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by gambler 7y ago
>You could be pre-diabetic and not even know it That can be said about anyone.
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by gambler 7y ago
So, if you're vegetarian and cut out everything you've just mentioned, what's left, exactly?
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by gambler 7y ago
So, on one hand, I see people hyping half-baked AI through the roof, cherry-picking good examples, refusing to study and discuss its limitations and even outright dismissing the idea that AI failures are, in fact, failures, rather than some
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by gambler 7y ago
When Google repackages it as a product that spies on you and you can't use in ways not intended by Google.
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by gambler 7y ago
This is not just a meme. This is a mentality. At my last job at a big company we had HipChat rooms for all kinds of user groups. The one for frontend devs had constant discussion about their job (in)security, and every couple of weeks someo
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by gambler 7y ago
Calling what's happening with modern society "loneliness epidemic" is like saying that people in a building set on fire are "suffering from heat exposure and air pollution". A lot of social processes/constructi
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by gambler 7y ago
We don't need to revert to typewriters. We just need computers designed with a real security model in mind, instead of piles of ah-hoc mitigations. However, I bet no one will invest in it until one of these exploits bring down AWS, tak
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by gambler 7y ago
It seems that we need to move away from clever, complicated low-level micro-optimizations that rely on mangling instructions and just use more cores. That should allow for simpler security model.
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by gambler 7y ago
Tooling is great for job security. You can be absolutely shit at writing code and designing systems, yet make yourself indispensable because you know Framework X and most other people don't. All it takes is time to memorize trivia of t
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by gambler 7y ago
Where exactly in my post I asked for government restricting free association? It sounds like you just wanted to post this particular talking point and couldn't find a place with more relevance. What do I want? I want large payment serv
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by gambler 7y ago
>Our discussion and experiments establish adversarial examples as a purely human-centric phenomenon. Can someone explain to me the difference between this statement and the notion that AI performance in general is completely subjective
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by gambler 7y ago
>These platforms can do no right. Yes they can. Easily. Separate the part of the business that does content hosting and other technical services from the part of the business that's effectively a scaled up editorial board (curated
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by gambler 7y ago
>Legal marijuana shops are still mostly cash only specifically because they can’t bank, due to weed being federally illegal. There is a world of difference between closing accounts that are used to pay for activities that are illegal
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by gambler 7y ago
Yes, I too want banks and payment providers to act like moral authority for all their clients and freeze funds and close accounts with no explanation or recourse whenever an entity does something I don't like. This will totally make th
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by gambler 7y ago
>It all begins with our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and today, our mission feels as relevant as ever. I said this 15 years ago and I will repeat it again. Google is like a
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by gambler 7y ago
>What motivates a company to do such a thing, if not capitalism? You're just proving grand parent commenter's point. Saying that capitalism motivates censorship is like saying that money is what causes theft and robbery. It&#
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Programming with Agents(alumni.media.mit.edu)
3 points by gambler 7y ago|0 comments
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by gambler 7y ago
Honestly, this might be the best way out of the mess the web is becoming. Use RSS for "normal" content delivery. No scripts. No styling. Nothing crazy. Just content. Build tools for searching and some other typical tasks and stop
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by gambler 7y ago
> The real solution is that your build system should separate the CSS from JS during build time. Not many popular build systems (such as create-react-app) support this. The real solution is to fix the actual protocol issues, instead of
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by gambler 7y ago
Gotta love all the ritual incantations one has to perform to "keep your website safe" these days. Worst of all, people are clearly bragging about possessing this arcane knowledge, instead of constantly complaining about how stupid
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Designing media for thought with moldable development(osoco.es)
2 points by gambler 7y ago|0 comments
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by gambler 7y ago
>Most companies are not like Facebook or Dropbox that can maintain an internal IT organization at a high level equivalent to AWS. Let's try this with different phrasing. In 200X a lot of companies were able to maintain their own i
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by gambler 7y ago
>Should you roll your own servers? If you are not certain, the answer is most likely “no”. The staggering growth of AWS happened for a reason. Funny how for many decades companies and people were running their own servers. The hardware
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by gambler 7y ago
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/660S/4690010 But really, it's common sense. Do you think it's more efficient to eat grain or to feed grain to a cow, wait until it matures and th
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by gambler 7y ago
Just don't be a douchebag who brags about being vegan (making everyone around hate the very concept), while simultaneously investing money into crypto mining and raving about AI toys that require showing terabytes of data into high-pow
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by gambler 7y ago
Because most people who go 100% vegetarian break down and go back to eating meat anyway. Better be 98% vegetarian for decades than 100% vegetarian for a year.
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by gambler 7y ago
I missed the part about "petabytes a day". I'm curious, which companies stores petabytes of data a day in a single database?
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by gambler 7y ago
>In-memory databases are not economically scalable. SAP HANA is widely used for very large data sets.
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by gambler 7y ago
The notion that reasonable reporting is some kind of unattainable ephemeral ideal is obvious nonsense pushed forward by ideologues. Before 2014 most of the mainstream media were keeping their biases in check. It doesn't mean they had n
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by gambler 7y ago
What is the specific threshold that would (supposedly) prove to you that The Guardian is toxic?

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