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by pacala 8y ago
Fair enough, I'm not a maritime buff. Here's a bit more info to confirm your point [0]. I was thinking more of intermediate stops, specifically Canary islands and Morocco coast, which could have made the voyage easier, and allow t
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by pacala 8y ago
FWIW, I run Minikube to manage a single ML churning machine in my garage, because I only need to learn 'docker build Dockerfile', 'docker push <image>', 'docker run <image>', 'kubectl create -f
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by pacala 8y ago
"Reportedly" had 2000 ships. The whole article is full of "reportedly" whenever it comes to hard numbers. She appears to be cherry picking outlandish accounts that are not corroborated with other sources. For comparison,
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by pacala 8y ago
Fair enough. 'Quite a few modern platforms...'
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by pacala 8y ago
Good insights. Modern platforms are neither full dynamic nor rigidly static, but gradual, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing . Start with a dynamic script, add typing as you go to strengthen the system. Notabl
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by pacala 8y ago
To play devil's advocate: The primary function of a manager is to say "No". As one goes higher and higher up the hierarchy, one has to say "No" to pushier and pushier subordinates, and the cost of every misplaced &q
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by pacala 8y ago
Problem is, the treatment provider offers no hard guarantees: full remission or your money back. The claimed success rates could be based on research studies, which have a reputation to be systemically flawed. > Over a 10-year stretch, h
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by pacala 8y ago
Great points, thanks for the link. It appears that serfdom largely disappeared as a mass phenomenon in Western Europe [England/France/Italy/Spain] early [XII - XVI centuries], but persisted in Central and especially Eastern E
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by pacala 8y ago
It may surprise a naive audience how recent serfdom and slavery were the norm all over the world. Here's hoping for building today a better tomorrow. Serfdom emancipation in Europe: circa 1800, as late as 1864 in Poland. Slavery abolit
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by pacala 8y ago
False choice. Google has future plans for the mic: to spy on you. Singapore Airlines is using off the shelf spyware/Android devices [but I repeat myself] because it wants to record you.
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by pacala 8y ago
> Why anyone would choose python for large projects eludes me! "Mypy is an experimental optional static type checker for Python that aims to combine the benefits of dynamic (or "duck") typing and static typing." [0] [
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by pacala 8y ago
data Stripe1_0 = { field1: type1 field2: type2 } data Stripe2_0 = { cc_id: str } data Stripe = Stripe1_0 | Stripe2_0
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by pacala 8y ago
Static type systems are just a tool. The type signature describes what _your_ module is capable of handling. If other modules pass incorrect data, your module will fail, whether statically or dynamically typed, albeit harder to debug in the
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by pacala 8y ago
"Microsoft will release the code and pre-trained models.", though there is no pointer to where the release will happen. Training gargantuan language models is getting quite expensive, so releasing code + pre-trained models is si
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by pacala 8y ago
"Travel from NY to LA over the weekend" was probably not a very common demand needing a massive investment in air travel infrastructure and equipment circa 1900. User demand is bounded by the capability of the tools commonly avail
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by pacala 8y ago
The _degree_ of the Chinese problem is astounding. There are bad apples in all cultures, but the rampant situation in China is something else.
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by pacala 8y ago
Android is spyware, with a slightly more humane face. Not touching it with a 10 foot pole.
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by pacala 8y ago
Many of us had to deal at some point in our careers with 'legacy ball of mud with no tests' codebases. Furthermore, longer lived products require a certain degree of inertia; it is hard for users to adapt to what appear to be arbi
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by pacala 8y ago
Modern ML can fingerprint you based on your mouse movements. Good luck selling a browser without mousemove events.
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by pacala 8y ago
It is trivial to uniquely fingerprint a browser, even if there are no cookies involved. Surveillance can and should be fought off in the legal sphere.
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by pacala 8y ago
1 Tomahawk missile = $1,000,000 1 10kg payload drone = $10,000 Bonus: the killer drone can hang around for hours and tell fried from foe via biometric recognition [voice, face, gait], dutifully compiled by your nearby adtech multinational.
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by pacala 8y ago
When a swarm of killer drones comes down your neighborhood, good luck complaining "it wasn't a fair fight".
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by pacala 8y ago
Absolutely! We should have laws protecting our privacy online and offline, from governments and from private entities. We should be able to sue Facebook and their ilk into oblivion. Until then, anyone who stands for privacy is on my side an
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by pacala 8y ago
FWIW, customer service of your average corporation is likely to already have voice fingerprinting in place.
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by pacala 8y ago
Unbelievable. You keep refusing to address the point of 'decrypting literally all private and unrelated-to-facebook data' and claim it's 'usage statistics'.
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by pacala 8y ago
Ordered <set of items> have the advantage of working well with the brain's ability to map its surroundings. "function foo is defined 5 arrow downs above function bar". When the <set of items> jump around our eyes
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by pacala 8y ago
Additionally, any visual diagram can be compactly represented in textual form. It's called "good APIs".
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by pacala 8y ago
Seconded on super-cool. With function calls, dictionary and dataclasses support would cover 95% of my python coding.
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by pacala 8y ago
Everything can be automated.
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by pacala 8y ago
Examples? Especially, an infinite series of examples? The point of life is to keep entropy forces at bay for long enough to raise the next generation. As living beings, the core point of humans is to gather enough food and build a good enou

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