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by rvense 6y ago
This is extremely common in social science, for obvious reasons (imagine you're a social scientist and need to find 200 people to answer your questionnaire and you don't have any money...), and I wouldn't be surprised if it h
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by rvense 6y ago
I know paper right now doesn't have a great environmental footprint, but paper does seem like a pretty good way to trick capitalism into planting lots of trees.
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by rvense 6y ago
Eat Mubarak is a pretty good pun. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_Mubarak )
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by rvense 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what this patch addresses? Updating the framebuffer console so it's not horrible on modern framebuffers.
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by rvense 6y ago
> scientists fake the data for grant money This one's the weirdest. If I had climate science credentials and wanted to cash in I'd be shilling for oil companies. Like that old Tom Lehrer joke about a doctor who specialized in d
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by rvense 6y ago
I use an X200, which is the generation before this. It just does what I want for media/web consumption and the light development work I do in my spare time. (I have a more modern Thinkpad for work. I think I'd be able to do the wo
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by rvense 6y ago
> EDIT: Not only that, Remarkable 2.0 and 1.0 are not even 64 bit and still use 32 bit processors in 2020. Completely pointless to use beyond 2038. 32-bit isn't an issue. You reference Y2038, but this is only an issue when you care
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by rvense 6y ago
Agile is a religion. Well-meaning, smart people wrote some good, general guidelines. Somehow it got turned into an industry of people who want money to tell me how I'm living my life wrong.
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by rvense 6y ago
A few years ago, an ST rep told me they were making one million STM32 per day (microcontroller class), and I can only assume that that's increased since then. My impression is that the Cortex-Ms are popular because of the price, the ri
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by rvense 6y ago
> Thus the end-users lose the benefits of proper curation. But Apple are obviously not doing proper curation. They might be good at keeping viruses out, but what they have done to Wordpress and HEY was not proper in the least.
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by rvense 6y ago
About five years ago, a place I was working at was selecting a new laptop for all employees. Mine was up for replacement, so I was interested in what they were picking. They'd arrived at some god-awful Lenovo gamer model. It fit the pe
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by rvense 6y ago
Remember when IBM went on Jeopardy? There was a question about which Egyptian pharaoh. A human with some knowledge of history might mix up Ramses and Seti, or whatever, or just not know the answer, but know that they didn't know. Watso
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by rvense 6y ago
In human language I think physical reality is always a few layers out. Language is social, first and foremost, and naming something is not neutral. We can hardly refer to single objects directly, we mostly do it through their class membersh
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by rvense 6y ago
Interesting, thank you for the clarifications.
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by rvense 6y ago
> many people want to believe that they are being understood Not only that, they also want to understand. I read some computer poetry a few years ago that worked . The computer did not intend any meaning, but I found it anyway. And of c
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by rvense 6y ago
It must not be enough to matter to anyone at Akai; their new MPCs use USB internally to connect the computer to the pads.
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by rvense 6y ago
As of about ten years ago when I received my degree in linguistics, I understood there were two schools on this issue: A: Of course not, let's do something else. B: What? You put text in the maths and stuff comes out.
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by rvense 6y ago
My impression is that the systems never progressed much after SHRDLU even though there were attempts at larger scale "expert systems". But adding more advanced rules and patterns proved extremely difficult and did not always have
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by rvense 6y ago
I think the point about language being a model of reality was interesting. I have an MA in linguistics including some NLP from about a decade ago and was looking at a career in academic NLP. I ultimately left to become a programmer because
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by rvense 6y ago
Exactly. I don't care about the size of the screen. It's my damn computer, I should be allowed to put whatever software I want on it.
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by rvense 6y ago
Developer here. I'd be very happy to take a paycut to work at Mozilla - until yesterday's announcement, that was actually my explicit medium-term career goal. I'd be there for the mission, and I would expect the same for the
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by rvense 6y ago
But the alternative for most Uber drivers is not a stable job in the fields that the post you're replying to mentioned. It's probably coffee shops, fast food, call center work or similar. If your alternative is that, being your ow
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by rvense 6y ago
Doesn't that just mean that Uber's investors are doing badly? I'm assuming most of their (regular) employees are being handsomely compensated.
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by rvense 6y ago
He is trying to make it sound like they are trying to do better. Note the layers there. It's tactics. Doing nothing while sounding like you're trying to do something will maybe be a little more sustainable for Uber than doing noth
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by rvense 6y ago
I'm starting to wonder if titles such as these are actually "clickbait". Maybe we could call them sharebait - they don't encourage reading and speculation as much as social media outrage for or against the overly simplif
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by rvense 6y ago
But why can Postgres not be promoted to the "application level"? If you combine it with a few extra tools like an auth service and an HTTP API adapter, the need for custom backend code is reduced or removed. Your backend is create
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by rvense 6y ago
> for example at the start of a years long app development project, the type system is just in the way. Subjectively, my experience is that writing out the type definitions and signatures of main functions is a great way to start explori
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by rvense 6y ago
Even more crucial is that children learn language in situations of actual language use. The things and situations that are spoken about are often at hand in some way, and there is a large social element. No matter how close you might get to
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by rvense 6y ago
The average life span of the working Englishman decreased significantly during industrialization, and I am sure the same was the case across the pond. It took the better part of a century to clean things up, and I find it quite astounding t
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by rvense 6y ago
I'm not really talking about 20-something software developers in Silicon Valley. There are things that keep people in jobs they don't like.

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