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by nikofeyn 9y ago
not an assumption. given that everything else works together, it's the macbook pro that's the odd man out. my other devices include multiple bluetooth speakers, mice, phones (android and even windows phone), surface pro, iPad, and
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
> So despite how capable your Mac or iPhone is this made me literally lol. my macbook pro is the shittiest bluetooth device i have ever used. just search google for macbook pro bluetooth audio issues, and you will find a slew of forum po
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
when did that happen? i have never heard AD referred to as algorithmic differentiation. seems weird to me as automatic is already a good name. algorithmic, to me, conjures up ideas more related to numerical differentiation. there are algori
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i just want to point out the danger of associating introversion with social incompetence because the association is a poorly realized stereotype. it is entirely possible and not uncommon for an introvert to be highly socially competent. int
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
there is hardly a sport where strength training and conditioning is not useful.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i order almost everything off amazon. i admit that i feel strange about this for many reasons, but laziness doesn't really come into play. time is the most valuable thing i have and stress is a major health issue. by ordering off of am
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
of course they're different. i didn't say or imply otherwise. the original parent mentioned both racket and common lisp, again different languages, so it was clear they weren't looking just for common lisp and were more gener
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
but the person i replied to replied to a commenter lamenting the fact that there was nothing but java and c style development jobs instead of lisp inspired jobs. they weren't lamenting the lack of jobs specific to just common lisp. and
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
why would one do that instead of using clojure?
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
> You haven't grounded your assertions on any logical arguments. neither did you. in fact, you italicized probably the least objective portion, that of staically typed languages being more readable. and that's likely to be the
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i agree that python has a surprising amount of useful packages, but unless you are using those unique-to-python packages, then i honestly don't understand why you would choose the language. i have seen it used in two cases where it sho
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i have only used python for small (but professional) projects. i really did not enjoy working with the language. it just feels so sloppy and unprincipled. when i worked with it, it felt i constantly met strange quirks (the underscore busine
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i don't think it's obvious at all that visual programming languages don't represent how a computer works, but actually, i don't even see how that matters at all. for labview, i feel large programs benefit tremendously fr
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
that's not always true. the visual representation of an idea that can also be conveyed in text can oftentimes provide additional information not easily gleaned from the text-based representation. the easiest example of this is the visu
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i think most people that have an opinion on visual programming have not actually ever used a visual programming language in earnest. i have worked in labview very seriously over the past 4-5 years. at this point, i am essentially an expert
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
then why does everyone sketch a picture when trying to convey an idea? text is obviously useful but so is visual information. the complete dismissal of visual programming by text-based programmers is often infuriating. visual programming ca
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i program in labview daily, and it's always a little disappointing to see this same dumb picture posted all the time in reference to labview and visual programming. NO respectable labview programmer would work like that. you could make
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
it's not unfounded. there's direct supporting evidence. and they're not really absolute. it's blatantly obvious that the "that we know about" is implicit.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
as a motorcyclist, i see that situation as a complete death trap and would absolutely slow down approaching it. you have someone turning left and someone looking to turn right to eventually merge, two of the most dangerous situations on th
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
labview. it's really great. when i recently did a multithreaded application in python, it felt ancient and like a step or two backwards.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
labview is quite fast.
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
whether or not blackfish was totally truthful or not has little bearing on the real situation. so i am not exactly for sure what propaganda against blackfish hopes to accomplish. and i read some of the "lies". there is clearly an
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
i don't have time to read this specific article, but in another discussion of this issue, a real threat was brought up in forcing laptops to be checked. there are non-zero occurrences of laptop fires happening on flights, but since the
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by nikofeyn 9y ago
newtonian mechanics is perfectly true in certain contexts.
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
i personally have never understood john carmack's "genius" role. smart guy for sure. but in many ways, i tend to think of a genius being without a peer in their direct domain, and for john carmack, that's simply not the
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
you're painting a picture from the union side that simply isn't always the reality. both unions and companies, not all though, can be totally blind to the concerns of the people on the other side. obviously uber is doing somethin
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
better than clojure and f#?
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
do you really think that about deep learning? it has zero application or effect in my job (i don't see that changing for at least the next decade) and in my personal life, it only serves to produce "better ads".
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
in this case the middleman is telling a different story between the user and driver. uber is, allegedly, charging the user a higher price while showing the driver a lower price so that they are pocketing extra money that should be going to
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by nikofeyn 10y ago
disciplined minds by jeff schmidt talks about this "i want you to study x" phenomenon and how it tricks people into thinking they are truly defining their academic research direction.

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