dogfoods

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by dogfoods 6y ago
It achieves a theoretical lower bound on the complexity. This is what the article says in like 1000 words because it's written for mathematical illiterates.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Yes, lots of people do things that are bad ideas.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Maybe it shouldn't be split up but burned, razed, and the ground salted so nothing will ever grow there again.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
We used to have forums and blogs organised by interest topic or community. An elegant mode of organisation, for a more civilised age.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
So vim but for finance?
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by dogfoods 6y ago
You can @ the President of the United States on Twitter
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Every time I come across a piece in that style I want to smash a screen. It could be a one-paragraph solution, but I have to scroll past three images and five paragraphs of worthless blather that assumes I'm a moron. Unix man pages are
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Twitter has been orders of magnitude more harmful to society than any *chan and Twitter bluechecks should be thought of and treated like Twitter bluechecks think of and treat chan users. All those articles about how scary chans and the ~~
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by dogfoods 6y ago
No, they did know for sure.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
There's a reason RTFM was so prevalent, and we need to make it so, again.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
No, Bethe and others knew in the 40s it could not have. Enough nuclear physics was known then to know that the atmosphere cannot be ignited by a nuke. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/bethe-telle...
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Twitter weighs about a MB, a tweet is at most 280 characters, and typically of negative utility to the user and society. So yes.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Then why the fuck is the average website measured in megabytes
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by dogfoods 6y ago
It's amazing that 3-4 seconds is considered a reasonable target in 2020 when 8 seconds was a target on freaking dialup. It's like having a Ferrari and considering outrunning a horse a success.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
"The bomb could have ignited the atmosphere," No, it could not have.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
That should say threats* not tweets, dammit.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
POTUS tweeting nuclear tweets didn't convince you of that already?
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by dogfoods 6y ago
You've just invented forums, but worse in some ways.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
> is the only platform where interesting ML discussions happen daily with a large amount of actual researchers and practitioners talking about their work directly arxiv.org
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by dogfoods 6y ago
I have a shorter algorithm. 1) Don't.
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Don't have the web be four sites full of screenshots of each other. I.e. go back to the blog and forums era. Outlaw social media with more than X users. Make content recommendation algorithms illegal. Personalised advertising should be
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by dogfoods 6y ago
> a smarter solution, Add the following to your hosts file 127.0.0.1 twitter.com This saves you from even loading those DOM elements in the first place
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Your hnews username is an identity. A small, weak, and reasonably disposable one, that you can have many of. Why do you want to use your God damn real name on the Internet unless you are a public person already? What do you have to gain? Ha
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by dogfoods 6y ago
You need to stop thinking identity singular, and identity as valuable. Have many and treat them as disposable. Of course you can't do this on the 2020 web that consists of four websites filled with screenshots of each other, but that&#
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by dogfoods 6y ago
USD, the WD-40 of social engineering
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Real jobs have certificates and degrees that mean something, where you can avoid the whole "do you know literal 101 things" phases of the interview process by just going "do you see the line on my resume that says M.Sc."
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by dogfoods 6y ago
Commercial airliners vary in size more than an order of magnitude anyway. There are commercial aircraft that are shorter than an A380 is tall.