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by inimino 7y ago
The spin would be "US cuts off global internet in a petty attempt to interfere with China's management of its own network". Justified by a technical backstory that approximately nobody understands, I don't think it would
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by inimino 7y ago
I posted a top-level comment[1], but basically HTTPS-only, aside from throwing old sites under the bus, would not have helped. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21726617 > and in case I'm totally wrong, what
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by inimino 7y ago
I see a lot of arguments for specific technical mitigations for the specific implementation of this attack. All these technical approaches are doomed to fail. The attack uses network-level injection to add malware to HTTP requests for resou
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by inimino 7y ago
Solving Go is an interesting theoretical pastime, but there is no reason to expect any particular overlap between people who are interested in playing the game (like Lee Sedol) and people who are interested in building machines to asymptoti
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by inimino 7y ago
> once they do, there is no reason for the human race to continue to exist What is the reason for the human race to exist today? Please think carefully about your answer.
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by inimino 7y ago
> baseless claims Those are opinions. > not well written That's yours.
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by inimino 7y ago
> golden age of espresso machine reviews Probably when the first search result was a hobby page maintained by an espresso machine enthusiast. Those days ended early, but I remember the pre-commercial Web and it was a very different place
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by inimino 7y ago
> So it seems to me you were clearly expressing an idea of what a metric is, in rejecting the need for metrics, that you now attribute to me and say it's the wrong definition. No. You said a bunch of things, that to me are almost en
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by inimino 7y ago
At the risk of taking this too meta... there's something interesting here about online communities like HN. In everyday human interactions, we have a lot of contextual and social cues about who is more experienced, respected, expert, e
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by inimino 7y ago
I don't know your working definition of a metric, but if you think it is coextensive with "determining the consequences of your actions" then I'm sure it's not the right definition in this context. If you think it&#
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by inimino 7y ago
> safe to assume Assuming that because something is popular it must be good is an example of assuming that things are as they should be, or deriving ought from is[1]. Assuming that because something is unpopular, it must be "wrong&q
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by inimino 7y ago
Please be careful with your terminology here. When we talk about metrics, especially in a business context, we are talking about numerical quantities that can be tracked and unambiguously measured. A metric that can't be measured, or t
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by inimino 7y ago
From some other replies it seems my recollection of the density of calculus in the exercises was incorrect. However, I do think the math shouldn't be a great hurdle with the right guidance, but: > If a high-schooler is training for
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by inimino 7y ago
> This seems like a pretty low-effort write-up. You're not the audience for the article and that's what this entire thread shows. You missed the fact that you were not the audience, and that makes this a low-effort dismissal. R
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by inimino 7y ago
You quoted a line about the persistence of plastic being a major environmental problem, and said "Not really." If what you meant to say was that recycling is only a solution for plastics that are currently going to landfills, that
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by inimino 7y ago
Well yes, but ndarray is a library, which is what I said. You certainly don't get this "for free" in the language, which means you aren't forced to think this way as a beginner in the language, which is why libraries lik
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by inimino 7y ago
"systematically applied"... I'm not giving you a system, I'm specifically telling you not to rely on systems and rules in cases where they do not work. I'm arguing that people need to take responsibility for the cor
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by inimino 7y ago
> in the absence of metrics, people "apply and maintain" a consistent value system What on earth makes you think I'm making this assumption? I never said anything of the sort. I said that people are abrogating their respon
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by inimino 7y ago
You seem to have missed the point of the original remark that (x + y) is a statement, and you're missing the point of my clarification. > "(x + y) is an expression rather than a statement". The point isn't that (x + y
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by inimino 7y ago
> (x + y) is going to be an expression in almost any language... But the equivalent for loop is not.
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by inimino 7y ago
I feel these moves are part of a general move towards "industry ready" skills and away from fundamentals earlier and earlier in computer science programs (even prestigious ones). Whether that's a good or bad thing is a separa
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by inimino 7y ago
Do you mean your own instance of a typeclass? Because that's the direct Haskell analogy to a subclass in Java. I'm not sure where the difficulty is here, as what you're describing is quite straightforward. You can also have t
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by inimino 7y ago
I'm not sure if this is obvious, if what it means in practice is a metric that may be the wrong metric, but which is visible, being replaced by a metric that is invisible. At least in the first case we can reason about the metric and w
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by inimino 7y ago
My experience of the last chapter is: it's not as satisfying or as easy as the previous chapters where the solutions to exercises are self-contained. It's also less suited to doing outside of school, if you only have nights and we
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by inimino 7y ago
> There’s a lot of finger pointing at metrics and complacency about problems, but the solutions are super vague The solution is obvious, and not vague at all: stop over-relying on metrics, and stop pretending that what matters can in mos
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by inimino 7y ago
> This risk of subverting qualitative data like this into a disingenuous claim that something is data-driven is really high, in addition to all the usual cognitive biases that lead people to read what they want into narrative accounts. W
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by inimino 7y ago
It does not assume anything except algebra (and I think some minor calculus concepts are mentioned in passing, as using higher-order functions to estimate derivatives or some such, but not at all required). However, it is designed to be use
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by inimino 7y ago
What was your exposure to the book? I have gone through it twice with study groups, and have done all the exercises, and feel if anything it's underrated.
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by inimino 7y ago
The only "staggering bullshit" I see is acting like elegance is a luxury, and waste is irrelevant, and the only value is to ship something, anything, in as little time as possible. (As if the only metrics that matter are the ones
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by inimino 7y ago
The comment you're replying to said that most political speech has moved to a few platforms. I haven't forgotten that IP addresses exist, but what has that got to do with my comment? Nobody is preventing you from putting your poli

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