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by nnq 7y ago
Is there a text version of this? I keep seing it mentioned, probably really interesting, but I LOATHE videos or postcasts...
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by nnq 7y ago
Using a mask like you described still helps significantly. (Would help 10x more if the user would put it in a damn plastic bag , not on the table!). If you wear the mask on crowded bus or subway and take it off when you enter a not-so-crow
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by nnq 7y ago
Masks ALWAY help, a little or more, in one way or other. Any masks. Period. If you have them or you can get them easily, use them! They help because: 1. you have a significant chance of being already infected with a mild form and contagio
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by nnq 7y ago
It's from whoever wrote "The coming IP war over facts derived from books" [1] That's enough signal to make me not bother reading this. Writing this here to prevent other from wasting their time. Don't know the agen
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by nnq 7y ago
Cash in the only practical anonymous-when-you-need-it-to-be way to pay still. Don't let it die until we have alternative suitable anonymous and un-blockable-by-cyberattacks (eg. "it must still work while the internet is down&quot
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by nnq 7y ago
Unpopular opinion: people could stop trying to speculate everyt-f-thing and amplifying the negative consequences of everything! Stop trying to "prepare" for stuff or, worse, to speculate as to take advantage of stuff happening!
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by nnq 7y ago
Nobody truly believes "FOSS is free"... sure there's cost, you just gotta figure out what the cost is for you! (that's the trick a "free" product has a unique price for each "buyer", here in lies th
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by nnq 7y ago
> a large majority of white people and Asians are monolingual Please edit "white people" to "American and Chinese white people"... people from smaller countries are more prone to knowing more languages :P Also, people
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by nnq 7y ago
Once some things are off the menu, people need to work really hard to change things. And, more importantly, violence can be used against those people - I mean throw-them-in-prison type of violence, not more. Just like with freedom - in
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by nnq 7y ago
An on: > The problem of climate change has been cause precisely by a lack of democracy Well, yeah, but ya know, sometimes you treat cancer with radiation... Just like you sometime need to apply more force and violence to end a war sooner
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by nnq 7y ago
You don't have "democratic choice" for "how to better improve effectiveness of racial segregation", or how to better "discipline unruly women"... we know that some things like discrimination and violence a
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by nnq 7y ago
> It has killed every government that even dared to discuss it. And politically it is utterly impossible to defend Then pull it out of political discussion! We don't have political discussion about "how to hang people of colo
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by nnq 7y ago
Look, it's cool that we consider all these fancy solutions, but we had and still have a more obvious solution of pricing-externalities into things - a proper carbon-tax and recycling-taxes for plastics high enough to make them undes
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by nnq 7y ago
Parks will temporarily close. He'll have time/space to take on other extra responsibility. Just boring reallocation of human resources?
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by nnq 7y ago
> Go is not approved, [...] All other uses of Go in Fuchsia for production software on the target device must be migrated to an approved language. Probably makes sense, not what Go was designed for, but I really don't get big-G&#x27
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by nnq 7y ago
> I'd vote for communism, fascism or whatever it takes to make this nightmare end Chill. You don't want to go that way. Talk to anyone in a country that experienced that... I can tell you that the way actual communism subtl
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by nnq 7y ago
Bet on the first. The US economy is probably getting healthier, dropping/burning the dead wood. Now, US politics... that circus looks weird from the outside, but whatever works for them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by nnq 7y ago
So some of the fake-innovators are finally failing (long overdue). Startups are no longer a "fashion", so hopefully there will be less posers and less people who brand as startups businesses that are more fit for slow organic grow
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by nnq 7y ago
> energy [...] costs nothing. Raise heating in houses, use AC everywhere, longer showers, more transportation Yey, can we get to this future faster ?! Joking aside, all the current eco-friendly tech diminishes comfort by a loooot ... w
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by nnq 7y ago
Where did people unearth this "platforms" vs. "publishers" argument from? It looks like a political tool someone with a dark agenda diged out of some dark swampy corner of polytics... Everything is both! Of course yo
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by nnq 7y ago
Look... if platforms become responsible for content published on them, it is the end of free speech? Period. You want THIS?! The point would be to limit/regulate targeting: either (a) they're a no-login and no-user-personalizati
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by nnq 7y ago
You don't need to "metabolize useful energy out of concrete, sand, glass, and dirt" to have a nightmare scenario ... Anything that can metabolize lots of kinds of multicellular living matter could can do insane amounts of da
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by nnq 7y ago
DON't disconsider this nightmare scenario too much - While engineering (as in classically designing, prototyping etc.) such a grey goo might be almost impossibly-hard because of chemical energetic constraint and the obvious fact th
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by nnq 7y ago
I found some simple rules for single caller functions: 1. Use them if they take <5 parametets - no point making a function if you need to pass all the local context into it 2. Use them iff they return something that can be clearly named
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by nnq 7y ago
My actual use case some time ago was to run tests suites for some tricky and convoluted data wrangling code that used (by necessity since it was doing some funky tiled image loading and segmentation) fastai dataframes and stuff , locally o
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by nnq 7y ago
Does it still have the requirement for a GPU (driver) to be around to even run, like fastai 1.0 had? (Had to manually comment requirements and imports to have it run CPU-only...) I get it that for any serious use you'd want a GPU, b
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by nnq 7y ago
We are bad at predicting the future. So what? If something is desirable, we should continue to work towards it, regardless of when it will be done. OK, a company or project or country can go bankrupt or the original ppl working on it may pa
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by nnq 7y ago
EXACTLY! The article is infected with a really vile and evil way of thinking that is almost the equivalent of the "but think of the children" argument for justifying privacy invasion and censorship, but in the field of IP...
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by nnq 7y ago
Papers code is probably optimized for "first to publish". Also overfit in a non-traditional sense since ppl wanta to beat SOTA by as much as possible. Also the heuristic tips an tricks and autotuning you'd want in a productio
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by nnq 7y ago
How do you aggregate without field types? You'd end up writing custom code for untyped map-reduce... How can you code know what data to expect without typed field? Your code size can grow up even 10x if you need to assume that any re

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