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by strbean 6y ago
A digital product which, if it achieves the necessary adoption, would force anyone wishing to engage in modern society into a feudal system via network effects. This seems a little like arguing privacy isn't a real concern with FAANG b
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by strbean 6y ago
That issue is pretty hilarious, and reveals a lot about Urbit. This topic on HN is my first exposure to the project, and I was on the fence about the (seemingly much debated) 'is this satire?' question. This ticket pushed me over
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by strbean 6y ago
Which in turn makes me think of New Math by Tom Lehrer :)
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by strbean 6y ago
> Senators will have the opportunity to hear directly from senior government health officials regarding what we know about the virus so far, and how our country is prepared to respond as the situation develops. So, non-public information
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by strbean 6y ago
Last I checked (long ago) there is the option for a TURN fallback as well.
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by strbean 6y ago
At university, my classes in C required using C89. The rationale given by the professor was that he wanted us prepared for industry, and if you learn to stick to C89 you will be able to write C for any job out there. I argued that C99 bloc
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by strbean 6y ago
I spent a truly obscene amount of time trying to just figure out how to make a DIY smart speaker discoverable to Alexa / Google Home / etc. The discoverability of the documentation was varying degrees of deplorable, mostly with a
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by strbean 6y ago
I suppose I understand, but don't they have a more descriptive tag, like "stale"?
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by strbean 6y ago
My theory: self-correcting action on the front tire when moving forward. When the wheel pitches to the either side, the road under the bicycle pushes the wheel back to center. When the bicycle leans to the side, the wheel pitches as well. N
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by strbean 6y ago
Any time something "magically lines up", it means that those molecules randomly float around until the right ones bump into each other. Once they are in close enough proximity to bump into each other, intermolecular forces can com
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by strbean 6y ago
Any notion why this would be obsolete?
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by strbean 7y ago
I'm curious about the price difference between HFCS and sugar in Mexico. My understanding is that in the US, HFCS prices are artificially low due to corn subsidies while sugar prices are artificially high due to protectionist policies.
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by strbean 7y ago
I mean, parent seemed an awful lot like someone asking what it did. Damn me for missing the invisible /s. I'm sure no other reader would ever be curious!
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by strbean 7y ago
Looking at the link, it generates the exact same assembly (and behavior of course) as void sw(int s) noexcept { switch (s) { case 0: printf("zero\n"); break; case 1:
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by strbean 7y ago
> SQL stood the test of time. SQL is widely adopted. I'm highly dubious of "it is widely used so there" arguments. I think in the case of SQL, the fact that ORMs and SQL generators are ubiquitous are evidence that a huge p
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by strbean 7y ago
I'm disappointed that there isn't more criticism of the SQL language . The whole NoSQL buzz got me excited, then turned out to actually mean NoRelational. It is wild that we are still using a language that looks and feels like CO
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by strbean 7y ago
I remember doing an IP range scan with nmap from an EC2 instance in the early days, and finding a bunch of exposed BGP routers. I wonder how vulnerable they were.
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by strbean 7y ago
I did that, but it was disappointing losing my message history for SMS messages when my phone boot-looped and I had to re-flash.
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by strbean 7y ago
Really? My impression is that you have to scour the earth for people who know anything about those systems, and then pay them 5x what you would pay someone working on a modern system.
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by strbean 7y ago
Also, this is applies to mislabeled data in your training set, right? Not a good thing if it is in your test set.
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by strbean 7y ago
One of my favorite "laptop DJ" moments - I saw Brock Hampton at a festival in 2018. Hadn't heard of them before, and they were described to me as a boy band so I had low expectations. Their performance was bizarrely wonderful
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by strbean 7y ago
I think being deeply reviled by a huge portion of the developer community has been costing MS huge amounts money for a long time.
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by strbean 7y ago
I guess my point was that the optimizations available are the same (between those two snippets of code) if you end up in SSA form. Thinking about it now, I don't know what optimizations would be done before going to SSA and how they wo
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by strbean 7y ago
Dormancy isn't really proper biology jargon, the correct term for what I referred to above is latency. However, outside of the cell, neither of those terms mean anything. A virus outside of a cell does nothing , period. It is essentia
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by strbean 7y ago
I get anonymously downvoted to hell whenever I post this, but SQL is an absolutely awful language. Fundamental aspects like consistent representation of the same semantics in different places are missing in the very core of the language. Th
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by strbean 7y ago
If you're converting it to SSA form, is there really a difference between int a = 5 int b = 2 * a // don't use a again and > int a = 5 > a = 2 * a ?
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by strbean 7y ago
MongoDB is web scale. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by strbean 7y ago
Dormancy refers to when a host is infected but the virus is not replicating. There is no "dormant vs. live" distinction for viruses outside of a host as they have no function / biological processes outside of a host. They are
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by strbean 7y ago
God I hate the trend of using a prefix on its own as a stand in for '<prefix><thing>'. I think it's a symptom of politicians trying to sound stupid to avoid sounding elitist. What do you think will have more impac
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by strbean 7y ago
In bioinformatics / computational biology, Python is absolutely ubiquitous. Same for any other field that uses ML extensively.

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