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by dblotsky 7y ago
I’m gonna sound like an old person here. As much as these tools are gorgeous and ergonomic, remember that the others are standard, which means they’re available (almost) everywhere. Still though, these alternatives seem great for productivi
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by dblotsky 7y ago
I often use the term “standard” in place of “default” there.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Humans can drive cars, but not teleport. Driving cars is definitely easier.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Isn’t gathering data (knowledge) literally how science works, and develops theories (understanding)?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Can you explain which part of that quote is projecting their own opinions? Can you also compare and contrast with another, more objective art criticism?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Ayyyy, CS488. Lovely renders, and great write-up! What learnings from this assignment/course do you feel will be the most useful in future projects (graphics or otherwise)? P.S. I wish Trains (CS452) had something so demo-able. ;)
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by dblotsky 7y ago
I imagine people who say others aren’t fun at parties, are themselves not very fun at parties.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Free speech has nothing to do with the right to be listened to.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
There are many public spaces outside of Facebook, and they’re paid for with taxes.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Sounds like it’s already pretty clear.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Yeah, just with 4 billion people in it. The analogy also doesn’t work because it’s impossible to have 4 billion people in your house.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
There are people who have different viewpoints (even very conservative ones) from the mainstream and they don’t get banned. What’s their secret? A mystery, to be sure.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Oh, that makes sense. I wouldn’t believe that either. The computer was the central point though, I thought. All of that seemed very believable.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
What from Autonomy day was unbelievable?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Aside from the timing of this event, why else are you convinced that Tesla is nowhere close to Waymo?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
Based on what data would you expect that?
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by dblotsky 7y ago
But they might also spend more of that money on things that are free in Europe.
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by dblotsky 7y ago
It’s unfair for many other reasons as well. In the US more of that income might go to services that are cheaper in other countries (e.g. healthcare, education). So, what looks like a higher number (even adjusted for PPP) might still be lowe
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by dblotsky 8y ago
And also in America’s Silicon Valley.
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by dblotsky 8y ago
I think the author’s hypotheticals are off. In a world where blackmail is allowed, I think transparency would just be more normal, and secrets would be more rare. For example, people would be more open about cheating, sexual preferences, et
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by dblotsky 8y ago
To me, the author's response is mostly to change of scale. Social intimacy and human connection still exist, just in less populated areas. It's unrealistic to expect a busy city to stay the same over the course of a lifetime. Also
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by dblotsky 8y ago
Meta-lesson from this site: Hey X year-old: 90% of advice, like everything else, is bad.
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by dblotsky 8y ago
> “human business processes were never that complex.” That’s a falsifiable claim. Human problems / laws are some of the most difficult to code for, IMO. Examples: legal software, economics software, etc. Usually complexity increases
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by dblotsky 8y ago
Patreon is as free to deny someone service as their customers are to express themselves. No affront to free speech there.
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by dblotsky 8y ago
In the scenario I proposed, nothing stops you from updating your dependencies. It just doesn't happen without your knowledge and consent (unlike the default NPM settings).
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by dblotsky 8y ago
Lock the dependencies: checksums, lock file, “=“ versions, whatever. Even better, store them yourself: cache, mirror, zips in the repo, whatever. This won’t protect you from an initial hack, but it means that if the dependency was good when
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by dblotsky 8y ago
I was going to agree with everyone about how it’s not a language, but reading into it more, I proved myself wrong. This is a different language insofar as it describes PEGs, not regexes, which is fundamentally different and more powerful
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by dblotsky 8y ago
> An Isolate-based system runs all of the code in a single process and uses its own mechanisms to ensure safe memory access. What property of this application allows it to share CPU time and memory more efficiently than the OS can?
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by dblotsky 8y ago
Physical virtual machines? ;)
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by dblotsky 8y ago
Almost any “can” question will lead to something like this. This can happen if the OS lets you use user-space file systems, the same way it can happen if you have custom hardware with memory-mapped temperature sensors (and suddenly your

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