lars512

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Using attention well(quietlyamused.org)
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My week on Soylent: 'I was irritable, grumpy and a general pain in the arse'(theguardian.com)
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by lars512 12y ago
I'm sure they'll have historical districts where you can rent an old time car and drive manually on weekends, with the appropriate waivers and insurance forms signed :)
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by lars512 12y ago
You're right, public transport isn't going anywhere and still has huge efficiency benefits. But these cars can make it better, by solving the first/last mile problem. I imagine them ferrying people frantically to and from mas
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by lars512 12y ago
A whole lane for parked cars each side of a street often means no dedicated lanes for public transit like buses or trams. Letting them get stuck in traffic is a huge loss for the many people that commute on them.
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by lars512 13y ago
pip install ipython[notebook]
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by lars512 13y ago
Collating some information in this globally editable Google Doc https://docs.google.com/a/yencken.org/document/d/1uxcXrdPVau...
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by lars512 13y ago
Details are sketchy. It's believed to be hijacked. Having circled Geneva for some time, it's landed. The airport seems to be closed. The air traffic control live stream: http://www.liveatc.net/search/?icao=gva
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Flight ET702 hijacked – live Twitter feed(twitter.com)
42 points by lars512 13y ago|24 comments
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by lars512 13y ago
This is really cool, instant video-conferencing: sha1=$(head -c 1024 /dev/urandom | shasum | cut -d ' ' -f 1) open http://faces.io/#$sha1 send the URL to whoever you want to video-conference w
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by lars512 13y ago
AirBnB for the road?
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by lars512 13y ago
If you do a lot of data munging, then boilerplate is definitely an annoying obstacle. Plenty of problems are "embarrassingly parallel", and the map function may be fine for those cases.
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by lars512 13y ago
She's talking about more than that, about the inability of Yale students to talk about and get help with their problems, perhaps before they escalate and become more serious.
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by lars512 13y ago
Surely most of Paypal's real work is around fraud and disputes. Bitcoin might help reduce their transaction costs though, ideally some of that would flow back to its customers.
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Working one-handed(quietlyamused.org)
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by lars512 13y ago
Incidentally, a Gist for installing Pyret using Marelle: https://gist.github.com/larsyencken/7424864
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by lars512 13y ago
Thanks! :) It's a little aggressive in calling sudo mainly because I'm using it to bootstrap new systems non-interactively. I don't want it to ask any questions at all, just to go.
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by lars512 13y ago
This sounds like a question of how declarative your deps are, with Chef and Puppet picking different points on the scale. I can relate that with Babushka now, we commonly rely on ordering of requirements (A <- B, C in that order!) at tim
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by lars512 13y ago
Even in "non-deterministic" style prolog, the execution order is still fixed, and dependencies are traversed in the order you wrote them. There will be no surprises. The missing full-stop is no different to a missing semi-colon, c
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Marelle: logic programming for devops(quietlyamused.org)
148 points by lars512 13y ago|49 comments
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by lars512 13y ago
We use Hadoop/Hive/EMR for a sub-TB dataset for exactly this reason. The flip side is that I've found the ecosystem to be pretty flakey (specifically Hive). Debugging code you wrote yourself is pretty different to working you
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by lars512 13y ago
If you haven't read "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", you're in for a treat: http://hpmor.com/
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by lars512 13y ago
There's probably some fair value in making things simpler, not to mention value in marketing. If they can form a large community around it through their marketing, then the tooling will rapidly improve. So, the marketing can be a kind
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by lars512 13y ago
The M7 chip's an interesting nod to quantified self'ers. I'm certainly sick of the battery drain caused by running Moves, or one of the many Google Latitude clients, over time.
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by lars512 13y ago
This is against my annotation guidelines, so it's a sneaky case that slipped through. I'll make a note to review the Portuguese samples -- thanks!
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by lars512 13y ago
Yeah, I can see how that would be annoying. I'll redirect GET requests to /play/ back to the homepage. Thanks for the heads up!
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by lars512 13y ago
The site was quite degraded -- try it again now.
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by lars512 13y ago
Thanks for this -- I was (embarassingly) running in debug mode due to a bad code snippet in my runserver script. Your report helped me fix both the KeyError and the debug mode.
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by lars512 13y ago
I try to eliminate these cases. If you notice one, email me with the language it was and I'll fix it.
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by lars512 13y ago
I'll have to make a page showing the available languages. Are you a Quechua speaker? I'd love to add it.

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