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by bicubic 9y ago
Spot on. ggplot2 is much nicer than matplotlib and d3 as long as you stay on the beaten path; which is wide enough to accommodate the majority of use cases. But the second you step off that beaten path, it's hell. It just looks like th
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by bicubic 9y ago
I agree with your sentiment, but at the same time I've yet to see anyone do it better. The other popular tools like d3 have the same problems, I think some of it may just be an intrinsic cost with expressive visualization frameworks.
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by bicubic 9y ago
In Australia I think we have a really good system, although politicians are trying to destroy it now. You get an interest-free loan for your education, the only thing it accrues is inflation. The loan is repaid as a percentage of your taxab
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by bicubic 9y ago
No, there's just not enough data. While computers lack human weaknesses, they bring a slew of new ones. Computers have no situational awareness, no context, are vulnerable to hacking, respond in predetermined ways which can be manipula
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by bicubic 9y ago
Which one? The one with webpack? 1? 2? Now 3? What about react? And redux. And react HMR. Oh and you probably need immutable.js if you want to use react the 'proper' way not like those fools last year. Your starter script was conf
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by bicubic 9y ago
> takes a few mins at most to setup Now there's hyperbole. Let's be honest. Unless you do it for a living, at best it takes a few hours to set up boilerplate for any modern js project today. And let's also be honest that e
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by bicubic 9y ago
> the webpack book Holy shit, I thought you were kidding. We're at a point where the bundler, one of a dozen elements required for a 'barebones' modern js application, needs a book . I'm finding it hard to find motiv
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by bicubic 9y ago
I was going to write at length about my concerns on this topic, and then I decided not to. Because it's entirely possible that one day many years from now, a prospective employer/insurer/whatever finds such a comment and flag
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by bicubic 9y ago
> I thought there were already many GPU accelerated paths for graphics in the browser, even including basic CSS functionality which leverages hardware acceleration in a significant number of scenarios. That is true, and therein lies the
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by bicubic 9y ago
This is a very interesting question. What if the universe is stateless and any state at time T can be calculated in O(1) What if we just lack the expressiveness or the initial conditions to model a stateless universe? A fun consequence of s
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by bicubic 9y ago
It's the difference between someone who can maintain a comfortable lifestyle for the rest of their life if they don't go overboard, and someone who has enough money to start pursuing other ventures at cost. This comes with a whole
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by bicubic 9y ago
> What's stopping you from saving up same amount of money? The fact that it would put him at a significant relative quality of life disadvantage compared to his peers. A widespread 80% tax would not.
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by bicubic 9y ago
Yeah. There's a strata of poor to somewhat rich, but they're all in the same bucket of the grander wealth scale: workers. They must keep doing work in order to maintain their lifestyle, the only thing their relative income differe
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by bicubic 9y ago
Would these problems persist if we switched to optical signaling instead of rf? Can we expect an optical PCIe equivalent one day?
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by bicubic 9y ago
Hitbox on the slider rail is insanely small on pc.
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by bicubic 9y ago
Can you describe that in a bit more detail? Links? I'd love something like that.
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by bicubic 9y ago
Are the collected datasets available publicly?
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by bicubic 9y ago
Yeah. I get that modern education seems to have equality as a centerpiece, but the elephant in the room is that yes, some children are brighter than others. Making entire classes wait until everyone reaches a milestone before moving on, is
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by bicubic 9y ago
> In the interim, we can and should encourage people to be heroes. In reality it's just not black and white like that. I expect a lot of engineers aren't sure if they should be blowing the whistle about a particular thing. An
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by bicubic 9y ago
Because people reflexively rationalize and justify immoral behaviors and atrocities with that's just how the market works . It's a cop out, it's a perpetuation of the status quo and a barrier to improving it. Your argument i
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by bicubic 9y ago
Ah yes, The Market. Everything is okay if it's dictated by The Market, right? Child slavery in the coffee industry? That's cool, working exactly as The Market should be, quite efficient even. Sex trafficking? The Market. Fucking u
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by bicubic 9y ago
He has a tool to gauge and manipulate public perception, like the current generation of political elite can only dream of. He can push any agenda he wants and have it delivered in just the right way to get the public to agree. You want a du
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by bicubic 9y ago
At this point we need some kind of corporate blacklist of people like zuckerberg, page, and musk. And bar them from ever running for political office.
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by bicubic 9y ago
Bingo. All of these 'but you can work remotely' suggestions are non starters to anyone who isn't already relatively wealthy, because they carry immense risk. If there was a serious safety net that guaranteed a decent quality
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by bicubic 9y ago
The other second order effect is that advertising will influence you even if you opted out of everything you could and lived under a rock. As long as you have friends who are exposed to advertising, you are exposed to advertising through th
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by bicubic 9y ago
Do you have any evidence of that disclosure mechanism actually working in the employee's interest? I always read these clauses as 'notify us when you start new side projects so we can decide if we like them and take them off you f
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by bicubic 9y ago
Why is archive.org or one of the other centralized web archives not suitable for that? They don't index the content you want to retain?
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by bicubic 9y ago
Yeah, that seems like a weird thing to list as a 'feature'. Tell us why it's a feature that stands out over the competition, put that explanation on the list instead.
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by bicubic 9y ago
This seems neat, curious what are the use cases for this?
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by bicubic 9y ago
In reasonably sized datasets, you'll typically find a lot of interesting information and relationships that are only loosely or not at all related to what the analyst is actually paid to do at the time. Analysts who only find the spec

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