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by s_kilk 9y ago
Sliders take up more space for the same "travel" though.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Humans are the cheapest machines.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Hmm, both Biohazard and Radiation symbols were chosen because they look (at least somewhat) ugly and dangerous even to the unfamiliar.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It's the logic of Late Capitalism: all problems and failings are those of the individual, never of the system.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Am I the only one that feels this way? Nope. I really want to like Firefox but its performance is just so much worse across the board than Chrome. Another example is video playback: Firefox, when viewing video, heats up my laptop to th
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> autocompletion for reference-tags based on labels in project. Soon ;)
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I __think__ they mean physical security (as in, Guard Dogs), rather than their Software Security team. Still, the optics aren't good.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Jesus Christ. Is there a reason for this? Or is it just another case of lol@mysql
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Yup. A lesson for the designers among us: almost no-one is viewing your site on your 5k iMac screen. Design accordingly
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by s_kilk 9y ago
What a weirdly scatological naming scheme
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Looking back on that era from here (only a handful of years later) it really looks like the desktop-is-dead-all-hail-the-smartphone crowd were just huffing paint. And those fume hallucinations inspired the 'convergence' bandwagon
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Indeed. It's kind of amazing that around here when someone says "yeah my Libertarian Paridise home-country is actually a shithole because people keep getting machete'd to death by roving gangs", someone else strokes thei
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Just focus on being a maximally useful media hosting server, with a really simple accounts system for admins and so forth. Make it easy for me to stand up a server, upload a video of my kid, then share the link to that video on the internet
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by s_kilk 9y ago
There must be some real dullards working on the mod team.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
And what's the common denominator? Neoliberal Capitalism.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> but the service won't be valuable if the computer doesn't work. So the state-of-the-art in quantum computing is still basically "can tell you the 200th prime number, sometimes"? Not very useful.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The cult around ML here is pretty amusing. As another poster said, AI is currently staggeringly bad at this task, and I'm not sure it's going to be good enough in the near future either.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
And yet, the evidence is there. Will this be reported and investigated within Uber?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
They also have concrete proof (by way of the reaction to the 2008 crisis) that they have essentially unlimited license to be as greedy as they like, and the public will just take it.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Uh, because we are all collectively being fleeced by a ruling class extracting obscene amounts of wealth from our work without doing anything useful themselves. Never fool yourself into thinking you'll get anything back from these vamp
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Eh, we (collectively) have a pretty good grip on how code-bases, linear algebra and C++ work, but we still have no idea how minds and intelligence work. And so the best we can do with ML right now is stumble blindly in the dark, poking and
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I've just finished my first read of GEB last night, and was delighted to see this thread pop up :) Great book, essential reading for anyone involved in Programming and/or Comp Sci.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Not if it results in piss-poor UX
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Whyyyy designers why? Because A E S T H E T I C I've yet to see any designer articulate a reasonable defense of this shit.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Take up farming, or something. Or, you know, annihilate the Tories, hold the state to account and prevent this shit from happening.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Without giving too much away, I've been involved in just such an initiative, and it was _awesome_. However, in the context of an established organisation it's really hard to pull off, and so we eventually ran into serious pushback
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Have the Government Digital Service or similar work on it directly and ditch the contractors? Basically, yes. Bring it all in-house, ban the contractors/consultants/mercenaries/etc. Remove the profit motive and suddenly
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Perhaps underinvestment in IT is to blame. Or, indeed, over-investment in trash-tier IT services provided by blood-sucking IT consulting companies. I've seen the insides of some UK Government IT systems (not the NHS), and it'
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> so people expecting the moon were just being unreasonable To be fair, the devs demo'd some supposedly in-game footage which was much better and more compelling than what shipped in the end. Peoples expectations were set high, bec
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> do you honestly want to go back to a world without it? Yeah, totally. I want a world in which taxi drivers can actually earn a living rather than scraping by with double shifts for Uber, Lyft and every other gig-economy vampire to come

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