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by sideshowb 2y ago
> maleability Intentional pun?
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by sideshowb 2y ago
But they're all crud apps, on a system that already has a webview! Why do any need to be over 100k?
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Why is benchmarking dbs illegal?
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by sideshowb 2y ago
And yet, back in the 90s most of the non-experienced users learned to use their computer nonetheless, in some cases gaining deeper understanding through the process of navigating the logically structured interface. Maybe it's more prof
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by sideshowb 2y ago
I know - my van broke down recently, had the same experience even though I could describe the location exactly by intersection of roads, or grid reference. As I had a smartphone they did at least have a link I could click which would give m
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by sideshowb 2y ago
If only we had a system of national grid references since, say, 1936
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Don't worry I can be pretentious enough without having to invoke artists you've never heard of; it's not about that! I have a broader concern for how new artists are supposed to get discovered without a promotion engine behin
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by sideshowb 2y ago
But you have to select an obscure artist first. Hence why the music attention economy is winner-takes-all these days.
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Yeah, but I want to hear the long tail of good music with bad promotion and under 10 monthly listeners.
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by sideshowb 2y ago
The trouble with "people who listened to X also listened to Y" is it can't ever recommend music that nobody has listened to yet, and is unlikely to recommend anything that doesn't have a reasonable quantity of listeners
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Why phase out smoking? I thought you just said having your parents tell you not to smoke worked just fine.
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Good for you. I'm sure all the parents whose children have died taking unknown dosages of unknown substances will take great comfort in your story.
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Especially our kids. Would be so much safer than them being tempted to buy from some sketchy dude in a night club.
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Yet despite their ferocity still cute, they purr rather than roar!
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Tortoisegit?
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by sideshowb 2y ago
If only there was an established tool for scrolling up and down a document that didn't fit on screen Wait
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Does anyone know more details: do that phones genuinely have no internet at all, I.e. Couldn't use WhatsApp for messaging? Interested to know how they handle that edge case.
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by sideshowb 2y ago
You've just helped me realize that when it comes to ui these days "dated" basically means "useful".
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by sideshowb 2y ago
> deep learning is simply the application of sequences of operations that are nonlinear but nonetheless differentiable Though other things fit this description which are not deep learning. Like (shameless plug) my recent paper here htt
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by sideshowb 2y ago
So this other guy: he's a Terminator like you, right? Not like me. A T-1000, advanced prototype. You mean more advanced than you are? Yes. A mimetic polyalloy. What the hell does that mean? Tiny rubber spheres.
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by sideshowb 2y ago
Or you could stop thinking in terms of blame and start thinning in terms of where is best to fix the problem.
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by sideshowb 3y ago
Ok so gp was talking about businesses. You are talking about the fact that money is power which is a fundamental problem, though a different one. Not sure how to solve it but stronger controls on political donations and lobbying would help.
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by sideshowb 3y ago
I'd like to see that math expanded because I'm not sure I follow. Just because some (even if all) companies want to bleed the world dry, they aren't all colluding. If Tesco put up their prices it's not going to derail
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by sideshowb 3y ago
Um so... what was he supposed to use email for, according to the manager?
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by sideshowb 3y ago
This thesis seems to be limited to a narrow corner of computer science akin to Turing's work: what is computable, etc. Lucky for us that's only a narrow corner I guess?
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by sideshowb 3y ago
I read the headline as implying the humans died...
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by sideshowb 3y ago
Agree, that's why I only program with 1s and 0s, programming languages rob me of self development opportunities ;-)
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by sideshowb 3y ago
Conveniently, real names are more valuable to advertisers, I presume
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by sideshowb 3y ago
Ah right, it used to block non-edge users. Perhaps that was too flagrantly anti competitive...
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by sideshowb 3y ago
Very pretty! Out of interest, I'm thinking how this sort of method works if you ignore the semi-arbitrary distinction between your own code and other libraries. If, say, an array class is used everywhere, wouldn't that look like a

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