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by eindiran 8y ago
A number of years ago I read an idea (I think it might have been in James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes) that I find very compelling; any object becomes a weapon given sufficiently high velocity.
812.
by eindiran 8y ago
I'd wager that a latency of a couple hours is unacceptable for almost all TTS use cases. Moreover, the current generation of TTS is pretty good and a lot of research is being done to improve it. You'd have a very finite amount of
813.
by eindiran 8y ago
This is what Paul Graham calls the Python Paradox; namely that in 2004, when Python jobs were relatively more rare, you could find smarter Python engineers than Java engineers for any given project. "[I]f a company chooses to write its
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by eindiran 8y ago
The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. One of the most thought provoking pieces of science fiction I've read. I would recommend not looking up anything about the plot and just going in blind.
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Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (1998)(tools.ietf.org)
1 points by eindiran 8y ago|0 comments
816.
by eindiran 8y ago
It looks like there are English docs too: https://github.com/baidu/Familia/blob/master/README.EN.md
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)(jsomers.net)
2 points by eindiran 8y ago|0 comments
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by eindiran 8y ago
Are you considering making it materialize now?
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by eindiran 8y ago
Can someone who knows a bit more about this explain what this is?
820.
by eindiran 8y ago
Is this satire or do you actually believe that this constitutes sentience being digitally enslaved?
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by eindiran 8y ago
For a while there was a whole cottage-industry around articles that took a shit on the existence of Comic Sans. Now there is a whole growing industry of articles that defend it. Do we really need either type of article?
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by eindiran 8y ago
If anyone is looking for the book, evidently it is sold out, but you can download the ebook for free from the author: http://nordicparadox.se/ Download is near the bottom of the page. PDF here: http://nordicparad
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by eindiran 8y ago
Okay that's a fair point. In the housing case, you aren't simply not participating; your money is exposed to the housing market in the form of rent. I buy that.
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by eindiran 8y ago
Has anyone had any success migrating from MongoDB over to Postgres? My team and I decided to try out MongoDB for a new app we wrote because the data model seemed to fit the idea of a schema-less document quite well. But many months later, M
825.
by eindiran 8y ago
I think what you should try out depends on what you want to accomplish and what language you think is most likely to be useful to you again. With that said, I would cast my vote with Python 3 and the latest Django. I've found that if I
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by eindiran 8y ago
I think what you'll find is that industries that use knowledge workers tend to have higher variance than those that don't; industries that have a high percentage of wages come from incentive pay will have a greater variance than i
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by eindiran 8y ago
That is a very interesting way to think about it, but I am not sure that it works fully. By extending that principle, wouldn't anyone that can't afford to own shares in TSLA or MSFT be short then? In this framework it seems like y
828.
by eindiran 8y ago
Since London Breed was elected mayor, I've noticed a substantial uptick in street cleaning in the city. But even with the extra cleaning, the 'hygiene' of the city is abysmal. This morning I took the Bart down to the Caltrain
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by eindiran 8y ago
The feature discussed in the section entitled "Operator Overloading" is analogous to uniform function call syntax in Nim and D. It was something that at first I thought added unnecessary complexity to reading the code, but I slowl
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Ask HN: Favorite Wikipedia article?
4 points by eindiran 8y ago|2 comments
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by eindiran 8y ago
I was looking down Post Street last night and saw it, but thought it was just flames, since it was at the wrong angle to see the eye itself. This is a lot more fun.
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by eindiran 8y ago
Literally no parts of the statement are accurate. Crack is freebase cocaine, which is dangerous for a number of reasons, none of which involve lacing it with another (often more expensive) drug. Meth is also a strong and addictive stimulant
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by eindiran 8y ago
They leave the clippings to fertilize the lawn.
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by eindiran 8y ago
This knee jerk reaction of claiming that Paul Graham is somehow greedy or against the homeless is disappointing. That London Breed, who ran for SF mayor on the premise of trying to fix homelessness, is opposed to Prop C is very telling. Bef
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by eindiran 8y ago
I think the difference is that arXiv papers don't have the same perceptions of low prestige attached as a random blog or a 4chan thread does. The issue isn't that the work is (yet) unpublished or that its obscure: its that it is f
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The inmates have taken over the asylum: DNS founder on DNS over HTTPS adoption(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by eindiran 8y ago|0 comments
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Don't Make Squirrel Burgers (2008)(leewaterman.com)
2 points by eindiran 8y ago|0 comments
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by eindiran 8y ago
There is a project I have contributed to that uses Open Collective for that: https://opencollective.com You can see how the bounties are labeled here: https://github.com/evhub/coconut/issues When you c
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Apollo 15 Postal Covers Incident(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by eindiran 8y ago|0 comments
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by eindiran 8y ago
Whenever functional programming in Python comes up, I like to plug Coconut[0], one of the languages mentioned in the link above. It adds a lot of really nice functional idioms to Python, and all Python3 code is by definition valid Coconut (

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