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by rspeer 8y ago
I found this: https://mastersofscale.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/13-the... You can also see a piece of the game on Slack's 404 page! http://slack.com/404
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by rspeer 8y ago
How do you figure? I'm a YIMBY and I think that AirBNB should absolutely be regulated. Regulating it properly will ease the insane price pressure at least a bit, and failing to regulate it just feeds into NIMBY arguments. I'm a YI
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by rspeer 8y ago
> Companies that are "alive" don't pivot. They can pivot into being a company that is alive, though. Remember that Slack was a pivot from an online game.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Looking for offers doesn't mean you're guaranteed to leave.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I didn't say they did. My claim is that Apple deprecating OpenCL is a straightforward and uninteresting thing; it's a company that has no influence on GPU computing getting out of the business of a technology that also has no infl
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by rspeer 8y ago
Most of the field of machine learning is irreproducible right now because you can't not use CUDA, but you can't promise that it will work the same on anyone else's computer, or that it will work six months from now.
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by rspeer 8y ago
Not sure what you're saying is changing on the server -- people are going to go from not using OpenCL to not using Metal. Everything is CUDA. Everything depends on the shitty unstable software designed by a hardware company (Nvidia). T
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by rspeer 8y ago
The founder of Open Philanthropy claims to have sought out the most effective uses of charity money in the entire world, and it happens to include paying his roommate and brother-in-law to think about AI. The big problem with this decision
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by rspeer 8y ago
They already overcome the limited supply of coins by forking Bitcoin.
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by rspeer 8y ago
What a great idea. All you'd need is a centralized world government to enforce it, and then you can have a responsible, decentralized currency! Wait.
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by rspeer 8y ago
How about environmentalism?
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by rspeer 8y ago
> Right, but LFS can't be used in asymmetric cases at all - it assumes anyone with access to the git repository has access to the LFS storage area. Wait, really? I thought that Git LFS let people with push access push files to the L
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by rspeer 8y ago
My experience with git-annex is that it seems heavily designed for individuals and not for projects. The places it looks for files are often just a computer you were once developing on, and it sometimes expects you to go find that computer.
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by rspeer 8y ago
This is built on UTF-8 described as a state machine. The state machine already rejects overlong sequences. There is no sense of "validator" in which an expression that accepts overlong sequences could be called a UTF-8 validator.
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by rspeer 8y ago
The input is much more complex. Also, if you recognize a word wrong, nobody dies.
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by rspeer 8y ago
And Python 2 has run for 18, if we're counting by major versions. Heck, as long as you're okay with little changes like booleans not looking like integers anymore, you can run your Python 1 code 24 years later. But imagine if Pyth
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by rspeer 8y ago
Cobol, Fortran 77, ANSI C and stuff like that lasted a long time -- but they didn't have batteries-included standard libraries, and there was no expectation that they would be maintained against things such as security threats. That ju
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by rspeer 8y ago
Python 2.7 has been stable and supported for almost 8 years -- how much more long term do you want? Even releases of Java only seem to get about 6 years of support.
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by rspeer 8y ago
She says on the Francine README that she used to have a few hand-coded SVG shapes, but then realized she could do without them. If you allow exporting from a graphics editor, a <table> where each cell is a pixel is "pure HTML&quo
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by rspeer 8y ago
I understand your desire, but do you think the stupid stuff is going to stop happening in customer environments with Docker? Are you still upgrading from a known state when you don't know how long it's been since they upgraded Doc
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by rspeer 8y ago
Hmm, okay. It seems to just use Python's unicode escape syntax, instead of what the standard says. But the package does support things like the complex character classes, and identifying word boundaries. (The algorithm for identifying
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by rspeer 8y ago
"Nothing is cheaper than proof of work" is a ludicrously overstated claim from an overstated article. Proof of work is as expensive as it can feasibly be. When you say "nothing is cheaper than proof of work", it means yo
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by rspeer 8y ago
If you want to work with these in Python, use the "regex" package. [1] Not to be confused with the "re" module in the standard library. Also, maybe there should be a (2016) or even a (2004) in the title! (2016 is when th
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by rspeer 8y ago
Even though every nearly every enterprise runs on medium data, and can't admit it because that would make them seem inferior to their competitors, who they think have big data.
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by rspeer 8y ago
I recently wrote about the use of JSON-LD in ConceptNet: http://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2018/conceptnet-and-json-ld/ Seeing some knee-jerk negativity in other replies, I should emphasize: nobody is under any
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by rspeer 8y ago
Because XML is a much worse match for everyone's data model than JSON is. Data structures aren't marked-up text. And that one time that XML was supposed to be used for marked-up text (XHTML), it wasn't even good at that eithe
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by rspeer 8y ago
You must have misunderstood something. JSON is a data format. JSON-LD is a use of that data format. Your complaint is as if you looked at the Sublime Text configuration file, which is in JSON, and said "I liked JSON better when you did
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by rspeer 8y ago
They're just modernizing the idea of a GIF. The GIF format was used long after it should have been obsolete, because despite its limitations, it had the key advantage of providing simple, silent animations that autoplay. Now a lot of &
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by rspeer 8y ago
It should be reversible, sure. Just let me know when you find a standardized, correct, one-to-one mapping between JIS codepoints and Unicode codepoints. Also make sure it hasn't changed in the lifetime of the oldest software that any
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by rspeer 8y ago
There's strong social pressure to maintain your career and pour many hours into it in the US, too. That doesn't have very much to do with whether there are enough places to live. If the places where the careers are have fewer avai

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