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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
I just switched back to firefox yesterday. Not a long sample period, but so far I completely agree, less painful than chrome.
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
Ah, you're right. The video chat was definitely p2p though, I remember reading about it when it came out. I just tried to check what p2p video chat implementations were available back then, but no luck. Maybe a java plugin?
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
It used webRTC, at least in the early days. Same as Chat Roulette. That was why it was able to scale the way it did.
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
There are several evolutionary algorithms that are used to design network topography as well as weights. NEAT is a popular one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroevolution_of_augmenting_t... There are a few problems
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
Same. I was about to send this to a coworker I'm arguing with about design patterns. It was disappointing to open it and see buildings.
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
This is often a point of contention within the remote work world, but I sit firmly on the side of "don't work from home all the time". To that end, the best purchase you can make is a co-working/shared office membership
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
I actually agree with you. I think the societal impacts of this are going to be huge. I was speaking more to the monetization potential of AI. And I guess I should have specified that this refers legal monetization, since I'm gues
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
I'm also a skeptic, but for a slightly different reason. There are currently two types of business use cases that seem to be the focal point of this generation of AI. 1) Tooling. This one I think will probably bear fruit. It will lik
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by buffalobuffalo 3y ago
The key to building relationships with people is that you need to spend time with them. A lot of time. That's a big reason why it's so easy when you're young; you're constantly put in classrooms with the same people. I
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
This is not the moral hazard risk he was referring to. The bank still has no incentive to load up on overly risky investments because in the case of an FDIC takeover, they (the investors and executives) will still loose everything. The mor
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
I actually use it quite a bit in tandem with python. There's a python module called nimpy that makes the interoperability almost effortless.
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
As of late, my "language" of choice is a mashup of python and nim. I use python for the ecosystem and nim for parts that need to run fast. It's the easiest interoperability I've ever worked with.
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
I agree with the general sentiment. I have heard more doom and gloom about the end of the software industry in the last week than I think I ever have in my career. But the question that keeps popping into my head is, "What would the
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
On the other hand, I just asked it: If i were to use golang for an application that is running at very large scale, what are some issues that may come up. And this is the "wrong in almost every possible way" answer that it gave me
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
I like to work on a linux dev environment, and occasionally need to work on react native. This can be quite a pain when ios specific testing is needed. My solution has been to get a cloud hosted MacOS VM and RDP into it to test with the iO
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
Having been a remote worker for close to a decade, I've tried a lot of approaches. The best one I've found has been classes. Sign up for classes at a community college. Or language classes. Or sculpting classes. Anything that
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
mail.zoho.com. Super cheap with a custom domain. I then just imap it into gmail. My main concern isn't privacy. It's gmail suspending me for some stupid reason and leaving me locked out of my life.
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
I don't see why the repo owner needs to do/approve this. All this requires is that the repo can be forked. I could see a product looking like this. -Define a CI-like pipeline that runs tests that will fail if the bug persis
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
Agreed. I am looking for a very specific use case. These lists don't really provide much insight into whether or not a service fits. For reference, my use case/requirements: - I want to be able to deploy dockerized apps to
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by buffalobuffalo 4y ago
As a software engineer who doesn't really like devops and has been in this position multiple times, I'm a huge fan of buying à la carte services from different providers that specialize in managing a specific type of service (ofte
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
On the topic of darknet markets, I keep thinking that a darknet gold/hard currency market would be way more interesting than drugs. It would provide a way to convert crypto to real world fungible assets outside of the exchanges. Won
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
I actually switched from google news to bing news, just because their user preference algorithms are so underdeveloped. So it's essentially like not being in a filter bubble.
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
I think one way to massively reduce polarization in the US at least is to mix up the parties. That is to say, get left leaning people into the republican party and right leaning people into the democratic party. (just having them vote in t
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
I use dropbox, and a rsync script to a portable hard drive around once a month. I travel a lot, so i keep hard drives at several different places, which i think spreads the risk fairly well. The only reason I'm willing to sync my data
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
I use tiddlyroam( https://tiddlyroam.org/ ) an open source backlinking wiki, inspired by roam research. The nice thing about it is that you can configure it to save via git commits, and display via a hosted git page. Since
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
It actually has a lot of overlap with deep learning. Here's an NLP example. Lets say you have millions of phrases and you want to find the ones that are the most similar to a given one that you've chosen. One way of doing this w
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
It's not just the speed, it's also the fees. You ideally want something that has really minimal fees, so that you can send $.0001 without paying 10x that in fees. The ability to process micro-transactions cheaply and at scale co
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by buffalobuffalo 5y ago
I still use Heroku for almost all my personal projects. I stopped for a while, but they now allow you to dockerize your projects and push them to their registry. They also allow you to have multiple apps with access to shared resources.
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by buffalobuffalo 6y ago
I've recently thought this would make a great business model. You set up a service where you deploy open source tools like email, picture storage, etc to run on aws lambdas for people. All they would need to supply is a domain name (
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by buffalobuffalo 6y ago
The other side of the coin is that django's auth system is pretty rigid. Adding additional fields to the user object is clunky, and trying to do an unusual auth flow can be downright ugly. Dealing with that a few times can leave you a

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