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by extheat 4y ago
They can teach these as a supplement, but CS definitely is not meant to be a i “learned to code degree”. Learning the underlying theory, how the software interfaces with the hardware, data structures and algorithms, these are all important
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by extheat 4y ago
It's happening. There's no going back. "Waste" implies unnecessary sunk cost. It's the first of its kind, so they may or may not hit the mark, but it will set the benchmark for future revisions/enhancements to
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by extheat 4y ago
They probably have their own internal Git hosting service. Pushing to the public Github repo could be done at a later point, but the Git repo hasn't actually been created yet here, just the project on Github.
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by extheat 4y ago
Absolutely. Twitter (and similar social media) have become a cesspool for negativity, flame wars, left-versus-right, and spam that make it intolerable.
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by extheat 4y ago
I think Twitter could actually financially benefit from lessening their head count. It's not an incredibly profitable company, and could do with changes to leadership and direction in terms of their lagging performance compared to othe
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by extheat 4y ago
Why not? I think this type of educational content for betterment is quite a desirable trait of HN. If you want an alphabet soup of what’s hot, corpo PR or clickbait content there’s many other places on the internet, like Reddit just for tha
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by extheat 4y ago
Editing tweets I think has value, even if for a short period of time. The biggest complaints people have are the meaning could change. Which is a fair point, but this is only a problem if you view it in the context of deception. People migh
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by extheat 4y ago
Hate speech (racism, bullying, threatening, harassment) might as well be thought of as illegal. It may not be illegal by the literal word of the law, but in the interpretation most people in practice treat these as illegal.
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by extheat 4y ago
That's a shame. Ever since the removal of Flash from Chrome I think it's been a downhill ride for web-based games. I used to love going through the catalog of quirky "minigames" if you will every now and then to pass tim
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by extheat 4y ago
Being 30 minutes away from a nuclear processing facility makes the story interesting, but highly unlikely to be actually correlated. That’s just way too far. But perhaps there’s not much buildings between the school and the facility, so it
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by extheat 4y ago
I don’t think it’s absurd. Maybe overly optimistic, but life has found a way to make it to where it is today. I have no reason to not believe that humans would still be around and kicking (even some of the Dinosaurs survived to today...). Y
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by extheat 4y ago
I don't think so, I think humans would probably be able to build back pretty quickly given the tech and manufacturing capability we have today. Yeah, 95% of it may have been destroyed worst case, but even at <5% capacity, if humanit
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by extheat 4y ago
> I can see it now, everyone and their mother would be recommending changes to it. People would want it at the extremes, or tweaked to just not recommend their pet peeves. I think the solution to this is to let people switch between diff
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by extheat 4y ago
For a long period of time, Reddit used to be open source. It can be done, plus additional changes to add transparency on top, like giving people the option to switch between different recommendation algorithms, making it clear why content w
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by extheat 4y ago
Let's keep emotion away to understand what's happening. You emphasise the alleged hate and are regurgitating the private investigator points. He made an accusation as an insult. And dug in on it, on his own FU money, to not lose t
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by extheat 4y ago
Yes Elon is known for manic states, it's not a new detail. The legal discovery process is basically also "digging up dirt", and both sides do it before a trial to bolster their cases. That doesn't imply malice (as in, wa
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by extheat 4y ago
I think you again have missed the point that it was not an unprovoked comment. It was in response to another insult. I don't know how betting money on an insult makes it not an insult. It's one thing to attack someone because they
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by extheat 4y ago
> falsely accuse British diver as a child rapist Let's be specific, "pedo guy". And that was an insult in response to an equally profane insult from the other guy. Two wrongs don't make a right, but he apologized and
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by extheat 4y ago
> then presumably the Chinese know more about its (long term) effects than the rest of us Not necessarily true. The lab in question has been known to house coronavirus variants and done bat research. SARS-cov-2 isn't the first coron
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by extheat 5y ago
This "incident" has no material effect beyond the number on the billing dashboard.
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by extheat 5y ago
I’m curious why you think that. Do you think it’s a fundamental problem with the discrete nature of traditional computers? Or a problem with scale and computational limits? If it’s the latter, if a hypothetical computer has unlimited time a
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by extheat 5y ago
A browser tab alone doesn’t do much after initial page load, ignoring CSS animations, JS timers and dynamic media tags.
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by extheat 5y ago
Yes it’s called an endemic. A virus that just doesn’t go away and always remains circulating in human population centers. Over time the virus mutates to become less and less dangerous as that enables easier transmission. There is not anyt
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by extheat 5y ago
If rand() gives you trouble who knows what else in the C library may give you more trouble. It’s not that hard to copy paste or even write your own implementation for basic parts of the C API, minus the allocation related things. For me I’v
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by extheat 5y ago
> I have to disagree. They spend an inordinate amount of time trying to understand what they see, taste and hear. To understand yes, however I meant "identify" in the sense of recognizing an object. I show a picture of an apple
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by extheat 5y ago
I'm not sure "training" is the right way to think about it. Children don't train to identify objects, they quickly develop the ability to recognize objects and are able to correlate them with prior information that was r
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by extheat 5y ago
Doesn’t sound that bad. They should of course provide more context as to what triggered the email. Since this is most likely fully automated I don’t think the technical solution to that is too far from reality. As a platform as much as I or
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by extheat 5y ago
I think that's more of a quirk than anything, they were able to leave the country before getting charged for the act. They were directly related to someone with the US government (CIA) which muddied the water. If it were a normal citiz
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by extheat 5y ago
I think in large part is there’s a higher focus on modularization in Node.JS which leads to lots more dependencies. That increases the attack vector and makes a supply chain attack easy because all it takes is a single malicious author to b
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by extheat 5y ago
OK, and how is this something unique to the Node.js package ecosystem? What's stopping someone on PyPI/some other PM from doing the same thing? I personally view these more as malicious copycat acts than anything inherent with the

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