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by kqr 1y ago
Given what children claim motivates them to read it sounds like well-written text adventures would do wonders for literacy. But I suspect that would not be that easy. I think both books and text adventures would be competing against activit
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by kqr 1y ago
The thing about making invalid states unrepresentable is that we are often overconfident in what counts as invalid. What counts as valid and invalid behaviour is given by the requirements specification, but if there's anything that cha
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by kqr 1y ago
Huh, this is a very neat way to put it. Something about it seems... too neat? But I'm the wrong person to poke holes in it. Can I see other people debate it civilly?
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by kqr 1y ago
Oooh. Now I get it. I've been dismissive of MVC for nearly as long as I've known it but I realise I've only seen the bad versions. What you describe as correct sounds much more sensible.
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by kqr 1y ago
Docker in and of itself does not do you much good. Its strength comes from the massive amounts of generic tooling that is built around the container as the standard deployable unit. If you want to handle all your deployments the same way, y
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by kqr 1y ago
I interviewed for a startup that does exactly this, except also for syscalls etc. They're mainly focused on security and not size. https://bifrostsec.com/ (I ended up taking another offer but I still think they're
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by kqr 1y ago
I am puzzled. They mention velcro doesn't work with rigid surfaces, but when they show a picture of what I assume is their solution, it seems to utilise ... "a flexible sheet material", i.e. a non-rigid surface.
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by kqr 1y ago
Yet this article, like thousand others, don't go beyond binary decisions. Binary decisions are fine for many everyday decisions like figuring out whether to get insurance[1] but the Kelly criterion goes well beyond that[2] without chan
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by kqr 1y ago
People are suggesting this to continuously monitor vitals. Others think that is a privacy problem. There might be an even bigger problem: continuous vitals monitoring might lead to over-medication and perhaps be worse for patients. One of t
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by kqr 1y ago
Very neat. Alternative-length radians seem quite common. Radians are by definition one radius, but NATO mils are 0.00098 radii (and apparently the Finnish piiru are 0.00105 radii). What you describe are effectively a unit that is 0.0018 rad
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by kqr 1y ago
At first I thought the "equal probability assumption" wasn't too bad an approximation, but it has an average Brier score of 0.217. Much worse than I thought.
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by kqr 1y ago
Landauer's cost is one of those things that frighten me because it makes clear how little I understand about how the world works.
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by kqr 1y ago
> angle was measured in the units of length i.e. a variant of radians? A radian is the circular arc whose length is equal to the radius. If we standardise the unit circle then a radian is a length of 1.
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by kqr 1y ago
Also there's dark silicon to consider – the CPU simply cannot for thermal reasons run power to all parts of itself at the same time.
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by kqr 1y ago
It depends on how variable the load is, compared to how fast the servers can scale up and down, etc. I often have as a rule of thumb to have enough headroom to be able to deal with twice the load while staying within a triple of the respons
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by kqr 1y ago
What are their innards like? This looks very useful!
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Also when trying out different ways to form a sentence, or prototyping simple code. Typing fast is not about throughput, it is about latency.[1] [1]: https://entropicthoughts.com/typing-fast-is-about-latency-no...
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by kqr 1y ago
In contrast to many common consumer subscriptions which start at double that it seems like decent value.
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by kqr 1y ago
My experience in trying to get them to play text adventures[1] is similar. I had to prompt with very specific leading questions to give them a decent chance of even recognising the main objective after the first few steps. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by kqr 1y ago
It might be a lie, but it surely is a practical one. In my brief foray into site reliability engineering I used CPU utilisation (of CPU-bofund tasks) with queueing theory to choose how to scale servers before big events. The %CPU suggestion
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by kqr 1y ago
The rhythmic feeling is Dvorak's hand alternation. I use Colemak because it is better for my native tongue, but I really would have preferred the rhythmic typing of Dvorak had it worked as well for other languages.
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by kqr 1y ago
I mean, switching to a non-owned computer will be frustrating when you're used to Dvorak, because you're used to a more ergonomical layout. I touch-type both Colemak and Qwerty fine, but I still sigh a little internally any time I
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KeyBee Android Keyboard(keybeekeyboard.com)
1 points by kqr 1y ago|0 comments
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by kqr 1y ago
https://archive.is/4Iraw
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Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred(economist.com)
4 points by kqr 1y ago|1 comments
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The ones that come to mind are - Hans Reiser, maintainer of ReiserFS. I think very few people use ReiserFS these days. - Ian Murdock, creator of the Debian distribution. Debian lives on, but the project was also set up specifically to distr
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by kqr 1y ago
> the only honest choice when all you know is mean and variance This is said as if it were a realistic set of assumptions. You almost always know more than that. Frequently you have at least a few samples from the distribution. Often you
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Guessing Game: Haskell Style(entropicthoughts.com)
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by kqr 1y ago
This approach sounds very similar to the construction of grounded theory in ethnography/anthropology -- something I've always wanted to practise but never had the patience for!
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You need a kitchen slide rule(entropicthoughts.com)
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