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by divbit 10y ago
I think in a software startup mindset it could be easy to think that more efficient => better, but a point not mentioned in the essay is that written Chinese is simply beautiful compared to e.g., the simple 26 character alphabet, which i
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by divbit 10y ago
Apparently cannot edit comments after they are made anymore within two hours (it used to be three I believe), but I was going to add a point to the analogy in the second paragraph, since I know things are easily taken incorrectly: I am not
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by divbit 10y ago
This is how I see it: Post-primaries, I think Hillary was a much better candidate. However a large number of liberals chose to campaign for her by just straight up calling the other side racists, while ignoring her flaws / blaming the
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by divbit 10y ago
Basically I think that as long as the conversation is interspersed / mixed enough that I can't easily understand what people are talking about, then I think it's not thought disruptive, and even beneficial in that case - I ag
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by divbit 10y ago
Fair enough - and I expect it probably varies by individual. I would strongly wager that I get more done at a coffee shop, or some place with a low buzz, than sitting alone at my house - as long as the conversation isn't directly at me
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by divbit 10y ago
A single person / noise source is super distracting, but ambient chatter is wonderful
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by divbit 10y ago
I was joking in both comments (clearly running arbitrary shell commands on a personal computer is a terrible idea), but it's not like a careless rm -rf has never happened before
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by divbit 10y ago
Don't tell me you've never accidentally rm -rf'd something important
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by divbit 10y ago
I sort of disagree with this and think one should extend in the opposite direction- to keep sharp, have an RNN generate some plausible config options / shell commands, and append them to the bottom of your vimrc / bashrc on start
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by divbit 10y ago
For numbers, I think mapping them to consonants helps: 1-> t/d, 2 -> n (as it has two things on bottom), 3 -> m (3 things on bottom), 4 -> r (ends in r), 5 -> l, 6 -> j/ch, 7 -> g/k, 8 -> f/ph, 9
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by divbit 10y ago
I suppose one could make the argument that the voters should be able to forgive small gaffes like that, yet here we are.
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by divbit 10y ago
Or if you are lazy, just github. https://github.com/divbit/blog
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by divbit 10y ago
At risk of talking politics, for example, she spoke against Sanders plan on universal health care at an important point in the race [1]. If she later changed her stance to be for universal health care, I don't think people either reali
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by divbit 10y ago
See fig. 2.1 here: http://disp.ee.ntu.edu.tw/meeting/%E7%B6%AD%E6%AF%85/An%20In... and also read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV That is my quick guess on how to roughly derive the co
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by divbit 10y ago
Actually if you have 3d features, could use edge detection algorithm like Kirsch after fuzzing the colors a bit.
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by divbit 10y ago
(just alert any keys with heat > mean +- x *standard deviation or something stupid like that)
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by divbit 10y ago
Idk how common the setup in the article is, but seems they could easily test for heatmap singularities such as the one that happened and alert for that.
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by divbit 10y ago
Yeah ok, thats a good point.
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by divbit 10y ago
probably true
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by divbit 10y ago
I like this one, > DO NOT solely rely on SSL/TLS to secure data in transit. Rationale: Numerous man-in-middle attack vectors and publicly disclosed flaws in the protocol.
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by divbit 10y ago
Not quite what you are asking, but if it's written in React-Native or Xamarin, then it can be pretty close to the same codebase from Android to Windows Phone (or I guess they like it called Windows 10 Mobile)
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by divbit 10y ago
Probably well known, but my favorite is always https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyreactiongifs/ glorious example: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyreactiongifs/comments/50bnuj/...
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by divbit 10y ago
Previously discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588 highly worth reading imo
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by divbit 10y ago
It compiles with -std=c++11, graph one fails with 03 on WSL at least
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by divbit 10y ago
In the last two paragraphs it states that IBM used to publish papers on its inventions to prevent others from patenting them. I have heard that recently, the law has changed to allow it to be possible to patent something within a year of it
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by divbit 10y ago
Depends if github / git is still around I guess https://github.com/divbit/blog
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by divbit 10y ago
That's interesting. Some of my family in the US have done similar medical tourism in Slovakia.
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by divbit 10y ago
I was thinking of Bangalore- sorry. I've been awake entirely too long and didn't go for the morning run to refresh yet.
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by divbit 10y ago
How is the healthcare system in India? Google gives me conflicting answers.
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by divbit 10y ago
Permutation City (Greg Egan), or Diamond Dogs (Alistair Reynolds)- have to read it in the right mind frame as some sort of moral analogy

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