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YouTube-dl: CLI for downloading YouTube videos(ytdl-org.github.io)
2 points by memexy 6y ago|0 comments
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by memexy 6y ago
Somewhat related. Anyone have a good utility for downloading youtube videos?
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by memexy 6y ago
Indeed. Focus on fundamentals never hurts.
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by memexy 6y ago
> Poor kids aren't going to have the resources to compete as equitably on extracurriculars. Yes, that's my point. Given fewer learning opportunities poor kids end up at a disadvantage even though the next Einstein is more than
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by memexy 6y ago
Really? Do you have specific examples. In my experience hacker news tends to be much more friendly and sympathetic towards older programmers.
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by memexy 6y ago
Are there any laws about SAT score requirements for school admission? Because if there aren't then the administrators are not obligated by any rules/laws for objective measures. If that's the case then they are free currently
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by memexy 6y ago
I once worked with a group of people that were afraid of makefiles. I doubt it was your age. People are always afraid of things that are unfamiliar. This applies to snakes and spiders just as much as it applies to programming languages and
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by memexy 6y ago
Shiny new thing (SNT) comes along, sales people and thought leaders get excited about SNT because they can sell it, everyone piles on as SNT picks up more and more hype, SNT falls apart as soon as it hits real world use cases, sales people
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by memexy 6y ago
We need a Moore's law for robotics. Who wants to bet how cheap and programmable these robots will be in 10 years?
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by memexy 6y ago
Yes. I understand this is the assumption but why is this the assumption? I can imagine poor kids doing just as well if not better without artificial barriers to entry like the SAT and GRE. For some reason everyone is assuming these tests ar
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by memexy 6y ago
This reminds me of an article about tuition cost going up by just the right amount to make sure 55% of people qualify for financial aid. I don't remember where I read this but I remember the argument making sense. What numbers do we ge
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by memexy 6y ago
Well... we're all ultimately students, just a question of which subjects and disciplines.
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by memexy 6y ago
That's very useful. Do you have any favorite links/resources?
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by memexy 6y ago
I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't think grades mean much either other than a feedback/signal for the student. Using them as measuring sticks for admission into exclusive clubs seems pretty broken. We should be lo
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by memexy 6y ago
How many brilliant poor kids do they choose now?
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by memexy 6y ago
I'm not arguing for their elimination. I'm sharing anecdotal evidence that they weren't useful for me and probably people like me who got an adequate education and had access to a local community college and a library. Re: un
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by memexy 6y ago
Why aren't high school class grades enough? If we want predictive measures then why not make the preparation for college the actual measure instead of tacking it on at the end as another exam. I can see it being useful for people who d
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by memexy 6y ago
Why are they bad ideas? I took the SAT and GRE for undergraduate and graduate schools respectively and neither was worthwhile preparation for anything I studied. If we want to put up barriers to entry then I think we can find better and mor
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by memexy 6y ago
This is a pretty good article about technology as a means of augmenting human intelligence. Doug Engelbart's vision of a runaway AGI was about augmenting groups of humans so that they could accelerate their own progress. By constantly
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by memexy 6y ago
No problem. Good luck.
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AI, IA, and AIA(jods.mitpress.mit.edu)
2 points by memexy 6y ago|1 comments
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Weaving, coding, and the history of “women's work” (2019)(fastcompany.com)
1 points by memexy 6y ago|0 comments
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by memexy 6y ago
Why not link directly to the app ( https://www.trackiem.com/ )? I clicked through and the landing page is pretty good. Only thing I wasn't clear about was what do the visualizations look like? Having a few actual example
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by memexy 6y ago
Exercise (mostly cardio, some basic body weight stuff), condensed audiobooks ( https://12min.com/ ), and working on various projects (currently working on knowledge engineering/automation with a personal memex).
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Cryptography, JavaScript, and Footguns(pritact.com)
1 points by memexy 6y ago|0 comments
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by memexy 6y ago
> One of the biggest default security improvements with Web Crypto is that *cryption keys are _not readable by JS_ once instantiated - they can only be used by the cryptographic functions (unless you explicitly make them exportable). Thi
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Will Kubernetes Collapse Under the Weight of Its Complexity? (2018)(influxdata.com)
3 points by memexy 6y ago|0 comments
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by memexy 6y ago
This is a great point. Cybernetic methodologies are consistently applied in most successful endeavors but for some reason people get tripped up by the ideological barriers. YCombinator itself is an error correcting cybernetic loop.
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by memexy 6y ago
I don't share the same viewpoint nor do I fear technological advancement. We need more powerful technology as widely spread as possible to empower people to achieve their goals. Only way to fight tyranny is to make sure every individua
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Project Cybersyn: a project for automating Chile's socialist economy(99percentinvisible.org)
3 points by memexy 6y ago|0 comments

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