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by gambler 8y ago
>Containers are a mechanism to run your old machine[s], but with a reproducible setup script. Well, exactly. There is not much to them, conceptually. So why does orchestration has to be so complicated? https://www.influxdata
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by gambler 8y ago
>I really think that running a LAMP server for the average beginning developer these days would be just as complicated, maybe more complicated, than running a single deployment on Google Kubernetes Engine. Back when I first started doi
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by gambler 8y ago
I realize there is a need for multi-server applications with automated deployment and scaling. However, the accidental complexity of serverless setups and container orchestration tools is just off the charts . When reading these articles I
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by gambler 8y ago
There is more to visual programming than simple wire diagrams and "code-blocks-as-visual-blocks": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LZ6TnSP40 https:&#x
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by gambler 8y ago
> if you require everybody to host their own content on their own websites, you go back to the old days of the internet where the only content was published by nerds. which had a certain charm, but was a lot smaller and less inclusive t
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by gambler 8y ago
While it would work, it would be horrible marketing for EVs.
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by gambler 8y ago
Web interfaces are used by half the population of the planet. Any command you run in a shell can be represented by a URL, an HTML tag or a form. URLs and HTML have editable text representations, and they also have semantics, standard compos
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by gambler 8y ago
No one can force you to use money either. You can chose not to partake in any financial transactions and starve to death. According to the logic above, we just established that financial system is 100% voluntary. You can chose not to ever f
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by gambler 8y ago
If your argument was applied to something like money, the conclusion would be that governments do not have any control over the financial system, because anyone can chose to barter and anyone can chose to break the law. >What Facebook a
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by gambler 8y ago
>Would love to hear why people think this is a non-issue. Most developers have never seen anything better. They start working within an artificially complicated ecosystem, get used to it and perpetuate all of the assumptions the ecosys
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by gambler 8y ago
>Secondly (and more specific to Harley), the used motorcycle market is HUGE. Kind of sucks if this is really hurting the company. Companies that design things that last should be somehow rewarded. This is important and needs to be fig
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by gambler 8y ago
Try to enter a paragraph of text you didn't see before and close your eyes while it's "speaking". Do not read along . It does not have a lot of obvious artifacts that plagued older TTSes, but it actually is remarkably h
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by gambler 8y ago
>A cooperative GAN architecture for converting images from one genre to another (eg horses<->zebras) has a loss function that rewards accurate reconstruction of images from its transformed version; CycleGAN turns out to partially
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by gambler 8y ago
Awesome list. We need more of this kind of stuff to really understand how AI is working and why/when it doesn't. -- Anecdote: I did an experiment in applying machine learning to resumes. The exercise was to create a classifier for
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by gambler 8y ago
But being fundamental in this context is a bad thing . It's not like there is a single "neural" architecture that's getting better and better. There are dozens of different architectures with their own optimizations, sh
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by gambler 8y ago
>"Prior to 2012, AI was a field of broken promises." I just love how these DNN researchers love to bash prior work as over-hyped, while hyping their own research through the roof. AI researchers did some amazing stuff in the
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by gambler 8y ago
Thank you for posting this. > Now you or your signal often have to travel hundreds of miles (as the crow flies) to find a central office that is required for call completion, even between two phones 10 feet apart. And people generally
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by gambler 8y ago
I am not talking about merely enabling JavaScript. I am talking about normalizing more and more APIs accessible to every website I visit. Sound. Canvas. 3D. Local storage.
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by gambler 8y ago
The moment you try to login from another location, they will lock you out and ask you to enter a phone number, which from that point forward will be tied to your account. I am not 100% whether they use geolocation, or just trigger this when
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by gambler 8y ago
Is there any evidence this will be effective? Critical thinking, analytical thinking and systems thinking are things that should be taught throughout school, in all classes. Those are general skills. But what exactly is media literacy? art
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by gambler 8y ago
Do people generally know about this option? Nov 6 date was advertised everywhere.
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by gambler 8y ago
I know how to solve this problem. Upload a speech by each candidate to YouTube on election day. At the end of the day whomever gets the least downvotes wins. Google's CAPTCHA and profiling will protect us from election tampering and ma
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by gambler 8y ago
It's voluntary today, when it's a rarity. If they become wide-spread companies and governments will inevitably start tying services to chips, which will drive adoption even more, and eventually you will not be able to get those se
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by gambler 8y ago
The explanation of what each permission really does and why they are necessary are traditionally horrible, so even I, having developed a plugin once, have no clue what is reasonable and what is not.
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by gambler 8y ago
>You couldn't use any technology without paying the Microsoft tax. You could use Mac or Linux. Except you wouldn't be able to interoperate with everyone else. This is precisely the situation with Facebook/Twitter. &gt
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by gambler 8y ago
>2FA is a very cheap solution If you don't know the technologies the website is built upon or how much it will be impacted by increased barrier of entry for users, this statement is baseless.
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by gambler 8y ago
>Their job is not to dispense justice, or make sure you get your revenge. This shouldn't be the job of HR either. What you describe is what civil courts are for. From societal perspective, it is their exact purpose: to dispense
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by gambler 8y ago
Sorry, but at this point it is pretty obvious that big tech companies care about account security only as far as it impact their services. The late revelation about Facebook abusing 2FA phone numbers for marketing is a great demonstration o
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by gambler 8y ago
>You don’t need Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or any of that other crap. You didn't need Microsoft products in the 90s. Except you did if you wanted to do serious work. That's why they were targeted by antitrust regulati
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by gambler 8y ago
>This is one of the side effects of an open web, and one I feel we should live with in the interests of freedom. The only alternative of which I am aware is to police speech through some kind of authority. I strongly believe this is no

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