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by jpfed 8y ago
I've wanted to do this as well. How does your site rank stories within a cluster? I had always imagined that if I were to do this, I would order them by centrality, where the distance metric is Euclidean distance between the word histo
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by jpfed 8y ago
"Consent or pay" sounds so hilariously wrongheaded on its face. I'm imagining someone using that approach in literally any other aspect of their lives and seeing how well it flies.
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by jpfed 8y ago
I don't use fossil, but I have fantasized about keeping docs and issues in version control alongside the code. My organization has churned through several different issue trackers in the last few years. And a lot of that old data is ju
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by jpfed 8y ago
A wide range of political opinion is sometimes useful (e.g. in one of the houses of a legislative body). Moderate candidates are also useful. Rather than choose one voting system to use for everything, it might be appropriate to use a coupl
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by jpfed 8y ago
At the very least, they missed an opportunity by not having a buzz.fizz example on the home page :-)
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by jpfed 8y ago
It is possible to imagine a future in which no one outside the processor manufacturer needs to do a damn thing. Nowadays, no one else knows or cares what microcode is used to execute x86 instructions. Maybe someday hot enough sections of c
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by jpfed 8y ago
This looks really cool! There's a lot here that I agree with. I strongly recommend avoiding the urge to prematurely automate processes involving trust (or granting people additional powers). It would allow you to grow faster, but you d
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by jpfed 8y ago
So this is a dumb question, but isn't the question of reproducible builds made trivial by vendoring dependencies? Why is it treated like this holy grail when it should be dirt simple? I must be misunderstanding something.
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by jpfed 8y ago
While objects are overrated, that's not what I'm talking about here. I didn't say "imperatively constructing objects of a type", I said "imperatively constructing types". This has likely changed since I l
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by jpfed 8y ago
This is a common sentiment but it certainly doesn't cover "all the things" people hate. I hate dynamic types, I hate imperatively constructing "types" through prototypal inheritance, I hate "this", and non
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by jpfed 8y ago
It's an interesting exercise to try to design board games that have economy-like systems. You'll notice that it's very easy for rich-get-richer effects to emerge. Now, rich-get-richer effects can be desirable in a board gam
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by jpfed 8y ago
I have the hardest time just coming up with names for the sounds I generate. For whatever reason it never occurred to me to skip names (or just use like guids or something) and find files by traversing a similarity graph.
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by jpfed 8y ago
Aside: I can't hear the name "Skype for Business" without thinking someone took a perfectly suitable chat client and attacked it with Kragle.
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by jpfed 8y ago
This appears to be saying that some companies want to be your framework (and so own the problem); other companies just want to be your library.
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by jpfed 8y ago
I find the advice not to listen to strangers bizarre. Maybe it's because the following is assumed, but since it hasn't been stated yet: Try to practice evidence-based parenting. Instead of having arguments about parenting, try to
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by jpfed 8y ago
Ol' Dirty Bastard, a former member of the Wu Tang Clan who died in 2004. Java has long had the ability to communicate with his departed spirit with its ODBC technology.
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by jpfed 8y ago
A feature phone would be fine, but I'm too attached to always having a camera on me. And as far as I know, feature phones generally have crap cameras.
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by jpfed 8y ago
I really like the Lite Phone idea; browsers and the vast majority of apps are distractions. But an integrated camera is not a distraction; it's a tremendously convenient feature!
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by jpfed 8y ago
I want to believe that something like this would work. Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it the case that whatever signing could be performed on data coming from CCDs could also be performed on data coming from a GAN?
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by jpfed 8y ago
Here's "Barack Obama" giving a thumbs-up to repealing net neutrality: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filing/1051157755251
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by jpfed 8y ago
"Since when do the locations of the neurons interpreting the input even matter?" Incidentally, these neurons theoretically could go anywhere (as long as they're connected correctly), but in practice they end up arranged retin
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by jpfed 9y ago
So the text looks promising but, just as importantly, can someone just make a whole cookbook with diagrams like that?
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by jpfed 9y ago
From CJR: The Times tech columnist ‘unplugged’ from the internet. Except he didn’t https://www.cjr.org/analysis/farhad-manjoo-nyt-unplug.php
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by jpfed 9y ago
Nothing in the linked article suggests constraining the kid's freedom at any point.
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by jpfed 9y ago
The fact that it would never occur naturally makes it even more interesting. Imagine interplanetary civilizations rearranging star systems to send the unambiguous signal "1. intelligent life lives here, and 2. they are powerful enough
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by jpfed 9y ago
These backpointers sound kind of like the ownership analog to weak references.
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by jpfed 9y ago
>The problem with that approach is that your product becomes cluttered and looks old as years go by with only small enchantments and fixes That's why you have to throw down a Tranquility/Jokulhaups combo every few years; get a
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by jpfed 9y ago
I interpreted it to refer to the sort of momentary lapse in mental coherence that might occur as you fall asleep. You're listing all this stuff you're saying "goodnight" to and then your mind blanks for a second- no one
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by jpfed 9y ago
Well, my problem with Soros is my wife attended the Women's March a whole freaking year ago and she still hasn't gotten her check!
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by jpfed 9y ago
>It seems like you're taking an absolutist position towards absolutists. Nope, parent said they "tend to" and "of course there are exceptions".

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