mFixman

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by mFixman 4y ago
I'm sure somebody posted this exact same comment in an early 1990s BBS about the idea of having a computer in every home connected to the internet. I would first wait until ChatGPT causes the collapse of society and only then start thi
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by mFixman 4y ago
You can use BetterTouchTool and configure it to tile an arbitrary amount of windows. As a bonus those windows don't have to be in full-screen mode, so you can cmd-tab quickly. I agree that the windowing system of MacOS is an unusable m
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by mFixman 4y ago
It also has the best cycling infrastructure in Greater London. One of the big problems London has is that each borough decides how much to invest in cycling infrastructure, and a commute is only as good as its worst section. My commute from
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by mFixman 4y ago
That sounds like hell. People need sunlight to live. The solution is not cubicles, or even closed offices. Just open offices with ~1/3 of the regular density of people per square metre would be good. It also gets you the promised &quot
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by mFixman 4y ago
Same. I find it hard to read long and complicated articles from a screen, and I would pay a lot for a weekly subscription to dead-tree magazine Quanta. Right now I print articles I'm interested in, which is far from the most efficient
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by mFixman 4y ago
I have an account with First Republic. Should I panic and desperately try to withdraw all my money?
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by mFixman 4y ago
My experience is very different than yours. I think you are getting scammed: airport SIMs are way more expensive than actual SIMs you get in town and eSIM you get on an app like Airalo. International providers are obsolete in the age of the
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by mFixman 4y ago
Last week I saw an elderly driver going over the speed limit and the wrong way on a major street in London because there was a bit of traffic on the lane going his direction. Unlike your crazy e-bike kid, he could easily have killed somebod
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by mFixman 4y ago
While I agree that Hacker News always hated technology, this article in particular looks like like self-parody. There are 0 mentions about language learning or course quality in a blog post about how to grow a language learning app. Instead
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by mFixman 4y ago
IIRC multiple entry points were common in Dijkstra's times. Break, continue, and early returns always return to the end of the block, unlike goto in the '70s. Exceptions are more complicated, and the cause of a lot of inunderstand
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by mFixman 4y ago
There's PyTorch, which even Google seems to prefer over TensorFlow.
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by mFixman 4y ago
Facebook is incapable of building their own Roblox: even their ultra-sanitised always-smiling Horizon Worlds gets piled on by the media with dramatic accusations of VR bullying and VR harassment. Imagine the kind of pearl clutching you woul
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by mFixman 4y ago
There are, but most tech employers made working in the office worse and worse to the point where it's now both unpleasant and unproductive.
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by mFixman 4y ago
There's a nice middle point that Google used in 2012 with one office per ~10 person team team. The offices are big enough to not be _too_ expensive, and small enough to enhance collaboration and concentration.
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by mFixman 4y ago
That would make sense if closed offices became common again. It's impossible to collaborate in an open office. It's hard to talk to my team if that requires yelling louder than the other 200 people in the floor.
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by mFixman 4y ago
Don't forget not being able to have meetings due to a lack of free meeting rooms, not being able to communicate so you don't bother your coworkers in an open office, and not being able to concentrate because some coworker is talki
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by mFixman 4y ago
It's the same in the UK, but that still doesn't do what I want: you can only filter by base price, so you'll get some hilariously overpriced apartments even if you search at a low price.
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by mFixman 4y ago
It's sad that long-distance trains are moving to an aeroplane-like food service. Standing up and walking several carriages to the bar buy an overpriced might be less efficient than than having it delivered to your seat, but it feels s
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by mFixman 4y ago
It's still a pretty awful tool, and anybody who wondered what the 109 means in `subtotal(109, A:A)` thinks the same. Excel is so successful that competitors need to copy its bad parts.
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by mFixman 4y ago
Everybody seems up in arms about this situation, but I find the whole thing hilarious. After half a decade of AI hype without many uses in the wild, we finally live at a point in history where "AI-generated Jerry Seinfeld makes transph
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by mFixman 4y ago
Not everyone needs to be a writer or a mathematician, but children still should learn the basics of literature and math to improve generic reasoning skills that can be transferred to the rest of their life. Programming is a skill just like
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by mFixman 4y ago
Were people also up in arms for the Blockbuster jobs that Netflix destroyed?
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by mFixman 4y ago
Yeah the mid-'80s sucked in the US, but do you have any modern examples of decline? :-)
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by mFixman 4y ago
But Warner Bros owns HBO Max! How does this change the balance sheet at all?
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by mFixman 4y ago
My guess is that very small and very large values in the weights are already trained away due to the regularisation of the cost function, so insignificant changes in a network don't tend to have significant changes in the output. You g
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by mFixman 4y ago
That's the unexplainable part of DRM. Every kind of non-interactive DRM media is trivial to break. What's the point of not allowing me to read a book I bought in any device when I will always be able to pirate it? Is there a point
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by mFixman 4y ago
The Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Hemispheres are just four of the infinite hemispheres of a sphere. By "canonical definition of hemisphere" I'm talking about the surface of any half-sphere that covers half of the
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by mFixman 4y ago
Your example is not the same for two reasons: 1. You are assuming there always are 7 continents and each of them contains 1% of all space on the Earth's surface. I assume there are 14 continents with 2% of the Earth's surface each
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by mFixman 4y ago
> The math is the same as flipping a coin 7 times [...] I'm not saying that a particular hemisphere has a high change of having most of the land; I'm saying that there will be a hemisphere that has this chance. 29% of Earth is
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by mFixman 4y ago
Is antipodal land a physical property of Earth's continents, or is it mathematical fact of distribution on spheres? If we distribute chunks of land randomly on a sphere we would expect roughly the same amount of land on any randomly-ch

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