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by davemp 8y ago
In lue of the downvotes, would anyone like to defend the efficacy of the article's title?
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by davemp 8y ago
ML is not a glue gun. CRUD apps need glue guns. You need to find a place that needs a sorting (classifying) machine.
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by davemp 8y ago
comp(tenure) -> { (60 [weeks of salary, benefits]) * (tenure [weeks]) / (65 [years]), tenure < 65 60 [weeks of salary, benefits], tenure >= 65 } One can come up with many horrible compensation functions that
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by davemp 8y ago
> This article is one good step above scare-mongering, but only one. I agree. Could a moderator please change the title at the least? "Prions, A Rare and Lethal Infection, ..." would be slightly better.
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by davemp 8y ago
Certainly. HN is still relatively low scale. The average comment is still of reasonable quality. I’ve only been trolled a few times here. I feel the dilution, but I’m pretty content jamming my square needs into a circle and not a deca dimen
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by davemp 8y ago
As much as I agree with Tim's premise, this article is mostly useless politicking. The internet suffers from a combination of the tragedy of the commons and what I call tragedy of the new world. [1] The tragedy also afflicts government
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by davemp 8y ago
This will show my (lack of age). I organically taught myself digital logic as Minecraft slowly added redstone and its features. When it came time to pick a major computer engineering was an obvious choice and I never looked back! Minecraft
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by davemp 8y ago
It's certainly multifaceted. I could write a pretty substantial article on this topic. My comment was mostly alluding to the unsupported imagery of a fire and brimstone pit of eternal torment for all non-believers. There's also ex
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by davemp 8y ago
> “ ... it’s been co-opted by pessimistic baby-boomers and turned into a dark nightmarish scenario ... “ Similarly, this is how Christianity's public image was killed in the West.
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by davemp 8y ago
Corporate communications get auto trashed in my inboxes. These emails are nothing more than propaganda. The only CCs that I’ve seen to be somewhat useful were Q&A sessions. I guess it’s harder to lie directly to someone face without t
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by davemp 8y ago
I’ll give copying writing a try! Letting an article sit seems like it might be needed for self editing. At least for me specifically. > I'm going to write this last section about finishing and shipping, then hit the publish button&q
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by davemp 8y ago
My problem is editing. I’ll write an article, do a revision, then let it collect dust. I don’t really believe in posting a long form article that hasn’t been reviewed by someone who understands the topic. I almost always leave out some not-
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by davemp 8y ago
I believe that the USA's relationship is at least a bit more important than Huawei's R&D budget.
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by davemp 8y ago
It's very frustrating to have discussions with deconstructionists. Rocks do not have cognition.
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by davemp 8y ago
I've always like the solution of the town/city center having limited to no parking. Then within walking/biking distance, but outside the centers, the city maintains or contracts out sufficient (distributed) parking in whateve
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by davemp 8y ago
> If the universe is deterministic, then we are just a bunch of atoms reacting predictably to external forces, making us not very different from rocks. No. This is very disingenuous. We are a beautifully ordered, continuously changing, u
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by davemp 8y ago
I'll go poll the world and get back to you to see if you align ;)
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by davemp 8y ago
If you were to view people as a composition of their choices, then in the current branch every individual chose said branch. Every person who did not chose the current branch, is now a different individual. If the universe is considered a s
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by davemp 8y ago
> Not only that, but randomness and determinism are equally against the (casual) idea of free will. I'm not sure that I'd agree. Maybe the layman doesn't think about how to reconcile determinism with their concept of free
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by davemp 8y ago
I’m not sure, but I’m forced to use edge at work. There are a litany of details that annoy me about the browser—speed not being one. Likely some suit just presented a convincing PowerPoint on how MS could save some dosh.
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by davemp 8y ago
These are great features, but they are really just syntactic sugar over algebraic types. It's not a more pleasant developer experience than sum (Option) types, it's a more pleasant experience with sum types. Ex: macro! u
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by davemp 8y ago
Thank you. I got confused on nomenclature because of a null pointer's similarity to the bottom type. I was trying to say that having a NULL value that inhabits every type seems silly as not every set of values has the NULL value. Consi
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by davemp 8y ago
Great input! I believe a serious workout would involve some sort of lifting routine before hand. This exercise is really just intended to get some cardio/endorphins without being heavily aerobic.
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by davemp 8y ago
Yes, option types are awesome. No, they are not nulls. Algebraic data types are not direct support "no data found at the type level". Algebraic types are really just a fancier enum/union type. It just so happens that inventin
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by davemp 8y ago
This is hard to reconcile with type theory for me. NULL, to me, implies and uninhabited type, i.e. there can never be a value with a NULL type. Using null for a "data isn't there, apply, available, etc" seems like an abuse of
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by davemp 8y ago
If one doesn't want to rely on anecdata, here [1] is a benchmark. Based on my experience and this benchmark, I don't how such a negative opinion can be supported. [1]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3213031&#
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by davemp 8y ago
Further off topic: high intensity workouts also have the benefit of being short and therefore easier to do after work :) --- A great workout that only requires an exercise bike is: - 4-5min of biking, sprinting for 30sec every minute. - no
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by davemp 8y ago
The loose association, engagement suggestion algorithms are seriously dangerous. The suggestions can cause a "thermal run-away" [1] feedback loop for the mind. Even in a less egregious example than the OP, take modern English for
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by davemp 8y ago
Unfortunately there's not much the Linux community can do about bad drivers. (I assume you have some broadcom chip). The only people really equipped to write the drivers are the vendors. The documents and firmware running on the chips
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- Attract contributors to ensure a long term thriving ecosystem - The free availability both in and out of the App Store should reduce the barrier to entry to the collaborative use cases in education, pair programming, etc, leading to good

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