natn

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by natn 1y ago
There's a discussion thread on the GitHub community discussion full of people saying this is the best feature on GitHub today. It's a shame GitHub never promoted it. At one point they even disabled it for existing users, and since
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by natn 3y ago
I'm currently looking for somewhere to park some forwarded addresses since gandi decided to start making money. I don't see any mention of address forwarding on the website, is this a supported use case?
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by natn 3y ago
imagine... TTD applied to laws. Or take it a step further, write a test suite and automatically generate a range of possible laws that satisfy the tests.
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by natn 4y ago
This thread is like group therapy. On my current device I'd estimate ~100 chrome tabs open over 10 desktops. I try to keep them organized at least.
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by natn 5y ago
TLDR: exploring new ways of doing things or optimising for developer experience is stupid. "The entry barrier to programming needs to be high!"
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by natn 5y ago
I wonder if it's a violation of Google's ToS to use their services to commit war crimes?
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by natn 5y ago
Reminds me of when it seemed like a reasonable thing to do to host a website on the world wide web from my home network. The web was always decentralised, but various motivations and reasonable tradeoffs caused it accumulate a lot of crap.
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by natn 5y ago
Humanity as a whole is qualitatively different than anything else I can think of. I think this is obvious. But how different are humans? If you take a homo sapien in isolation and a chimpanzee in isolation (I know there's no such thing
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by natn 5y ago
I built something like this once for defining form validation rules. It was fun. I was very proud of it. I'd probably just use JSONSchema now though.
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by natn 5y ago
LOL, yea, like surveillance satellites make photography redundant.
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by natn 5y ago
maybe you're thinking of psychoanalysis?
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by natn 5y ago
Kind of like physics?
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by natn 5y ago
It would be more accurate to say that "Psychology is not 'just' a science." There are areas of psychology that rely on methods that are not scientific, because their subject of study is too hard to approach in a rigorous
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by natn 5y ago
"Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever" They're wrong of course. Diamonds are flammable and also decompose (slowly) in sunlight.
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by natn 5y ago
This story comes back again and again. And it makes no sense, because businesses pay tax on profits, not revenue! It sounds outrageous that a big company does so much business and doesn't end up paying lots of taxes, maybe it's su
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by natn 6y ago
An even simpler universal approximator that the authors overlooked for some reason is just to use a very large hash map. There are some practical issues around generalization and storage but it has very predictable precision.
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by natn 6y ago
What I don't get is why the emphasis on sheet music as an image? I get that mapping from an auditory stream onto a score is an interesting problem, but isn't it naturally decoupled from the visual processing problem of reading and
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by natn 6y ago
This is one of the best and most accessible pieces I've read about the underlying principles of how such systems work. https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
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by natn 6y ago
Sort of agree, though I'd say more important the number of monitors is resolution. I find anything less 2560x1440 results in increased cognitive load for window management.