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by cbeach 4y ago
Sadly, given the behaviour of Typelevel as an organization (leftwing political activism, targeting rivals with cancellation etc), it seems vital that there’s an alternative. I invested a lot of effort in implementing systems using Typelevel
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by cbeach 4y ago
It was obvious to some of us that De Goes was targeted for political reasons, in a nasty example of cancel culture coordinated by one of John’s OSS competitors within the Scala ecosystem. Since then the ringleader of this cancel culture has
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by cbeach 4y ago
Why would OOP and functional programming be at opposite ends of a spectrum?
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’ve worked in mainstream companies e.g. Morgan Stanley who have made massive investments in Scala. The company I work at now ($5bn valuation) is 100% Scala. It’s not a common language like Java, but I don’t mind that. It attracts smart dev
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by cbeach 4y ago
He’s actually arguing against sudden changes. From the article: > The looming threat of a future radically different Scala 4 is the single greatest existential threat to Scala. I think what prompted John to write this article is that the
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by cbeach 4y ago
You said that people in affected communities need to have role models in the industry with the same skin colour. Firstly, young people aren’t stupid. They will be acutely aware if those role models were created in a tokenistic way. Young pe
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by cbeach 4y ago
Henry Ford? The man that gave us the weekend?
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by cbeach 4y ago
When people write anti-capitalist articles like this, I wish they would state a credible alternative that solves the problems they attribute to capitalism. It's easy, lazy, and politically opportunistic to attribute social problems to
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by cbeach 4y ago
The problem is that the government CAN ban crypto currencies like Bitcoin. What use is a currency that cannot be used for any lawful purchase? As long as government exists, we will never have a fair "competition" to find the consu
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by cbeach 4y ago
> Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asked the BoE to look into the case for a CBDC in 2021 when he was finance minister Rishi’s father in law is founder of Infosys. I just checked infosys.com. Their lead headline was “What’s next
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by cbeach 4y ago
How did an anti-Ford, pro-Tesla article make it onto CNN? I thought Musk Hate (and, by proxy, Tesla hate) was The Current Thing? And there’s no media outlet more tuned into establishment narratives than CNN.
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by cbeach 4y ago
> In other words, your personal life will be fully exposed to government scrutiny. So, why is it that almost no one is talking about this? Because it’s coming from the EU Commission, and they are intertwined with media and institutions i
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by cbeach 4y ago
If it’s a reasonable price I don’t mind paying a bit to keep my hobby projects going. To be honest I’m surprised I’ve had free access to Twitter’s graph for so long. That said, I’m pissed off at Musk for giving so little time, and so little
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by cbeach 4y ago
A major factor here is that social networks rely on advertisers interspersing their content in between user-generated content. For business reasons, the networks can't have their ads placed near anything controversial. So the networks
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by cbeach 4y ago
> The average male worker put in 2,006 hours last year, while the average female worker logged 1,758 hours. Is this ever factored in when we look into the gender pay gap?
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by cbeach 4y ago
On the strength of this HN submission I just ordered an RTX 3060 12GB card for £381 on Amazon so I can run this and future AI models. This stuff is fascinating, and @bryced's imaginAIry project made it accessible to people like me who
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by cbeach 4y ago
I see it's able to generate politician faces. I recall this wasn't possible on DALL·E 2 due to safety restrictions. I run a friendly caption contest https://caption.me so imaginAIry is going to be absolute gold for gen
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by cbeach 4y ago
EDIT - it's free of charge: https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html --- First time I've used "colab" - looks great. Out of interest, who pays for the compute used by this? Is it freely off
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by cbeach 4y ago
That worked! Thanks.
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by cbeach 4y ago
How do I get it to use CPU rather than GPU, please? I have 128GB of RAM but a lowly 2GB of VRAM in my PC.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Yes, I remember being permanently blocked from using Adsense without warning or explanation. As far as I know, I’d done nothing wrong. Nothing even remotely dodgy. Reading your comment reminds me that I should be careful not to rely too he
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by cbeach 4y ago
I agree it’s horrible to discriminate on personality types. As a counterpoint, though: in software jobs, the ability to pick up things fast is commercially valuable in some roles. As a hiring manager, if school grades helped me identify ext
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by cbeach 4y ago
I tried Node.js on the backend but it didn't have the expressiveness and ecosystem of Scala. I run a few simple Node and Python apps behind the scenes of caption.me, but for the core code, I want the power of Scala, its functional sty
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by cbeach 4y ago
I used PHP in my university days, 20 years ago, and went on to build a few websites with it that I still run today e.g. https://caption.me It was a fantastic student language - the docs were great, the code was simple and impera
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by cbeach 4y ago
I've seen ads on Twitter that render in a more sophisticated way than tweets. For example, they include buttons. Third party apps could implement this kind of thing, for sure. However, on an ongoing basis, Twitter would need to ensure
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by cbeach 4y ago
Third party apps decide how content is displayed, regardless of what comes out of the Twitter API. That's the problem for Twitter, from a business point of view.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Ad brokers and their clients are very sensitive about how their ads are displayed, and which content they appear next to. To allow arbitrary third party apps to decide this would not be a sensible business decision by Twitter.
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by cbeach 4y ago
An incidental data point - I run a number of Twitter bots (nice bots that are helpful), and those are still working. So the API hasn’t been fully turned off. At least, not for all API users.
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Ask HN: Could ChatGPT-style AI revolutionize the generation of open-world games?
7 points by cbeach 4y ago|1 comments
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by cbeach 4y ago
I’m 41 and feeling the same. One solution that helps me is to be more methodical, and make detailed notes. So, for example, when trying to understand a set of nested calls, I decide whether I’m going to do a “depth first” or “breadth first

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