resu_nimda

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by resu_nimda 6y ago
He's saying that, if you have explicitly defined a max and min such that max < min, it is not graceful for the computer to produce a result as though those values were swapped. In other words, garbage in should produce garbage out.
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It's kind of like how you can read a post on the internet that mentions two economists and draw any kind of conclusions about the work they've done without even taking a cursory look at it.
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
The nudge is unavoidable. Every store in the world has to choose what people see when they first walk in, and what goes in the back corner. Besides, how does your proposal not amount to a nudge?
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I don't play games anymore and I'm not a big fan of the whole microtransactions/F2P model, but I found that video somewhat uncompelling. Not that long ago, the MMO standard was $15 a month* (plus the initial $50+). Not to unl
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I was one of those people. In high school I inwardly scoffed at people working in "construction," without really any understanding of what it involved. More recently I've taken a huge interest in it; last fall I built a 20&#x
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Throwing my hat into the ring here as well: https://james.js.org/tiles/ The basic mode is a matrix of identical tiles spinning at different rates, creating complex organic motion out of a simple concept. There are two
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It seems to me that anything trained on internet data is kinda doomed to poison itself on the high ratio of garbage floating around here? That same sentiment could be equally applied to humans, and not just in the internet era, but throug
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I think platform owners should have the right to decide what content they want and don't want on their platform, and I would say that not blocking can definitely amount to endorsing depending on the situation. When Reddit was under fir
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
The conference was not just for Apple employees but anyone developing within the Apple ecosystem. According to a Quora post [1], the guy worked for a security firm contracted by Sun. I’m not aware of any follow-ups with him though. [1] htt
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
My favorite Jobs masterclass is his talk at Apple's developer conference in 1997 [1]. He had just returned to the company, and a lot of people were unhappy with him and/or Apple at the time. He decided to do an hour long off-the-c
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
The other day I was thinking about whether acceptance of transgender people should or would extend to trans-race people. I considered the concept of "trans-age" as well. If some things we previously considered to be biologically d
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Stenographers need to optimise for input speed, almost everyone else doesn’t have that requirement. Right, max WPM isn't necessarily everything (though it's a pretty good proxy for overall effectiveness of the tool), what's
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Keyboard layouts are incredibly fascinating. For the amount of typing that is done today it feels like we are collectively still in the Dark Ages of textual input. A while ago on HN there was link to a talk from a stenographer (the people
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I did go back and read the rest of it, and I do agree that it's pretty good overall. For someone going into detail about the mistaken capitalization of a variable name (which I appreciated), the "one day" bit still stands out
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Starting the article off with "I did this in one day" - complete with a massive footnote disclaiming that it obviously took a lot more than one day - kinda ruined it for me. Why even bother with that totally unnecessary claim?
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
The kids have a "new tool" every week because the "old tool" from last week has some problem. That's hardly a sign of "just fine". The old tool(s) will actually still work just fine, and plenty of people
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
You could have a similar experience with virtually any other language/platform. “Someone who doesn’t know anything about C had a lot of trouble running some arbitrary C code they downloaded” wouldn’t raise a single eyebrow. Turns out y
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
"Flowers" is one of the most ad-heavy queries out there. When I worked at Yahoo it was commonly used as the example to show or test some ad displays. Even on Google now you see only ad content above the fold.
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
For my money, Star Wars Galaxies is the gold standard here, imo that game was far ahead of its time, and we will start to see more games like that in the future (I honestly feel like WoW set the genre back by 10-20 years). It was the perfec
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Can you provide some examples of this? What types of information are you looking for? Personally I have not found this to be the case, for example I have effortlessly gained tons of information from instructional videos on YouTube that woul
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
How did you minimize roundtrips between server and DB, or did you find that they were not a big concern? I'm working on a project with a Postgres database, and as it gets more complex I'm moving more stuff into stored procedures,
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
The first time I accidentally typed "select 8 from users..." and, instead of an error, it returned a column called "8" with a bunch of rows with the value "8", my mind was blown.
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I do agree that things are getting better, but still: - In 2011, 45% of pregnancies in the US were unintended (as you note this is down from 54% in 2008, though it generally hovers around 50%) [1] - About half of the unintended pregnancies
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Yeah that's interesting, I called it a hot take because a lot of people get up in arms when you talk about sterilization, yet the pill does has widespread acceptance, though of course it is somewhat different and has a number of drawba
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I think it's two sides of the same coin - what was the cause of the breakdown? Either way, we're at a point where a lot of people are having kinds that they hadn't really planned for, or might not have wanted, or can't a
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It seems like a lot of people get married and have kids just because it's the thing people do. Which I guess you can't really fault them for, but it is the root of a lot of society's problems as you say. I think it's gre
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
2) If you are studying a technical field, even if you are average, a degree has greater ROI than just about anything else. You can pay off your debt in the first few years out of school and continue earning dividends for the rest of your l
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by resu_nimda 7y ago
I think it would be better to think about the economy in terms of actual resources and human capital rather than stock market figures, the former isn't vanishing into thin air. Agreed. This is why I don't get all the doom and gl
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by resu_nimda 7y ago
This triggered memories of fishing for Coelacanths in the original Gamecube Animal Crossing. Twas an amazing game, and sounds like it still is.
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by resu_nimda 7y ago
Major extinction events have historically paved the way for new and interesting forms of life, including humans.

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