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by querez 5y ago
Like I said in a comment further down below, I think my initial reaction and post were way too harsh (i.e., not constructive and cynical), sorry for that. It's great that you're taking the initiative and trying to build something,
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by querez 5y ago
Just old enough to have seen how weird and political official announcements can get, and how important it is to nail communication if you're in the limelight.
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by querez 5y ago
I disagree. A typical announcement says WHO does WHAT and HOW, maybe even WHY in succinct, clear language. However, this post grinds my gears in all the wrong ways. The proper way to do what that guy set out to do would've been to writ
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by querez 5y ago
This is a very confusing announcement of..... what exactly? A github repo hosting the blog that the announcement was posted on! There isn't anything of substance here, as far as I can tell. While the whole thing "looks" offic
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by querez 5y ago
> There's a $200,000 bounty paid out every ten minutes for solutions to a well-known SAT problem. I'm not sure I follow -- do you mean there is a challenge open somewhere which pays 200k$?
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by querez 5y ago
I'm curious, because I sometimes worry of stepping into this trap, as well: what kind of error cascades?
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by querez 5y ago
I'm sorry, but this feels like conspiracy-theory peddling and FUD. What the linked site calls "evidence", is are at best "hints" or "possible signs". No evidence anywhere. Instead, you have wildly weird t
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by querez 5y ago
What's the source for that number?
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by querez 5y ago
As someone not in the know: what's the important change that Bumble introduced? Also: is it that successful? I was under the impression that tinder is still the leader in that market.
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by querez 5y ago
I've tried googling for Samuel Rotrosen, but came up with almost nothing. If I had to guess, then someone payed (a lot of) money to scrub this name off the internet. It's pretty creepy, but also impressive what you can do if you&#
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by querez 5y ago
You can make a very decent living on an SWE salary in Germany, and still get to live in a social democracy with a stronger emphasis on "social" than the US (i.e., very solid public services like transportation, education or health
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by querez 5y ago
Depends on your notion of "properly". IMO "ask for forgiveness instead of permission" is not an acceptable way to experiment on people. The "proper" way to do this would've been to request permission from
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by querez 5y ago
isn't what you're arguing for essentially to make Rustls (or at least its API) part of a Rust standard library, so that everyone's forced (or very highly encouraged) to use it instead of alternatives?
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by querez 6y ago
what about non-western news such as Al Jazeera, do you trust those? Or what about Asian news? E.g., what's your opinion on this: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/4/7/what-do-russians... ?
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by querez 6y ago
wxWidgets wraps GTK on Linux (see also https://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/faq/gtk/ ).
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by querez 6y ago
It would be great if you could link to some sources for your claims.
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by querez 6y ago
Everyone is praising how well written this is, but I personally am confused: what do you actually GAIN by running a docker container without docker? Is it faster, or more secure? Why?
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by querez 6y ago
> choose other things to spend time on. What are things you'd have wished to spend time on instead?
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by querez 6y ago
I'd love to see a source / more information about your claim regarding kids of age 4.
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by querez 6y ago
Depends: given that one can easily google his name and find out about this, it's a bit unlikely he'll be appointed to such a prominent position again. But in general, a prison sentence would not be the end of your career here in t
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by querez 6y ago
Pro (Arguments for learning C++): * It will massively increase your marketability: C++ is one of the most popular languages around, and it will stay this way for at least 10-20 years. Most desktop programs are still written in it, most AAA
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by querez 6y ago
Why should that do when you can do better? Why stop there? That would be like saying "post everything programming related on r/programming, that'll do. Let's ignore that there are more focused venues for my content"
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by querez 6y ago
> That framing is based on a false premise that we have to choose between “old tracking” and “new tracking.” It’s not either-or. Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of
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by querez 6y ago
I strongly disagree. Without a shadow of a doubt, the most successful/important AI model of recent times is the Transformer (from Brain). As another example, the fastest accelerators, TPUs, are from Brain. If you only look at "amo
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by querez 6y ago
I'm a researcher, doing lots of numerical work both professionally and in hobby projects. While Julia has a lot of technical merits, there are just some superficial, syntax-level design decisions that strongly rub me the wrong way: 1-b
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by querez 6y ago
Arguably openAI is one of the most closed industry AI labs (among those that are still participating in the research community), on par only with deep mind (though deepmind at least publishes way more). Funnily enough, FAIR and Google Brain
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by querez 6y ago
you're missing Threema
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by querez 6y ago
There is a mechanism that works very well and reliably. It involves manually copying an exported backup from the old phone to the new one, and entering a 16 digit (IIRC) passcode. Wheter you consider that easy or not depends on you. For me
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by querez 6y ago
I have to strongly disagree. To me it feels like a very luke-warm copy of Deus Ex, where your choices don't matter and all dialogs are written for 14 year olds. Since I'm playing on a PC, I also don't suffer from actual bugs,
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by querez 6y ago
> One of the issues is also just academia being so hyper-focused on thinking everyone is there to become an academic which is not the case for the vast majority of people I'm not sure I follow why this is bad. I think academic rigor

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