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by bmitc 1y ago
The part in the article that is frustrating is something I've already been fearing, that GitHub is moving towards more and more AI. It's unfortunate, but GitHub has all but completely given up on improving GitHub features that don
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It was an attempt but a bad one.
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by bmitc 1y ago
That's a great analogy. Government = worker's/consumer's/people's union. Management = capitalism/corporations.
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It turns out that people were right about capitalism and its sinister dangers.
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Your comment is ignoring the realities and practicialities in the real world, just like GPL does. GPL is a theoretical idea that doesn't work in the real world, because in the real world, not everyone wants to or even can share their w
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by bmitc 1y ago
> People don't grasp how easy it is to build data models like this even without privileged first-party data access. > We filtered out all spatiotemporal edges How were you getting spatiotemporal data?
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by bmitc 1y ago
I agree with your sentiment. > This is just M2 expansion What is "M2 expansion"?
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The people making these decisions are incompetent and unintelligent. But they are also very ambitious and motivated to exact their skewed world view on people. I actually think it's dangerous to view these people as intelligent, beca
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by bmitc 1y ago
The question is one of identification between the drawing and the vector space. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44491474 . The graph of a function f: X -> Y is the set {(x, f(x)) | x in X}. It is
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> I'm not saying this is justified, but what would you have done in their situation? Individuals would have their lives ruined either from massive fines or jail time.
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Silicon Valley has always been the antithesis of ethics. It's foundations are much more right wing and libertarian, along the extremist lines.
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Vector spaces have an addition identity normally referred to as the 0 vector. When drawing vectors, such as on a 2D space, the origin is identified with this 0 vector, and then the points in the 2D space can be associated with the vectors i
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by bmitc 1y ago
> That's absolutely not the case. Can you elaborate? Which vector space(s) do these vectors belong to, as drawn? If anything, this just highlights the sloppiness of these types of illustrations. Things aren't precise enough, i
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That's how corporations behave when they have lawyers.
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I will need to read through the rest of the article later, but the initial intuition building is a bit sloppy. None of those vectors drawn in the initial examples belong to the same vector space. Vectors need to emanate from the same origin
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by bmitc 1y ago
As if I needed a reason to not read The Atlantic . What in the world is that article even about given the title and subtitle? It's behind a paywall. I can't imagine that the author has zero marine mammal experience, which seems t
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by bmitc 1y ago
Humans certainly do kill cats both for food and "fun". And orcas will, from time to time, kill things that they don't eat. Even the exclusively fish eating orcas in the Pacific Northwest have been witnessed killing seals, eve
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by bmitc 1y ago
Title should be changed from "Killer whales" to "Orcas".
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This seems to highlight how broken the hiring process is at these companies. I guess this is what you get when you want to leet code your candidates.
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by bmitc 1y ago
Does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to learn WebGPU/wpgu without much exposure to prior APIs such as OpenGL, WebGL, or Vulkan? As in, I'm wanting to learn WebGPU/wgpu inside and out, but I don't much want t
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by bmitc 1y ago
Out of Apple, Google, and Microsoft, Microsoft is _by far_ the most active and open to open source and contributions.
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by bmitc 1y ago
It would be nice if he would back that up by increasing focus on quality of life issues on GitHub. GitHub's feature set seems to get very little attention unless it overlaps with Copilot.
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by bmitc 1y ago
Ruff is actually a good example of the danger of rewrites. They rewrote tools but not all of the parts of the tools.
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by bmitc 1y ago
What has been holding me back on uv is my experience with Ruff. Ruff claims "Drop-in parity with Flake8, isort, and Black", but that is simply not true. At least for isort, Ruff only re-implemented what they wanted and then ask yo
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by bmitc 1y ago
Small claims is such a huge headache, though. It's far more expensive for anyone person than the company.
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And they have the same problems because they allow third party sellers. So far, Target seems it hasn't gone done this rode yet.
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SEGA earns $2-3 billion in revenue every year.
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> It's a made-up thing by humans. All of physics is made up by humans.
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I am in this camp as well. Even worse are cute error messages. If software actually worked, then I'd be fine with more whimsy. But it doesn't, so I'm not.
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They are uncommon in many languages though that don't require Rust's type system, such as functional languages that simply pass values around and nothing else.

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