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by needz 8y ago
He has a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford, so he at least has the foundation.
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by needz 8y ago
Waking Up with Sam Harris. It's an app for iOS. Sam Harris is a very insightful philosopher and neuroscientist. He explains things in a very concise and concrete way that I value above my experience with Headspace.
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by needz 8y ago
It's meant for functional components, not classes.
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by needz 8y ago
True, but they serve up ads related to what you're searching for instead of building a profile about your demographic and interests.
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by needz 8y ago
I'm not experienced enough with ML to provide great feedback, but I did start getting segfault errors when I trained on too many images. I have multiple pictures of nearly 1000 different pinball machines, so right now it's a lot o
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by needz 8y ago
I'm working on an image classifier to identify pinball machines by their backglass art. I've been using Turicreate. I can't find any comparisons of the libraries (turicreate vs fast.ai). Does anyone have any resources that co
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by needz 8y ago
That's a very interesting project! I hope it catches on.
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by needz 8y ago
The book was released in 1984. Could it be that his descriptions of tech were just true to the times? I imagine his stylistic embellishments were also important in the same way older movies about technology (e.g. Hackers[0]) stylize digital
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by needz 8y ago
I recently switched from a 2015 Macbook Pro to a Lenovo T480s (w/ Fedora 28) and have been relatively happy with the purchase over all. A key did break off within 2 weeks, but I'm hoping after that is taken care of it'll be s
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by needz 8y ago
Let's say the web app is a game and it keeps track of your high score when you play it, if the high score is stored somewhere you have complete control over, what's to stop someone from modifying that score? Substitute high score
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by needz 8y ago
This is brand new but worth checking out. https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos
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by needz 8y ago
Wouldn't users be able to tamper with their own data? Seems like another attack vector.
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by needz 8y ago
I did this just this past weekend so great timing. I switched from a late-2015 Macbook Pro (some say this is the last time a MB Pro was good) to a Thinkpad T480s w/ Fedora 28. My workflow on Mac was fairly simple -- sublime text, npm,
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by needz 8y ago
Newer Android phones allow you to set an accessibility menu shortcut. If you only have one menu item selected, the shortcut just toggles that menu item. I press vol-up & power to toggle greyscale.
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by needz 8y ago
Your Async/Await article link goes to the wrong page.
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by needz 8y ago
Sorry, I was using the 'singular' they.
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by needz 8y ago
IIRC, they were in a serious time crunch when they drafted/made git. I can't remember the whole story...
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by needz 8y ago
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca. I guess you could say any book on Stoicism, really, as the others I would mention also fit that bill.
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by needz 8y ago
Ethereum does have plans to switch to 'proof of stake' (as opposed to its current 'proof of work') which would dramatically decrease the power consumption.
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by needz 8y ago
You ask that as if it means something
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by needz 9y ago
That's because they've encouraged package developers to switch to NPM.
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by needz 9y ago
I would highly recommend a guided meditation app such as https://www.headspace.com/ Best decision I've made this year
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by needz 9y ago
Link leads nowhere for me.
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by needz 9y ago
I don't understand why it needs to hijack the back button.
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by needz 9y ago
Didn't have any noticeable effect for me.
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by needz 9y ago
I was using scaled resolution. Switched to default; will report back. Edit: Been at 100% for 10 minutes. Much, much better. If anyone knows how to set default zoom on Firefox it'd be greatly appreciated.
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by needz 9y ago
Firefox Quantum kills the battery on my Macbook. I love it otherwise.
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by needz 9y ago
You should make github gists of these.
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by needz 9y ago
This guy is as wholesome as wholesome can possibly be and he was still demonetized. Wears suits, is cordial with his viewers, doesn't curse... what more could YT want?
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by needz 9y ago
I'm finding myself enjoying Ars less and less. Recommendations for what to replace it with?

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