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931.
by pohl 9y ago
If the cow doesn't, why would the fungus?
932.
by pohl 9y ago
Could an internationally-distributed, loosely-affiliated group of people use this to orchestrate tipping an election for some quid pro quo without leaving a paper trail? Asking for a friend.
933.
by pohl 9y ago
The choice of opting out only exists where competition exists. Without a government to keep corporations in check, your ability to opt out would evaporate.
934.
by pohl 9y ago
...we would not have the modular desktop PC and we would not have Linux. There’s probably no way to support that counter-factual. We could easily have ended up with some other open-architecture personal computer and open source operating
935.
by pohl 9y ago
It could be that they are just trying to improve their negotiating position. Even if that's true, I'd wager that it is just the short-term contingency of an investment with a long-term view. I bet they have their eye on the end-
936.
by pohl 9y ago
Math is a tool, too, yet applying mathematical methods is one of the defining characteristics of engineering.
937.
by pohl 9y ago
But, most countries have no trouble organizing that kind of sacrifice. Ouch, that hurts. Kick us while we’re down.
938.
by pohl 9y ago
Type systems are applied mathematics. You can’t get more engineering-y than that.
939.
by pohl 9y ago
There are software engineering methods that are proven to work. Rust’s type system is arguably one of them.
940.
by pohl 9y ago
The ML model might know more about me than I’m willing to admit about myself. I only find some — but not much — comfort in the proposition that it can’t conjure my PII.
941.
by pohl 9y ago
That’s reminiscent of programming safety through best practices.
942.
by pohl 9y ago
To his credit, though, he apparently has his limits — in particular, once he saw damage being done to democracy. That’s more than one can say for others involved.
943.
by pohl 9y ago
The OCEAN model mentioned by the CA exec (Nix) was originally based on factor analysis, not ML. The key criticism of factor analysis is just that one can’t infer causality, but in an application like this no one cares about causation — only
944.
by pohl 9y ago
reason news? I'm guessing he meant "recent news." Perhaps it was auto-incorrected or faulty speech-to-text.
945.
by pohl 9y ago
Which number is it that you’re taking to be arbitrary? I would expect that the product of two non-arbitrary numbers to be non-arbitrary. (Although I think tau might be a small improvement upon pi.)
946.
by pohl 9y ago
Of those many possibilities, Carl Sagan chose the product of pi times the hydrogen spin-flip transition frequency, for use in his novel Contact. In fact, several SETI scientists in Australia had independently arrived at that same target fr
947.
by pohl 9y ago
Do you expect your watch to get new major-version system software upgrades throughout those 5 to 10 years?
948.
by pohl 9y ago
I remember in Contact the signal came through on hydrogen times pi.
949.
by pohl 9y ago
The notion that Reddit is not "mainstream" expired a while ago.
950.
by pohl 9y ago
I don’t have many public repos. My biggest one is just a web app (mostly in Java) that I wrote as part of applying to a job. I used a tiny bit of jquery on the front end and committed the min file to the repo so it would get bundled into th
951.
by pohl 9y ago
Same here. I love music and good sound, but I don't go down the audiophile optimization rabbit-hole – for many reasons, but mostly because one quickly gets to the point of diminishing returns. I was surprised by the HomePod. It'
952.
by pohl 9y ago
It really depends on where you're coming from. I had no difficulties learning Rust, but I already knew Swift pretty well.
953.
by pohl 9y ago
I remember listening to your talk about Xi at RustConf '16, and being amazed at how deeply you've been thinking about text editors. This talk is a nice update on your thoughts. How soon do you think it will be before more product-
954.
by pohl 9y ago
I listened to this last night; it’s great.
955.
by pohl 9y ago
Then it's up to the people to elect different representatives that promise not to do that. It sounds to me as though you have not fully internalized that gerrymandering – and other associated voter suppression tactics – are precisel
956.
Rust 2018(ncameron.org)
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957.
by pohl 9y ago
That was a good retrospective. I've watched so many of Niko's talks I could hear his voice in my head while I was reading. Was the "Libz Blitz" a part of the "Impl Period" work, or was that a separate thing? (I
958.
by pohl 9y ago
It's nice that Rust has a macro facility to make this possible. It reminds me of the delightful way that Google Web Toolkit lightly abused the "native" keyword (which marks FFI methods in Java) to do inline javascript.
959.
by pohl 9y ago
stewed -> stdweb Thanks, autocorrect.
960.
by pohl 9y ago
I think stewed was announced about 8 months ago.

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