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by rspeer 8y ago
Having $65K is quite different from having a guaranteed living wage for your entire life plus $65K.
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by rspeer 8y ago
A web-based client is not going to provide adequate persistence on a smartphone.
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by rspeer 8y ago
This is a common refrain of IRC users who don't know what it's like to have real, convenient persistence that works for everyone. Nobody has made persistent IRC channels that are as usable as newer chat products that don't tr
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by rspeer 8y ago
Where the response from me has always been, "No, I wasn't frustrated, I was running. But now I'm frustrated."
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by rspeer 8y ago
Is it generally true that, if the Emperor has to refer to himself by name, he'll use his birth name? The one case I've seen that seems this way is that the first author of this paper on fish genetics [1] is listed as "Akihi
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by rspeer 8y ago
I enjoy claiming that code I write is "ISO 3 compliant" when I pick arbitrary numbers from a limited set of nice arbitrary numbers.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I've seen something that sounds related. In grep, in the en_US.UTF-8 locale, sometimes I can match [A-Z]+ and it will match accented uppercase strings such as "SCHÖN". It will not match lowercase letters. This is often desira
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by rspeer 8y ago
That sounds like a way to end up with social networks made entirely of people who like cryptocurrencies. Sounds awful to me.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I'm glad to know where the crossover point is, and yeah, hearing that it's around 10^15 tells me it's just a few orders of magnitude of improvement away from being a practical machine learning tool.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I use Snakemake [1], a parallel make system for data, designed around pattern-matching rules. The rules are either shell commands or Python 3 code. I settled on it after originally using make, getting frustrated with the crazy work-arounds
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by rspeer 8y ago
It is an option, a terribly obscure one, if you use Twitter's search interface to read your tweets instead of your home timeline. I have this URL bookmarked as "Twitter classic": https://twitter.com/search?f=t
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by rspeer 8y ago
> Exactly. The early internet was full of promises of taking over retail. None of that worked, at first. Instead the internet was useful for messaging and putting up personal websites. All the responsible people at the time kept whining
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by rspeer 8y ago
I didn't ask you to list the usual excuses. You just replied with them out of habit. I asked you why anyone but an anarchist should consider it "revolutionary" to burn crap-tons of electricity so you don't have to trust
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by rspeer 8y ago
Why is it revolutionary? Who really cares that much about not requiring a trusted intermediary, besides anarchists? Our civilized world is built on trust. It was a Bitcoin advocate who said "nothing is cheaper than proof of work&qu
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by rspeer 8y ago
And init systems are, unfortunately, not a common feature of containers so far. I really wouldn't mind seeing both of them in the same project. Both init systems and container systems are concerned with dependencies, logging, and manag
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by rspeer 8y ago
I once started trying to learn about Nix. All the up-to-date documentation I could find, however, was about NixOS. I would like to use Nix just to manage my local development environment on Ubuntu, not to replace my entire operating system.
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by rspeer 8y ago
As with someone else's report about the LA Times: they say they don't, but you don't have to care what they say. I did it this way. I went to their live help chat. The moment I said "cancel", I was redirected to a
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by rspeer 8y ago
It's not like that at all, because it encourages more services for people with disabilities, instead of taking them away. Every site should be more prepared to accommodate people who can't or don't want to talk on the phone
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by rspeer 8y ago
This is implausible. The gag about having a story trail off into badly-written nonsense was used in that dialogue, but clearly doesn't refer to the book as a whole. The last dialogue of GEB is an excellent example of something he'
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by rspeer 8y ago
I guess this just goes to show there's a variety of reasons people enjoy Hofstadter's work. Hofstadter, introducing IAASL, said something like: "I wrote this book because people got so distracted by the form of GEB that they
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by rspeer 8y ago
Wow, I would recommend exactly the opposite. If you wanted a dry statement of Hofstadter's philosophy, you could read I Am A Strange Loop, but GEB is remarkable for its form, including the dialogues.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Why would you plan to fail? You could just use different data from the start that doesn't require you to sign an NDA. It's not like MSR is providing a rare commodity.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The Warp Zone, of course, boots OS/2.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Well. In this case it happens to be a bad thing, because you have to agree to a poisonous NDA to download this data. Providing actual free data would have been great though.
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by rspeer 8y ago
While I find it awful that this particular department of Microsoft is offering "free data" with poisonous terms, I see no reason to believe it has anything to do with GitHub. Microsoft is a big place.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Thanks for the link. This version of the license has the same terms and then several more, including: - If we accidentally gave you people's personal identifying information, it's your job to destroy it - Your license to us is per
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by rspeer 8y ago
They don't make it easy to find out what the Microsoft Research License Agreement is, when they put it behind a login wall on a site that doesn't work with ad-block. But this appears to be a copy of it: http://www.cs.to
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by rspeer 8y ago
If you look at local city politics, it is a huge political issue, but one that's an extremely divisive issue between the left and the left, between "affordable housing" and "affordable housing". This is the NIMBY
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by rspeer 8y ago
On-chain governance? It would be pretty entertaining to see if they actually stick to that, and if whoever wins the high-stakes game of Nomic they've created gets to win it for keeps, unlike The DAO. Of course precedent says they'
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by rspeer 8y ago
I'm not Scott, but spaghetti sort isn't any kind of computational breakthrough, it's just trading off measurement error for computation time. Here's the digital version of spaghetti sort: 1. Enumerate the possible length

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