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by hans1729 6y ago
>How do people that don't have PhDs bridge the gap in their knowledge from what's commonly taught/used (OOP and it's design patterns) to thinking in terms of monads/monoids/functors/etc. ? I can just sp
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by hans1729 6y ago
> [speaking about system engineering] [...] some end up enjoying it and switching to systems engineering entirely. They’re then mostly freed from other tasks such as the expectation to “fix something on the frontend” wipes laughing tear
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by hans1729 6y ago
You're gonna have to be a lot more specific if you want to see engagement, your audience here expects more than 'all these signals and frequencies'
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> Do insects? I doubt it. May I ask why? Given there are single-cell-organisms which display complex, intelligent behaviour [1]? Where do you draw the line, and why? Are lobsters with their 18 'neurons' conscious to you? Becaus
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by hans1729 6y ago
> we can't really define the difference between humans and other species? Or can we? Am I missing something? The difference is genetics, manifested via neocortex and thumbs. The question isn't purely philosophical though, as t
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by hans1729 6y ago
>What alternatives do we have for non-chromium browsers that have a healthy plugin ecosystem? The obvious answer is: none. It always was Chrome or Firefox, everything else was so niche that 'healthy plugin ecosystem' is out of
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by hans1729 6y ago
If the kid is happy, it is. :-) Reminder that Hawking couldn't be arsed to spend his time with physics and went rowing instead (it was only when he got his deadline that he started to work on physics nonstop)
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by hans1729 6y ago
> I have high hopes for WSL2 replacing MacOS or Ubuntu VM's for me, especially because Darwin is simply not a linux system and you really feel the difference once you work on natively compiled code. That's exactly what I did
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by hans1729 6y ago
And its amazing! https://i.imgur.com/7p5g5os.png The one thing I'm still missing from iTerm is the hotkey-implementation, but we'll get there eventually :-)
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>[...] you're confusing your ignorance for a decline Fair enough. That point hits home with regard to the installer-situation, however what I tried to illustrate with that sentence is that macos is far from the state of borderline
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by hans1729 6y ago
From someone who ditched macos two weeks ago: macos just doesn't feed good anymore. Ignoring things like their horribly outdated window-management (what the hell is that splitscreen-mess?) and the mess that are locked down and all-over
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by hans1729 6y ago
Sure, yet still we're right to expect more from a company fostering innovation than from one that doesn't, no? Because that was the original question
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Thats just straight up reductionism. You can describe every progress as an iteration, but obviously some steps are much bigger than others, the prime example being the iPhone. Some company-cultures enable or incentivize innovation , othe
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by hans1729 6y ago
fwiw, I switched to Windows from macos two weeks ago. Now I can't imagine going back, the xps feels a lot better than the mbp. The microsoft store has no relevance to me as a user whatsoever, which is a completely different story tha
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I mean, hey, its a great tool to install WSL asap!
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by hans1729 6y ago
> I don't think that it would be possible to dissociate the Sacklers' name from the opioid crisis anytime soon Attention is short. I wouldn't rule it out; pr goes a long way. Spend a couple million on a completely unrela
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by hans1729 6y ago
> Humans observe an object once, such as a cup for drinking water, and we immediately grasp its "cupness " Adults do (i.e. the agents pretrained holistic model of its entire observed physical context). By reducing the phenom
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by hans1729 6y ago
Maybe sentdex [0] streamed a session on twitch? He has a series on automatic driving in GTA iirc https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex
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by hans1729 7y ago
> If you look at other things like alcohol use, things don't look good. What? Why is alcohol not regarded as a drug in this kind of research environment? Is the aim of this research to save teenagers from drug abuse, or is the aim t
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by hans1729 7y ago
>The host assured him that was premature. And yet here we are the next day. The situation is evolving rapidly. Meh. Your personal risk to become infected via $generic_domestic_holidays is pretty low, but the risk to increase the overall
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by hans1729 7y ago
My bad, that was inappropriate. That being said: I wouldn't call them a baseline expectation in urban environments. I live in a city of 250k people, and I don't think we have a 24h-store here.
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by hans1729 7y ago
>"even here in America" Not to derail the conversation, byt why the 'even'? 24h-stores seem like an inherently american concept to me (I'm german, so France is right around the corner)
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Ask HN: How to get started with DSLs and meta-programming?
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by hans1729 7y ago
Having fun is not whats discouraged. Rather: if I'm looking for the solution for some problem, I don't want to scroll through memes, because I want to be productive, getting things done. Spam/fog in the resolution-thread obvi
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by hans1729 7y ago
>I thought being Europe's strongest economy would help. I don't think that reducing a country or an econonomy to a single metric (here: gdp, I guess?) is the right approach; we are looking at very complicated systems here. One
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by hans1729 7y ago
>Why did the Washington Post rehash this story recently [tinfoil alert] Word going around in Germany is that Tagesschau waited for the CIA to sell their shares (which happened in 2018) [0] [0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a0b
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by hans1729 7y ago
> Optimize your existence as you see fit with that information! That sounds very intriguing, yet I don't really have an aha!-moment. Care to give an example or two from your personal experience?
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by hans1729 7y ago
> This is a post saying how learning new things is good. At the same time, this is a post saying "I wonder why evolution discouraged a lack of confidence!" Like, duh. I'm all for Paul, but pretty much any stoned teenager
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by hans1729 7y ago
related, a deepmind-paper i found fascinanting: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.08162v1.pdf
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by hans1729 7y ago
>I suspect that here in Germany we would still be waiting for the hospital to treat the Marburg virus patients to be completed. >from Fefe [0] "[...] it's done by 3rd of feb. I suppose we could do the same in Germany, but it

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