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631.
by petters 8y ago
The reason I am not as strict as you is that sometimes (rarely) apps surprise with useful notifications. Example: streaming apps like Netflix showing a notification while playing to a Chromecast.
632.
by petters 8y ago
Traffic from people's homes and cell phones to Google really isn't a limited audience.
633.
by petters 8y ago
> limited-audience experimental protocol like QUIC That is not true. QUIC is currently used by a large portion of all traffic on the internet. How? Precisely because it uses UDP, which is supported everywhere (and that Google controls bo
634.
by petters 8y ago
I agree this is great and I use it on Android, but it is not a good solution to the spammy notification problem. Apps get one chance. One instance of spam and they are banned from ever notifying again.
635.
by petters 8y ago
I have just written my own parser. Took some work when my bank switched from txt to PDF. Then I match keywords in the strings to categorize the expenses. These days, this would be called AI :) Edit: I use pdftotext, which has a mode that ke
636.
by petters 8y ago
The work of Athanassios Fokas is hardly unnoticed or scoffed at, in general.
637.
by petters 8y ago
Parsing my monthly credit card bill (PDF), categorizing, and displaying statistics.
638.
by petters 8y ago
No, there is hollow fiber for communication. https://gizmodo.com/5992303/hollow-fiber-optic-tunnels-can-b...
639.
by petters 8y ago
Arguments by evolution are a bit problematic for modern-day humans. As gwern writes here: https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin > However, we are not in a natural situation, but a profoundly unnatural one. For children in part
640.
by petters 8y ago
> “To be honest with you, if there were some kind of emergency and one absolutely needed to do it, we could pretty much do it.” I can not understand this comment. How is 438,000 annual deaths not an emergency!? We DO absolutely need to
641.
by petters 8y ago
> If you could do it, would you? I think so. If I were really rich, I would seriously look into this and try to recruit scientists. Hard to say if I would actually do it since I would need to gather information first.
642.
by petters 8y ago
The latter is much harder. It has been done for e.g. Atari games.
643.
by petters 8y ago
> Imagine HN where you are only allowed to publish your own content and random users would be selected to evaluate your work. We should try this!
644.
by petters 8y ago
It's not wrong, but the unit "petaflop/s-day" made me smile.
645.
by petters 8y ago
> we show that n variables cannot be multiplied using fewer than 2^n neurons in a single hidden layer. I don't know, but it just feels like this should have been known in CS earlier than 2016. Circuit complexity has been studied for
646.
by petters 8y ago
Further, they only compared Rowling to three other authors and Rowling ended up second in at least one of the tests. The analysis likely did not prove anything by itself.
647.
by petters 8y ago
Both the Nobel prize and the Oscars are decided by peers in the same field.
648.
by petters 9y ago
Everyone knows it is a joke.
649.
by petters 9y ago
You should check out more code by Norvig then. He has many Python notebooks and, as you say, writes very beautiful code.
650.
by petters 9y ago
It can be rendered to and parsed from text but that is typically not used.
651.
by petters 9y ago
It is an app exclusively for "Finnkino" cinemas. Most people would interpret "movie app"to be something broader than that.
652.
by petters 9y ago
And why the redefinition of NULL? The author of this library is not experienced with C++. Nothing wrong with writing something and sharing it in order to learn, though! Just surprised to see it on the front page.
653.
by petters 9y ago
Surely constructs like scope guards etc. are useful in kernel development as well?
654.
by petters 9y ago
Holmes: You have a Lidar problem. Tesla: But we don't use Lidars! Holmes: That's the problem.
655.
by petters 9y ago
I think I would prefer a dot prefix instead of backticks for keys.
656.
by petters 9y ago
That page is likely not completely serious. They also write that compilers are for losers.
657.
by petters 9y ago
The patch could also modify the Makefile (or similar) to run arbitrary commands when the build is started.
658.
by petters 9y ago
Completely agree. I made a plot with a uniform distribution: https://www.strandmark.net/Planets.html So I am not sure there is anything going on here.
659.
by petters 9y ago
I know I am missing something, but passing -F 49 to perf will tell the kernel to adjust the sampling interval dynamically so approximately 49 events/s are recorded, right? But then how does it make sense to plot the number of events pe
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by petters 9y ago
But the car should still detect (i) That there is an obstacle fast approaching. (ii) That all cars in front of it is doing something else -- time to slow down.

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