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by rybosome 11y ago
> But then that makes me wonder, you know what... how many humans can actually follow everything I'm actually saying? It's not like I can peer into their heads and verify the transcription of voice-to-words inscribed on their b
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by rybosome 11y ago
http://bazel.io I've never used the open-source variant, but caching of intermediate targets allowing for speedy incremental builds is a big theme.
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by rybosome 11y ago
Being of the opinion that climate change has the potential to become an existential threat to humanity in spite of the fact that we are still debating whether or not it exists, I feel that it's appropriate to raise the issue in most co
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by rybosome 11y ago
Years ago, I met a French woman who had decided to take up residence in Berlin. She told me that the city's unofficial motto was "poor but sexy".
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by rybosome 11y ago
I have this debate with my parents from time to time. They're big readers of James Kunstler, who seems to advocate for reverting to a primarily agrarian society as the only sensible and correct response to the impending climate crisis.
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by rybosome 11y ago
The primary danger would be that you add sensitive information, forgetting that the account is weakly protected. I've found that having a password manager compels me to have a strong password for every single site. Not having to rememb
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by rybosome 11y ago
Is your concern that there are an unnecessarily large number of references to political candidates, or that there are references at all? While I am tired of the constant jockeying for position and tribalism of politics, I also wonder what w
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by rybosome 11y ago
Any plans to support the other public cloud providers?
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by rybosome 11y ago
Not sure where in Switzerland you are, but Google has a pretty big engineering office in Zurich. :-) But yes, good point. This may not apply in your case. I wish you luck...the search for motivation and purpose is fundamental to identity.
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by rybosome 11y ago
You should host user content (specifically JavaScript files) on a separate domain though, otherwise you put user cookies at risk.
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by rybosome 11y ago
> I realised that the only thing that motivates me in software engineering is learning new things and trying new fancy toys, not building something working and useful I used to feel this way as well, but at some point things changed for
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by rybosome 11y ago
Hear, hear. The fossil-fuel industry fought long and hard to sow doubt that ambient lead levels in the atmosphere were increasing due to the burning of leaded gasoline. Losing on that point, they then attempted to prove that low levels of l
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by rybosome 11y ago
When speaking with people who do not agree with me on the correctness or urgency of global warming, this is the argument I traditionally make: let's examine the worst-case scenarios. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the scie
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by rybosome 11y ago
Regardless of one's stance on global warming and whether or not humans contribute to it, I would hope that we can all agree on the necessity of environmental stewardship. It's deplorable that many bodies of water cannot be swam in
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by rybosome 11y ago
One of the most challenging projects I've worked on was building a Drupal 7 site. I was fresh out of college and had absolutely no Drupal experience. In retrospect, I am confident that there were likely easier ways to do many of the th
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by rybosome 11y ago
Prior to recreational legalization in Washington, it was extremely easy to get it medically; there were a plethora of doctors that specialized in offering prescriptions with the barest pretense of actual need. After the law passed allowing
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by rybosome 11y ago
> ...but despite our best efforts it cannot be detected... Keep in mind that virtually every way we have of detecting things involves electromagnetism. If there were to be some form of matter that does not interact with the electromagnet
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by rybosome 11y ago
Do you have a source for the claim of lower efficiency? My understanding was that the Karnot efficiency of internal combustion engines was so low (like 15%) that it was not difficult for electric cars to beat them.
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by rybosome 11y ago
We call those "heisenbugs" - one of the most terrifying and maddening things you can encounter prior to a launch. I'm almost positive that I remember reading a sort from a game dev who ran into one of these right before a rel
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by rybosome 11y ago
How will success be measured in YCR? Given that you mentioned decades-long efforts being acceptable, how will you differentiate between fruitful and fruitless research? Finally, are there any technologies you're particularly interested
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by rybosome 11y ago
> I really wish we could have the ubiquitous "care for others" mentality alongside the "be yourself" mentality Agreed. I'm not even sure if it's possible for those to coexist, but it's wonderful to imag
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by rybosome 11y ago
There was at least one notable incident of a for-profit detention center outright bribing judges to impose harsher sentences: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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by rybosome 11y ago
This deeply concerns me. There's some debate as to the future efficacy of this tactic, but it is possible to imagine a scenario in which Apple is successful at moving content into its private service. The obvious downside of this is th
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by rybosome 11y ago
Jeremy Howard[0] gave a TED talk[1] in which he predicted that this would be a short-term trend, where labelling data for AI will be an easy way to get a job for a few years. He predicts that this will drop off as enough labelled data is pr
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by rybosome 11y ago
It sounds like the point you're making is that Japan's brutality towards Korea justifies the bombings. Without arguing whether or not the bombing was justified, surely we can feel empathy for the HUMAN BEINGS injured or killed, pa
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by rybosome 11y ago
Maybe DOS allowed one to to statically link OS-provided libraries? I have no clue, this was way before my time.
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by rybosome 11y ago
That's not necessarily true; some leaps are so obvious that it was only a matter of time before someone got to them, but there are critical jumps which are not so simple. If Newton hadn't invented Calculus, it's impossible to
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by rybosome 11y ago
That assumes that civilizations derive power by encasing their host star in a Dyson sphere, which is not a foregone conclusion; that prediction was based on our current understanding if technology. Think of Huygens who imagined that Venusia
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by rybosome 11y ago
> We have sensitive telescopes. If there was life out there, we would have noticed. I'm sorry, but that's way off. Our current telescopes can't even see the majority of the exoplanets in our galaxy; we are made aware of th
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by rybosome 11y ago
Here's another scenario: they could have colonized other worlds, but had no interest in setting foot on every last planet. Perhaps their culture is insular, and they are either apathetic to (or forbidden from) contacting us. It's

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