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We want that, but we are the minority. I do agree that PyQt has a respectable documentation page. It is, however, a terrible page for attracting new developers and selling decision makers on the idea of using it.
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We shouldn't, but we will. We're still savanna primates, and silly little things like technical merits aren't going to get in the way of sexy shiny. Projects that understand this fact will attract developers and flourish, an
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It does reflect the priorities of the community, though. PyQT's page is clearly written by a developer, with an emphasis on explaining the internals of the library. The author clearly saw no need to make it attractive. There is no lo
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As noted in the Wired article, Replika released their emotional dialog system at https://github.com/lukalabs/cakechat
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> unless a dedicated, organized backdoor exists I would be surprised if such a thing did not exist for those that run the system.
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I'm an engineer for an industrial integrator. No matter how often we tell our customers to keep the industrial control networks separated, they'll still find ways to lazily screw their networks up. A couple years ago at a Fortune
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It was probably an Iridium satellite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTGVuPr9Epg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
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J-1 is a category of exchange visa issued by the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-1_visa
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"HODL" originated from a drunken rant on Bitcointalk during the 2013-14 bubble and MtGox exchange collapse. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0
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I used the ThinkGeek Annoy-A-Tron about a decade ago in a prank. Do not underestimate these devices. They will utterly dismantle the sanity of the unwitting.
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To be fair, a large fraction of the public does subscribe to the notion of "I have nothing to hide, so mass surveillance is OK".
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Even when staying on-topic, shibboleths will still leak through. The discrimination rate will remain above zero, especially for motivated participants.
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The headline is an authoritarian dogwhistle - any action to help one's fellow man not sanctioned by your "betters" is frowned upon at best.
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Spoilers below: You just described the plot of the first Star Trek film. Even better, it was a Voyager probe (a fictional Voyager 6) that was augmented by alien machine intelligence and returned to Earth.
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Have you ever tried to go duck hunting with a revolver?
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Any "smart gun" component is an additional point of failure in an application where failure to function can easily mean death or serious bodily harm for the user. I wouldn't be surprised if most proponents of this tech have n
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One can argue that public ownership necessitates central planning in practice. My cursory searches have failed to find a sovereign state that has successfully implemented parecon. Feel free to cite a counterexample.
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This has to be one of the most heavily-couched calls for Marxism I've seen all week. "Democratic deployment" will still suffer from well-applied demagoguery, the people themselves are still prone to manipulation - even when t
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“The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” A blog entry on Brandolini's Law: https://real-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2016/12/brandolinis-law...
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One can argue that this isn't really anything new - look back at the media hype for war surrounding an explosion of a certain U.S. warship. In 1898. Amusing, how the most vaunted prize in journalism is named for one of the most famou
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> If you're an open source developer, for instance, why would you work to improve or maintain software X when you can create an alternative that does things slightly differently? That looks a lot more impressive on a resume. One cou
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People get used to doing things a certain way. When they have to overcome a terrible interface, an attachment forms. It's no different than the pride of those that live in physically harsh environments. Habituation is a powerful thin
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Respectfully disagree on more votes == better. Visible score systems often lead to groupthink, and commenters aiming for the lowest common denominator in the form of karma whoring. While HN has some measures to reduce hivemind voting, it&#
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> Could this be a submarine piece? Considering that Wired is a legacy media (Condé Nast) publication, it's not inconceivable.
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We already do so for certain protected classes.
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Not OP, same issue here. Whole browser just locks up, pretty impressive. Windows 7, Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Airship colonies, take advantage of that dense atmosphere and float over the clouds.
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I should have clarified - this is raw irradiance, not the power you'd see from a photovoltaic cell.
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At Earth orbit, yes. Recall that the inverse square law applies for light emitted by the sun. On Mars, solar power per square meter is a bit over 550W.
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> Google is my personal librarian While certainly an improvement over legacy media, are you not trading one information curator for another?

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