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by habitue 8y ago
I'm not a huge facebook fan but this thing about only being able to disable but not delete the app is misleading about how sinister it is. All it means is that the app comes installed by being part of the ROM image. It can be disabled
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by habitue 8y ago
The features of github means the data can't just be left encrypted all the time. No matter what, github employees are going to have access to your code. If you absolutely require security github enterprise is the on-prem way to remove
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by habitue 8y ago
It doesn't prevent anyone from doing anything. It increases the likelihood that if someone does something like that, that it will be detected. Crev seems interesting because it not only has the web-of-trust mechanic going on, but also
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by habitue 8y ago
> if Batman is in the public domain I'll be able to have a Batwoman. Having a female version of a character isn't per-se a copyright violation just because that path's been taken before. I think you're making a legal
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by habitue 8y ago
> “Batman” (the idea, the concept) is still protected by trademark laws making it illegal to produce new (non-derivative) Batman books/movies/cartoons without the trademark holder’s consent This isn't true. The concept of
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by habitue 8y ago
We also live in an era where it's basically impossible that kids getting into MIT's CS program haven't been exposed to programming before. I think it's a romantic idea, but the fact is college isn't where you learn
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by habitue 8y ago
Absolutely agree. But I meant maintaining BUILD files for code you didn't write can be very time consuming. Even a security-only update can include new source files that you now have to tell Bazel about. It's real work
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by habitue 8y ago
This is the catch with Bazel. All of its integration with npm, pypi, crates.io, etc are hacks that essentially vendor the source of your dependencies and attempt to generate BUILD files for those deps with some heuristics. For a lot of pack
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by habitue 8y ago
Vendoring is totally a thing you can do, but keeping them up to date with upstream (and keeping your bazel BUILD files current) is a full time job. You have to hire someone to do that work, it's not completely automatable.
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by habitue 8y ago
I've used bazel pretty extensively and I have to say it's not fully baked unless you're using it the way Google does internally (vendor all dependencies) and you're using a language Google does internally. Additionally
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by habitue 8y ago
Aw jeez, this is really depressing
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by habitue 8y ago
I think the author's annoyance stems from the fact that these buildings attempt to look stylish and high class, but are made cheaply. It's kind of upper-class annoyance that lower-class people are getting something that looks nice
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by habitue 8y ago
These are, in fact, funnier. The "tack on a nihilist ending" in the article is funny for a couple, but falls flat after you get it
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by habitue 8y ago
> FOSS was never about trust in software owners. I get what the author is saying, but I think these kinds of originalism arguments are always a bit tedious. Do we really think that the original utopian intentions of hackers in the 80s ar
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by habitue 8y ago
> I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundamentally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. `read', `eval', and `print' are all missing in Python. I believe he may be mistaken about
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by habitue 8y ago
Main point: bigger GANs like BIGGAN don't let you train with your own images because they're so expensive to train. So everyone is creating art from the same pretrained model (and it'll presumably all look somewhat similar)
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by habitue 8y ago
It's not quite as straightforward as you're implying either. If you graph the total value of an employee's shares over time, dilution drops the value of that graph. You can say after the fact "look, after six months your
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by habitue 8y ago
I figured this was written by someone working on or for supermemo, but it turns out it's not! The author details his journey from using Anki for 5+ years to switching to supermemo: https://masterhowtolearn.wordpress.com&#x2F
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by habitue 8y ago
I really liked this. I think the author does a good job of steelmanning the AI alignment argument, and providing interesting food for thought on the subject. Here's my responses to the arguments (since you didn't ask, and who car
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by habitue 8y ago
It doesn't sound like they were dishonest, just naive.
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by habitue 8y ago
There's this big wall between "buying illegally" and "buying anything". The only reason people are using it to buy things illegally is because they can't use normal methods like credit cards. It's strictly
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by habitue 8y ago
I wonder if something got lost in translation and the "thread safety" section should have been called "type safety"? It seems to be what the paragraph is talking about (though in the case of rust you could say the static
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by habitue 8y ago
The new CEO didn't fire him, he basically gave him notice that they were hiring a new VP of marketing, and that he could be in the running, maybe with the help of a coach. Then after he didn't get the job, he quit. It was a forese
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by habitue 8y ago
I just checked because I just got pneumonia and I wear a Fitbit. Sure enough, my resting heart rate increased a couple days before I got sick
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by habitue 8y ago
Ah, you're right on AD. But backprop was invented in the 80s
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by habitue 8y ago
So, they didn't have backprop and automatic differentiation in the 50s. That's pretty fundamental and not just "fiddling with architectures"
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by habitue 8y ago
The next logical thing is to sell a computer and a large 4K monitor that creates a new painting for you every day
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by habitue 8y ago
I am baffled why they have a matrix of what data science libraries they support. They support reading and writing CSVs and Parquet (and, I assume, arbitrary files as well). How is this specific HopsFS support for Pandas? Pandas is dumping c
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by habitue 8y ago
I don't think it's reasonable at this point that git's underlying model ever changes substantially. Essentially, it is the interface that's stable over time. It's also the easiest way to understand git. You could
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by habitue 8y ago
Ok, now I just need to get this working in emacs.

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