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by eliben 10y ago
It looks to be a less complete solution, since it only relies on the LLVM C API which is incomplete. llvmlite digs into the C++ API as well, so while it has more work to do to keep up with changes in LLVM, it's more more feature-comple
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by eliben 10y ago
So you suggest places like Italy and Japan fully evacuate due to being seismically active?
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by eliben 10y ago
I don't know where Mike Pall works, but one of the best things about working at Google is that you get to collaborate with a lot of folks of this caliber. It can be very stressful for some people to be in an environment like this, but
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by eliben 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by the "magic" part here, can you please clarify? [background: many years of writing VHDL specifically for FPGAs, using various dev boards and custom boards]
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by eliben 10y ago
It's curious how these predictions always turn out to be based on the current technology, pushed to its limits. Kinda like sci-fi from the 1950s predicts advanced space travel but barely any computers in the early 21st century.
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by eliben 10y ago
I wouldn't feel so bad about that... UFC 205 should be amazing
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by eliben 10y ago
To me it makes total sense for something like Gitlab to do their own HW, since it's really their core business. Sure, there's no point for say, target.com to use their own servers - computers is not really what they do, and cloud
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by eliben 10y ago
Interesting, thanks for the numbers
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by eliben 10y ago
Depends where it's going, I guess? Other factors like A/C take as much power in stop-and-go as when driving. As I said, rough estimate. I would assume a typical taxi would drive more than 200 miles per working day; isn't this
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by eliben 10y ago
The article mentions Lyft drivers getting their hands on the Bolt first. How does that make sense? Is a range of 200 miles really sufficient for the needs of a Lyft driver? Wouldn't it mean no more than 3-4 hours of driving per day? [w
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by eliben 10y ago
> They could submit that but they choose to divide it up into pieces and submit them piecemeal It's common practice in OSS to request splitting of large patches into smaller as-much-self-contained-as-possible pieces, to make reviewi
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by eliben 10y ago
I think it's time for someone to write the equivalent of http://norvig.com/21-days.html for ML/big data :-)
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by eliben 10y ago
It's from the actual post, very first paragraph: ... "Twitter had hired Greg Gopman, formerly in business development at virtual-reality media company UploadVR and the founder AngelHack, a startup that runs hackathons, to lead its
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by eliben 10y ago
TIL that Twitter has a burgeoning VR business
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by eliben 10y ago
Yes, but these are kids... A windows machine will be virus and trojan-ridden within hours in their hands, and maintaining a fleet of Windows machines up to date is notoriously hard.
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by eliben 10y ago
I wonder how many "second-systems" in the history of SW development were devised to "reduce engineering costs in the long-term", and then went on to sink hundreds of SWE-years, including new programming languages and too
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by eliben 10y ago
ReST is a whole multi-document system, as opposed to MD which is just the formatting (at least before you mix in the dozens of mutually incompatible extensions). ReST is a superset.
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by eliben 10y ago
Similar personal experience and communities like https://www.reddit.com/r/ketogains/ make it clear to me what the easiest way to keep your weight optimal is. Personally, I gave up on bulking on low-carb diets. It
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by eliben 10y ago
Happy to see they pick ReST over MD. ReST is vastly superior for these purposes, in my experience.
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by eliben 10y ago
> Your last two works have been more amusing and exciting to write than they will ever be to read. Oh how true for so much code, unfortunately.
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by eliben 10y ago
> I ask this not to be negative, but out of serious curiosity. And yet you referred to it as "BS" and provided a sarcastic example in the same post. I'd say your attempt not to be negative and to sound serious failed.
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by eliben 10y ago
FWIW, the Android speech recognition (the default you get when clicking the microphone on home screen) has improved by leaps and bounds in the past 2-3 years. I have a very unusual mixed accent in English and it understands perfectly almost
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by eliben 10y ago
Thanks, so this is the missing information. The article misleadingly says the medication is decades-old, where actually the pen itself is patented.
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by eliben 10y ago
If the product is decades-old, why haven't generic variants appeared? Something seems to be missing from this article.
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by eliben 10y ago
The article mentions he worked at a 30-person Facebook, so I guess that makes sense
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by eliben 10y ago
" Silicon Valley Bank gives us no paperless billing option for our account" ... sigh
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by eliben 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback and the useful reference. I'll definitely add the Gauss-Markov theorem to my to-look-in-depth-at-later list and may write up about it at some future point.
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by eliben 10y ago
[post author here] FWIW I did not find your original comment particularly offensive, and didn't downvote (I think years on the internet have made me resilient). The Gauss-Markov theorem is very cool. However, as I discovered while doin
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by eliben 10y ago
Claiming that gradient descent is a great algorithm certainly wasn't the goal of this article. But GD is the basis from which most other iterative algorithms stem, and it's worthwhile having a good understanding of its inner worki
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by eliben 10y ago
What bothers me about this piece is that the seven generations she almost describes as "lost" were the most productive generations in humanity's history. Think how the developed world looked in 1850 and how it looks now. This

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