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by cabalamat 3y ago
> Age moves in one direction so it has a simple merge function: Better to use date of birth as that doesn't change at all.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
>I don't think it has a 'power' switch that you can flip to cut power. There should be. And an entirely manual brake.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
It may well be, but when I try to download the pdf it fails.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> Negative results are super important. I agree, and this is often overlooked. Knowing what doesn't work (and why) is a massive help in searching for what does work.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
My understanding of AM and Eurisko (having looked into them a decade or so ago) was that their source code hadn't been published, and that there was a dispute as to what their capabilities actually were and how much was exaggeration by
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by cabalamat 3y ago
A subsidy for building houses in areas where they are likely to be struck by natural disasters (flooding in Florida, earthquakes in California) does not strike me as sensible.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> UK a consultant earns £100k pretax and pays approximately 30% net tax rate and 60% marginal rate. According to https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/tax-calculator/ , someone in the UK who earns £100k takes home £67,0
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Locality of behaviour is, on the whole, a good thing. I say "on the whole" because there are always counterexamples to any maxim. The article realises this and mentions 2: DRY and SoC. Writing good software is often a matter of ta
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Am I the only person for whom this looks like horrible, over-complex, write-only spaghetti code?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> if they wanted to ban behavioral advertising outright they should have and could have done that instead of what they have done Yes they could, so the question is why didn't they? I suspect the answer is that there are lots of fact
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by cabalamat 3y ago
This is true for most READMEs on github projects. Is it really too hard to write a paragraph giving the context?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> If it senses another (somewhat famous) protein, PD-L1, the immune cell self destructs So why don't pathogens evolve to display PD-L1 on their surfaces, to make immune cells harmless against them? Or do they?
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> that's trying to establish an initial niche Which suggests to me that while kagi might be good now, if it gets popular it may undergo enshittification in an effort to monetise its popularity.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> I think Haskell will be one of the "good ones" amongst target languages, eventually Another advantage of Haskell is that its side-effect-free nature makes it harder for a rogue AI to put in malicious code, thus helping to sol
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by cabalamat 3y ago
How easy would it be to make it output programs in a functional language, such as Haskell? it would be nice if it could be made to produce functions that are guaranteed to be free from side effects. In the long term I can imagine that the o
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Why not just define the function headers in Python? It's less verbose.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Even if these services were free, I would still prefer BitTorrent. Why? - It has a wider selection of content. I don't have to faff around looking for which content is available on which service. - There is no DRM. - Do these services
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> It’s also unnecessary as a sales tool because what would “pro-corporate” mean in the context of a book social network? Does whatever maximizes Amazon's short-term profits, probably.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> except XML feeds were then replaced by simpler files Yes. XML was basically superceded by JSON, which was far less verbose and clunky.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
They were essentially the same idea as WASM -- a portable machine code that runs on web browsers -- but a quarter of a century earlier. I suspect Java applets fell out of fashion because they could only manipulate a rectangular area of the
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by cabalamat 3y ago
And yet the same ridiculous fragmentation doesn't prevent Python from having a GUI that works on Python.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Also you can build a drone AI and cheaply deploy it to 1000 drones. Whereas each human pilot must be expensively trained.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Defence is c. 2% of the world economy and probably something similar for carbon emissions.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
>It wasn't always like this as you remember, and that's why piracy died for a time.. you could just have one streaming service, and you're good. But people got greedy. They saw what Netflix had, and wanted it for themselve
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by cabalamat 3y ago
As far as I can tell it isn't stigmatised in the UK. Or at least no-one has ever told me I'm a bad person for copying stuff.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
In a reasonable world, if you've paid the copying fee, then downloading content would be legal. But no, the content corporations want to take a double dip.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
Seems a bit odd that the Windows version has a GUI but not the Linux one. Building a GUI on top of Tk (like Python does) would probably not be hard.
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by cabalamat 3y ago
In terms of the 4-document model, I find a lot of software systems (libraries and frameworks), while they are good at providing tutorials and an API reference, they are a lot poorer at providing an Explanation. What I want to know when lear
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> it certainly resonates with me! I recently started getting into Javascript 2D game programming. MDN has a nice simple straightforward tutorial[1] on how to make a Breakout game in pure Javascript. Having read this tutorial, it all fits
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by cabalamat 3y ago
> So this week, we're introducing a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory, so that all of your different tool factory factories can be produced by a single, unified factory. The factory factory factory will produce o

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