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by gambler 6y ago
After using LINQPad and then Pharo (with its playgrounds and persistent images), going back to REPLs is kind of tough.
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by gambler 6y ago
> misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news It's amazing to see people casually use these words as if they still have universally meaningful definitions. Not anymore. What one half of the country considers misinformation
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by gambler 6y ago
> when the demand may not exist a year from now. With extra fires, newly emerging awareness of how viruses actually work, and with understanding that we need stockpiles (and not just on federal level) the demand should hold pretty well
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by gambler 6y ago
You're completely missing the point. Many phones don't have a white balance setting in their default photo apps. They do so much post-processing to correct for various sensor issues it doesn't occur to them to give the user
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by gambler 6y ago
This is the dark side of "smart" devices that replace high-quality physical sensors with clever algorithms. When something weird happens, they might misbehave in the most bizarre fashion. The general pattern will hold for AI. If y
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by gambler 6y ago
>Complexity always exists somewhere. You can't remove it, only try it make it easier to deal with. This is simply not true. Most complexity in today's systems is completely avoidable. Most developers are just mentally stuck a
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by gambler 6y ago
This picture in the article is misleading: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3e0600_a25ba8bbf26b47a096... At the very leat, vitamin D does seem to prevent respiratory infections. The article even admits as much late
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by gambler 6y ago
This sort of sloganistic un-logic that constantly gets up-voted here is a great reminder that most tech people aren't mature enough to make decisions about how the rest of the society communicates.
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by gambler 6y ago
>Sync is opt-in. https://www.epubor.com/whispersync-for-kindle.html "And "Whispersync for Books" is enabled on Kindle Fire, Kindle devices and apps by default." https://smallbusiness.chro
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by gambler 6y ago
>You'd have to figure out some kind of secure key sharing mechanism between phones, tablets, web browsers, and e-readers. Yeah, it's not like Amazon can afford security experts to work on this or anything. >Or, you can tr
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by gambler 6y ago
Why is syncing across devices not opt-in? Why doesn't Kindle tell you which data it sends and when?
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by gambler 6y ago
Bribes? Uh, I mean, the cost of establishing positive relationships?
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by gambler 6y ago
> I knew people would hone in on that and ignore what I was trying to say You were forcing your reference frame onto a science fiction novel and presenting that as critique. Complaining about newspapers and tapes in space is actually m
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by gambler 6y ago
> Are you serious? No. Are we already at the point where a suggestion to read nothing outside your own cultural bubble can be interpreted as a serious comment? If we are, this is seriously disturbing.
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by gambler 6y ago
Yeah, same here. I tried to read old American science fiction, the so-called western classics and the so-called eastern classics. All of that stuff is racist, sexist and bigoted. After many unsuccessful tries I decided that reading anything
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by gambler 6y ago
No. This development was trivially predictable right when Facebook acquired Oculus. Which is why I bought Vive instead. You don't need to be a genius to see stuff like this ahead of time. All you have to do is refuse to be gaslit and
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by gambler 6y ago
>Are you willing to pay 50-100 euros/dollars per year to keep MDN afloat? Yes, as long as there is a guarantee that my money will go towards actually paying people who update the documentation rather than CEO salary, degenerate ac
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by gambler 6y ago
Remember: Cloudflare has been loosing millions of dollars each year they existed. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519... "As we continue to invest in our business, we have
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by gambler 6y ago
Can you give me a single example of deepfakes being used to stage a real news event? Meanwhile, most of the population isn't even trained to recognize when videos are trimmed to start and stop at a conspicuously convenient moments, whi
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by gambler 6y ago
The very idea that deep fakes are somewhere near the top of the list of significant concerns for the media right now is in itself disinformation. And it seems to be very persistent. I keep seeing articles and videos about it all the time. S
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by gambler 6y ago
A working device should never stop working because of an expiration of some made-up entity. It is a signs of compete failure in basic system design.
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by gambler 6y ago
After trying it, going back to Java/C#/JavaScript was kind of rough. I realize that despite their external polish popular IDEs/languages today have some glaring, fundamental deficiencies.
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by gambler 6y ago
Article> One of their experiments, “Learning and Using Novel Words,“ strikes me as more remarkable than most of the others and the paper’s lack of focus on it confuses me. This sort of "learning" is not necessarily real learn
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by gambler 6y ago
The article I linked to makes claims only about the model it tests and since it actually links to an online implementation, anyone can try to reproduce the results and see for themselves. This is more than I can say about most chatter about
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by gambler 6y ago
I think it's becoming pretty clear that they don't. First, scientists uncovered many additional ways neurons interact with one another[1]. Second, it seems that individual neurons do way more computing than in the simplistic ANN m
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by gambler 6y ago
I'll wait for a working interactive model before blindly believing these statements. GPT-2 was hyped through the roof, but when inspected with a bit of criticality it demonstrated glitches that told us more about how it actually works
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by gambler 6y ago
> Bob Martin is myopic in his view of software, in a way that I think is harmful to teams and the industry. His lectures and books really are harmful. Beginners read them and get the impression that you can design good software by fo
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by gambler 6y ago
> inheritance is bad Inheritance is a common-sense solution to the problem of creating something similar to an existing object, but different in some key aspects. It's programming by difference. Nothing bad about it until you star
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by gambler 6y ago
>Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release I just tried downloading the Windows executable. Initially it said it will take 1.5 hours, but then the download just failed. Tri
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by gambler 6y ago
How about investing into their own browser in ways that actually improve the internet? Like adding IPFS support? Or PGP encryption?

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