jes5199

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811.
by jes5199 9y ago
I gave up on Talk / Hangouts a few years ago, when I kept getting into a state with it where someone would send me messages fine but my replies would be delayed for several hours . It was possibly the most frustrating computer-mediate
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by jes5199 9y ago
I've been using "telegram" with several friends, it seems to be okay, it's both desktop and mobile
813.
by jes5199 9y ago
since browsers originally only displayed documents, some of the assumptions are nicer than the assumptions that came out of desktop metaphors. For example, most UI text in a browser can be copy/pasted, and that's almost never true
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by jes5199 9y ago
I see this as an important stage of going green: Recently/Currently: Unpredictable spikes in wind+solar power make it less profitable to run base-load power plants, since they can no longer guarantee profit at 100% of their duty cycle.
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by jes5199 9y ago
it depends on what you mean by "invalid transactions". If you mine a block that doesn't follow the rules, the rest of the network will just ignore it, and so you've wasted your computation.
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by jes5199 9y ago
SQLalchemy is kind of a pain in the ass to actually use, though. The DSL doesn't feel very Pythonic, it's weird and confusing. The way it traverses the Object graph when loading associations between models is magical and opaque an
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by jes5199 9y ago
it has recently come to my attention that Darknet vendors now prefer Monero over Bitcoin - it's more anonymous, and transactions are (currently) faster. I don't know if that means anything long-term, but Darknet was the first plac
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by jes5199 9y ago
I can't quite explain it, but this change has given me conscious access to a feeling about Twitter-the-product that I only had at a subconscious level before now: complete, overwhelming, extraordinary rage.
819.
by jes5199 9y ago
None of the problems with Ebay are the software.
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by jes5199 9y ago
people in SV aren’t “suceeding” - they’re making twice as much money as everyone else in exchange for creating systems of surveillance. I’m not surprised people are salty about it.
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by jes5199 9y ago
Yeah, but that's work that people have to remember to keep doing, and if they fall behind, the pain gets worse and worse when they do finally have to merge. Some teams seem to do fine with this, but I've seen it go pretty badly, t
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by jes5199 9y ago
My belief is that it's long-lived branches that are the problem, since trying to keep diverging code-bases in synch is a huge source of pain. Switching to branchless development is probably an overreaction, though.
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by jes5199 9y ago
great minds think alike? I've had this exact system for a long time: https://github.com/jes5199/git-git
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by jes5199 9y ago
I was there, too, but I wish I had left earlier. I really didn't enjoy anything about it.
825.
by jes5199 9y ago
in theory, sure, but unlicensed Ham-capable radios are so cheap nowadays that public repeaters suffer from spam and harassment, just like every other medium.
826.
by jes5199 9y ago
I was happiest when I was working for someone who I really liked as a person (that's only happened the once, though)
827.
by jes5199 9y ago
any data can be interpreted as sound, but it might not be perceived as musically coherent
828.
by jes5199 9y ago
I do my best not to read the internet, but I have compulsive habits and I find myself looking at sites like this one without really intending to
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by jes5199 9y ago
relatedly, Max Tegmark tried to do some estimates of Phi values of neural networks in his paper "Consciousness as a State of Matter" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.1219v2.pdf And while he seems to take IIT pretty
830.
by jes5199 9y ago
a marketing tool that gets your money stolen is probably counterproductive in the long run
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by jes5199 9y ago
I agree that web and mobile both seem to have gotten kind of stagnant. Is there a next big platform on the horizon? (I worry that there isn't)
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by jes5199 9y ago
the sticks are literal sticks, used in fortune telling. It's roughly equivalent to flipping a coin. If you had a game where you flipped six coins, and each combination had a different meaning, you would be close to inventing binary
833.
by jes5199 9y ago
I recommend the book "Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking"
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by jes5199 9y ago
I think it's possible that the economics of electricity will change dramatically in the next few years. Already, in several states, we see days where solar generation momentarily dramatically exceeds demand - and with solar so cheap no
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by jes5199 9y ago
Hacker
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by jes5199 9y ago
Eh, what's so great about other people anyway.
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by jes5199 9y ago
You're giving the organizations too much credit. A roommate of mine worked at a fast food restaurant in the early 2000s, where they were measuring the speed that workers took orders by timing the transactions on the cash register. The
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by jes5199 9y ago
That's creepy.
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by jes5199 9y ago
Haskell: where difficult problems are trivial, and where trivial problems are the subject of ongoing academic research
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by jes5199 10y ago
I agree that 2007 was a big year - that's also when the iPhone first came out. But I don't think "we're just getting started" - I think the opposite, that we've been coasting on the momentum that the innovation

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