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by gambler 8y ago
>I don't know how non tech people deal with it. They silently suffer, develop coping mechanisms and time-intensive workarounds. Most don't even understand how things could be better. This is part of the reason so many interfa
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by gambler 8y ago
There is a GPU accelerated particle simulator from Yoshiki Oshima and a few other people. It can run in browsers. http://tinlizzie.org/~ohshima/shadama2/live2017/ A bit tricky due to shader limitations, but v
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by gambler 8y ago
I learned the basics of Prolog, really liked the idea, but found it rather impractical for complex problems. IMO, there needs to be a stronger separation between rule descriptions and search algorithm description/manipulation. I want t
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by gambler 8y ago
I didn't write anything about promotions. I mentioned tenure and performance reviews. If you had a way to accurately predict that some company would systematically donwrate you and eventually fire you or force you to quit, would you wa
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by gambler 8y ago
The article didn't specify how they labeled resumes for training. You're assuming that it was based on whether or not the candidate was hire. Nobody with an iota of experience in machine learning would do something like that. (For
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by gambler 8y ago
>And how you do operate on the data in those objects? You don't. Your question makes as much sense as asking how to do polymorphism in shell commands Not operating on data was the whole point of OOP. (Or at least one of the key
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by gambler 8y ago
Most people who claim that command line is the best tool for power users know nothing about history of GUIs. They think that laughable garbage that Windows calls user interface is "how it's supposed to work", and proceed to s
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by gambler 8y ago
Command line is not the only HCI that can use text. Also, no one (except immense mental inertia) stops developers from producing serializable graphical interfaces.
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by gambler 8y ago
No mention of Ivan Sutherland and his Fleet Architecture? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167...
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by gambler 8y ago
Programs are designed to detect VMs by people who already know the differences between VMs and normal operation. Also, reminder to myself: buy more books by Greg Bear. Good writer, but I always forget about him for some reason.
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by gambler 8y ago
The problem is that those experiments would invalidate only their assumption about the supposed structure of the supposed simulation, not the overall idea of the simulation. So the statement overall actually is non-falsifiable. This is like
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by gambler 8y ago
You're setting up an entirely non-falsifiable argument. Do multiple publications of obvious nonsense in peer-reviewed journals prove nothing to you? How do you know there are no other authors doing the same thing with different intent?
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by gambler 8y ago
The whole thing feels like encroachment of some kind of bizarre secular theology into physics. Grandiose and mostly non-falsifiable claims that can't be used to make any specific predictions. Thinking by analogy (with computers) rathe
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by gambler 8y ago
There is a book on this. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces. From what I've read, it's less about guns and more about certain historic precedents, training and organizational incentives.
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by gambler 8y ago
Just another example of why codes of conduct are fuzzy hypocritical bullshit. If you want to actually change something, create clearly defined, actionable rules, specify scope and follow them 100% of the time. Like "we do not log any i
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by gambler 8y ago
There is an article about this. 'C Is Not a Low-level Language'. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
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by gambler 8y ago
>.NET is still very popular but it definitely did not fulfill the more ambitious dreams that Bill Gates had for it. There is still time. It just recently got open-sourced, got a compiler written in itself and got a run-time unbundled f
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by gambler 8y ago
All good points, although there are some arguments that can be made in favor of more straightforward protocol even if it's less secure. I agree that submitting plain text could be problematic for some use cases. At the same time, there
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by gambler 8y ago
I agree that we need cryptographic timestamps. Seems like this would be a good use for blockchain, but any implementation would be better than nothing, as long as it's not fully centralized. The proposed workflow seems overly complex,
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by gambler 8y ago
I'd pay a lot of money for a decent E Ink monitor. I don't need color or high refresh rate. I do need it to "just work", be reliable and relatively big. The second step would be software support so that I could leave ima
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by gambler 8y ago
Sorry, but this is not how you do numeric benchmarks. Most real programs that deal with numbers also manipulate data structures and call many standard library methods. If those things are slow, your app is slow. This benchmark doesn'
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by gambler 8y ago
Well, I know that printing stuff to console can be ridiculously slow, so this doesn't surprise me much.
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by gambler 8y ago
>The lesson from this and other studies of discrimination is that withholding irrelevant information can enhance judgment. Most modern news are irrelevant information. You can take almost any article and reduce it to a single paragraph
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by gambler 8y ago
I'm sure turning public forums into language/tone correctness minefields does miracles to encourage participation from people who aren't native language speakers and aren't keenly aware of nuances western socio-politic
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by gambler 8y ago
>The creeps should consider themselves on notice, whether there's a CoC or not. Yep, no politics here. No us-vs-them tribalism. No power plays. No jeering and celebrating a "victory" over "the other side". Just
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by gambler 8y ago
>But if people at least realise that I'm not part of the disgusting underbelly of the internet that thinks it's OK to show the kind of behaviour you will find if you really have been reading up on the 'discussions' a
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Authoring by Alan Kay(squeakland.org)
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by gambler 8y ago
Why do most articles from Bloomberg that make it to the front page of HN are about "the rich" somehow screwing over "the people"? Like, that's the only kind I see here. Regardless, the article is BS clickbait. Just
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by gambler 8y ago
Great video. I really like when lecturers find ways to convey abstract concepts without dumbing them down with analogies. She achieved that perfectly by relating time to the speed of light, which is a perfectly sensible conversion. Edit: I&
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by gambler 8y ago
I recently started experimenting with Squeak. It's a bit dated, but holy crap, that thing is amazing. So many good ideas packed in so few megabytes. The startup time alone blows my mind. It's pretty much a virtual machine with a s

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