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by ipnon 3y ago
If you look at the final part of the book “Browser APIs and Protocols” it includes WebSockets and WebRTC. It looks completely up to date. You can handle practically any Web network problem with some combination of XHR, WebSockets and WebRTC
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by ipnon 3y ago
The game theory of useless corporate research departments is that by spinning plates for you they’re not building moats for your competitors. There is quite a lot of money to be saved by essentially nerd sniping with large wads of cash.
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by ipnon 3y ago
The software engineers who I knew were taking “Prescription Stimulants” were moody and hacked lots of code that caused more bugs than it fixed. Some people want to use it to make them better engineers but it can be a trap. The people who se
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by ipnon 3y ago
You usually can tell who grew up mainly using chopsticks to eat because they don’t have a standard grip. It’s people who start using them when they’re older who have proper form.
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by ipnon 3y ago
Which apps do the bars in Ireland use for payment?
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by ipnon 3y ago
Tipping is a classic prisoner’s dilemma. Everybody stops tipping, we all win. You stop tipping, and you lose. One thing is for certain, no amount of think pieces in major newspapers will change the status quo. There needs to be a differen
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LessWrong Political Prerequisites(lesswrong.com)
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by ipnon 3y ago
“There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.” John von Neumann
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by ipnon 3y ago
Their hypothesis that pollution, varicocele and insulin resistance are the main contributors seems sound because the first and the last have been increasing proportionally during the same time frame as the effect in question.
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by ipnon 3y ago
As long as training data is generated by experts then experts cannot be supplanted, such is my theory.
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by ipnon 3y ago
DeepMind is going to stop making models to do MineCraft speedruns, and instead start making models to improve search results and ad click through rates.
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by ipnon 3y ago
(2021)
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by ipnon 3y ago
Thomas Sowell once pointed out that billionaires are correlated with millionaires, and millionaires are correlated with a middle class. Most countries without billionaires are not great places to live and work. Governments without rich peop
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by ipnon 3y ago
Are transformers the new monads?
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by ipnon 3y ago
Many subway systems are profitable, like the Tokyo JR East. If there is a will there is a way. Americans simply prefer sprawl and cars when it comes down to it.
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by ipnon 4y ago
One of the benefits of the Curry-Howard isomorphism is that people like myself who never make anything useful can use computers too.
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by ipnon 4y ago
“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”
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by ipnon 4y ago
Crime in NYC is unevenly distributed. Property crimes mostly in business districts, violent crimes mostly in a few neighborhoods with gangs. If someone lives in areas most popular with well-payed software engineers like the Villages or Nort
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by ipnon 4y ago
Doesn’t efficient market hypothesis make index investing guaranteed money long term in an expanding economy?
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by ipnon 4y ago
Part of the reason for registers carrying powers of 2 bits is the runaway popularity of C and Unix. The PDP-11 had 16-bit registers. Some of the programming conventions we still use today originated with a humble PDP-11 at Bell Labs.
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by ipnon 4y ago
The runtimes for Node and the browser engines is different enough that they are really different dialects. JavaScript is like Lisp in this way. It was simpler when JavaScript wasn’t supposed to be a write-once-run-anywhere language.
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by ipnon 4y ago
What’s the game theory of rejecting life-changing, never-work-again money?
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by ipnon 4y ago
In the spirit of intellectual inquiry, it’s better to give general advice and let others decide whether it applies in their circumstance than to say many or most people should give up. It’s more fun to be optimistic!
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by ipnon 4y ago
The US is so close to a near ideal mixed economy. If the cartels holding oligopolies on housing, healthcare, and education were disbanded life would be dare I say pleasant in America. Today GDP keeps rising because of a few free money trees
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by ipnon 4y ago
Before there were good times and bad times. The 40s saw the worst destruction imaginable, practically apocalyptic, while the 50s were all sunshine and automobiles (depending on who you ask of course). Now we live in a world of constant low
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by ipnon 4y ago
This is the fundamental difference between active search and happenstance. The first starts with a practically infinite set that must be whittled down, the second an empty set that requires some effort to make additions. Outside of traditio
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by ipnon 4y ago
They will not be the last. There is a lot of political capital being spent in this area, both because it improves health outcomes for young people, and because whatever negative side effects might arise will largely be borne by California a
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by ipnon 4y ago
It does make some sense to drug test patients, and a doctor does have the wide authority to order tests with some manner of invasiveness. Patients don’t want to disclose illegal drug use, even though these drugs do interact with administere
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by ipnon 4y ago
Xenon is anesthetic while neon is not for example.
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by ipnon 4y ago
I can think of some chlorine compounds that are safe to eat but every bromine compound I know of is toxic.

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