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by namuol 6y ago
> just about every website and blog now presents multiple spinning boxes when its loading The vast majority of "page" content is baked into prerendered HTML and CSS rendered. I'm not sure what spinners you're talking
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by namuol 6y ago
Most people, web developers included, don't have the luxury to quit their job every time they disagree with the decisions being made for them.
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by namuol 6y ago
Not sure what you mean. You're welcome to hand-write all of your web apps from the ground up with zero dependencies and no build system. It's still the web.
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by namuol 6y ago
Insane churn? Wordpress powers over 1/3 of the web. JQuery is still doing most heavy JS lifting on most blogs/CMS-driven sites. React has dominated "real" frontend webapp development for a solid 5 years. These things don
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by namuol 6y ago
> Frontend developers are at fault for all this. There, I said it. Let me trade one dead horse for another: Product and marketing teams are at fault for all this. Or if you prefer, the advertising industry is at fault. Take the payload o
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by namuol 6y ago
1. Even though it requires precision, the vastness of the solution space effectively makes programming a mushy, tangled mess of technology. 2. End of list.
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by namuol 6y ago
Reasonable if you assume that progress of this technology has already plateaued. I'm pretty sure we could be putting a lot more money behind this and we would see substantial improvements to efficiency (i.e. $/kg/year). We ne
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by namuol 6y ago
Imagine the torture of being the result of an early "success" in such an experiment. There's a real pickle of an ethical dilemma here.
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by namuol 6y ago
Exactly. The party's official platform is equally dismissible as - if not more dismissible than - as the actions taken by the party in recent history, right?
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by namuol 6y ago
Sure. I'm asking people to read between the lines, because they are conspicuously absent of a groundbreaking shift in the politics of nuclear energy.
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by namuol 6y ago
I'm not in the energy field, but I do have hopes that we can find a way to make nuclear fuel use more efficient, thereby reducing the amount of waste: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-let...
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by namuol 6y ago
With some qualifiers this is technically correct, but this only makes it feel more disingenuous.
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by namuol 6y ago
First endorsement in 48 years? I'm pretty sure this qualifies as an endorsement: > As detailed in the Climate Action Plan, President Obama is committed to using every appropriate tool to combat climate change. Nuclear power, which
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by namuol 6y ago
Heads up: The landing page looks completely broken to me in OS X, Chrome 83.0.4103.116 Looks fine in Safari.
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by namuol 6y ago
Could it be Stockholm Syndrome? It was for me.
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by namuol 6y ago
Perhaps, but you could say the same thing about something like an `if` statement in the era of branch assembly instructions. One requires more discipline (and knowledge) but that doesn't mean the problem is solely a lack of willpower&#
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by namuol 6y ago
What do Mind-mapping, Zettelkasten, Bullet Journaling, Getting Things Done, etc. all have in common? They impose a taxonomy on thought and rely heavily on "best practices". Even the simplest organizational schemes require a great
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by namuol 6y ago
> 1998 [...] Not really that long ago The Apple II came out in 1977, 43 years ago. 1998 therefore roughly marks the halfway point between the dawn of mainstream personal computers and the present day. I dare say 1998 was a very long time
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by namuol 7y ago
> [...] the original “Don’t repeat yourself” was nothing to do with code, it was to do with knowledge > The trouble with DRY is it has no reference to the knowledge bit, which is arguably the most important part ! Okay. Now what does
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by namuol 7y ago
I don't disagree that the ladder of abstraction is perilously tall, but every example of slower/buggier software in this post is assumed to be caused by abstraction. So many other things go into creating software - especially at
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by namuol 7y ago
What matters is that you found a way to sound smarter without doing anything.
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by namuol 7y ago
Video chat sessions that are recorded and shared with everyone. This includes things like pair programming, but also just normal conversations on topics that are too green for any kind of formal documentation. Then as you build consensus it
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by namuol 7y ago
(Heads up: I came here because I have alerts for when Webflow is mentioned in HN [I work there]) I think the idea has a lot of potential. I love how short your "menu" is. I would absolutely love more Indian options for fast food -
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by namuol 7y ago
> For the study, researchers enrolled 11 adult men and women who had excess weight. It's amazing how low our standard for news is when it comes to things like weight loss.
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by namuol 7y ago
Apparently parenting is all about consistency in punishment. What about reward?
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by namuol 7y ago
Here are some samples generated from this version of the 1.5B parameter model: https://github.com/ConnorJL/GPT2/blob/master/samples/ I'm not particularly impressed with the results. Here are so
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by namuol 7y ago
From the first paragraph: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/essay/millennial-life-how-yo...
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by namuol 8y ago
I think this site is making an homage/reference to it.
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by namuol 8y ago
I guess this is news ️
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by namuol 8y ago
Here's the most thoughtful piece I've been able to find on the controversial topic so far: https://www.fast.ai/2019/02/15/openai-gp2/

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