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by lame88 7y ago
Quantum bridge: its in a superposition of open and closed and will collapse to one of those states when you try to cross. Also its made out of glass and runs on the block chain.
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by lame88 7y ago
Comically absent in this description of ML which includes hard technology like NLP and actual use cases like self-driving cars is the elephant in the room of advertising and surveillance. It's just like Andrew Ng's machine learnin
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by lame88 7y ago
What an awesome project. I would love to mess with random stuff like whirlpool strength and see what it does to the game. Efforts like this to make the decompiler output intelligible e.g. meaningful variable names make this much more appro
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by lame88 7y ago
I also started with Java too, and hated it, though I never did J2EE stuff. But I'm honestly pretty impressed with Spring Framework now. Spring boot brings in the convention over configuration aspect, and spring data lets you specify re
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by lame88 7y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of skepticism in the discussion here. The term "politics" - even assuming there is a problem with fiery discussions of what we traditionally view that term to cover - could easily cover dissent over
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by lame88 7y ago
That's exactly what I do on ZSNES, and the graphics look so much more authentic. Though I'm not sure if I had found any setting for distortion.
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by lame88 7y ago
Python’s killer feature - and perhaps reason for its popularity- seems to be it’s nice-looking syntax, which is only the most superficial of qualities. Below that surface, the semantics and its standard libraries are all very irregular, an
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by lame88 7y ago
So, emacs is a platform for text-based programs to do things that i already have other stable, reliable, and familiar programs to accomplish. I’m not sold. I need a better value proposition before i feel sold to spend my time climbing tha
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by lame88 7y ago
Please elaborate on how i've been misinformed in this respect. I've gotten downvoted a bit without much feedback. Also, since the distinction matters, I would like to point out that I claimed selling "access to" that da
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by lame88 7y ago
Maybe, but I expect such a thing is unrealistic enough to not really be worth spending energy discussing. In the same way that exploring "what if state actors were totally benevolent and always would be" wouldn't really be f
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by lame88 7y ago
I had no objection to that fine. I had an objection to the an automatic mechanism to do it, or to perfectly enforce any law, no matter how trivial, Simply because these kinds of things don't happen in a vacuum; the mechanisms built tow
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by lame88 7y ago
No I would not like that automatic fine. In theory okay, but in reality it's foolish to separate enforcement from what is being enforced. Moxie explained this well. In short, good luck changing that law. https://moxie.org&#x
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by lame88 7y ago
Easy, it just means advertising doesnt cover everything. The fact that they know so much about you is valuable in itself and they can sell access to that data, for example... to cambridge analytica. Advertising is just one of the ways in w
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by lame88 7y ago
If you’re ok with a mobile workstation, i grabbed a refurbished P52 on ebay. They go up to xeon (6 core) and you can stuff a ton of ram in there. You can’t get one if these models without a quadro video card unfortunately so that does mar
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by lame88 7y ago
Yep, I find HN better than most places, but specifically there is an ideology here with a lack of skepticism toward technology and its effects, and people are quick to rush to the defense of big tech corporations. I cant tell you how many a
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by lame88 7y ago
4chan has some good elements to it, but it is absolutely a political echo chamber and breeding ground for... everything a decent person should be against. And not just the politics board. You can find anti-semitism and the like all over th
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by lame88 7y ago
I hope you’re only marginally more trusting of Microsoft. Open sourcing stuff and embracing linux has given them a lot of tech brownie points (effectively, good PR) but just like with what google was vs what it has become, it’s important t
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by lame88 7y ago
Sure if you wanna accept it as a foregone conclusion then that will certainly become the new reality. I paid for windows, including those updates, by the way. I dont need to be mined and packaged for all my information’s worth on top of t
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by lame88 7y ago
In my brief experience (so take my opinion with a grain of salt), it's the Clojure ecosystem around Clojure that is the problem, not the Java one it interops with. There is hardly any unification for anything except that it looks like
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by lame88 7y ago
Right, I don't mean the VCs themselves or any particular parties - rather more the expanded role of venture capital in tech startups (esp. looking for unicorns) allowing companies to ride out net losses for long periods of time, distor
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by lame88 7y ago
Nice, at a glance this is pretty well-detailed. Bookmarked. Wait, I've been hacked!
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by lame88 7y ago
Agreed - many state universities are cashing in on industry trends, just at a slower pace. You can see it with the various weirdly specialized masters programs and especially certain online degree programs.
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by lame88 7y ago
There's a lot of hype in software. Just like you were hearing about Blockchain startups only when Bitcoin started trading at 5 bazillion USD and now you don't hear nearly as much about it. During 2008-2015ish we went through an i
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by lame88 7y ago
I had considered this but I felt my comment was getting too long, and I still feel pretty opaque about it. And I might need to read the study itself to get a clearer picture - the article didn't quite answer all my questions. Basically
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by lame88 7y ago
I love Anki but haven't seen the code, but I don't think a rewrite is the answer, and in fact could result in a new code base with the same problem over long enough time. If you're noticing this problem, it would be great if
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by lame88 7y ago
Wow. This is something I’ll probably remember for quite some time. It’s intuitive and immediately applicable, and also a dose of awareness I’ve needed recently. However, there’s a catch to this. By distancing yourself like this, it seems l
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by lame88 7y ago
Yes nuance in discerning between these things is important but your response's focus didn't acknowledge any merit of what she had to say about her direct experiences with Microsoft in particular. And your account has huge karma co
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by lame88 7y ago
I wrote a longer response to this, but forget it. Suffice to say, you're conflating your experience with hers, you're generalizing away the problem, and you're making conjectures with little basis. This is typical material fo
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by lame88 7y ago
I believe they have also cited an advantage of using OCaml being the quality of applicants they were able to pool for hiring by virtue of mainly using a functional language and being able to draw from the enthusiastic and skilled community
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by lame88 7y ago
Out of curiosity, can you share why you’re looking to move from Play to Spring?

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