matt_daemon

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by matt_daemon 10mo ago
Finally some practical daily affirmations for computer
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by matt_daemon 10mo ago
Spot the odd one out
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by matt_daemon 10mo ago
I believe Bryan is a well known em dash addict
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by matt_daemon 10mo ago
This is an insanely cool blog
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by matt_daemon 10mo ago
Anecdotally one thing I’ve noticed is that older films had much fewer characters. Take a movie like When Harry Met Sally — there are basically four on screen characters, giving more time to build chemistry and relationships
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by matt_daemon 11mo ago
I'm getting back in to audio programming, starting off with Pd[1] and reading Miller Puckette's book[2]. I'm planning on writing some low-level C libraries afterwards, using The Audio Programming Book[3] as a guide [1] https
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by matt_daemon 11mo ago
What's your view on how these people actually impacted the adoption of SDN in general? > The investments NSF made in SDN over the past two decades have paid huge dividends. In my view this seems a little overblown. The general idea
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by matt_daemon 11mo ago
The logical fallacy here is that the most expensive thing is the best, which can be the case sometimes but not all that often in my experience.
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
The media love an apocalyptic tech story -- hence why Superintelligent AI stories seem to have endless appeal
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
Why do websites like this always try to be too clever? Let me scroll!
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
> On the other hand, it’s missing what I think is a major problem. Much of academic systems work already seems bottlenecked on selecting which problems to pursue. This appears to be two reasons. The short-term reason is disconnection fro
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
I enjoyed assembly programming in uni but haven’t done much since. This take to rewrite everything in it tends to pop up every now and then, and I think the last line sums pretty well why it never actually happens: “It was probably just his
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
Plenty of power and it’s almost always renewable: https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/tas1/?range=7d... There’s also plenty more there than sheep and tourists (and not really that many of those)
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
“Choose Boring Technology” by Dan McKinley (2015) This is an odd essay to include in this list because I’ve never actually read it. People have quoted this essay to me, and once I understood the idea, it felt so intuitive t
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
Sportsbooks want action from sharps up until a certain point, because it helps them set the line for the other punters. If they go too far they give too much money to the sharps; not far enough and there is greater opportunity for the regul
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by matt_daemon 1y ago
Agree this is the main use for it
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Ask HN: What are the most important computer networking papers in history?
1 points by matt_daemon 1y ago|1 comments
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
> X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth Lol
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
Do not obey in advance.
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
Wow, that’s sad about Max Chiswick. I was reading about him and his peculiar approach to eating only a couple of months ago. May his work on poker live on.
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Electronic Mediations(upress.umn.edu)
1 points by matt_daemon 2y ago|0 comments
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
> The cost of praise is small. The value to others is inestimable. Cannot overstate this point. Many people I've worked with (myself included) have suffered from imposter syndrome at one point or another. Hearing from your manager o
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Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (2021)(bart.degoe.de)
84 points by matt_daemon 2y ago|21 comments
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
> Here's what I got - the joke itself is rubbish but the "thinking" section is fascinating Very funny. How does the 70B model do in comparison?
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
At this point eval results presented by AI companies are a joke and should not be trusted
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
Funnily enough the Cloudflare blog identifies Perplexity engaging in dodgy practices to avoid robots.txt denylists: > Sadly, we’ve observed bot operators attempt to appear as though they are a real browser by using a spoofed user agent.
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
Or even: def is_even(n): return str(n)[-1] in "02468"
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Was the Internet designed to survive a nuclear attack?(9ol.es)
1 points by matt_daemon 2y ago|2 comments
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by matt_daemon 2y ago
Has to be Simon Willison’s blog https://simonwillison.net/
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Ask HN: Are Smart Cities Dead?
1 points by matt_daemon 2y ago|1 comments

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