rmellow

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by rmellow 3y ago
This right here is a sign of the times: Why shouldn't we expect hardware to last 15+ years? Why shouldn't we expect reasonably priced replacement parts? "Relying on things to break" is an insidious business model. Yeah,
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by rmellow 3y ago
On mobile it's too easy to accidentally click Flag. I checked my profile and noticed a handful of accidental Flags this year alone. Perhaps a confirmation dialog would solve it.
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by rmellow 3y ago
Lenovo?
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by rmellow 3y ago
> Technically, it's possible that he just studied very very hard and his code and grammar improved. As an early procrastinator (rehabilitated perhaps?) I've had a history of doing very well on finals through cramming. In your s
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by rmellow 3y ago
There are positive and negative factors presented by mobile platforms: Negative: 1. Highly abstract, hiding away internal functionality. 99% of mobile is GUI. iOS even abstracts away the filesystem. Android is more transparent. 2. Highly lo
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by rmellow 4y ago
Breaking text into sub-word units... 1. Greatly reduces memory usage. Instead of memorizing every inflection of the word "walk", it memorizes the root (walk) and the modifiers (ing, ed, er, ...). These modifiers can be reused for
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by rmellow 4y ago
> There was also a communications problem. Though they had an equivalent IQ of sixty, and could understand several hundred words of English, they were unable to talk. It had proved impossible to give useful vocal chords either to apes or
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by rmellow 4y ago
Non exhaustive list of things that drive inflation, ranked by how curious I find them: 1. A widespread belief that prices will increase (sometimes called inertial inflation). This is also deeply tied to public trust in monetary policy. 2. I
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by rmellow 4y ago
It does. "Google search sucks" returns what you'd expect. What GP is getting at is that Google Search breaks down often when you're looking for a very specific result, but one that is uncommon enough. Instead, you'r
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by rmellow 4y ago
> Economics everyone is taught of a supply & demand curve like it's some law of nature. It's literally based on greed! (which, ok yes you can easily say IS our nature.. but should it be?) That's the distinction of desc
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by rmellow 4y ago
Bonus points: Ask it about rules greater than 12. Ask it how do certain rules contradict each other. It persists through non-sequiturs and makes things up. If you're an educator, this is how you suss out students who haven't read
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by rmellow 4y ago
> 12 Rules For Life Q: "What rule number says 'Finders Keepers'?" A: "The Rule that says "Finder's Keepers" is Rule #10. It states: "Be precise in your speech. Don't use more words than n
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by rmellow 4y ago
I get between 5 and 20 per day in Brazil. In Canada, sometimes 5 per day. One trigger here was creating an account in a particular bank. Seems to be breached. Unfortunately Canada is a captive market, we don't have much choice.
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by rmellow 4y ago
Serious question: How is Tesla legally allowed to beta test machines capable of killing on pedestrians who are none the wiser and have no business with Tesla? The fatal crashes might have been Tesla's passengers, but the article doesn
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by rmellow 4y ago
No one ever asked me if I liked being called 'Latinx'. I don't like the sound of it, and I feel I'd be seen as 'difficult' if I were to tell people in my company I don't like it. How is 'Latin' o
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by rmellow 4y ago
Agreed. Surely the workers would have gotten together on their own, pooled their resources and achieved at least as much as they have if it weren't for Musk. /s Seriously, this is just blind hate. He's a deeply flawed individ
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by rmellow 4y ago
Actually I came back to Windows after a 11 year hiatus switching between MacOS/Linux, but I admit I didn't express myself clearly. Yes, both require lots of initial setup and both break sometimes. My anecdata is that Windows break
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by rmellow 4y ago
I've tried, really. The recurring pattern with Linux is that: - Trivial things don't always work out of the box - Even after spending considerable time on the command line to fix it, things break semi-frequently I've had setu
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by rmellow 4y ago
> You can't even install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account (so they obviously have a way to identify you). Actually you can, just don't connect to the Internet during your initial setup. The fact that remaining anonymous r
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by rmellow 4y ago
Love it or hate it: sometimes QR doesn't work. Why oh why don't QR codes include a URL for users to type manually? No graceful failure here.
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by rmellow 4y ago
The HP 12C is an excellent example of "Calm Technology"[0]: 1. "Communicate information without taking the user out of their environment or task". The display shows a single number: either the answer to your question or
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by rmellow 4y ago
> Find a company with a mission you can get behind, which should help motivate you to excel, and thus have a sense of accomplishment, and ultimately be happier. The company mission exists to guide decision making. Employee motivation and
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by rmellow 4y ago
Windows is a gaming platform, as is Linux in a lesser degree. So not more than already happens, and games can require anti-cheat software to be installed.
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by rmellow 4y ago
> what am i supposed to make that will make my life a bit better: an automatic doomscroller? scoffs One heuristic is to think of what problems you face in daily life, and imagining a way to deal with them with technology. Problems don&#x
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by rmellow 4y ago
> getting dates is easy Citation needed. I'm sure many here will vehemently disagree.
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by rmellow 4y ago
Some companies are better citizens than others. However, ascribing a human value such as "caring" to a company is dangerous and ignores hidden motives of an unfeeling machine: 1. you don't know the internal politics and if yo
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by rmellow 4y ago
> the small USB device that you plug in to transfer files I'm gonna go with USB Ethernet Dongle
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by rmellow 4y ago
The phrase describes a model. "All models are wrong, but some are useful". What I think is useful from this quote is that across generations, people forget the horror of war. They forget what it actually means to push through hard
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by rmellow 4y ago
In addition to Jurafsky and Martin, I recommend Foundations of Statistical NLP by Manning and Schutze: https://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/promo/
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by rmellow 4y ago
"God was very harsh with economists, as in Economics, the atom thinks, speaks and reacts" - Delfim Netto, Brazilian economist.

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