edoloughlin

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by edoloughlin 3y ago
Can anyone see how to start the repl?
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by edoloughlin 4y ago
I rather think that they (the regulators) are saying that you can’t expect to use mathematical impossibility as a legal argument to avoid liability if your AI does material harm.
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by edoloughlin 4y ago
I do and you are. I’m also imagining one covered in hot grits…
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by edoloughlin 4y ago
It was said that a squirrel could travel from one end of Ireland to the other without ever touching the ground as more than 80% of the land was covered by forests https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/forestry/advice&#x2F
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by edoloughlin 4y ago
Garbage collection was seen as garbage by C/C++ programmers ("What's the big deal with adding a free() call? Stupid lazy people.") As a former C++ programmer working on a large code base when/before Java was intro
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by edoloughlin 4y ago
>> But to me, they are like the old grey beard who didn't update his knowledge as the times changed. > Maybe it's just me but with all the rampant age discrimination nowadays in tech, I really don't like to see the c
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by edoloughlin 5y ago
I think I could make the same argument for terse code.
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by edoloughlin 5y ago
But why should I trust your 3-stage framework?
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I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me(fastcompany.com)
4 points by edoloughlin 5y ago|1 comments
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
The article seems to boils down to: a lot of proprietary software I like on the Mac doesn’t exist on Linux
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
Can someone get busy wrapping endangered species as NFT's and direct the funds accordingly' Can't help but wonder how much habitat is destroyed by the generation of a token.
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
There's also a thread on Mozilla discourse: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/please-dont-remove-the-compa...
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A 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M(reuters.com)
1 points by edoloughlin 6y ago|0 comments
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
So much for EU's principles of non-discrimination and free trade. There is non-discrimination and free trade within the EU. Australia isn’t a member of the EU.
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
Now, for whatever reason, nothing has effectively changed and millions suddenly care This was discussed on a You Are Not So Smart [1] episode some time over the last few months (I had a look but couldn't find it). The basic idea was
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
Is this the developer version of motivated reasoning? Throw up two solutions, then spend hours optimising the one you assume should be faster and don't revisit the other one...
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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness(martinfowler.com)
427 points by edoloughlin 6y ago|162 comments
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WhatsApp says European users do not have to share data with Facebook(irishtimes.com)
13 points by edoloughlin 6y ago|4 comments
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias "Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those tha
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Kraan – Building platforms on top of K8s(github.com)
3 points by edoloughlin 6y ago|0 comments
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
I've suspected for some time that medicine is actually closer to the dark ages than we like to think it is Every now and then I see a comment that makes me think HN is closer to Facebook than we like to think it is.
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Goldman Sachs Open Sources Its Data Modeling Platform Through Finos(finos.org)
2 points by edoloughlin 6y ago|0 comments
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
* instead of sending a stream of pixel-packed images, it sends specific reference points on the image around the eyes, nose, and mouth* So they're trading bandwidth for CPU load at either end. I wonder what the tradeoff is in terms of
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
So they’ll say “they have accelerators!” and open a city sponsored accelerator and maybe some successful company will pop out in the next ten years. ...and promptly relocate to Silicon Valley.
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
It might be a post-colonial cultural artifact. Speaking as an Irish person, we have a similar regard for bending rules, which is only beginning to show signs of change recently.
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
Browsing the source brought me back to the bad old days of using C macros to fake things like exception handling, messaging etc. #define kLuxOnMessage(x) return true;} else if(aEvent == eLuxEnemyStateEvent_Message && apMessa
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
That being said, they chose to have children, and I chose not to Do you have a retirement plan and do you want a return on it? Guess who'll generate that return: other people's children. childless employees should also get time
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
Unfortunately, they have an audited policy of not hiring sarcastic people.
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
So every team gets to argue with the auditors? Seems like the people writing the policy should do that so there's one argument instead of n.
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by edoloughlin 6y ago
several levels of auditors were effectively asking us to downgrade to comply with their policy without even understanding the difference The auditors' policy? Are you sure? An auditor's job is to check if you're doing what

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