jackfraser

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by jackfraser 8y ago
So, GNUStep all over again, or...?
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Rental properties, hotels, landscaping, maintenance companies
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by jackfraser 8y ago
The obvious solution for this is for them to embrace the same solution that's working so well in other countries - embrace immigration and bring foreign workers in to shore up their own workforce.
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Like, ripping the HDMI output? You're limited to realtime speed for that, which is going to make the process take ten times longer.
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> Rigetti has made their own quantum computer, and they beat D-Wave to a public cloud offering -- doesn't fit the vaporware narrative Can normal people sign up and immediately get QPU time, API access, etc? The D-Wave offering is mu
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by jackfraser 8y ago
There's been a continual oscillation between bring-your-dependencies (ranging from statically compiled executables, to composed things like docker containers, snaps, npm / ruby / php composer apps, etc.) and use-the-systemwid
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by jackfraser 8y ago
You do realize you can sign up for D-Wave Leap and execute programs on a quantum annealer ten minutes from now, right? It's far from a glass bead game. Just because you and I don't know how to make an annealer do something useful
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by jackfraser 8y ago
My understanding is that I'm going to SSH into a Powershell session.
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Why would they do that when Powershell is literally that, but refined beyond what's commonly available on Linux? I'm not great with it yet, but it feels intuitively like a step forward to be able to pass objects around instead of
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by jackfraser 8y ago
If I am POSTing logs to a thing, why would that thing be your program and not, say, Logstash's HTTP input or even direct to an Elasticsearch cluster? Do I really want to POST logs? What if the logging endpoint is not available? Don&#x2
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by jackfraser 8y ago
I've heard Amazon uses IRC internally?
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by jackfraser 8y ago
I had GeoWorks on a C64 and was amazed by what it could do. Felt much more cohesive than Windows 3.1 in terms of being a consistent desktop environment. Anyone remember KeyDraw? GEM-based vector graphics package for DOS, based on the GUI li
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> In Science Fiction over and over again the trope was of a giant computer that acted like an oracle. In many ways we're doing that exact thing. The computer at my desk is powerful but somewhat useless; the grand oracle in the form
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> (this box of cereal was purchased at our store). Think of the impact on forensics when every single article contains its source of origin. Time to start a company selling an invisible privacy spray for your cereal box that coats it in
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> Quantum annealing is most certainly not what quantum computing is about Near as I can tell, it's the only form of practical quantum computation that's available to end-users in any meaningful way. Everything else so far is va
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> At what point do you consider a chip a 'computer'? IANACS, but I'd say the point at which it becomes capable of running Turing-complete languages. This probably covers anything that has a firmware, save maybe if there ex
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> on most HN posts about quantum computing somebody always mentions some misunderstood statement about continuous variables. Well, the D-Wave quantum computer seems to be functionally an analogue machine, so while you're limited to
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by jackfraser 8y ago
I recently discovered the wild world of OPC and its variants and the huge community of paid middleware around it. Sure goes deep. Wrote something to pull OPC stuff into InfluxDB and then moved on with my life not having to worry about... or
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by jackfraser 8y ago
The problem I always had with this was that Windows has this whole layer of objects and what might even be elegance in places all hidden under the hood, and unless you're a C++ hacker you can't actually work with most of it. CMD a
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by jackfraser 8y ago
You can literally sign up for D-Wave Leap and submit problems to their quantum annealer for free. How much more real does QC need to be before people believe it? Sure, it's not a gate model, but they have a pile of working, useful appl
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Hahaha, right? You're just going to rediscover the same path that lead us here to start with.
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by jackfraser 8y ago
I miss aspects of it, for sure. What I think you're getting at here is that we used to have a cleaner separation of protocol, data format, and client application - enabling us to have multiple ways of combining the above. Tons of email
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Were it not so esoteric, I'd be all in favour of something like Urbit that builds a whole new layer on top of the existing foundation with a real push for _personal computing_, not just application services.
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Had a project manager who eventually became my director. The quick summary: - Was focused on empire building, wanted lots of underlings to help prop him up into management, vs. actually getting his project done, to the extent where he activ
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Unless said language is PHP, in which case there's no end of diatribes about it
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Thanks for the fantastic links. The Uilleann pipes are amazing, I don't think I'd ever seen their like! I've discovered that my 5-month-old really loves the sound, he wanted to get up and dance a jig. Unexpected and heartwarm
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> I am 30 years old, working in customer service. I don't like that job at all. I always feel tensed and depressed. I can empathize with this. My brother faced the same situation. It is hard to face an uphill battle against an unfo
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by jackfraser 8y ago
Is this entire site, like, text generated by some machine learning thing? It really doesn't read like it was written by a human, unless it's an art project.
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by jackfraser 8y ago
So?
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by jackfraser 8y ago
> But the inclusion of this language, making political affiliation a protected class, leads me to believe that alt-right technologists would be as welcome at the conference as I would be. Including alt-right technologists who display on

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