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by sgillen 6y ago
More dangerous, less power imbalance.
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by sgillen 6y ago
If they have been exposed to diff eq at all I can recommend Strogatz Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. It's a very interesting subject, and the text is one of the most approachable I've come across for any subject.
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by sgillen 6y ago
I like that idea too. I wonder if people would be willing to pay for something like this. Maybe pay for a premium account that can comment, but everyone can browse. This raises the barrier to entry already, and the money raised can go towar
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by sgillen 6y ago
Maybe people are holding Parler to a lower standard?
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by sgillen 6y ago
The bill also offers legal protections for companies that follow those best practices. It’s not hard to imagine that 1. The best practices include not using strong encryption, 2. An environment with lots of lawsuits directed at companies no
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by sgillen 6y ago
Really? I don't think I've ever met a software developer that didn't know what vim and emacs were.
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by sgillen 6y ago
> I feel like I am building everything on a foundation of sand at it will need to be rebuilt every 5 years, 10 if you're lucky. This is exactly how I feel. I'm hoping at some point, the amount of churn will decrease, the commun
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by sgillen 6y ago
You might not need to talk to that guy to know beating his wife was wrong. But talking to him may make you realize he’s in a lot of pain, and that he’s been hurt by a system larger than both of you. That doesn’t absolve him of guilt but I t
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by sgillen 6y ago
Does ARM offer any advantage in the server space? Is there really demand for OS X cloud compute?
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by sgillen 6y ago
This is IMHO the best one I’ve ever come across: https://www.gwern.net/ .
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by sgillen 6y ago
Is it? They claim to be state of the art in this space. They are processing(?) and sending 3k video over the network, I think 130ms sounds pretty good.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Haha yeah, I consider Kenshi to be the jankiest game that I consider worth playing.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Should also checkout Kenshi, on the surface very different, but in practice I think it can scratch a similar itch.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Huh, TIL, thanks. As a young and non web programmer I had no idea php was still so dominant in the wild.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Not sure if I agree with the analogy. The figure I often seen thrown out is that PID control in one form or another is used for something like 90%+ of all controllers found in the wild. And they can usually be made to work very well for wha
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by sgillen 6y ago
Sort of think there should be two systems, and OP selected answer, and a community selected answer. This is already what happens to some extent, it’s just a matter of UX I think to clearly mark the answers the community thinks are good with
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by sgillen 6y ago
The black line is a symbol of mourning, used when someone deemed significant to the community passes.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Wrt to the drugs, even if the gangs switch to something else for their income, surely it won’t be nearly as profitable as the drug trade? Still seems like you could deal a serious blow, especially against the cartels.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Fair enough.. I was thinking of a hypothetical eugenic society, where they could let (force?) everyone to breed every X years. Then they could try to optimize that entire batch of mates to optimize whatever traits they chose plus some measu
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by sgillen 6y ago
Totally, I already do that. Would be interesting to be able to install sgillen.package separately from package, with just a flag passed to pip.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Couldn’t you bake in variety as one of the desirable characteristics to pass on to the next generation? And also from that tweet it’s not even clear that Dawkins would disagree with you.. it seems like you are disagreeing with the common cr
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by sgillen 6y ago
> Where does that bad feeling come from? Does it come from the fact that you feel like you're owed a response? Do you get the same feeling when you email strangers and they don't respond? It's just the time spent for me, I
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by sgillen 6y ago
It's just that if you put lot of effort into isolating a bug for someone for free, it can feels bad to have it rejected without explanation. Also if it's a real issue that you won't fix you should at least leave the issue ope
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by sgillen 6y ago
I like that a lot! could work for personal python packages too.
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by sgillen 6y ago
Maybe you know the OP, but in my experience a lot of issues are not bug reports but very low quality, uninformed or unreasonable requests or questions. Like questions made about basic functionality that is answered in the documentation&#x2F
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by sgillen 6y ago
Really? How much karma do you need for that? This is my first time hearing about this.
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by sgillen 6y ago
I think you might be surprised, it’s possible some types of programming could be automated away. Honestly I would consider writing programs more straightforward to automate than a lot of systems that need to interact with the physics map wo
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by sgillen 6y ago
Tesla is way ahead in gathering a large real world data set, which will be extremely useful down the line.
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by sgillen 6y ago
You are correct, the "Arduino language" is just C++ with some special libraries, macros, added types, and an IDE that enforces some limitations on the programmer (though you can use the Arduino library without the IDE). In practic
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by sgillen 6y ago
To be fair you can also build C/C++ code on an arduino. Although if you want to move away from the Arduino IDE/language, probably an Arduino is not the best platform for you anyway!

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