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by ezy 14y ago
"8 to 10 hours of reproductive work" Yes, this would tire me out as well. :-) Seriously, I've found that my normal schedule appears to be 7 hours solid, with a 1.5 hr nap, depending. Without an alarm, I wake up 7 hrs later on the dot (and
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by ezy 14y ago
Too bad Newsblur is pretty badly designed. I mean, there's a lot of bling, but it's completely confusing and sometimes ugly. Magic icons everywhere, wierd fonts -- two different dropdowns on each entry for god's sake. It looks like it wa
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by ezy 14y ago
I find it amusing that people will leap to defend the new shiny geek toy -- even if practically no one here can afford it. IMO, Telsa is sinking under it's own PR weight, and Elon knows it. The logs don't contradict the reporting in any s
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by ezy 14y ago
Switzerland has no requirement that political donations be reported, unlike the us. US states have referendums all the time.
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by ezy 14y ago
I don't want to argue for lobbying, which can get pretty sickening at times, but I suspect other major democracies just aren't as blatant. How does your democracy remove corporate bribes from the equation? How do people, in aggregate, pus
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by ezy 14y ago
This very much depends on what the threads are doing. Like some others have mentioned, threads are sometimes an abstraction of context and sometimes a CPU. THere is no pat answer -- unless you're doing only one kind of thing -- if you're
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by ezy 14y ago
What? I fail to see what is "non-average" about wanting to restore a machine from a Time Machine backup after a hard drive failure. Time machine is the only backup solution an average user will ever use, and is supposed to be a backup so
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by ezy 14y ago
Witless uninstall #1 (perfect for those crappy tarfiles that exact everything into the current directory) tar -tf tarfile.tar | xargs rm Witless uninstall #2. Find a file that you changed just before "make install" into the wrong
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by ezy 14y ago
Most bloggers and commenters would be improved by taking the last item to heart: 10. If you want ACTION, don't write. Go and tell the guy what you want.
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by ezy 14y ago
I prefer the builtin vim facilities. I use two features already built into vim. (1) "*" and "**" (ugh stars are italics markers in this editor, how do you escape them?) works in tab completion for both :ts & :
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by ezy 14y ago
I don't think this type of argument carries much weight. Just because one can get used to something, doesn't really make it a clear choice. All of these environments are good choices for many reasons. However, they aren't without major fl
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by ezy 14y ago
The live evaluation is nice, but seems a little limited. If I have: (defn my-add [a b] (+ a b)) (my-add 3 45) (my-add 1 2) Only the "1 2" version is followed into "my-add". Is there anyway to force it to look at "3 45" othe
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by ezy 14y ago
Does this really make that much difference? I kind of view the hjkl vs arrow keys like I view the standard debate about motion commands vs. the mouse. Lots of people say they are faster using motion commands, and I know I use search motion
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by ezy 14y ago
Booting into windows (or linux). The Mac version is... incomplete.
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by ezy 14y ago
This was my opinion only, based on my experiences and experiences of people I know. You can tell this by the way I use "enlightenment" in a very loose way when it is obviously impossible (as far as I know) to measure (I don't believe the s
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by ezy 14y ago
Eh. It deserves more study -- the idea of using much more reasonable doses as a form of anti-depressant is interesting. However, it's probably not magic, just in the same way MJ oil is probably not a cure for cancer. They, of course, don't
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by ezy 14y ago
Oh look, AndroidTV. Prediction: Sidelined by the AppleTV in 6 months. EDIT: More detail: What do you think will happen when Apple comes out with an SDK for AppleTV, folks? I suppose the only thing missing is the controller. :-)
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by ezy 14y ago
This person needs to try outlook. You see, there's a little flag you can click on next to the email with a task priority. And a todo bar/list which shows them in priority order. Not only has it existed before, but it really doesn't help
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by ezy 14y ago
Sorry, you're right, it's 4" I was thinking of. At any rate, the point was that the phone display is going to increase in size.
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by ezy 14y ago
Given that the iphone is quite portable and a 4.5" model is all but assured, I'm not sure I see the point of having a 7" tablet. The issue with the 10" is that it's not quite as portable as some people would like -- but the 7" seems to fra
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by ezy 14y ago
As you might guess, they are not claiming this. They basically are using a new (in the context of speech rec) technique that seems to improve accuracy by 16% relative on their test data (and using their code :-)). It's a really great resul
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by ezy 14y ago
This approach still uses HMMs, it's just that the observation probabilities are now coming from a DNN (neural network) instead of a GMM (gaussian mixture model). "Senones" are not new, HTK can use various context dependent phoneme models,
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by ezy 14y ago
I think he's referring to the regulatory control Valve exerts over the virtual world.
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by ezy 14y ago
This. I think it's also worth noting that for a pro laptop , price is not a major issue, if you're trying to treat your laptop like a BYOB, you're doing it wrong. So: (a) The RAM capacity is limited by the chipset anyway, and on "pro" ma
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by ezy 14y ago
This seems to be influenced by tumblr, which also uses j/k. Tumblr is, of course, influenced penultimately by vi, which is ultimately influenced by ANSI control codes LF and VT :-)
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by ezy 14y ago
I think the robo-car is the self cleaning kitchen of the 2010's. When your ML algorithm makes an error, it won't just be a drop in some abstract accuracy measurement -- someone will die. This is a hell of a lot of liability to take on. G
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by ezy 14y ago
Even as I share your distaste for (parts of) the libertarian ethos, I think you're largly blind to your own ideological faults. To wit, poor people are not stupid, and using "man-kind" in a sentence is not an attack on woman-kind. I don'
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by ezy 15y ago
Ok, I'll be "that guy". Why not just use tmux or screen? Is character delay a real issue in 2012? Seems like it's more of a proof of concept of their syncing algorithm rather than something super useful. EDIT: Fair enough, I stand corre
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by ezy 15y ago
One thing that seems to be missed here is that text formats tend to be self documenting. That is, if I'm handed a blob of text vs a blob of binary, I am quite a bit more likely to be able to hack the text than the binary. This is usually
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by ezy 15y ago
I remember OS/9 fondly. It was my first introduction to a "real" operating system (e.g. not just BASIC and a program loader). Oh, and preemptive multitasking! Whoa... :-)

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