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by peonicles 4mo ago
We can take your train of thought further still. If AI ever becomes super good at lawyering, why would we even need law firms and lawyers at all? We could feed legislation and constitution into the model and have it argue against other lawy
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by peonicles 1y ago
Margaret Hamilton (checks wikipedia) studied mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1955. Back in 1955, "computer science" wasn't a thing yet. Computers were the domain of electrical engineering and math, the latter of
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by peonicles 7y ago
Sylvan Clebsch and Sophia Drossopoulou (credited on Project Verona in a slide) work on the Pony, which has been described as a cross between Rust and Erlang.
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by peonicles 7y ago
I had to google for what "^H" meant. Found an interesting answer and backstory: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/386870.html
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by peonicles 7y ago
Isn't this bundling what caused the subprime crisis ? How is this time "guaranteed to work well" ?
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by peonicles 7y ago
Maybe it's social media that is broken.
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by peonicles 8y ago
It seems that the downloadable pdf doesn't have a couple of tweaks that have landed in master ( https://github.com/crypto101/book ). Any plans to generate a slightly updated version ? PS: Thanks for your work ! Watc
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by peonicles 9y ago
The entire series of 20 lectures (uploaded by MIT) is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PLE18841CAB...
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by peonicles 9y ago
Rust + Rpi interests me and I might wanna follow along. Are they using an available kit from an online retailer ? Getting/shipping individual parts is a pain where I'm from.
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by peonicles 9y ago
> Here is another thought. One has to realize that nobody wants an operating system. People only use them because it is the only way to run the applications the users actually wants to use. That reduces things to almost an absurd level,
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by peonicles 9y ago
Because they actually live there ? As opposed to transient visitors ? It's like going to your friend's house and rearranging the furniture there because "we were all born on planet Earth".
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by peonicles 9y ago
I was a little disappointed to see there wasn't any internet connection on Windows 2000. All I wanted to do was to open Firefox, goto https://bellard.org/jslinux/ , and fire up the Linux emulator ...
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by peonicles 9y ago
Its not as simple as that. Humans are social, and want to feel that they are "useful", that their presence / skills are needed. Not having a job takes that away from them, which can snowball into psychological issues, and pos
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by peonicles 10y ago
Competing laptop manufacturers have options for more ram.
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by peonicles 10y ago
There's a comment [1] in the other reddit thread that somewhat rules this out. > That doesn't even make sense when you're flying within the Solar System. Stuff moves, so you have to fly towards where it's going to be,
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by peonicles 10y ago
> Some Vine stars charge as much as six figures for a branded Vine, a pricey bet for buyers. 6 figures, for 6 seconds of video. Sounds about right.
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by peonicles 10y ago
It's probably fair to say the DVCS accelerated the growth of the entire software industry. Was BitKeeper the first version control system to "think distributed" ?
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by peonicles 10y ago
The waiter provides a service in exchange for money. Hedge fund managers literally move money around. Their value add is debatable.
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by peonicles 10y ago
Granted they are skilled at what they do, but I think the point is that they don't create much, if anything of actual value.
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by peonicles 11y ago
> This is so quintessentially Linus. He's criticizing this idealized tech startup CEO character with a big passionate vision, (...) I don't think he's criticizing anyone in particular. He probably doesn't care enough
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by peonicles 11y ago
If you have serious money problems, you can't spend the "extra" $600 you have on an iPhone, even if it supposedly pays for itself after 24 months. You spend $600 on food and necessities. Because you need to survive.
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by peonicles 11y ago
Hmm. Can you share what these failure patterns are ?