real boss and tell them “I don’t believe it’s really you” and refuse to do it. But that’s not how it works in authoritative cultu
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by beagle3 3y ago
Not really. In those cultures, just like in armies everywhere, authority comes from the boss/commander and they can override their previous instructions at any point (and many do at some point). There’s often a distinction in armies be
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by beagle3 3y ago
Thanks!
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by beagle3 3y ago
Also includes Lil - a programming language quite different from Hyperscript/Applescript, but which is beautiful and interesting in its own right — kind of a “humanized” vector language.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Would you be able to explain it to those of us who did not grow up with Macs at the time?
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by beagle3 3y ago
The branch does, but you still have the comparison itself, and also the branch instruction to decide and skip (although thanks to branch prediction, your pipeline doesn’t get flushed). If you have enough idle execution units, you might not
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by beagle3 3y ago
You’ve basically described Nim’s memory management.
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by beagle3 3y ago
There was a time (around 1999-2005 iirc) when Enlightenment’s graphics library Imlib was the tool for fast CPU raster ops, and was adopted by everyone else. Then accelerated graphics (and eventually GPUs) became the focus and the norm, an
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by beagle3 3y ago
Likely a reference to Spolsky’s Architecture Astronauts.
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by beagle3 3y ago
I think my main issue is with your choice of the word "pattern", as something you can match against .... Because the patterns are sometimes the entire word (lower vs. tower, cough vs dough). That's not the meaning I usually a
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by beagle3 3y ago
Bah, kids these days who think of 2005 as "early times". I had, in one week in July of 2000, during a road show for my startup, meetings with Lycos, Inktomi, Excite, Yahoo, and a few other search engine companies, all of which wer
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by beagle3 3y ago
… and it’s done locally, unlike the chrome version which uses googles servers. Some of us handle sensitive content that must not be uploaded to Google.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Your “at least half the words” requirement is an strong English bias. I suspect no language is highly irregular by that requirement. In many languages though, the irregulars are at single digit percentage - sometimes even zero. And there ar
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by beagle3 3y ago
> IME, it's mostly regular; there are patterns (pronunciation of "ou" in the middle of a word, "tion" at the end of a word, adding "ing" to a word), but there are also exceptions (plural of mouse vs plu
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by beagle3 3y ago
In general, Hebrew with vowels (as it is usually taught to beginners) has well specified pronunciation. The emphasis is usually not written, which does occasionally leave a degree of freedom, but it’s much easier than English with its thous
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by beagle3 3y ago
Incredibly cool. Any chance you’ll share your Anki stack?
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by beagle3 3y ago
Amazon’s “Homecoming” show is one of my favorite low key science fiction shows. It shows immediate effects of a tiny possible discovery. No CGI, no special effects - just Good writing, good acting, and good camera work
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by beagle3 3y ago
At least as of Firefox 109, support for non Latin languages was broken to the point of being completely unusable.
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by beagle3 3y ago
Re: cheap pcs for support employees - that’s true everywhere; but it feels like only in the US is this 2nd hand market open to everyone.

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