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by cwyers 7y ago
Yeah. Look at how complex something like AlphaGo is, and then compare the complexity of Minecraft to Go. They had four days and one GPU. They never had a chance.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Because it's functional.christmas, so everything on it is about functional programming.
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by cwyers 7y ago
So, on one hand, it's not a stone soup situation in the sense that it's not like there's any less soup if Google comes and takes all the soup they can eat. On the other hand, open source software only survives when _someone_
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by cwyers 7y ago
Serving model predictions via an API is a pretty common usecase for putting data science models in production. If Python's web service layer is slower than Rust's, that's a real concern even if it's not directly related
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by cwyers 7y ago
It's not like Python's community is done writing libraries and improving libraries. If there is going to be a tipping point it's going to have to start happening before the Julia package ecosystem catches up to Python's.
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by cwyers 7y ago
And R has Tensorflow bindings too. https://tensorflow.rstudio.com/
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by cwyers 7y ago
> How would you feel if an algorithm decided whether or not you should be charged with a crime? Whether an algorithm decided whether or not you had cancer? I think for many of these cases, it’s well known that the algorithms do much bett
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by cwyers 7y ago
Since it took me a little while to figure out what this was -- it's Firefox for Android.
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by cwyers 7y ago
> As such, some SRE/SWE team _must_ be responsible for projects that are in the "don't touch"/maintenance phase. This is very unsexy, toil-y and you don't get promoted for it - and as such barely anyone want
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by cwyers 7y ago
Microsoft isn't a tiger, it's a group of people. There is some continuity, but the people making those decisions are not the same people making those decisions now.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I can't reproduce the example given in this blog post -- when I type out the same thing in the new Slack input box, it renders correctly. Can others reproduce the problem?
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by cwyers 7y ago
> At the same time, real work is not getting done. Meaningful work is usually done quietly and in solitude. I don't really like this definition of meaningful work. Yes, there are some tasks that require focus and inventive mental wo
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by cwyers 7y ago
> Minecraft (formerly known as bedrock) which is the C++ edition and runs and plays across Windows 10, Android, iOS, and Xbox. Switch too. There are rumors that the Playstation 4 will receive a version based on Bedrock as well, but it&#x
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by cwyers 7y ago
The website takes me back to a certain era of computing -- the explanation of how sandboxing works is paired to a bunch of icons mostly of their time, and the illustration itself looks inspired by the Windows disk defragmenter utility.
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by cwyers 7y ago
So, sites like this are useful. (It's certainly better than memorizing the URL that various hotels use for their wifi portals, which I have done before, sadly.) But is there anybody working on solving this problem transparently to the
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by cwyers 7y ago
A lot of people don't only work on their own code. They have dependencies, they have coworkers, they have to work on code they wrote nine months ago. So it's not "I need to be forced to use the type checker," it's &
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by cwyers 7y ago
SQL also does it (albeit inconsistently).
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yeah, I think people are missing the joke here.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Why are you dismissing counterparty risk so quickly? The failure rate of Bitcoin exchanges is _high_.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Re 2... there is a lot of middle ground there, but can that middle ground tackle all of the problems systemd is trying to solve without resorting to what they've resorted to?
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by cwyers 7y ago
Yeah, it's two sides talking past each other, with very different conceptions of what Linux should be. The systemd detractors tend to view Linux as sort of a grab bag where you can make a nigh infinite number of operating systems, all
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by cwyers 7y ago
The problem is that you can't have a natural conversation with someone where there's high stakes. Job interviews are incredibly asymmetrical conversations, where one party has very low stakes (often they're choosing between s
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by cwyers 7y ago
There is a big difference between prejudging a person and their possible behavior from a known trait of their appearance, and judging a person from their observed behavior (often without any knowledge that the person is neuroatypical).
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by cwyers 7y ago
My guess is that they're referring to the open letter from people working on many GNU projects calling for Stallman to resign.
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by cwyers 7y ago
They are a niche distribution of a niche distribution of one of the BSDs. They are moving to being a downstream of the 40th most popular Linux distribution by DistroWatch's measures. What is there to get away with? I suspect most of th
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by cwyers 7y ago
I don't know, if one is picking a single issue to use as a litmus test, sex trafficking of minors seems like the issue to do it with. Even if you believe that RMS's statements on that issue were taken out of context, his statement
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by cwyers 7y ago
Perl 6 botched the transition so badly they're not even going to call themselves Perl anymore, and Perl has basically fallen off the map for new projects. The Python 2->3 move was rough but the language seems to be thriving despite
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by cwyers 7y ago
Most places likely aren't using Oracle at Amazon's scale, either. I suspect that one of MySQL, Postgres or Microsoft SQL Server can fill in for Oracle if you have access to the source code and can make changes yourself. (If you&#x
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by cwyers 7y ago
Users don't really choose when updates are available for their phones, so I'm not sure that this explains a lot.
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by cwyers 7y ago
What are the odds that Telegram, despite believing they didn't need to do an S-1 or F-1 form filing, complied with the letter of everything that the form filing is intended to determine? They would likely have to materially change the

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