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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Glad to hear that 1.29 now brings clippy to stable Rust. (Before, clippy required nightly Rust.)
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
For those around the San Francisco area, you might want to check out the Emeryville Vintage Synthesizer Museum: https://www.kqed.org/arts/11260092/at-emeryvilles-vintage-sy... http://vintagesynthmuseum.
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Re: "Every society with inflationary money eventually grinds to a halt and crumbles." Would you like to support this claim and/or clarify what you mean?
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Some food for thought... What if a large group of developers banded together and said "We'll only interview with companies that offer us a range of choices on the interview process, because we want to be able to choose option(s) t
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
This is a complex issue, but one key component is this the relative bargaining powers of the parties [1]. Supply and demand in the job market is only one component of the bargaining power. Social norms and many other factors play in. The fi
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Re: "So perhaps people should quit criticizing bitcoin for its energy intensity and start criticizing states and nations for still providing new industries with dirty power supplies instead." Three responses: (1) The author has in
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
To fuse some snippets from Fortune and the New York Times: "Cisco has agreed to buy Duo Security, a 700-person strong cybersecurity startup based in Ann Arbor, Mich., for $2.35 billion in a combination of cash and stock." [1] &quo
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
I'm sorry to hear you've been banned from so many places. I would be interested in your story. Do you want to make a post about it?
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
It seems to me that you've gone off topic here without offering detailed support of your arguments. Re: "Conservatives have a far, far lower bar to censor people than Twitter, et al. (i.e. /r/The_Donald on Reddit)"
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
The goal of this proposal seems worthwhile but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. Humanity benefits when the broader impacts of technology are factored in. Who does this, with what influence, is arguably one of largest themes in
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Yes, I know what you mean. In my opinion, the connection to the System 1 / System 2 theories did not add much depth to the paper. I think the intended purpose was to bolster the argument that both learners and solvers (operating in dif
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Re: your P.S.: If a touch keyboard could give haptic feedback that let us distinguish between a "correct" keypress and a missed one, it might work. Perhaps a pleasant haptic vibration in proportion to how close to center your fing
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Sure, there are downsides to the touchbar (I get it), but I'd suggest we ask this question: where does Apple want to go with the touchbar? Instead of focusing on where it is right now , think about what it could be. With haptic feedba
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
In your view, what would it take for the big players to "get their [act] together"? I'd like to hear a bit more of how you see it. What players would need to work together or coordinate? What are some more-or-less realistic p
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Fair enough. Your article makes a lot of good points, for sure. Here is a quote from the article I want to mention: “Trying to learn the board game 'from scratch' without explanation was absurd, right?” No. It is hardly absurd. So
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
The article's use of the word "flaw" is overstated. For background, here are some selected quotes from the article: > "The first part, which you're reading right now, will set up what RL is and why it is fundamen
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
"We need to understand, too, that our capacity for storing to-be-learned information or procedures is essentially unlimited. In fact, storing information in human memory appears to create capacity—that is, opportunities for additional
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
What counter-measures exist? (e.g. an audio detector listening above 20 kHz?)
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
I enjoy the paper as a starting point for discussions. However, given the varying definitions of technical debt, I think it is important to see additional elaborations and examples of real-world trade offs in production systems. Perhaps the
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by dj-wonk 8y ago
Why do people say "X and Y aren't comparable" and then proceed to compare them? :) I'm not (only) trying to be pedantic here -- I'm just pointing out the loaded language. In both business models and product recommen
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
Would someone please share a quick image that shows a visual example?
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
I interpret "society needs to care more" as a challenge: what can we do to make society care more? Put another way, I view this as a collective action problem.
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
There are big problems with BMI. Here is just one article on the topic: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/265215.php Another, broader question is this: what are the health impacts of various body compositions?
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
Thanks for sharing; this line of thinking is too often overlooked. From the abstract: > National and international health organizations have focused increasingly on a perceived obesity epidemic said to pose drastic threats to public heal
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
A serious issue lacking a clear solution does not clickbait make. (There are plenty of other pieces of content that deserve the clickbait title.)
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
I've worked for UPS delivery before, a long time ago, though only briefly. I liked the physicality of it. I can't speak to an Amazon fulfillment center, but I will say this: stress isn't only about physical demands. I think m
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
You say that journalists are "just trying every way possible to create an anti-tech sentiment". You are implying motive here, it appears. On what basis? I view it from this lens: journalists have both a professional code and a des
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
Yes, intensively competitive companies like Amazon sometimes press workers hard. Without endorsing nor assigning blame to the company (which faces pressures from globalization and shareholders), there are many potential approaches to the pr
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
I'd be interested to see if people would candidly unpack their rationale a bit more in this area. Before I get into that part, forgive me, but I must admit that I've begun to tune out when I hear the "make Datomic open source
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by dj-wonk 9y ago
The choice of values (what to measure) certainly has many subjective components. That said, a good chunk of people tend to value (to some degree or another): cost of ownership, reliability, fuel economy, performance, appearance, seating&#x2

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