mFixman

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by mFixman 3y ago
It seems like a complicated solution to a reasonable problem. Text editing involves a pop-up keyboard. Why not add a menu with arrow keys, selection toggles, and copy/cut/paste there?
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by mFixman 3y ago
> Birbs stagger as they walk: they are reduced in alternating associative order, starting with left associativity at birb index ⌊len/2⌋: BB -> (BB) BBB -> ((BB)B) BBBB -> (B((BB)B)) BBBBB -> ((B((BB)B))
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by mFixman 3y ago
My main pet peeve is how you cannot hide major roads from Google Maps, but there's no way to show trains and most public transit without clicking on a station. Even on a large city like London half the public transit is invisible. What
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by mFixman 3y ago
That video is so bizarre. Prigozhin is going way beyond the "2014 status-quo was good to protect Donbass Russian-speakers but 2022 invasion was a mistake" story that's common in Russian anti-war campaigners and actually denou
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by mFixman 3y ago
> In particular, 妛 was probably created when printers tried to create 𡚴 by cutting and pasting 山 and 女 together. It's crazy to think that a lot of written Kanji and Hanzi come from print drifting and a small accumulation of errors,
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by mFixman 3y ago
Is that like a LLM Stable Diffusion? Neat.
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by mFixman 3y ago
I don't have a PC with a powerful GPU. What's the easiest way I can play with Llama on AWS, Google Cloud, or somebody else's computer?
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by mFixman 3y ago
Trees and crabs and birds appeared very recently in the timeline of life on Earth and will probably get extinct eons before shrimp or tardigrades know what happened. Life is likely plentiful in the Universe. Earth-like life is almost certai
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by mFixman 3y ago
The possible shapes of life are much bigger than the universe. The chances of intelligent life existing outside Earth are lower than the chance of that same intelligent life speaking flawless Swedish. We might as well send some Europop reco
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by mFixman 3y ago
Meta gave everyone free Oculuses and encouraged Metaverse meetings back when I worked there. Almost nobody used it because the product required a lot of setup, was downright ugly, and was completely inferior to the usual Zoom / Workpla
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by mFixman 3y ago
Computers are becoming smaller and the internet is becoming even more ubiquous. I don't see your future happening. Why would I spend a lot of money, space, and maintenance time for a computer with a good GPU when I can just use any of
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by mFixman 3y ago
Can't you store the database locally and then have Dropbox or Google Drive upload it to your drive? It's still not 100% secure, but you would need both a compromised Keepass app and a compromised Dropbox app.
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by mFixman 3y ago
From my experiences with Google integrated AI, I'm skeptical that Google can win any battle with it. ChatGPT and other modern AI tools are useful specifically because they do what I want when I want to do it. Compare this to Gmail&#x27
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by mFixman 3y ago
Adversarial machine learning is an extremely hard problems space. If you have a single static model and your adversaries can react to it, then it's an almost impossible fight unless you are willing to give a ton of false positives and
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by mFixman 3y ago
You could say the same thing about any >$200 phone, or any new device at all: gadgets are luxury devices, and there's no upper price for the luxury sector. Besides, if this lasts at least 4 years then the amortised price is more rea
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by mFixman 3y ago
> 0 and -0 being distinct values is honestly just an accident of convenience with how floats are stored This is actually a valid distinction because these values can represent different values. Floating point values are not numbers, but
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by mFixman 3y ago
For the vast majority of human history, the only transmission of information between generations were oral stories. Modernity defines nations by their borders, medievality defined it by their feudal alliegances, but true antiquity defined i
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by mFixman 3y ago
I would put something between the plough and the full mechanisation of agriculture. You can separate eras in human history by the the dramatic jumps in the amount of people that can be fed by a set amount of human labour.
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by mFixman 3y ago
> His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore.” Isn't this the case already? I expect every post I see in large
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by mFixman 3y ago
Also fantastic for those of us who only have a work laptop and don't want to buy an expensive console or PC to play the occasional video game.
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by mFixman 3y ago
If I read that correctly, does it mean that Epic can now direct you to a website to buy in-game currency outside of the reach of Apple's 30% bullshit tax? That sounds like a major win against Apple.
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by mFixman 3y ago
One of the biggest liberties DeepMind had was a completely separate hiring process and pipeline than Google. Their open positions mysteriously disappeared on November last year and they are still closed outside of specific senior roles and
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by mFixman 3y ago
They had Workplace, which was a fantastic product that got shelved externally when they couldn't get a big payout early in the project. It was the perfect Slack replacement for companies with over ~1000 employees, and I wish my current
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by mFixman 3y ago
To me, the greatest proof of the "lack of love" Google is putting into Maps is seen when I zoom in the city I live in and I get a bunch of hotels. Adding a "if user lives in $city then he probably won't stay in a hotel i
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by mFixman 3y ago
A lot of product companies are closing user forums from the early 2010s. My guess is that there's some legal issue involved. Maybe the lawyers were convinced that somebody posting illegal or confidential info on an unmoderated forum is
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by mFixman 4y ago
Why doesn't English accept tones as the core of its script? :)
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by mFixman 4y ago
The Google Code Jam and other programming competitions motivated me and an entire generation to focus on programming as a fun pursuit and a healthy side of competition. While I'm very sad that it's gone, I'm very thankful to
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by mFixman 4y ago
It's a pity that nobody was able to reproduce the challenge phases of TopCoder SRMs. Coding problems while taking of edge-cases for later was really fun.
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by mFixman 4y ago
Just like sport coding competitions are fun :-)
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by mFixman 4y ago
LeetCode problems are much simpler than the general coding contest, and they are only used as a basic competency tests. It's like asking for the difference between an Olympic race and a blue-collar job requiring you to be fit enough to

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