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by rspeer 8y ago
> Are you talking about someone crediting a webpage without attempting to attach the name of the author? I have never seen this in academic research, ever. Can you link to an example? Let's continue with the Google Ngrams example. A
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by rspeer 8y ago
Crediting a web page in a footnote is almost no credit at all. The web page didn't compile the data. A person did. Sometimes the person is inconveniently pseudonymous, but other times they should be credited by name. I added the Google
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by rspeer 8y ago
It's not that nobody knows how to cite it, it's that nobody wants to cite things from outside of academia, perhaps because it lowers their own perceived prestige. I have seen this in computational linguistics where people freq
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by rspeer 8y ago
I read that page and looked for the reason I don't use Conda (because I already have virtualenvs and I'm not prepared to burn them all down): > Myth #5: conda doesn't work with virtualenv, so it's useless for my workf
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by rspeer 8y ago
What would requirements.txt even _do_ in a library? AFAIK that file isn't even read when packaging, distributing, and installing libraries.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Those industries have stringent regulations on them. When an aircraft has a bug, there is a federal investigation.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The headline is sensationalized -- I understand there's more to the show "American Ninja Warrior" than jogging up three large steps and not tripping over a log -- but the demo video is still pretty cool.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Does that provide the amazing experience AirPod owners talk about? Because it sounds like it provides, y'know, Bluetooth audio, which is usually a terrible UX.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Are Airpods going to work with the Pixel 3? Or will it be the more typical thing with Android accessories, where you have to buy a Google knockoff and never lose it, and then when you do lose it, you have to buy a seriously off-brand thing
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by rspeer 8y ago
I cannot imagine being so enmeshed in the world of targeted advertising that I would care about this analogy.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I believe you are responding to the tongue-in-cheek title, and not to the article (which is about a security hole in Google Meet).
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by rspeer 8y ago
For the sake of the thread, you could read the article or have some awareness of the topic instead of assuming. > “The ads themselves are illegal,” Galen Sherwin, an ACLU lawyer, said. “It’s been established for five decades.”
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by rspeer 8y ago
Programming was a women's job, almost exclusively, until the last half century when it became a hobby and a lucrative profession. Men pushed the women out on both fronts. You are no Grace Hopper, and you are in no position to tell wome
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by rspeer 8y ago
Thank you for saying this. Unfortunately, now you know what HN thinks about gay and trans people having equal rights.
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by rspeer 8y ago
This has somehow turned into your opinion on energy use (yes, it's good that desktop PCs can now decrease their energy use significantly while idle, which was not the case in the 90s). But you made a claim that "this was never the
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by rspeer 8y ago
Of course it was the case. What do you think things like Seti@Home were running on? People who owned computers had so many idle processor cycles that they were desperate to find something to do with them. If 24/7 home computers were ne
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by rspeer 8y ago
But the key difference remains: there aren't many personal computers that we leave plugged in and turned on 24/7 anymore.
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by rspeer 8y ago
> copyright on interpretation is about the same category as copyright on a work of a plumber in my apartment I'm going to guess you're not particularly into Bach, if you're going to make a statement devaluing classical mus
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by rspeer 8y ago
It's not like just anyone can put a video on AllOfBach. That site is entirely the Netherlands Bach Society's project. If you're saying everyone should make their own AllOfBach... the website clearly has taken tons of developm
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by rspeer 8y ago
Pointing out the uncivility in your reply is exactly what dang just did. You should not expect a sentence-by-sentence accounting of where you lost civility points. That's not how it works.
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by rspeer 8y ago
In the comment you're replying to, I said that the quality of any particular spam filter used to matter, and doesn't anymore. In 2006, Google definitely had the best spam filter. Now, instead, it has the harshest consequences to
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by rspeer 8y ago
I check my spam folder out of curiosity once in a while, and there is nothing in there I would miss. Like some of it is "legitimate" but it's still just bulk drivel, nothing that obligates me in particular to read it. Right n
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by rspeer 8y ago
This sounds like satire, but I don't get the joke.
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by rspeer 8y ago
> Email spam has not been a problem since we figured out Bayesian filtering. My understanding is, this is not because Bayesian filtering solved the spam problem forever. It's because Bayesian filtering solved the spam problem for lo
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by rspeer 8y ago
Okay, but don't get the illusion that things like Mastodon currently let you port your identity and your data. Moving from one Mastodon instance to another involves starting over from scratch, just as much as moving from Twitter to M
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by rspeer 8y ago
I mean Jupyter doesn't really do that either, right? You can't edit most function definitions. Only ones that you've defined right there in the notebook, and only because you can run the cell that defines them again, overwrit
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by rspeer 8y ago
Even if you don't personally see the benefit of a platform having a way to stop hate speech and harassment (we can all agree on the value of stopping spam at least), you still have the problem that a platform that allows hate speech
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by rspeer 8y ago
Indeed, I tried to learn how to make a Debian package. A proper one that followed the guidelines (even though I wasn't trying to get it into a repo), not just one that's shoddily converted from another format. The tools are just a
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by rspeer 8y ago
Many of these homeowners, unlike "sovereign citizens", actually appear to have the law on their side. They aren't just making up their own insane interpretation of the legal system. It even sounds like it's more like MER
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by rspeer 8y ago
...if the batch is the thing that doesn't fit in RAM, as opposed to the model.

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