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How the greatest businessman drove his newspaper into a ditch(theatlantic.com)
2 points by eevilspock 2y ago|2 comments
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by eevilspock 2y ago
I don't think any user who leaves their unsynced data sitting in a drawer for more than a year can reasonably expect it to sync to a shared database, not just because of schema incompatibility but more so because of conflict resolution
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by eevilspock 2y ago
Lenses make total sense. You don't have to maintain lenses for all past versions, just a rolling set with old ones scheduled for deprecation announcements and a sunset schedule.
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by eevilspock 2y ago
> doesn’t it then mean that whatever process is encoded in the NN, it should both be possible to represent in some more efficient representation...? Not if NNs are complex systems[1] whose useful behavior is emergent[2] and therefore non
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by eevilspock 2y ago
From a nine-year-old HN comment and a reply to it[0] $12.70/month, according to that Mozilla research, is the total value of advertising per user. > The news and other content we all enjoy on the open web is mostly underwritten by a
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by eevilspock 2y ago
It's not just consumerism. It's selfism , of which consumerism is a subspecies. As I wrote nine (9!) years ago on this site: Advertising is our C8. It pollutes nearly every corner of the web with deception and manipulation. It
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by eevilspock 2y ago
> So what gives us the right to claim responsibility for our victories? Do we ever truly win? Or do we just get lucky sometimes? > Well, in any given game of Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe you can do everything right and still lose (or
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by eevilspock 2y ago
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent cou
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by eevilspock 2y ago
I've thought of and yearned for this too. Conversely, in the winter I'd like a path with maximum sun exposure. There's a dark and a troubled side of life; There's a bright and a sunny side, too; Tho' w
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by eevilspock 2y ago
Thank you!
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by eevilspock 2y ago
Oh that strawberry cake Oh that strawberry cake Out in California them berries were grown And into this city them berries were flown For making that strawberry cake* Then I thought of Oxnard, just north of LA Wh
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by eevilspock 2y ago
MDN article Using data attributes describing HTML syntax, JavaScript access and CSS access, and a caveat about accessibility: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Howto/Us... Also
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Warning and Confirmation: The Value of Plain Text I Should Have Known Better(talk.macpowerusers.com)
2 points by eevilspock 3y ago|0 comments
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Kara Swisher: How Trump Pushed Silicon Valley Off the Rails(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by eevilspock 3y ago|1 comments
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Deep JavaScript(exploringjs.com)
3 points by eevilspock 3y ago|0 comments
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by eevilspock 3y ago
People will game it. We don't need a transparent algorithm when we have transparent results, e.g. enable `showdead`, or the OP's project.
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by eevilspock 3y ago
That's what supermarkets do. They void transactions (usually needing a supervisor's approval) and then re-enter the purchase correctly.
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by eevilspock 3y ago
> Would it be better if high-performing people worked for lower-performing companies? Per my value system, what we want is to match people to work that they are good at, and for any particular ability, we want to match people who have
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by eevilspock 3y ago
"Positive" refers to positive correlation, not positive effects or desirability. Those that believe that "high-ability workers" made themselves, that market valuation of a person is fair and reflects what that person des
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by eevilspock 3y ago
I think how you interpret that line is related to how you interpret > However, the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganized so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle It is p
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by eevilspock 3y ago
i don't know whether to downvote, or upvote it as sarcasm gold.
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by eevilspock 3y ago
That explanation tracks with the number of non-English results in this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=xnumx+-michigan&tbs=li:1 and the way XNUMX appears in these results. (apologies. I only use google when I ne
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by eevilspock 3y ago
Key extracts: When writing the entire source code in TypeScript, types are checked throughout the entire code. That can be helpful at times, but more often than not it results in unneeded code complexity and build errors that slow down the
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GitHub Octokit: replace TS with plain JavaScript and d.ts for faster dev(github.com)
1 points by eevilspock 3y ago|1 comments
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Draw a leader line in your web page(anseki.github.io)
2 points by eevilspock 3y ago|0 comments
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TodoMVC: Helping you select an MV* framework(todomvc.com)
3 points by eevilspock 3y ago|0 comments
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The simple and high performance library to allow HTML/SVG element to be dragged(anseki.github.io)
1 points by eevilspock 3y ago|0 comments
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by eevilspock 3y ago
Give https://github.com/textplainly a follow. I've got something in the works.
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by eevilspock 3y ago
https://markdowndb.com
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Ask HN: Can Consumer Reports “Permission Slip” Be Trusted?
2 points by eevilspock 3y ago|1 comments

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