madmax96

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by madmax96 4y ago
But the reward (i.e., meaning) is defined by a human engineer. The point of the article is to say that we don’t have AGI yet because today’s AI needs humans to ascribe meaning to its decisions.
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by madmax96 4y ago
what about LSP servers?
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by madmax96 4y ago
I'm curious. What kind of attacks do you open yourself up to if you use $RANDOM in this situation? Also, why do we avoid modulo operations?
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by madmax96 5y ago
GCJ had compatibility issues. It never supported Java 1.5. It also couldn’t handle static linking properly. For a large-scale project it usually wasn’t an option.
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by madmax96 5y ago
I think the real key is that Apple has recognized that App Store delays are a problem and has taken steps to quantifiably improve the situation. See https://appreviewtimes.com/ . Anecdotally, the first version of one of my A
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by madmax96 5y ago
+1 on Firebase. I recently helped a buddy build an app and decided to give it a try. Holy crap. All we had to was build the app! significantly faster than either of us estimated.
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by madmax96 5y ago
You can access it in Emacs itself with C-h t
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by madmax96 5y ago
There's also not really an evaluation section. So how can we conclude it is effective?
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by madmax96 5y ago
If there is often no scheduler, how does multithreading work? Also, how do things like valgrind or compiler sanitizers work for unikernels?
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by madmax96 5y ago
I think that this is a valuable lesson for CS students. I used to underestimate time for the same reasons these students did. The core technology (in this case, listening for the clipboard events) fits in the estimate. Making a product that
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by madmax96 5y ago
>but since most wealth is held by the rich, inflation affects them most But not much of that wealth is liquid. Hyperinflation hurts savers.
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by madmax96 5y ago
Computer Architecture is exciting. Non Volatile memory, dark silicon, FPGAs, etc are gaining serious traction. Also integrated photonics.
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by madmax96 5y ago
> Everyone who holds cryptocurrency is holding Tether’s bag of poo Everyone who holds Tether is holding Tether’s bag. If you don’t own tether, this doesn’t directly affect you. Most of the people I know don’t own (and have never owned) T
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by madmax96 5y ago
I disagree. Many engineers want to refactor across a sequence of small PRs, for example. Small PRs are a good thing, because they’re easier to understand. But today, Git makes this painful. Also, understanding how the meaning of code change
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by madmax96 5y ago
Not only that, but studying math takes discipline, commitment, and practice. You can’t passively learn math. To a certain extent, mathematical illiteracy is encouraged in society by the standard trope “I’m bad at math.” Almost everyone is b
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by madmax96 5y ago
I agree. With the 40 hours I’ve saved each month, I’ve wound up giving easily at least 10 more hours to my employer. I’ve used the remaining 30 to connect more with my spouse, work out, improve my home, read, and take mindfulness breaks. My
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by madmax96 5y ago
Why not make it so that I can see flagged images in my library? It would give me a lot more confidence that my photos stay private.
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by madmax96 5y ago
That is the point of the free market. But deplatforming certain kinds of offensive content is regressive. For instance, in the not-so-distant past many Americans found interracial marriage morally abhorrent. Wikipedia says only 5% of Americ
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by madmax96 5y ago
I did not have AppleCare. Sorry to hear about your iPad Pro keyboard issues.
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by madmax96 5y ago
Do you still use Apple laptops? If not what do you use? Are Apple laptops higher quality, compared to competitors (despite design issues)? My current Macbook had the screen laminate peel off after a few years. To Apple's credit, they p
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by madmax96 5y ago
The line is blurred even in conventional kernels, e.g. ioctl.
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by madmax96 5y ago
>Wikipedia already lists 2 paxos variants that have byzantine security One of those mentioned is Fast byzantine consensus (FBC) [1]. FBC provides an optimal algorithm for a 2 phase commit system w/ byzantine agents. But FBC require
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by madmax96 5y ago
>I have yet to see any of this be an actual problem in real-world projects Just on Monday, I was bitten by a bug caused by operator overloading. I'm building a static analysis tool in C++. There's a method `getType()` that retu
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by madmax96 6y ago
The mining reward is not intrinsic to BTC. It can be adjusted as needed (provided 51% of compute agree.)
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by madmax96 6y ago
I’m a relative newcomer to Haskell. I still haven’t used it for anything serious, but I’d like to. I had experienced all of these problems. Initially, I was attracted to Haskell for the promise of “if it compiles then it’s probably correct.
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by madmax96 6y ago
It doesn't eliminate that. But it gathers evidence. Where did they acquire the 10,000 bananas? Multiple parties must collude -- and then that collusion is on record. I'm interested in if that data is useful to anyone? Also, why no
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by madmax96 6y ago
in what ways have crypto currencies been colossal failures?
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by madmax96 6y ago
Proof of stake doesn't prevent 51% attacks. It eliminates the incentive. If an attacker controls 51% of coins, why would they attack the network? That would be attacking their own wealth.
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by madmax96 6y ago
It's an interesting take. e.g. provide specs/types across module boundaries only. Gradual typing is certainly becoming popular. Meanwhile, statically typed languages are adopting type inference. Some people only write the types fo
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by madmax96 6y ago
There is no limit on the number of problems easier to solve using dynamically typed languages. For an individual hacker, dynamically typed languages make a lot of sense. I don't forget what types my functions accept as I am writing a p

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