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811.
by pgt 9y ago
Hari Seldon's psychohistory brings back fond memories. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
812.
by pgt 9y ago
“There is no modern institution which supports an inability to control concentration as a money provider.” Are you sure about that?
813.
by pgt 9y ago
Siri's amnesia is the biggest painpoint for me. Lack of context and compounding errors when I can't extend an initial sentence makes it entirely unusable. Anything useful requires speaking a longer sentence. Siri will interpret mo
814.
by pgt 9y ago
What's the secret sauce? I tried signing up but it demands a consultation time. Just show me the product, please
815.
by pgt 9y ago
This is essentially signal normalization. Sensor systems operate on a narrow band of inputs using non-linear components (like e.g. diodes). Adding noise is like raising the DC voltage on a signal so that it shifts the signal to within your
816.
by pgt 9y ago
Wow! I awoke early this morning from a bit of a bender last night and have a similar feeling of mania (the positive, productive kind). At first I attributed it to a GABA rebound, but thinking back, a sleep fast has historically injected a s
817.
by pgt 9y ago
Clojure has some conditional threading macros like `some->` and `cond->` that are useful for transforming data conditionally. `cond->` takes pairs of tests and forms where a form is threaded through the subsequent forms if the test
818.
by pgt 9y ago
An ex-Facebook employee told me that to stay productive, developers unfollow everyone and only use Facebook for events - it's too addictive otherwise. My advice was: sell your shares, because developers are canaries for customers.
819.
by pgt 9y ago
Wealth is what you have left when someone takes all your money away.
820.
by pgt 9y ago
Could you link to some footage of a white blood cell taking apart a cancer cell?
821.
by pgt 9y ago
By “recently deceased Eve programming language,” are you referring to witheve.com? Where do you see it has been abandoned? Edit: Ah, found it. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/eve-talk/YFguOGkNr.
822.
by pgt 9y ago
Beat me to it :)
823.
by pgt 9y ago
Seems to be unrelated. GoalKicker is transforming SO data and publishing it under the same Creative Commons BY-SA licence. From the footer of one of the books: The .NET Framework Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Ove
824.
by pgt 9y ago
False positive rate seems pretty key, or the test could be testing for brunettes where 70% of the population is brunette.
825.
by pgt 9y ago
This is smart. Kind of like StatusPage.io, but for your changelogs.
826.
by pgt 9y ago
Vouched for your comment, because human connection - even in chat form - seems to help me. I have also found that as a "computer person" who has to spend a lot of time in front f a screen, I felt far more connected in the 90s IRC
827.
by pgt 9y ago
Great talk. Thank you, @Alex3917. It is incredible to see the pain these individuals go through (sometimes for an hour every two hours - 12 times a day). It is even more impressing how resilient some humans are and the pain they can endure.
828.
by pgt 9y ago
I used your explanation in a longer note, "Spectre: How do side-channel attacks work?"[^1] to try and explain how side-channel attacks work (partly to myself, and partly to non-hackers). [^note]: https://www.facebook.co
829.
by pgt 9y ago
I don't understand this explanation :/ Why is the room considered restricted if you can go inside? Do I know how all books that exist in the library? How does the order of the thrown out books pertain to the secret book?
830.
by pgt 9y ago
Fantastic explanation of cache timing attacks. This morning I was explaining spectre to non-technical people and let me tell you, "leaking L1 CPU cache memory," is a real party starter. So I'm using there librarian example go
831.
by pgt 9y ago
When your node encounters a conflict (a fork), where two signed blocks have the same parent (double spend attempt), it creates a vote referencing the block and broadcasts it to the network. The nodes vote and the weighted majority (>51%)
832.
by pgt 9y ago
As I see it, if you don't vote the wrong president might win. Dirty txes jeopardise the asset value and you could be left with a tyrant in your chain who has even more voting stake. It's self-regulating in that way. But there may
833.
by pgt 9y ago
The RAIblocks whitepaper is worth reading just as a reference on how a technical paper should be written. (Disclosure: I became interested in RAI on NYE and recently invested some money in it) The RAI secret sauce is the "block lattice
834.
by pgt 9y ago
I shall steal the quote, "Rorschach number generators for management" xD
835.
by pgt 9y ago
@rabboRubble, do your parents have a condition a doctor would prescribe opiates for?
836.
by pgt 9y ago
Soundflower can divert audio: https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases/
837.
by pgt 9y ago
Nit: I think you mean "disclosure", not "disclaimer". I don't usually correct this, but to me the poster seems less legitimate saying disclaim when they mean to disclose a conflict of interest.
838.
by pgt 9y ago
Argh, didn't know Goodreads was acquired by Amazon :/ thanks for saying so
839.
by pgt 9y ago
Would be awesome I could easily send it patches and MIDI messages from the browser via websockets to offload some of the heavier synth generation that the Web Audio API can't handle.
840.
by pgt 9y ago
Markdown is a must. I used it on dynamic blog and on my static site, but I paid less attention to my writing when posts were not "live". I believe that Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle concept of minimising the time betwe

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