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by rl3 7y ago
Cloud Atlas at least had an amazing [extended] trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s
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by rl3 7y ago
> I don't understand how the answer to that question can be anything other than "fuck yes, if you want to", though. Sure, but it probably makes sense to first have a reasonable, flexible, non-draconian invention assignmen
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by rl3 7y ago
I don't have a custom decrapification script because my reinstall frequency isn't high enough to warrant the effort of maintaining one, especially when you consider the rate at which Windows 10 behavior is changing these days. A G
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by rl3 7y ago
> ... and it seems saying "I can catch up in a few weeks/months" doesn't cut it anymore these days. Being 50 years old doesn't help much either probably. A lot of companies have job postings that have wording to
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by rl3 7y ago
> However, if you could find a position TEACHING at a bootcamp that would be better. I disagree. From what I've seen of bootcamp instructor postings over the years, they usually pay terrible, and OP said they're already pullin
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by rl3 7y ago
> ... but for the sizes that a typical consumer would think of (250gb-2tb), it still isn't available outside of a simple cache drive. The 900P and 905P series are Optane devices targeted towards prosumers presumably; they offer 280
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by rl3 7y ago
> Here's hoping this spurs Amazon to bring back a large format e-ink reader. Ideally with color support. Color does so much for learning, whether it's syntax-highlighted code samples or microbiology explanations.
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by rl3 7y ago
After having three concussions in the past two years, one just recently—I've taken a keen interest in learning as much as I can about mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Impairment of glial-lymphatic function is thought to play a role
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by rl3 7y ago
I can't say the same, but conversely if I have poor quality sleep characterized by too much dreaming, the next day I'll wake up with a feeling that's best described as a light burning sensation in my head. It's not painf
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by rl3 7y ago
> ... so library-writers will have to basically start from scratch if this AMD cluster is confirmed. I doubt library writers will care beyond anyone involved in the project. That said, it's possible to port CUDA code already with a
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by rl3 7y ago
Well, that's terrifying. Here's a 2017 article on the history of it: https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/07/28/when-babies-fel...
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by rl3 7y ago
To gp's credit, their bio at least lists "Rants and over-reactions."
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by rl3 7y ago
The funny part about the Quantity strategy is that it eventually turns into such an unmotivated and directionless bureaucratic hellhole that often those same companies create teams or even startup-like subsidiaries following the Quality
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by rl3 7y ago
Ageism has always baffled me. In my pre-funding pursuits, I've always dreamed of hiring a team composed of top-tier talent. That typically means people who have been in their respective industry 20+ years. I'm in my early thirties
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by rl3 7y ago
My belief is that every company listed there, plus quite a few more, can be wholesale replaced by a single generalized platform that distills and incorporates patterns from each. Probably something more in the idealized spirit of what the i
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by rl3 7y ago
> Could you imagine the other way around? Many of us don't have to.
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by rl3 7y ago
> And serialization seems to be far less costly than most people think. In the apps that I have written that make use of a off-main-thread architecture, structured clone has not been my bottle-neck. If you're working within a rende
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by rl3 7y ago
I do understand, was just mobile and in a hurry so I failed to fully qualify the statement. What I was saying is if you're in the WASM toolchain/ecosystem, something like pthreads would already be implemented by Emscripten[0]. In
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by rl3 7y ago
> Can someone explain why the ES standard doesn't have something like this: new Worker(function(params) { ... compute heavy stuff here ... }); In 2015 I worked on a framework that functioned like this as a personal
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A Missed Alzheimer’s Opportunity? Not So Much(blogs.sciencemag.org)
3 points by rl3 7y ago|1 comments
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What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong(newyorker.com)
4 points by rl3 7y ago|0 comments
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by rl3 7y ago
Being in a similar boat to OP at almost the same age, I have to admit that thinking about such facts from time to time can be sobering. "Didn't want that million dollars of potential income anyways." , as you struggle to get
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by rl3 7y ago
> Why is China so likely to bug the phone but the NSA isn't? Nowhere did I touch on the probability of the NSA bugging anything. Nor did I state it was likely that the Chinese would have placed a backdoor in the Nexus 6P. On the co
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by rl3 7y ago
I'd love to see a forensic level reverse engineering/technical audit of the Nexus 6P hardware. In reality Chinese intelligence likely wasn't stupid enough to try anything there, but I often wonder how many eyes Google had on
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by rl3 7y ago
I fail to see how real emotion let alone consciousness would be emergent properties here. At best, you're training a tool AI to emulate humans, including their emotional response. Thus, the origin of emotion would not be endogenous. &q
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by rl3 7y ago
I'd say only go with NV GPU on Linux if you really need CUDA. Otherwise it's just pain, at least if you plan on using Wayland.
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U.S. Embassy Staff to Leave Iraq as Iran Tensions Mount(wsj.com)
2 points by rl3 7y ago|0 comments
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by rl3 7y ago
You're actually trying to argue that the Apollo program was not meaningful? Let alone all exploration that doesn't result in immediate colonization?
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by rl3 7y ago
Per your link: > "Although no evidence of the veracity of Witkowski’s statements has been produced, they reached a wider audience when they were retold by British author Nick Cook, who added his own views to Witkowski’s statements i
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by rl3 7y ago
> If this existed during WW2 it means it started development way before that. The implications that such level of technological advancement was available at that time, and is still under active funding and development today doesn't

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