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by nurbl 3y ago
Consider that in a world where almost everything is automated and reacts quickly, some faulty logic somewhere could cascade and lead to a lot of bad stuff happening before anyone even has a chance to notice. Introducing some latency, need f
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by nurbl 3y ago
As I remember it, a major thesis of the book (which I recommend, it's a fun read!) is that Europeans had the benefit of several, mainly geographical factors. This was just one of them.
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by nurbl 3y ago
It's been a long time since I read the book, but I do think he made the point that part of what gave Europe a military edge was the fact of lots of natural geographical borders like rivers and mountains, giving rise to lots of small ki
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by nurbl 3y ago
I support a few podcasts on patreon. They have regular open RSS feeds and then a locked down patreon feed, containing special episodes, extra material etc. One podcast only charges for each locked episode, so if they don't make any for
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by nurbl 3y ago
While I haven't worked with EMR systems directly, I have some experience working with care giver organisations, from the perspective of trying to use their digital records for analysis and prediction. My impression was that this is som
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by nurbl 3y ago
I had a boss once who did this, whenever a meeting was done before the scheduled time, he would start talking about some vaguely relevant experience or similar. When someone asked about this, he actually said that he felt responsible for no
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by nurbl 3y ago
This argument could also be used to dismiss the whole "AI" industry. After all, humans have been able to answer questions and write essays for a long time! Of course the problem lies exactly in the ability to automate incompetence
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by nurbl 3y ago
Good observation, it could conceivably be a slightly distorted image of paint coming out of a tube! The waviness of the axe handle does look quite strange. However it'd be a really counter intuitive choice to use a green Y for "
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by nurbl 3y ago
In contrast, there are many things to say about Lynch's version, but he didn't just play it safe. Although compared to the plans Jodorowski (original director) had for the movie, he was probably conservative :D
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by nurbl 3y ago
I agree! I found the new Dune boring, nice looking but generic (a lot like e.g. any recent Ridley Scott movie) and the actors seemed bored too. It failed to communicate a sense of wonder at the strange world. I re-watched Lynch's versi
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by nurbl 3y ago
Searching google's movie service for older movies is annoying because a lot of times you just get a remake. Even if they have the old version! The only way I found to get to the original is to search for some actor in it and scroll...
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by nurbl 3y ago
At least someone in their design department keeps uselessly moving things around. The latest was tucking away the desktop application's search function into the sidebar, even though the space it used to occupy is now just wasted space.
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by nurbl 3y ago
Yes. I don't have very good conscious control of it, but if I start "daydreaming" the images can pretty much override what my eyes are seeing. I wouldn't say it's overlaying like AR, for me it's more like tunin
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by nurbl 3y ago
I think that is true, but somehow a "race to the bottom" has been going on and some are more guilty than others of setting it in motion. It can be quite hard not to get drawn into such a situation as a for-profit organisation, the
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by nurbl 3y ago
A great thing about just using sqlite as the format is that you get lots of potential features. Sure most applications don't need full SQL power just to save and load data. But then at some point you might want more advanced functional
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by nurbl 3y ago
I'm running i3 + xfce-settings for many years and to me it's a perfect solution, extremely stable. I have no opinion on wayland, but I dread the day when I'll have to move to it, as it will mean switching WM, and I assume lot
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by nurbl 3y ago
I had a really old phone that I liked, but which slack discontinued support for. The effect was that the slack app would still start and you could even see the channels etc behind the big "not supported" badge that immediately pop
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by nurbl 3y ago
I have hundreds of open tabs in FF most of the time and rarely close them. I use it a bit like emacs; ignore the "tab bar" and use ctrl-tab (with browser.ctrlTab.sortByRecentlyUsed set to true) or tab search (with %) to jump betwe
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by nurbl 3y ago
I think you're focusing on the percieved biggest part of the problem and ignoring that it's both possible and useful to adress other parts. Especially if you can't do anything about the big one.
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by nurbl 3y ago
When we did this, I think we had some git hooks to make sure that no comments in "review form" were left when merging. So you'd have to go through all the comments and at least remove them.
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by nurbl 3y ago
We did that at a previous job too. I also thought it seemed a bit weird at the beginning (too simple?), but I loved it. Being able to do reviews from the comfort of magit instead of having to deal with a janky web GUI was great. As long as
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by nurbl 3y ago
They can be more readable than that at least, e.g.: keys = "name", "shares", "price" portfolio = [ dict(zip(keys, row)) for row in rows ] If I had to do more complex stuff than
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by nurbl 3y ago
Well, you may now be more likely to go out and actually do some "hard things". Life is not only about proving yourself.
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by nurbl 3y ago
I agree, but the problem is how to avoid this. Once your livelihood depends on the thing you do for fun, it seems quite likely that you will start thinking about how to make it sell better. And after a while this may start to infect your in
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by nurbl 4y ago
I find that with project.el (or projectile) buffer handling per repo works fine without having to separate things into frames. I often have hundreds of buffers open after a while and finding the right one is rarely a problem.
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by nurbl 4y ago
I don't think everything needs to have a public comment section. The owner's email address is readily found on the site if you want to send feedback.
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by nurbl 4y ago
Yes, I think there is a risk in doing things publicly. You can get stuck in this loop of topping your last performance. We may need validation or criticism to improve. But improvement is not the only thing that matters. For me, enjoyment is
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by nurbl 4y ago
I've had a lot of luck with Gephi for fairly complex graphs (~10000 nodes and edges), in particular it has some very powerful layout algorithms. It can be very helpful to have immediate visual feedback when untangling something like th
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by nurbl 4y ago
Not sure exactly what you need, but since Zig is C compatible, it's easy to build a zig library and import it from python using ctypes. I guess if you need something more sophisticated you could use cffi (haven't tried it). Zig is
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by nurbl 4y ago
I think part of it is the terrible software people are forced to use at work, which is bought by people who only look at feature lists and price. This stuff eats away at their expectations until they are OK with bloated stuff like discord f

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