samhw

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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, preach. I wrote Go professionally for a couple of years, and I write Python now (I know, I know, but they pay me a ridiculous amount to do it). I would choose almost anything, including JS, over Go. It's a good language if you ne
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by samhw 4y ago
Yeah, as someone who's gay and left-wing but equally irritated by the 'virtue signalling' stuff (my ideology is basically r/stupidpol), I don't find the Rust community too bad. (FWIW, I appreciate your open-mindedne
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by samhw 4y ago
Thanks for your article. I hope you can ignore all the vitriol. It's embarrassing to see what I thought was a generally intelligent community having a collective tantrum because someone was mean about its favourite toy.
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by samhw 4y ago
Both languages were designed by probably better programmers than most in this thread. For that matter, the vast majority of successful programming languages surely were. I'm utterly lost at how that relates to anything. One can plain
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by samhw 4y ago
> writing that Go wasn't designed, but happened by accident is however [impolite] That's one of the most mild and inoffensive criticisms I've ever read on the internet. You can't seriously be indignant about that .
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by samhw 4y ago
> the Rust jihad As a Rust jihadist myself ... yeah I can't disagree with this description. Even I get sick of all the Rust chatter/evangelism on HN sometimes. I love it and it's my preferred tool, but I wouldn't mind
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by samhw 4y ago
> It's possible to implement CSP channels in most languages, but they're not first-class like go. But does that matter ? In all my experience, I can't think of any instances where that wouldn't be a distinction witho
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by samhw 4y ago
> Nobody said any of those things verbatim, no matter how much you wish they had. No, of course I'm paraphrasing. I hoped I had made it sufficiently comically obvious that no non-brain-damaged reader would ever believe I was repre
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by samhw 4y ago
Sorry, I don't mean to be overly harsh, but your comment amounts to > I personally don't use the word 'echo' in connection to vocal communication, which (for some incomprehensible reason) means that, when someone els
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by samhw 4y ago
Irony? ;)
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by samhw 4y ago
That stock image makes me feel like I'm on the Joe Rogan podcast..
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by samhw 4y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I obviously concede that stuff like applying kNN over ginormous datasets to find TV shows people like, or doing some matrix decomposition to correlate ('recognise') objects in photographs, is obv
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by samhw 4y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean. This seems to be another instance of the weirdly persistent belief that "only humans can understand , and computers are just moving gears around to mechanically simulate knowledge-informed actio
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by samhw 4y ago
> If his ex-wife felt abused and manipulated, who are we to question her? Well, the question would be whether she was abused and manipulated. The stuff in this article makes him out to be a shitty person, at least in those moments, and
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by samhw 4y ago
"hedge cloud by investing in solar!"
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by samhw 4y ago
That YouTube link says that it's available to viewers, and I've certainly seen it before. Perhaps there's some A/B testing still going on?
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by samhw 4y ago
Thank you. I'm broadly left-wing but I'm tired of how much economic illiteracy is common coin nowadays among the left. That argument reminds me of the exasperating "climate change is caused by the rich because most carbon emi
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by samhw 4y ago
> It will have a civilisation level impact by the end of the decade. The trouble is that this is almost totally meaningless. Everything that exists in civilisation has a 'civilisation level impact'. If you quantify it - say, &q
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by samhw 4y ago
> in the last couple of days I have some bad news for you
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by samhw 4y ago
>> instead of watching YouTube videos about Thomas Jefferson, or Nikola Tesla, or even Magellan > Not sure what kind of a reality you live in This sounds like a neckbeard fantasy of what an 'intellectual' childhood is lik
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by samhw 4y ago
YouTube shows you the parts most users skipped: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314415 (That link is for creators, but the graph overlay is shown to everyone.) I can't imagine a better tool for doi
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by samhw 4y ago
> You can't start with the math load that an EE student gets with a broad, general audience. Yeah, it's Wittgenstein's 'ladder', from the Tractatus : > My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who und
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by samhw 4y ago
Trust me, it pains the hell out of me too, but I worry 'tenant' [for 'tenet'] has become common enough to be 'just about correct'. I see it ubiquitously on here, and the spelling standards are considerably high
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by samhw 4y ago
"Almost entirely $6bn" leaves a decent-sized handful of loose change, though.
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by samhw 4y ago
That doesn't matter, what matters is that he brunched with a VC ;)
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by samhw 4y ago
> Credible reports of emotional abuse against partners I'm not an Elon Musk fan (seriously: grep through any comments I've posted about the guy), but the article linked here is an incredibly weak substantiation of that libell
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by samhw 4y ago
> I have never ever read that anywhere. One could argue that rich people provide more value to society and then should be prioritise in some circumstances but what you are writing seems very unfounded. Nor have I. It's such a remark
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by samhw 4y ago
IMO, you need money and status then more. (Maslow would agree.) ;) Edit: Sorry, to be clear, I was punning on that misspelling. You want 'more than'. (Also, incidentally, 'fulfilled'.)
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by samhw 4y ago
A GPU is an ASIC designed exactly for that. I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting?
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by samhw 4y ago
This looks really cool! It's a simple idea, but hey, it looks like it hasn't been done yet - so it's all the more valuable. The quality of the design blows my mind as well, for a startup. It reminds me of GitHub's landin

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