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by cwyers 6y ago
Why? WDDM drivers written for Windows Vista can still work on Windows 10. And Windows is not a "niche" system.
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by cwyers 6y ago
I mean, that seems to be the result, yes? The intent is to compel device manufacturers to release the source of their drivers, but at this point, I think we have to admit that's not a great description of what's happening in the m
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by cwyers 6y ago
Even if two traits are positively correlated, they can end up looking negatively correlated when you are selecting on those traits: https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1373266475230789633
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by cwyers 6y ago
It seems like this only works in New York, which is probably a much smaller scale than Uber has to serve.
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by cwyers 6y ago
> My interest in free or open source software has never been either political or industrial. My interest has always been educational. That is, access to the source code provided the opportunity to learn from it. So, in the same spirit as
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by cwyers 6y ago
The question is, what act do you take? It's possible to negotiate and get a grace period to get into compliance, for instance.
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by cwyers 6y ago
That's the thing about Substack. The stuff that's monetized isn't even on Google. There is no incentive to do SEO for monetizing Substack.
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by cwyers 6y ago
The incentives are different. Medium has it so that everybody pulls from the same pot of money; blogspam pays. Substack, everybody is running their own newsletter. If you want to make money, you need repeat customers. Blogspam doesn't
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by cwyers 6y ago
I feel like what a lot of people miss about the decline of Skype was the move to smartphones. Chat, audio and video tech built for PCs with wired connections all needed to be replaced with stuff that accounted for the growing number of mobi
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by cwyers 6y ago
The reason COVID=19 hit the way it did was because it was novel; there were not similar diseases from an immunological standpoint being spread widely. Right now, exposure to one COVID strain (or a vaccination against a COVID strain) seems t
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by cwyers 6y ago
That is in such astonishing bad faith. It's one thing when random Reddit commenters ignore that Microsoft is a massive corporation that can, in fact, mulitask. A senior Google official should know better, because Google can mulitask to
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by cwyers 6y ago
Some number of cars are always going to need to be made new in a year -- due to collisions, wear and tear, etc. It is better for everybody, ceterus parabus, if newer cars are better at fuel efficiency and emissions. It is possible that the
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by cwyers 6y ago
I agree, and you absolutely shouldn't replace a car on the basis of fuel economy savings alone. (Having said that, most people aren't junking their old cars if they have a useful service life left, they're reselling them into
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by cwyers 6y ago
> All my cars are older and will forever be. No TV screen on the dash to go bad, no integrated CAN bus making diagnostics and repair a nightmare, no fly by wire nonsense. No phone-home spyware or OTA update horrors. If a relay goes bad i
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by cwyers 6y ago
It was an at-the-market offering, and Hertz didn't know anything about its market value that wasn't already a matter of public record. Hertz stock was already being traded. I guess I don't understand the ethical system that s
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by cwyers 6y ago
Among other things we've done to ourselves, we've got higher-resolution displays, and we have GUI apps that can scale to different resolutions seamlessly. We have support for high DPI displays. We have fonts with sub-pixel renderi
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by cwyers 6y ago
I would love to see a version of this for AWS.
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by cwyers 6y ago
> Yes, NFTs are “non-fungible tokens”. And sure, understanding what fungibility means is helpful (and we’ll get to that shortly). But it doesn’t quite get to the meat of the thing. > A better answer? > NFTs are a type of token that
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by cwyers 6y ago
Yes. Part of the value prop of these services is they have experts who are better qualified to make these decisions than I am.
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by cwyers 6y ago
Okay, but if Python already has all of these things that are considered not relevant to beginners, why assume that these new language features are things beginners will have to deal with, instead of being like the language features they don
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by cwyers 6y ago
Very much not the parent, but as a heavy R user, I don't think either of them quite nail the way dplyr and the tidyverse work. The thing about dplyr is... it's just functions. Okay, so, it's functions that leverage features R
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by cwyers 6y ago
More like... most of the scientific Python stack has settled on a third party library, NumPy, to provide support for numerical computing. That includes providing data types like arrays. Tensorflow doesn't use NumPy's data types, s
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by cwyers 6y ago
Also, it has hardware specs that make it reasonable to emulate. You're very unlikely to see a PS5 or Xbox Series X emulator anytime soon.
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by cwyers 6y ago
To me, that is "what comes next." If she didn't leave, she wouldn't need to think about her future, because her future would be "keep doing this."
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by cwyers 6y ago
> For now, I want to share with you why I’m moving on, and what comes next. I read this twice just to make sure I didn't miss something, and I don't actually see a reason why.
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by cwyers 6y ago
No, I just think "always build for bare metal" is bad advice.
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by cwyers 6y ago
RMarkdown uses pandoc too, and it's on version 2.6, while Jupyter Book is pre-1.0.
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by cwyers 6y ago
If Parler did that, how does that affect their time to market? Their ability to scale with growth? Maybe if they did that, they would still be operating, because they would have never hit critical mass to the point where anyone cared about
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by cwyers 6y ago
Uh, plenty of people knew this was gonna happen with the benefit of foresight. The problem is that short-selling is a risky position because your losses are unbounded, which means that 1) it's harder to do than taking a long position,
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by cwyers 6y ago
Can I suggest that if you couldn't foresee the chance of a trading halt in a massive short squeeze like this, then your risk modelling wasn't as sophisticated as you seem to think it was?

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