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by gambler 8y ago
You've read too much bad science fiction. I am not worried about AGI. We're nowhere near it. We don't even have a good idea what it would look like. I am worried about people succumbing to hype or greed and using badly unders
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by gambler 8y ago
Well, it's not necessarily either/or. Discord could also include tools for private conversations. A lot of people started using as a replacement for Teamspeak, after all. I don't think it would get nearly as much initial tr
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by gambler 8y ago
That's exactly why it's successful. It has the playful tone of the old IRC, ICQ, and 90s web chats that's totally missing from most modern platforms. Probably the most "social" of all communication offerings I'
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by gambler 8y ago
> ARIA, the language created to help make interfaces more accessible, was found on more than sixty percent of the home pages surveyed. Unfortunately, those home pages were more likely to have detectable accessibility errors. > Page
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by gambler 8y ago
It seems like Erlang strikes the perfect balance between what people want from both worlds. Scalability and fault-tolerance, but also coherence and established ways of doing things.
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by gambler 8y ago
>These CSS tricks are cool but they shouldn't be used in a production environment without basic usability testing. The same can be said about any JS library that interacts with page controls. The wast majority of modal dialog impl
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by gambler 8y ago
You can trivially add keyboard shortcuts to this solution after it's implemented - with 0 rework. Moreover, the is absolutely no guarantee that an arbitrary JS library for modal popups will have better usability. And I have yet to see
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by gambler 8y ago
Firstly, the application I was talking about[1] didn't have real updates. Secondly, no one stops you from doing incremental updates with HTML except they way you design your data structures and UI. In fact, HTML has something that JSON
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by gambler 8y ago
This is pretty much how I develop most of my web stuff. I do use JS, but it comes in afterwards, in discrete packages. It process specific HTML attributes to make the page do extra stuff, or accelerate certain operations, or stich pages tog
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by gambler 8y ago
I remember there was some ridiculous article here where the author claimed to build world's fastest web app with PReact. It was a hierarchical list of HTML5 features with some tick-boxes. Out of curiosity I converted the giant JSON blo
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by gambler 8y ago
I wonder how many of those people rallying against a standard library ever had to support a legacy codebase where all the design decisions were made by someone else. Doesn't sound like they have that kind of experience at all. Funny th
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by gambler 8y ago
Google's security is designed to safeguard accounts from usage that would inconvenience Google. It's not designed to provide security to users . It's extremely easy to get locked out, even if you remember your password. Si
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by gambler 8y ago
>You mean the open web of ICQ, Skype, AOL's walled garden? There were open-source clients that connected to all of them. Accounts were easy to register and didn't have draconian verification. The IMs of the old we used for ac
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by gambler 8y ago
>What of the Morris Worm’s other entry method, based on weak passwords? Oh, but we all know that this is totally fixed by 5-factor authentication. You just type in your password, click on an emailed link, type a pin from your mandatory
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by gambler 8y ago
I wonder whether there is a way to reconfigure audio jacks into microphone jacks on an average sound card these days. Little known fact: speakers and headphones are also microphones simply by the physics of how they work.
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by gambler 8y ago
At this point I am convinced that the stack treadmill most of IT is jogging on gets propped mostly by the people who want to up their salaries by keeping as many people out of their niche as possible. Older devs probably get hit by this har
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by gambler 8y ago
Good for them. Cashless stuff sound cool and progressive in the short run, but it's is a horrible idea in the long run. It's a privacy nightmare and gives disproportionate power to a few middlemen entities that usually have zero o
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by gambler 8y ago
In the real world, you don't want AI to instantly flip from 90% confidence in one direction to 90% confidence in the other direction, because it would cause erratic behavior. What would be preferable is a large zone where it gives both
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by gambler 8y ago
I'm glad that at least someone here sees the problem, but I am not surprised by the typical reaction of AI apologists in this thread. You always get at least one of the two responses: "OMG, this is amazing, it's just like hum
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by gambler 8y ago
>in Concurrent Mode we can interrupt a render in the middle if user does an interaction Can you interrupt an arbitrary user-written function that's called inside the rendering stack?
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by gambler 8y ago
Try it instead of theorizing: https://codesandbox.io/s/07293kpnn The UI is nearly as responsive as their improved example. I'm not a React expert, but I do know that browsers defer timeouts until they have time to
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by gambler 8y ago
You can significantly improve on the baseline performance simply by doing: handleChange = event => { const value = event.target.value; this.setState({ inputValue: value }); setTimeout(() => { this.props.onChange
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by gambler 8y ago
Problem is, this assumes that all CAs and their resellers do that verification properly. https://security.googleblog.com/2015/03/maintaining-digital-... https://arstechnica.com/information-technolo
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by gambler 8y ago
LetsEncrypt is a hack to get HTTP encryption working without shelling out money for meaningless identity "verification". Code signing has nothing to do with encryption, so having analogous CA for code would be entirely meaningless
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by gambler 8y ago
If you're interested in bringing deep learning to edge hardware, I'd suggest looking at XNOR nets: https://allenai.org/plato/xnornet/
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by gambler 8y ago
Why is the title title phrased as if 2017 was special, when most of the previous years also seen highest death rates from those causes? A lot of charts in the paper end at 2015.
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by gambler 8y ago
I am suggesting that just because software does "math" doesn't change how people read it. Bad coding practices like cryptic variable names and repetitions will affect it exactly in the same ways they affect software in all
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by gambler 8y ago
>h = hidden, o = output, y_pred = predicted value of y, etc. are quite clear ∀ abbr + to the cogntv load prsn wht mntn in thr hd. ∀ -> every + -> adds wht -> who has to h -> head Was that easier to read tha
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by gambler 8y ago
Why are deep learning researchers allergic to meaningful variable names?
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by gambler 8y ago
How big of a fuckup do we need to see to realize that running megabytes of arbitrary code from a dozen different domain for every website we visit is a bad idea? What needs happen for engineers to realize that process isolation is something

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