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by hwers 5y ago
Somewhat with shame in the back of my mind, memes like these always tend to help me get the bigger picture of something faster than a long article.
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by hwers 5y ago
Keenan Crane has been doing incredible work in this field for the last few years. I'm following his work avidly.
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by hwers 5y ago
As a side note, I love the way this was presented. Seeing news in chronological order and well summarized like this really organized in my mind a lot of random pieces of news I'd heard tangentially over the months.
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by hwers 5y ago
Personally I wish we'd get beyond these low level abstractions by now. Machine learning is so wonderfully mathematical that making abstractions from the details should be incredibly easy and powerful. I can't believe like 8 years
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by hwers 5y ago
I don't mean this in a mean way at all but when I read this my mind mostly goes to wondering if the energy spent on marketing and building yet another product we've seen thousands of iterations of would be better spent on trying t
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by hwers 5y ago
It's not a new point but for sure tech has ruined my attention span. I was once lucky enough to get away from major needs to use tech for a few months (which I spent reading) and it really showed me how much these things affect the bra
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by hwers 5y ago
It's a weird phenomenon though since even though ruby on rails was readible in a small code base, it was still building on top of a ton of abstractions that hid lower detail. It makes me think that we're just failing to build clea
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by hwers 5y ago
The news have abused my "you should be afraid" notification too many times for me to take this to heart.
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by hwers 5y ago
> mandating that cancelling must be possible using the same workflow as subscription I'd rather not put into the law that strict a requirement on our UI design.
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by hwers 5y ago
What's the motivation in peoples mind between using an e-bike and just using a tesla? If the argument is that the tesla is still unclean since the energy might not come from clean sources, doesn't that apply for e-bikes as well?
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by hwers 5y ago
Really wouldn't surprise me if they figured out a way to do this in an unsupervised way though. (We might be decades from that though who knows.)
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by hwers 5y ago
Adversarial thoughts that get misclassified into something safe.
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by hwers 5y ago
Slightly sad that their expertise won't be available to the movies anymore I suppose.
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by hwers 5y ago
For americans this sounds like horror but for the international perspective this sounds wonderful (and a fair readjustment for work that we always felt was no different than our american counterparts). Just pointing out the semi obvious thi
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by hwers 5y ago
I did this too for a while. It's a fun challenge for yourself and a cool way to brag to your friends. Paper is such a better interface though and real time latex takes away too much of your attention from the lecture I found in the end
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by hwers 5y ago
To be fair I never got to use a calculator in university tests and I'm glad I learned mental math in years prior to prepare me for that. (Though admittedly that's of course a very artificially constrained school-imposed situation.
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by hwers 5y ago
All this talk about the future is getting kinda boring at this point. I feel like it's been a good 7 years of talking about what will come in the near future and other than that near stagnation on most other fronts. (Autonomous cars,
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by hwers 5y ago
I love how hacky this solution is (yet inspiring that it drives a business).
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by hwers 5y ago
This somehow feels like a scam/deception to me idk why. (I could be wrong.)
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by hwers 5y ago
Why do we have this attitude towards crypto but not towards the enormous mountain of energy required to power non crypto servers as part of normal professional software businesses.
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by hwers 5y ago
I'm not disputing the idea that he was told this but that's a weird thing to be told just for googling someones name. Maybe he was just curious about his background and wanted to read his wikipedia page.
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by hwers 5y ago
I'm sure we can figure out something cleverer. Maybe use one of the more obscure names or a tagged phone number in some clever way.
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by hwers 5y ago
This is a wonderful civil disobedience type idea. If our industry had any guts we'd actually do this.
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by hwers 5y ago
This is what I fear is going to happen once surveillance-type robots start appearing in the streets. The narrative is that we'd somehow destroy them on sight but the truth is that that would be criminally persecuted.
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by hwers 5y ago
To play devils advocate, the pagination on e.g. twitter is really crappy too (non existent)
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by hwers 5y ago
I never really understood the appeal of nerding out on cryptography. As soon as you get it in your mind to do some fun innovating people tell you (correctly) to "never roll your own crypto". Unless you're super talented at ma
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by hwers 5y ago
Holy shit this is the most inspiring thing I've seen in a long while.
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by hwers 5y ago
Great ad for the extension, I wanna try this now.
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by hwers 5y ago
I guess I'm getting old since I don't find this that exciting.
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by hwers 5y ago
I don't understand how that is proof of anything? Am I missing something. I'm just seeing an image of a subreddit.

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