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Style Reversion with Fast.ai tools(medium.com)
1 points by shawn 8y ago|0 comments
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by shawn 8y ago
I'd like to be able to press a shortcut key and have my computer save a screenshot of whatever I'm looking at, along with letting me type a brief note for context. Ideally it would also record the URL of whatever the browser was v
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by shawn 8y ago
It seems like PDFs might still work in a hundred years. Just like zip files. Fun fact: HN's been around for 10% of a century. That makes Arc one of the longer-lived programming languages. Re: the ability to take books off the shelf and
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by shawn 8y ago
The US may have invented nuclear armageddon, but are you sure it would have been better if someone else had?
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by shawn 8y ago
Does DDG have an equivalent of filetype:pdf?
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by shawn 8y ago
This little slice of magic is why I love HN. Thank you for sharing your story. It's good to know that pg is still hacking, and still around: he said that it was PG who found us on Hacker News Wherever you are pg, we miss you!
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Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups(doneyles.com)
105 points by shawn 8y ago|15 comments
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by shawn 8y ago
I tried to treat you like a not-dictator and to express my concerns in a reasonable manner. You reacted as a dictator. Banning my accounts does nothing but drive me underground for three months. You don't know all of my accounts, unles
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by shawn 8y ago
It would be great, wouldn't it? That sounds delightful, and I would be happy to. Just one quick question: Why was my account rate limited solely for commenting – substantively, on-topic, and in an intellectually gratifying way – about
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by shawn 8y ago
So for the past two weeks, there have been "hotel workers on strike!" protests in Chicago. They've been outside banging pots and pans, blowing whistles, and generally making a lot of noise to raise awareness for their cause.
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by shawn 8y ago
Yes it does. Literally doing anything other than blindly using their products and not giving a shit is standing up to them. It doesn't matter whether you're smart or not – anyone can do this. It doubly stands up to them if you mak
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by shawn 8y ago
To answer your question, yes, I do. It makes paying attention to what people are saying very difficult. I have to ask them to repeat exactly what they just said word for word, not because I didn't understand, but because I didn't
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by shawn 8y ago
Meanwhile in Ameriburger, the kids tear each other to shreds. It sounds like the educational opportunities you got were what I spent years fantasizing about, wondering if there was anything better than going from mostly-dead teacher to most
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by shawn 8y ago
Or better yet, bring back apprenticeship and give them something to do other than worthless high school. I almost didn't get my first programming job because I had to be paid under the table at 17 due to child labor laws. If you want t
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by shawn 8y ago
I was just looking for that. It's annoying how difficult it is to find. The only result I found was https://imgur.com/R24W168 (definitely NSFW). I wish it were possible to represent the female body in the same way fo
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by shawn 8y ago
Sort of. The essential quality is that you're likely to have children who then have children. A walking pair of gonads or ovaries is more accurate. Here's the human body scaled proportional to brain usage: https://uploa
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by shawn 8y ago
All: Watch out for survivor bias. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd3erAPI9w
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by shawn 8y ago
All of my upvotes, I regret I have but one to give. Thanks! Also HN-based mechanical Turk search engine for the win.
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by shawn 8y ago
I read an article (blogpost?) by one of the Apollo programmers who presented a very elaborate argument saying that the Apollo mission would have ended in disaster if not for one very specific code change that happened by accident. Sadly I h
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by shawn 8y ago
Java is just as fast or faster than C++ most of the time. No one who writes high performance code for a living makes that claim. It's true though. https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/files/Disruptor-1.
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by shawn 8y ago
Disagree. The UI is nearly identical to our modern UIs, from an information and functionality point of view. The sole difference in this case appears to be style. Fonts and colors, mostly. Your critique would be true when leveled at the fon
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by shawn 8y ago
What benchmark would convince you? It's easy to dismiss any evidence as a very-specific micro benchmark.
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by shawn 8y ago
The point of a tracing JIT is that it runs code in an interpreter, then generates machine code for loops and hot spots. By doing this at runtime you can take advantage of knowledge that a C compiler doesn't have. This is why LuaJIT is
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by shawn 8y ago
This isn’t true. GC’d languages can be as fast or faster than C. Especially LuaJIT.
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by shawn 8y ago
Hmm, no need to feel like that. There are so many wonderful things in the world. Creativity is additive — even if you only do something small, it still matters.
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by shawn 8y ago
Davinci pointed out that a tree’s thickness is constant if you slice it in a semi circle. https://fractalfoundation.org/OFC/leonardotree1.jpg That is, if you face a tree and draw a circle with your arm, and add up all
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by shawn 8y ago
Interesting! I'd always heard that octopi lead a life of solitude. Thanks for sharing.
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by shawn 8y ago
It's charisma 101. Don't insult your voter base.
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by shawn 8y ago
Suppose you were born an octopus, with your current level of intelligence. What would you do? How would you demonstrate it? Note how difficult it would be to communicate. I think many animals are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
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by shawn 8y ago
But stupid code is the most fun.

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