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by blowski 3y ago
Online degrees seem to focus on teaching materials that are cheap to obtain elsewhere. Instead, I’d like to have seminars led by someone qualified, but I guess the numbers don’t add up for this.
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Yes, when I think of how dirty the microwaves are in shared houses, the idea of a public microwave doesn’t appeal.
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by blowski 3y ago
I agree in part - the features and simplicity of Docker Swarm are very appealing over k8s, but it also feels like so neglected that I'd be waiting every day for the EOL announcement.
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by blowski 3y ago
PHP has its fair share of snobbery as well. Non-framework devs look down on Symfony, who in turn look down on Laravel devs, and everybody looks down on WordPress devs.
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by blowski 3y ago
This happened to my sister. She was having fun playing Disney and ABBA songs, then changed to a different teacher who discouraged her from playing anything but classical. She quit playing within a year and now refuses even to play her favou
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by blowski 3y ago
Could I, your average listener, notice the difference in quality? If not, then it sounds like Atmos, so what's the problem?
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by blowski 3y ago
a.k.a. tradeoffs. You can have more features for less stability, so you need to decide what you care more about in a given context.
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by blowski 3y ago
I don’t remember seeing this campaign. Are there any links?
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by blowski 3y ago
Playing devil’s advocate, under this legislation, you can have secrets and you can communicate them secretly - just not via some channels.
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by blowski 3y ago
> Mechanical keyboards are generally considered to be /better/ for your ergonomic health than low-travel keyboards Citation needed there as well?
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How does it work - listen for keypresses? Is there any protection against this being a keylogger?
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Tensorflow isn’t competing with TerraForm.
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by blowski 3y ago
I guess it's like "cars are fast because they use similar engines to motorbikes, which also go fast". Technically correct, but doesn't really provide any useful information we can learn from.
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by blowski 3y ago
This is how I've understood it - and I'm clueless at both processor architecture and deep learning, so assume I'm wrong. If you ask "why are GPUs better suited than CPU s?" then it's because CPUs are more gener
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Which begs the question… why are GPUs good at matrix multiplication?
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Yes, this model works well when people are mostly surrounded by people "like them". Populists tell such people they'd be better off if it weren't for all the people with different coloured skin, wearing funny clothes, sp
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by blowski 3y ago
The article gives an example of how a recruiter is corrupted by metrics, leading to worse outcomes, so they're well aware of the problem you're describing. I imagine Kent Beck would say (and I'd agree with him) that your line
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Kayfabe(en.wikipedia.org)
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On the other hand, stumbling through some of that old crap can be wonderful. It’s like reading old diaries.
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Coca Cola doesn’t want to train a model that can be bought by Pepsi.
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by blowski 3y ago
This has been submitted many times before. Most substantial discussion is on these submissions. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784167 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35478871 * https:&#x2F
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by blowski 3y ago
During testing of a pension calculator I built, the users expressed more trust in the page when it took about 5-10 seconds to show results than when it showed them instantly. They equated instant results with a less complex model.
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I appreciate I'm making a "No True Scotsman" point, but Spark isn't really "a typical S3 client doing basic object storage stuff". I'm thinking of your standard web app persisting uploads and static files.
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It doesn’t have full feature parity, but as the post you shared says, they “aim for full interoperability with S3”. If you have an S3 client doing basic object storage stuff, it will work fine with Spaces.
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by blowski 3y ago
I'm with you. I want to buy things that don't need constant fiddling to keep them working. I want them to silently do their thing, supporting me in the background while I focus on mine. But it's great knowing that I _could_ d
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by blowski 3y ago
Are there any films or books about, say, a civilisation living in such a place?
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He’s the Citizen Jane of our day. Trying desperately to be loved by anybody who’ll have him.
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by blowski 3y ago
I know “the expert problem” as being unable to explain your area of expertise to anyone because your entire vocabulary and mental model of the world is so deep into that expertise. This is why so many of us on HN are ignored at work, for ex
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by blowski 3y ago
Low response rates are used as a spam signal by major email providers, whatever the type of email.
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by blowski 3y ago
Perhaps that is your response, but it’s not true of everybody. I’ve done a lot of experiments with different types of email, and beautiful emails always get significantly better response rates.

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