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by habitue 5y ago
Forgetting is similar to regularization mechanisms in deep learning like dropout. You tend to forget details, and this makes your mental models simpler over time. The memories that get refreshed are the details that actually matter and keep
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by habitue 5y ago
For some reason I trust minifier / compiler benchmarks way more than I trust DB benchmarks. I wonder why that is? Maybe I expect DB workloads to be much more varied so benchmarks are less representative. Whereas with minifying you can
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by habitue 5y ago
Kind of impressed by how civil the discourse has been, both moxie's original post and this response. Really not the norm when crypto is being discussed
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by habitue 5y ago
I was just explaining what the Fed's public reasoning has been. I am not knowledgeable enough to comment on the correctness of the theory.
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by habitue 5y ago
Same. They need a lot better tooling around lambdas etc, but CDK is really nice, especially when compared with terraform
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by habitue 5y ago
The other mandate of the Fed is getting full employment. Pumping money into the economy helps increase employment and there is a long way to go to get back to pre-pandemic levels on that metric. They believed the inflation was transitory, a
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by habitue 5y ago
I could have used something like this numerous times whenearning a new codebase (or a new part of a big codebase). I wonder why this tooling isn't more popular. The next thing that would be great is hyperlinks to the source code from e
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by habitue 5y ago
The good parts of the Unix philosophy have already been subsumed into common sense as a programmer. So what remains as "The Unix philosophy" are the controversial, more religious components. You can tell it's a little religio
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by habitue 5y ago
> With poetry and docker, packaging Python apps for easy consumption is a non-issue. Yeah, apps it's worth doing this for, cli tools it's not.
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by habitue 5y ago
Sorry, I was mistaken about this. I was under the impression terraform would create transactions with cloudformation, but it only does this if you manually create cloudformation resources.
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by habitue 5y ago
I just started using CDK for a project, and after having fought with terraform and trying pulumi, I have to say CDK is a breath of fresh air. Really well thought out, makes doing things the right way easy as well. The biggest difference I c
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by habitue 5y ago
I guess add one more falsehood programmers believe about names: - People's names aren't a non-unicode symbol that a person made up just to refer to themselves
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by habitue 5y ago
Yes! Everyone is trying to reduce risk, and once way scientists[0] reduce risk is to get preliminary results like this before spending a ton of money on a huge study. Absolutely not the final word, it's good to keep in mind the limitat
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by habitue 5y ago
Yeah, the ability to generate identities on the fly and interact with the financial system immediately is one thing that would give financial regulators a heart attack. I wonder if it's actually (free identities) XOR (no wash trading),
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by habitue 5y ago
Yeah but you don't want night only data. You want to know what the speed is while people are actually using it
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by habitue 5y ago
I mean, if you see a drunk 16 year old and steal their car and alcohol and call it "confiscating it for their own good" I think most people wouldn't find that morally acceptable.
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by habitue 5y ago
It's a useful metric in one particular case, which is if you're looking to buy out the stock
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by habitue 5y ago
Today's the day when people actually check Apple's claims with a graph that didn't originate inside Apple. Remember the reality distortion field guys?
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by habitue 5y ago
I use them, and I've known several other non-google employees who use them. Definitely not as big as Samsung or iPhone but we're out there. Marques Brownlee on YouTube generally gives them good reviews. They're good for the ~
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by habitue 5y ago
I'd say rust and swift are in the #3 category. Really, C++ is pretty damn high level, just not a sound type system. But it's static
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by habitue 5y ago
I wonder what a wabi-sabi software aesthetic would be like
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by habitue 5y ago
My guess is that VSCode tightly controls the editor views for performance reasons and probably doesn't expose an API that allows you to do this. You can do arbitrary things in webviews, but they're kinda slow and you might have to
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by habitue 5y ago
Right, I mean you know Apple could make the case to consumers that the premium is worth it, or maybe drop the price a bit. You know, normal competition things. I guess my point is that I doubt they'll do anything of the sort.
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by habitue 5y ago
There's a world where I imagine apple tries to compete here, and says "yes, you pay a bit more through apple, but we don't give away your email address" etc, etc. Consumers could vote with their wallet what they care abo
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by habitue 5y ago
I'm a big fan of tying the basic income directly to tax revenue collected (ideally monthly instead of yearly). That way, people can adaptively choose how much work they want to do, and it feeds back from what the actual economic produc
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by habitue 5y ago
I think in the ideal world, "control your data" means something like what Rally is trying to do: controlling how much data you give out, and knowing who you give it to, and who is using it. Being intentional about it, and also ens
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by habitue 5y ago
> the deepest problem with Urbit: it’s light on actual substance. Urbit seems to have spent many years developing fundamental infrastructure – programming languages, tools, etc. – that are a gigantic maintenance burden and orthogonal to
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by habitue 5y ago
Simple solutions can be really hard to find sometimes (you know P != NP and all that). The thing you're talking about is solutions that are simple to think of.
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by habitue 5y ago
The difference is the feedback is pretty incontrovertible if you build a building and it falls down. If you use composition instead of inheritance, the evidence of whether you're right or wrong comes in the form of ... slightly faster
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by habitue 5y ago
Sure, and civil engineering is really different from chemical engineering. But those are minor compared with the differences between physical engineering disciplines and software engineering. Software engineers: - cost of components is $0 (

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