romaniv

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by romaniv 7y ago
>Menu diving on a 20x2 char display is no fun at all. I own Elektron Analog 4 and it's extremely fun to use and make quick loops. You may need to organize your sounds a bit at first, but when you have a reasonable "palette&qu
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by romaniv 7y ago
Some of the most drastic simplifications I've made to real-life code in the recent years were achieved by splitting a "classic" program into multiple independent agents. Making things "parallel" wasn't even the
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by romaniv 7y ago
>CPU speed isn't relevant anymore Only because most software is conceptually stuck in the 50s and Intel fell asleep at the wheel. Having extra cores can allow you to move away from cludgy and insanely complicated solutions to much
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by romaniv 7y ago
>Perhaps the future is: you buy an old laptop with specs like today and then you buy one additional piece of hardware (TPU, ASIC, Graphics for gaming etc). If Google has its way, the future will be: you buy a Chromebook and do all the
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by romaniv 8y ago
Honestly, I'm not even sure what modern website are doing when they generate pages. I've had highly dynamic PHP/MySQL websites running on crap hardware, and it was trivial to attain .03 second page generation time. Didn'
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by romaniv 8y ago
>The usefulness of a consensus protocol is that no one party can be trusted to have the most up-to-date AND valid blockchain. Consensus protocols do not require mining. You can simply poll X random nodes and compare what they tell you.
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by romaniv 8y ago
>Because it finally provides a mechanism by which bad actors on a network could face repercussions for their activity. Would this require globally broadcasting all transaction? If yes, wouldn't globally broadcasting all transactio
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by romaniv 8y ago
I'm curious about this as well. No one seem to be talking about specific attacks mitigated by blockchains as opposed to authorities signing current state. The definition implies that if someone says "I'm on block 1000" t
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by romaniv 8y ago
>Honestly I think it might be time to phase out teaching imperative and object-oriented programming. I have seen plenty of universities teach Java and C++, haven't seen any that teach actual OOP. James Coplien aptly calls the curr
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by romaniv 8y ago
> The "complex systemic issue" here is that Azure is only now rolling out availability zones, Availability zones are a mitigation . The issues is the sequence of events and dependencies described in the postmortem. The descr
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by romaniv 8y ago
When society expects systems to work 100% of the time and they work 98% of the time the end result is often worse than if society expected 95% success from a system that has exactly that reliability. Why? No mitigations/redundancy&#x2F
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by romaniv 8y ago
>when outages occur, they tend to get fixed a lot faster because the complaint volume is much higher. On the other hand, they can be much harder to fix, because the sheer scale of failures and complexity of the infrastructure. There is
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by romaniv 8y ago
> On other hand, they have more experience handling failure than 99% of companies so I think 99% companies are better off with Azure/AWS/AliBaba. Nowhere near 99%. Running a large service on top of Azure or AWS is not a walk
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by romaniv 8y ago
At the end of the day, Azure and AWS are monocultures with considerable amount of centralization and interdependency within their services. Their scale undermines the original purpose behind the Internet. It bothers me that increasing numbe
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by romaniv 8y ago
This is different, because relativity can actually be observed directly. Different interpretations of QM cannot.
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by romaniv 8y ago
>But the problem is the design and not the philosophy. If the philosophy prescribes dozens of tools for managing complexity and no tools at all for reducing it than it is the problem. "Abstractions, decoupling, and modularizatio
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by romaniv 8y ago
A lot of reasons search space is nearly impossible to disrupt now has to do with accidental complexity, and Google had a hand in forming many standards and trends that proliferated it.
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by romaniv 8y ago
The problem with DNS is that it mixes a lot of almost unrelated problems together. Here are some things domain names solve: 1. Aliasing/abstraction of IP addresses. Being able to change physical location or server of a service without
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by romaniv 8y ago
>My own commentary is that I'm not sure if there is an answer that's any better than beating on domain names until they work as well as possible. GUId per domain. No hierarchy. Peer-to-peer sharing. Cryptographically signed u
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by romaniv 8y ago
>"Some URLs are good for sharing, others aren't." This is one of the things that definitely can be improved on. Having something either in the URL or in page metadata to say "this is linkable". This doesn'
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by romaniv 8y ago
I've seen a lot of this in business space and it is ridiculous. Business users should be trained/expected to know how to properly use browsers similarly how they are trained/expected to know how to use Word and Excel. This in
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by romaniv 8y ago
>I fear it would turn out equivalent. I doubt it. Smalltalk had coherent design that anticipated many needs that the web faces today (and computers in general). What we get in ad-hoc piecemeal additions would be an organic part of the
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by romaniv 8y ago
I wonder when we will get to the point where computers (end-user computers) learn using ML techniques. Will we ever? Will it ever become accessible to non-developers?
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by romaniv 8y ago
There exists a rather extensive free orchestral library for Korg Kronos. http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=88665 The post says it is spliced from Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra samples and Free
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by romaniv 8y ago
IMO, most commonplace programs can make do with a non-blocking list of last X events. Producers add to the end of the list. Consumers have references to beginning of the list, which are advanced when events are processed. When all reference
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A Commonsense Approach to Story Understanding (2016) [pdf](groups.csail.mit.edu)
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by romaniv 8y ago
I've experimented with a similar approach before. I like the idea, but does it really necessitate a framework?
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by romaniv 8y ago
> NLP (or specifically NLP using deep learning) seems to be having a breakout moment in the last year or so where there have been large advancements back to back. I don't know about that. Everything with deep learning seems to att
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by romaniv 8y ago
I disagree. We have dictionaries, URLs, Wikipedia categories and concept taxonomies. There is a lot of structured data. It's just that "external" structures don't seem to be all that useful when analyzing internal struct
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by romaniv 8y ago
I bet this would be #1 comment if something in the process used neural networks and if it wasn't from Wolfram. Anyway, pretty cool generator.

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