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by hacker_9 10y ago
Mainly because the ones in power want to stay in power, and actively stop change. We are safer than ever, yet according to the media we are super lucky to not be killed by a terrorist every second of the day.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This isn't a small scale change, everyone has to be on board for it to work.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I would think that in such a society, people would upload blueprints for how to create things, which you could then send to your local manufacturing plant to get built. Some sort of advanced 3d printer could even see these sorts of things w
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I wish. The truth is the whole world is run on money, meaning the millionaires and billionaires are the ones in charge. It absolutely doesn't have to be this way; we already produce so much food no one need starve. But greed runs deep
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Writing software is hard yes, but I disagree with the author: I do blame the tools. Every language since C has been created as a reaction. What I mean by this is: > C++ was created as a reaction to OOP being so difficult to do in C. &g
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I don't think you understand what WordPress is about. It's about easily clicking together a blog site like lego, where every feature is just a search away in the plugins section. You could probably recreate everything in python dj
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Yep, it is the execution of the idea where the money is. Most well known products are simple to explain / understand, but it was their implementation and ability to retain users on their platform that make them successful.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Revolutionary.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
You just asked in a Rust thread if Rust was a good language to use...
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I can imagine Theresa May plotting to bring forward Brexit now, so she can get her surveillance bills passed within her term.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Just a note, this is mainly an Unity problem as they use an old Mono compiler and runtime. Additionally lambdas only create garbage when you capture local variables, and the normal GC is optimised to run without you noticing collections. Th
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by hacker_9 10y ago
sigh this is why I don't usually get involved in arguments about whether something is considered AI or not; it just devolves into people trying to define and redefine what the word 'AI' even means. Final word: I follow this
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by hacker_9 10y ago
And yet 30 years we could do all that with a whole lot of if statements. It would just return false positives a lot more. A couple of others have replied saying the same thing as you that this is 'AI', but it's not. As soon a
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Say what you will about Zuckerberg, but this is a really cool project! Steps he took: 1. Connect his home devices (lights, thermostat, doors, music player, TV, CCTV etc) to his computer, so he can turn them on and off from it and in general
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Productivity.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Blockly is awesome and often overlooked. It realises the idea of a real time scripting language, and should really be the thing devs reach for over flowcharts when they decide to implement a visual programming environment.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
sigh this is really shitty news. In a time when governments are deciding more invasive surveillance is in everyone's best interest too, it's probably never been more profitable to be a hacker.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Once I learned some basic colour theory and applied it my work, customers found my products a lot more appealing. I now realise the right colour scheme can control minds - something I wish I'd realized years ago.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
My main gripe with the campaign is all the maps are just set pieces in which they spawn waves of enemies. It felt like I was just playing multiplayer against bots.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
The highest rated geography decks was what I used [0]. But yeah finding good quality decks is the hard part, though the geography ones generally do have pictures of the country and you guess the name. [0] https://ankiweb.net&#x2F
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by hacker_9 10y ago
But a .json file surely will be 2x or even 3x as big as the .obj file, because of all the extra fluff the format adds. What is wrong with parsing an obj file, and building up your vertex and index buffer straight away? Parsing a .json file
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I used this at work; while waiting for builds to complete I would use Anki [0] to learn all the names and locations of the countries. It worked pretty well, but it isn't a silver bullet. I retained maybe 50% of the information. [0] ht
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by hacker_9 10y ago
"Right now we have an f16-model.obj file. This file is a text file that contains data about our model’s vertices. In order to make use of this data, we parse it into more readily accessible structure and store it as JSON." Wait
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by hacker_9 10y ago
The article said two years.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Funny how people here are saying goodbye to jQuery. I'm saying goodbye to Rails.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
and this [1]! Both still make me laugh after the 100th time. I'd love to have been in the room when the writers actually thought these scenes up. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Additionally when we speak we don't just 'replay' words; we add emotions and so on. Reminds me of this video [1] analysing how the actor Anthony Hopkins converts his lines to speech for his scenes. [1] https://www.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
English speakers sound brain dead to be honest. This sounds no different from pre-NN attempts, only difference this time is it's behind an Amazon paywall.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I want to fault this but I can't. Code reviewer who's not afraid to reject code? Check. Proper testing of code changes? Check. The process probably looks silly in this case because nothing went wrong. But with a hard-coded variabl

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