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by bitL 4y ago
"He's some guy with no credentials, working at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. Clearly has a knack for physics and is not terrible at it (physics teaching diploma), but otherwise has no social credit supporting his credibility (N
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by bitL 4y ago
I want to see how many people can recite Paxos/RAFT or "Operational transformation" on a system design interview... If you meet such people, start throwing gold at them as you found unicorns!
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by bitL 4y ago
Did anybody try to generate desktop icon sets for Linux?
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by bitL 4y ago
With Google+ gone, will + make a return as well?
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by bitL 4y ago
I loved discrete calculus from that book; pity it's not taught/used that much.
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by bitL 4y ago
Could it be because of Ip Man/Bruce Lee connection that mythologized that place?
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by bitL 4y ago
No good solution. Perhaps a cheap Android for $30 just for those apps... Maybe running Android in a VM inside a computer would work for that?
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by bitL 4y ago
Ok, so you understood flatmap and therefore monads in 2 minutes. Now you need something that needs nested monads. That's where major complexity suddenly appears - your code is no longer simple and is full of artificial constructs like
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by bitL 4y ago
The question is if the "unsafe" one really doesn't offer much benefit. If the unsafe one leads to a 3x speed up or a 10x lower memory consumption, then I'll use it.
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by bitL 4y ago
...and safety
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by bitL 4y ago
OK, my apologies, that comes as a baggage from previous discussions with FP experts that routinely dismissed any opposing ideas and the OP's answer struck the same chord.
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by bitL 4y ago
This resembles a situation when I got a new boss who once tried to write a 2-threaded app and got burnt, so from then onward he mandated to never use multiple threads (despite me using it safely on 65000+ threads before). A better answer wo
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by bitL 4y ago
With infinite memory and "no cost memory allocation" you'll be likely correct, but in real world production loads you'll hit those limits quickly and then the immutability is likely getting in the way. Imagine just keepi
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by bitL 4y ago
There is often some "redefinition of terms" going on with dedicated functional programming folks in order to assert their claims as you just demonstrated. There was some benchmark where mutable Java was shown to be around 30x fast
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by bitL 4y ago
Can you explain monads to a 5-year old? Can you explain objects?
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by bitL 4y ago
Immutability is slow, so if you are somebody squeezing the maximum FLOPS out of a CPU, you might want to stay away (sorry, 1.3x slowdown in your best case is not acceptable, and "leave it out to the compiler" is not a valid argume
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by bitL 4y ago
One can address the stress of layoffs by switching over to becoming a consultant, slowly ramping up premiums, treating each job as something that can end the next day, and scheduling the life with that in mind (i.e. not putting all your egg
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by bitL 4y ago
I've installed it on a NUC with i7-1185G7 and the GPU output is faulty on 5k2k @ 60Hz (TB4, screen split into multiple overlapping parts) - it seems like the kernel shipped by default has some bugs in the Intel Xe driver.
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by bitL 4y ago
Is there any value in Asahi Linux given GPU won't be likely supported for the next 10+ years (based on how long it took for regular Linux to get decent Nvidia and Radeon open source drivers and those didn't rely on any crypto chip
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by bitL 4y ago
Ok, Singapore is a bit sterile ("Singabore"), but contrasting it with Kowloon as its authentic opposite is a bit rich...
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by bitL 4y ago
> dead tree book I bet it takes more trees to manufacture a single nook (resources) than 100s books.
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by bitL 4y ago
It seems like the bigger transformer you have, the less the generated text feels like a speech of somebody with Wernicke's encepalopathy and more like a normal person, but there is still the feeling of some "brain lesion" in
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by bitL 4y ago
This one: https://ubuntu-mate.community/uploads/default/original/2X/e/...
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by bitL 4y ago
Oracle or ex-Sun employees? There is still some Sun culture left in that particular silo.
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by bitL 4y ago
https://www.pcworld.com/article/485535/google_throws_its_wei... Do I want to have a critical piece of open source financially dependent on Google with their conflict of interests wrt Google Suite or rather have it
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by bitL 4y ago
Why should Google control the only desktop alternative to MS Office?
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by bitL 4y ago
Many features in LibreOffice suffered a major regression - see e.g. math equation editor that is just unusable as the discoverability of math operators and symbols was thrown out of the window. The most annoying problem of OO being very slo
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by bitL 4y ago
Maybe he was just updating himself on the latest DL trends like using transformers in vision and rethinking his original approach?
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by bitL 4y ago
> Elon in 2028: “time machine!” We might well have one - back to the stone age based on the potential to escalate ongoing conflicts...
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by bitL 4y ago
That sequence can be easily replaced by some other neutral text like "Lake Tahoe" instead of "Copyright" and still most users would get it.

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