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by gumby 2y ago
> It sort of raises the question of, could there be 1 universal language to query relational databases, text file storage (json, csv, etc), and anything else. Sure there could be -- any turing-complete language (which SQL is) can query
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by gumby 2y ago
But the association could just as well be to cinnamon, or spearmint, or blueberry. US toothpaste aisles have little variation, especially when compared to other countries without the mint obsession. Then again the flavor choices in US pota
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by gumby 2y ago
The idea that a "minty fresh" mouth (or the idea that "mint" implies "fresh" at all) was the product of an ad campaign in the 1930s. It's not some sort of human universal.
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by gumby 2y ago
You are arguing a distinction without a difference. If socially one could not muster the will to do something then it will never happen -- it cannot be done. We certainly could reduce the use of fossil fuels by over 90% in a few months -
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by gumby 2y ago
Honestly, mostly they were vanilla misunderstanding of the language being compiled. Some people would rather blame the compiler than their own code. Others were shocked that a compiler could have a bug at all. Because most code is not corn
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by gumby 2y ago
> Part of this was Zuckerberg outright lying to everyone about video's impact. Perhaps I'm missing some important aspect, but what would be the benefit of lying about this? How would serving video that didn't promote enga
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by gumby 2y ago
This is a long winded way to say that Black-Scholes applies to startup investments too. Greater volatility has a higher expected value.
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by gumby 2y ago
What’s wrong with it? It just means network.
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by gumby 2y ago
From my years on GCC I can remember that 90% of regular users' bug reports were user error, not a compiler bug. But as with any code, compilers have bugs too and sometimes they can be quite surprising.
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by gumby 2y ago
> Some programming languages have long had powerful reflection capabilities, but they are mostly a runtime feature: they do not allow the equivalent of generating code. Other programming languages allow compile-time logic generation but
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by gumby 2y ago
I say "board" too but hear "bar" sometimes in SA.
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by gumby 2y ago
This is why companies have product managers for different markets or solutions. Different contexts require different features.
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by gumby 2y ago
A physical selector dial for your faves would be nice. I remember we had a chunky dial that required a lot of force (for me as a little kid) to turn from channel to channel. It had a bunch of channels (a dozen?) but I think there were only
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by gumby 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229597
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Stonehenge's Altar Stone Came from Scotland(arstechnica.com)
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by gumby 2y ago
It’s what we say in Australia. If you purchase an edible “power bar” anywhere (not just America) you can be sure it has and can provide no power. It might have a little energy stored as a carbohydrate though.
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by gumby 2y ago
Why? If both your feet are in the water (or one, for that matter) there’s no current flow. But do be sure to pull the plug from the wall by grasping the plastic cord and not touching anything else dry. The rest of the time don’t ever pull
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by gumby 2y ago
Don’t forget the former president’s story about the electric boats and sharks.
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Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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If your novel is too authentic people may not believe you(torforgeblog.com)
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by gumby 2y ago
But you aren’t assigning copyright, you’re getting a license to bundle the contribution with the rest of the package. And they don’t feel safe including a patch without a license to use it. Not an unreasonable position to take. The wording
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by gumby 2y ago
TL;DR: my quick read is that they are trying to do the right thing. My not super-close reading is that this is actually reasonable (but note: I wrote the original GNU blanket assignment back around 1989 or 1990 so you may consider my perspe
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by gumby 2y ago
Their github repo just says AGPL 3.0. Can you point me to the other constraining terms are? This would be quite interesting (like the "Open Core" people). And when I say "interesting" I don't mean a positive featu
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by gumby 2y ago
I think you misunderstood what rms said there (but if the transcript is accurate, he was unclear). Yes, Multics Emacs was the one used by secretaries (except at AI & LCS where they used TECO EMACS on ITS). In both cases most of the ext
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by gumby 2y ago
As far as human endurance goes (more the topic of various comments than the article), humans can outrun a horse, most recently last year: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-65867327 I seem to remember reading as a kid
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by gumby 2y ago
I wish I could double upvote this suggestion!
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by gumby 2y ago
> Seriously folks need to breed more. People who want to are welcome to -- you be you. People who don't want to should not be pressured to do so.
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by gumby 2y ago
> > inter-ethnic conflicts among White Americans The context of the Johnson–Reed Act is more complex than you make it and significantly restricted people you would call “white”, not just other “undesirables”. Most of the violence of t
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by gumby 2y ago
A generative model makes no sense for this application. I think they are using the machines to surface possible matches for humans to consider, similar to the use of RNNs for potential drug candidates.
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by gumby 2y ago
> It just moves the problem around so it hits the poorest the hardest. Could you expand on this? I can’t think of a scenario where that is the case. > Social security's payout formula should factor in the number offspring. Ha, h

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