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by rwallace 10y ago
> If you are not able to get it via your $JOB, a valid key from MSDN surplus shouldn't be more than $50 if you look around. Then again, the main reason for running Windows instead of Linux is because you want stuff to just work. Onc
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by rwallace 10y ago
> I was expecting much more support here for people wanting to learn to code. I think if you said "my current job is packing bags in the supermarket, I want to learn to program, should I go for it?" there would be plenty of sup
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by rwallace 10y ago
Let's not tolerate the use of "poached" either; it implies (in a "ha ha, only serious") way that people are property, and it's been a long time since there was any excuse for tolerating that idea. The proper wo
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by rwallace 10y ago
I don't think the difference is about the source of the money. It's about whether the returns are, to use terms from machine learning, in exploration versus exploitation. If the point of these expensive weapons systems is to ineff
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by rwallace 10y ago
No, you had something far more dangerous: plausible-sounding false claims that were repeated without any challenge and therefore ended up being believed without question by a far higher percentage of the population. At least with the In
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by rwallace 10y ago
Remember if your backup solution is a USB drive, you actually need at least two USB drives, with at least one of them disconnected from your computer at all times. If you only have one, the virus will encrypt that one along with your comput
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by rwallace 10y ago
But that depends on how it's typically operated. Nobody uses an airliner as a one-person transport, but unfortunately many people use a Prius that way.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Huh, looks like that was very much not what people want to hear. Fine, it's your money and your life, do as you wish.
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by rwallace 10y ago
So let's say you get laid off and you've got a year's worth of savings in the bank. Spending the next six months burning half of that with nothing but memories to show for it is really terrible advice! That stash of money is
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by rwallace 10y ago
Maybe both kinds of comments are being downvoted by those of us who like technical conversations not to be full of people bitching about other people's choice of language. I don't find that strange at all.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Different people have different tastes. Yes, I do find it interesting to walk through unfamiliar buildings in real life, and I'd find it more fun to go through a realistically designed level even if that meant e.g. the pacing was a bit
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by rwallace 10y ago
Is there any actionable advice here for a Windows user? I mean let's say one is using 7zip which defaults to .7z format. Does that correspond to any of the formats discussed in the article? Would it be better to use a different format
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by rwallace 10y ago
The page is down right now, so I can't doublecheck, but did it say twenty Australian dollars for an exotic hardware device? Pre-order, no less? If so, it's as well for you that nobody has taken you up on that. The price needs to b
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by rwallace 10y ago
Then it should be required whenever and to the extent it is possible. And where it is not possible, we should be considerably more skeptical of claims made, because trusting a claim based on a proprietary dataset requires a hefty dollop of
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by rwallace 10y ago
> At fixed quark masses, the CRR of a lattice ensemble generation (in units of petaFLOP-years) scales roughly as the dimensionless number... The formula they give, indicates that the largest QCD calculations to date have taken 7.9e11 pet
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by rwallace 10y ago
Ah! I did indeed miss that implication. Okay, the logic of wanting to test your interview process does hang together, but still... this is at the stage where you are trying to convince the candidate to join your company; requiring them to t
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by rwallace 10y ago
I agree with some of what you say, but: > Standardize your process. If an elite candidate balks, then you've learned something about them: they'd rather your process suck and keep sucking than take any time to help fix it. That
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by rwallace 10y ago
I'm going to say something that not everyone will want to hear, but it needs to be said. Please don't use technical sites for political purposes. According to the title, everyone in Turkey who uses Dropbox just had their accounts
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by rwallace 10y ago
I could say 'gained a little bit on performance' is a wild understatement, because the actual gain is several orders of magnitude, but that in itself would be a wild understatement. It could be taken to suggest that a second of wo
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by rwallace 10y ago
Why? What would be the source of problems?
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by rwallace 10y ago
This is the one part of the article that is counterintuitive: > Worryingly, poor methods still won—albeit more slowly. This was true in even the most punitive version of the model, in which labs received a penalty 100 times the value of
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by rwallace 10y ago
Glad to hear it! That was my first thought on glancing over the figures: 'hmm, I bet they're located in Silicon Valley, they could save money by moving somewhere cheaper'. But if the money is actually going to hiring the best
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by rwallace 10y ago
So do I. Good news, Windows has a feature called sticky keys that makes all the modal keys - shift, alt, ctrl - become modal.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Well okay, but there are more constructive ways to put it than the comment I responded to. How about something like, 'while celebrating Musk's achievements, we shouldn't forget that not everything a great man does is worth em
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by rwallace 10y ago
There are any number of people who are far more toxic to those around them without having accomplished any significant progress in the process, so Elon Musk is a poor choice of target for that criticism.
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by rwallace 10y ago
This is a very good point. Even if you don't want to self-host and you'd rather use a service, having the software available as open source so you can self-host if you so choose, makes it more rational to use the service, because
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by rwallace 10y ago
If you're taking seven hours to build, you have too few computers per programmer. Compiling C++ parallelizes well, and computers are dirt cheap compared to the cost of employing people.
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by rwallace 10y ago
Okay, suppose we grant this at least for the sake of argument. What's your 'watch this space'? What technologies currently in prototype stage do you think have a bright future?
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by rwallace 10y ago
Because that would add little entropy at the cost of much inconvenience, which is the opposite of what you want.
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by rwallace 10y ago
> why is it not being done? There's a lot of companies making IoT stuff, but it's really hard to find any of them making robust systems. The lack of profitability is the only way I can reconcile that. Two reasons. 1. Time to ma

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