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by neolefty 6y ago
Honestly I look forward to that. It's a big improvement over using fossil fuels for energy — combine it with landfilling, and you're just re-burying oil after some transportation and manufacturing. And it gives a softer landing to
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by neolefty 6y ago
Agreed. In fact, it smells like the author doesn't know what he's talking about; in my experience "That will break for the following incredibly subtle reasons:" is usually about React fundamentals such as being deliberat
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by neolefty 6y ago
Even access to good journalism is now related to income inequality. Very few who live paycheck-to-paycheck will pay for access to news when they can get some version of it for free.
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by neolefty 6y ago
The creation of that domain must have a story. "We're getting ignored in the mailing lists. What can we do about it?"
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by neolefty 6y ago
How about coop games — what would you use to rate players where the goal is to win together?
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by neolefty 6y ago
useCallback memoizes (caches) the function definition. Its main use is to simplify refreshes — since the function isn't redefined every time, components that depend on it such as the <button> can be re-rendered less often.
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by neolefty 6y ago
Yes and I can't count the number of programmers I have met who started off doing the same thing with VBA macros. Very empowering, for all its warts.
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by neolefty 7y ago
Wow I would love to hear the inside story on this one. I think we're all motivated by both survival and doing good, and I see an overall trend towards more doing good, as survival gets easier. Is this a case of that? Who drove it? What
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by neolefty 7y ago
I went from working remotely 3 time zones away on legacy code to working remotely within the same time zone on a new project, and I love it. Before that I was working in an open-plan office near my home, for a different company. I work at h
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by neolefty 7y ago
Editing human DNA will intensify the debate compared to editing crop plant DNA, I am sure. It's a little easier in this case since it's not a heritable change (only bone marrow DNA was edited), but as others have pointed out elsew
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by neolefty 7y ago
Neither is the 2059 Genetic Equality Program, described in this op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future...
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by neolefty 7y ago
But Android?
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by neolefty 7y ago
The ones near me do have scales, in two places * Analog spring-based scales in the produce section, for customers to check weights before they buy * Precise scales at checkout, built into the scanner / register. However, most things ar
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by neolefty 8y ago
I keep looking for ways that automation's benefits can be shared more democratically, but this essay sheds no light. The concluding paragraph, in my view, restates a well-worn plaint: > With automation, the plutocrats get the increa
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by neolefty 8y ago
Nope, because it's a cat-and-mouse game with robots. It's not in Google's interest to publish it because it would give an advantage to the bot writers.
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by neolefty 8y ago
How is the theoretical energy efficiency of these polymer transistors? The last time I checked, silicon was much hotter than neurons, even considering theoretical limits, even though the size is fine.
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by neolefty 8y ago
I agree current automation can't handle unforeseen events, but I think it can flag them as they start. Where I work we use a hybrid system that must be pretty common — instrument, establish patterns, watch for anomalies (automatically)
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by neolefty 8y ago
Off the top of my head, things I never implement or use anymore: * socket listeners * line drawing * explicit memory management * old APIs and libraries * Perl * Assembly And things I rarely use: * Semaphores & other threading primi
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by neolefty 8y ago
This matches my experience too (47, been programming since childhood). I think you'll see some survivorship bias in this thread — we may end up answering a different question: "How can you tell who is likely to still be programmin
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by neolefty 8y ago
I'm 47, but my kids are reminding me 50 is coming soon! I'm working as a web engineer — not a manager or even team lead — working remotely from the Midwest for a coastal company, and I'm pretty happy with it. All I can say is
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by neolefty 8y ago
Disappearing middle layers: The OP mentions "backendless applications", and using Javascript and the browser as your platform feels like the same kind of trend. Sure, all those layers are still there — OS, TCP/IP, raster — bu
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by neolefty 8y ago
Yep, I do make some kind of checks. Mostly I rely on the label and brand though. And TrickURI is a kind of label verifier. To make sure I'm not accidentally buying H0me D3p0t brand nomex.
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by neolefty 8y ago
Perhaps also because of cynicism — "Government is doomed; logically we should starve it." And possibly naivete — "I'll be better off without government holding me back." Not that I'm biased in favor of civiliza
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by neolefty 8y ago
Haha yes we sure trolled them with our overly-politicized space exploration! Totally on purpose. Deep state.
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by neolefty 8y ago
Cities will have to regulate to prevent extra congestion. Good to know ahead of time, so they can at least get a head start? Or better to wait and see?
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by neolefty 8y ago
But if I hire an electrician (or even wire something myself, which I've been known to do) I don't have time to check whether the wires are aluminum instead of copper. Or if their insulation is flame-retardant. I rely on regulation
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by neolefty 8y ago
Am I dumb to not open the can of oil I put in my car and check whether its heavy metal content is too high to be fresh oil? It's just not practical — if Google can mass-check things for me with TrickURI, it will very likely protect me
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by neolefty 8y ago
That's useful, but it's not what this article is about. This article is about a tool called "TrickURI" which detects misleading names like "G00gle.com"
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by neolefty 8y ago
The actual work doesn't seem to be at all — it's about a tool called TrickURI that identifies names that are visually confusing such as "G00gle.com". The headline is clickbaity. So if I go register a name "neolefty&
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by neolefty 8y ago
It's not ML, according to an update to the article at the very end: > Correction January 29, 10:30pm: This story originally stated that TrickURI uses machine learning to parse URL samples and test warnings for suspicious URLs. It ha

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