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by nnq 8y ago
...why would almost anyone using MongoDB care at all if it's included in a distro's set of default packages?! Don't we all always install software from repositories hosted by third parties? As long as the Mongo devs keep
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by nnq 8y ago
...only 1 chapter on learning ?! It shows how little we know of how biological neural networks actually work (imo 95% of "work" would be how learning occurs , that's the really interesting bit). I know this is hard to st
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by nnq 8y ago
> two people can just about fit if you're the one with the 15", and the person near it's a 12" or 10", there's enough room. lots of people will be satisfied with 12" so if you're the 15" you&#
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by nnq 8y ago
99.9% of people DON'T do work on airplanes or trains. Even on most coffeeshop tables you have room for a compact 17"... And you always want more screen, right?
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by nnq 8y ago
> on the rare occasions I want to travel Then why not get the 15"?! I honestly don't understand why the 13-14" screen size exists. If you want something really portable it's got to be 12" or less. If you want som
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by nnq 8y ago
The dichotomy is real, I know a thing or two of how hospitals work and what prioritizing comfort would actually mean. But I'd still choose it. > but I'd rather be uncomfortable in the hospital for a week in my 40s if that mea
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by nnq 8y ago
Hospitals worldwide should be optimized for increased patient comfort even at the cast of marginally lowering survival (let's say 1%) and increasing cost (again 1%)! Almost all patients would prefer it. But it's hard to convince
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by nnq 8y ago
Sometimes you pick from a set of actions for each you have equal reasons/information to pick. And you pick technically randomly. But after you made the choice, you stick/commit to it, you identify with it. The other choices are
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by nnq 8y ago
1. Embrace 2. ... 3. ... :)
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by nnq 8y ago
anything like this for Python?
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by nnq 8y ago
Same. With VSCode most plugins "just work" as I expect them too, and it's also usable with 0 plugins. Atom plugins otoh... they're a s-fest of stuff requiring other stuff and never managing to ever auto-magically just wo
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by nnq 8y ago
...it's not about affording: when they're drunk and can't find any change in your pocket, they end up pissing on a wall and stiking up the whole street. Some things need to be free even if they are easily affordable simpl
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by nnq 8y ago
...well yeah, the worlwide famine and political instability coming after the massive climate change will kind of obviously lead to this, thank god for the nukes.
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by nnq 8y ago
> I love the place and the lifestyle but I don't give a crap for the country This kind of attitude is why some countries' economies and social systems turn to crap, ya know...
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by nnq 8y ago
HOW the heck CAN you evaluate potential or learning speed in a 30min interview?! I've been a couple times on the interviewing side of an interview (being an engineer), and trust me, evaluating a senior is 1000% easier than evaluat
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by nnq 8y ago
> handling international phone numbers Imo this is one of those things best left unhandled, eg. "just use a plain mostly unvalidated textfield, and throw and error only when you want to use that data via another system like for a
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by nnq 8y ago
> many people just think that business logic for sanitization and validation "just happens." The barrier to wireframing, for them, is too high so they don't Maybe the barrier is where it should be. Or maybe it should be e
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by nnq 8y ago
I was referring to __setitem__: you end up with expressions like `m[...] = ...` where practically speaking the meaning of `=` is no longer obvious. In some contexts it can end up meaning pretty unintuitive things (think pandas view into d
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by nnq 8y ago
...being physically in the EU, but building stuff that has the potential to have 80% of the customers in US, as long as traffic to end-users in US is good (it usually is unless you care about low latency for gaming, or real-time-video bandw
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by nnq 8y ago
...yeah, but if best value for money would be the absolute goal, DO itself is quite expensive compared to Hetzner or Linode last time I compared. Others like OVH or Scaleway could be even cheaper.
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by nnq 8y ago
...then why not just use AWS's Lightsail instead of DO so you can use AWS RDS without worrying about latency? (Or the equivalent for Azure or GCP.) Really asking, bc for next personal projects I was getting ready to abandon DO and use
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by nnq 8y ago
There are 2 things to grok that people rarely explain to Python newbies, and which probably prevent some from building good intuition of things: 1. EVERYTHING is a DICTIONARY (including objects, despite some magic happening behind, objects
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by nnq 8y ago
YOU are their QA department if you're using a non-enterprise version of Windows! Wake up and use Linux or buy a Mac (at least Apple only mocks your wallet!).
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by nnq 8y ago
This is what you get when you adopt the "let users do the qa/testing/beta-testing for us for free" . The whole attitude behind Windows 10 "continuous updates" instead of actual releases that are actually alpha
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by nnq 8y ago
Just a fancier/exactier way of referring to MB (mega byte) as an Mo (mega octet), since on more exotic systems a byte can have a different number of bits that 8 (there are/were 7-bit-byte or 6-bit-byte systems...), while octet alw
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by nnq 8y ago
> Legally speaking then, you don't own information about yourself like your address or past actions ...and of this: clearly you want just some information to be impermanent or undo-able. I wouldn't want all information about
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by nnq 8y ago
> How can you own something that is inside my head? If I put it there, I own it, and I should be able to destroy all proof that it's not purely a fabrication of your imagination. (Sure, you can still know it and use it to guide y
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by nnq 8y ago
The human concepts of ownership implies a very important right that people tend to overlook: the right to DESTROY it , to undo it, to "take back what you said". This is important, because for physical artifacts having the right t
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by nnq 8y ago
When will people realize that the whole idea of a "credit score" is insanely bad - just lend to anyone under the same conditions, do personal checks on case by case basis etc. There are parts of the world that have all regular f
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by nnq 8y ago
> You'd be a moron to pass an argument of a different type 'a couple of hours' into the training Huh?! At least in non-ML code this happens all the time, data fetched by whatever thinggie that uses zillion chained librarie

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