roel_v

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by roel_v 4y ago
You mean everybody should just be an island with low and very dispersed population, with relatively high development levels at the start and high degrees of self sufficiency wrt basic needs? Why, why didn't they all just do that then!
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by roel_v 4y ago
I remember reading 'The C programming language' (in the train, I even remember that) and when pointers really 'clicked' in my mind - it was when I realized that (*struct).member is the same as struct->member (I don&#x
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by roel_v 4y ago
I feel bad for the people where I thought 'this one is too ugly/asymmetrical to be real', and then they turn out to be the real ones...
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by roel_v 4y ago
http://pilimi.org/zlib.html
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by roel_v 4y ago
Yah I know, it's the torrents on that site I was talking about.
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by roel_v 4y ago
No it's not. Well it started out that way, but libgen is 7TB, zlibrary added another 16TB to that, which was not shared in the way libgen is.
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by roel_v 4y ago
"The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors. " Like where? Zlibrary wasn't open for 'official' mirrors in the first place, and the 'unofficial mirror' hasn't had any s
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by roel_v 4y ago
It was actually two now that I look in my bookmarks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6PTviOCYQY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaLTztGGueQ . That first one is about 1 month old and was already about r
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by roel_v 4y ago
Dreambooth extension for automatic1111 just came out. Can be run on CPU even. Haven't tried that extension myself yet, but I have followed a youtube video last week and I trained it using a colab in a few minutes (of training - getting
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by roel_v 4y ago
0 seeders on the few torrents I checked though. I mean, can't blame people for not seeding 350GB+ torrents, but still - if there aren't any seeders, what good are the torrents?
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by roel_v 4y ago
So do I (well, from my father's bees, that is...). But it illustrates exactly what the OP is talking about - this honey comes at low cost or free to us, but for the receiver it represents a much higher value. (prices around here for lo
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by roel_v 4y ago
Is there any work being done on trust-less (or maybe trust web) distributed model training? The main problem today is that training the model is being gatekept (is that a word?) by actors with 100's of k's of $. If there would be
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by roel_v 4y ago
No it doesn't. It rewards people with the social skills to know when it's acceptable to use certain words that aren't acceptable in other contexts. But that's just a part of 'society rewards people with high levels
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by roel_v 4y ago
"You do not need to get a Math minor to get an Economics major." That wasn't the claim. The claim was that it's somehow surprising that economics is math heavy. Yes there are 'policy' or 'international bus
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by roel_v 4y ago
"PhD programs tend to require a hidden curriculum of classes in subjects such as mathematics that are not technically required for economics majors." <record scratch> "subjects such as mathematics that are not technical
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by roel_v 4y ago
I happen to know (quite well) an Iranian who was in a similar position to you before he came to Europe, except he had a lot of IT experience (and a finished degree) before attempting to move to Europe, but it's not working out for him.
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by roel_v 4y ago
What subs?
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by roel_v 4y ago
Your translation doesn't include 'propter'. A more accurate translation is 'with this, therefore because of this'. Which is a pretty intuitive description of the fallacy it describes.
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by roel_v 5y ago
I once (2001) almost bought an Onyx at an auction where the ill-gotten stock (rather, what was left of it) of a con man who had managed to swindle a lot of computer companies out of all sorts of gear was sold. Apparently, this guy had dress
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by roel_v 5y ago
I think (and I usually anger at least some people when I say this) that it's wrong to see R as a 'programming language'. I mean, it looks like one, and it's Turing complete so if you use that as a criterion it is a pro
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by roel_v 5y ago
"trying to validate emails with regex will never work in practice" Of course it does. It just depends on how you define 'validate emails'. Your statement is ambiguous. The Friedl has an entire appendix on a single regex
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by roel_v 5y ago
This was one of my main goals too (having/managing a set of known-good recipes and some way to be reminded of which ones we should come back to), and I tried many digital-only methods, but none stuck. For the past few years my strategy
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by roel_v 5y ago
It's one of the programmer's rite of passage projects - along with todo apps, custom programming languages and text editors.
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by roel_v 5y ago
Are these scaling factors baker's percentages? What is the purpose? I.e. what do you use them for? And if these are specified for all recipes, what do you use as the 100% for recipes that aren't based around flour?
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by roel_v 5y ago
LOL. Simple projects like this are a dime a dozen. There's no money to be made here.
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by roel_v 5y ago
LOL. GF: "Hey, can you come have a look at this shirt I bought?" Parent: "Yeah can you please file a JIRA ticket for that, and appropriately tag its priority? I'll get notifications through my regular workflow channels a
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by roel_v 5y ago
"Not too long ago you'd have a house with a spare bedroom or two or three. " Uh, not too long ago it was absolutely normal for a family of 10 or 14 to share 3 or 4 bedrooms.
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by roel_v 5y ago
Do you mean water, electricity etc? Because in 1919 those were not universal (not sure about how 'common' they were in London, but in much of Western Europe they weren't even that), and heating would have been done through co
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by roel_v 5y ago
But not (or much less so) in 1965, which is when Baumol made his observation.
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by roel_v 5y ago
MMM sells shovels in a goldrush, and got divorced (with relatively young kids) out the blue while selling his white picket fence (albeit a cheap one) lifestyle dream for years. Hardly the one to bring up as an example for a successful FIREe

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