bshanks

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   by bshanks 8y ago

   "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." Maybe humanity had to first try "all of the crazy bikeshedding about labyrinthine XML standards, triples, etc. or debating what a URL truly means&
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   by bshanks 8y ago

   Not a physicist but isn't it the case that any two observers can still compute at what time the other person perceived any given event, if they know each other's history of travel and the history of travel of the event? So you wou
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   by bshanks 8y ago

   I'm not a networking expert, but imo i think that with extreme delays, you would not want a real-time transport medium at all. The higher-level protocols would be built on top of a non-real time substrate. You would want to have so muc
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   A Type of Simulation Which Some Experimental Evidence Suggests We Don't Live In [pdf](philpapers.org)

   35 points by bshanks 8y ago|55 comments
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   Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass (2005) [pdf](inf.ethz.ch)

   36 points by bshanks 8y ago|3 comments
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   Building Hardware Systems for Information Flow Tracking (2010) [pdf](csl.stanford.edu)

   2 points by bshanks 8y ago|0 comments
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   Implementing a Simple Compiler on 25 Lines of JavaScript(blog.mgechev.com)

   1 points by bshanks 8y ago|0 comments
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   by bshanks 8y ago

   It might be something structural that is general to all such situations; maybe when there is a very large number of 'ordinary legislators' there is a high probability of them becoming, over time, de facto powerless compared to par
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   by bshanks 8y ago

   Strangely, i find the UI screenshots in the article to be clearer than some modern UIs (eg Gimp). Why? I'm not sure, but maybe: (1) there is less functionality, so less stuff on the screen. (2) Black and white means that the icons are
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    Python for Lisp Programmers (2000)(norvig.com)

    133 points by bshanks 8y ago|100 comments
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    The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016)(canonical.org)

    177 points by bshanks 8y ago|35 comments
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    by bshanks 8y ago

    The todo.txt file format supports extensions, and some of the extensions include start date, due date, recurring tasks. The Simpletask todo.txt Android client supports these, and can filter by things that are past their start date, sort by
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    The War of the Closes(stackoverflow.blog)

    2 points by bshanks 8y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    In addition, if each individual unit of memory hardware gained mini-CPU-like data processing capability, then you would have additional faux-CPU power that scaled linearly with memory; this would allow you to do some (embarassingly parallel
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    Particle Filter Explained Without Equations(youtube.com)

    3 points by bshanks 9y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    Reddit tries to be just a platform, but it fails in two ways: 1) Namespace of subreddits. The subreddit which snags the most obvious name for a topic has a much better chance of becoming canonical for that topic that competitors with worse
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    The issue is that many in group 1, baiters, intentionally and effectively mimic those in group 2, earnest people. So sadly, although they are different, there is no way to reliably distinguish them from their posting behavior.
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    Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability (2017)(zwischenzugs.com)

    109 points by bshanks 9y ago|13 comments
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    Solid – social linked data(github.com)

    2 points by bshanks 9y ago|0 comments
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    The myth of a superhuman AI(wired.com)

    2 points by bshanks 9y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    "the whole hardware interface is literally mis-designed by morons" Taken literally, this is not true.
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    The expanding consolidation of the consumer internet(ncta.com)

    1 points by bshanks 9y ago|0 comments
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    At the end of the article (and in the linked article), the author says that Flex is too immature for production use, but also says that GAE Standard is practically on autopilot and not recommended for new projects. So it seems that the auth
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    A Commercial Reuse License Can Be the Best of Both Worlds (2016)(kartick-log.blogspot.com)

    27 points by bshanks 9y ago|5 comments
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    Do you have any ideas on how a standards body or its procedures could be structured to fight against this tendency?
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    Another possibility is that Warwick's manner might be acting as a filter for patients who are already determined to go the extra mile for their health, and causing any other patients to leave. Perhaps any doctor would have better stats
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    by bshanks 9y ago

    Specifically, the links to stories with phkamp's comments appear to be: Too many comments to list here in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188 Three comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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    Comparison of GreenArrays Chips with TI Micropower Controllers (2010) [pdf](greenarraychips.com)

    37 points by bshanks 9y ago|18 comments
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    Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One(lowrisc.org)

    107 points by bshanks 9y ago|47 comments
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    Comparison of GreenArrays Chips with TI Micropower Controllers (2010) [pdf](greenarraychips.com)

    1 points by bshanks 9y ago|0 comments