strbean

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811.
by strbean 7y ago
I think the "antiquities" theme, though appropriate, plays into it. Mainly, the "graying old man deep in thought surrounded by beams of blue light" really sets it off though.
812.
by strbean 7y ago
As a tech billionaire, he should know how to do a simple internet search. https://www.google.com/search?q=california+private+beaches
813.
by strbean 7y ago
> Who the owner is should not cloud the argument. Fair point, but... > On the other hand if his purchase did not include exclusivity to the beach then by all means go there and piss around. This, by law, does not exist in any form in
814.
by strbean 7y ago
Makes sense, although that might end with that player getting pissed off from being repeatedly baited :)
815.
by strbean 7y ago
> First of all, the detector only needs to be on for a microsecond or two, and it's unlikely for two sensors to be scanning at the same microsecond. This is subject to the Birthday Paradox, right?
816.
by strbean 7y ago
> Most cheaters/bots are really easy to spot since they don't even try to be sneaky about it. This could very well be a case of selection bias. I think there is a significant portion of cheaters who just want to get a leg up, r
817.
by strbean 7y ago
Change "player's input" to "player's input to the server" and it checks out :)
818.
by strbean 7y ago
> The problem with SemVer is that library owners are not strict with its intended usage The worst case I saw was when someone was just appending 9's to the version number every release (0.99999 -> 0.999999). I think this was a jo
819.
by strbean 7y ago
You should write a spec for vectored versioning and register vecver.org to host it :)
820.
by strbean 7y ago
Yeah, I'm waiting on the replacements for BP, Wells Fargo, Comcast, ...
821.
by strbean 7y ago
Store it as mass!
822.
by strbean 7y ago
I'm not sure we do kids a service by skipping over fundamental aspects of mathematics in order to stick to the 'more concrete' stuff. The staggeringly vast majority of kids will never learn a lick of group theory or categor
823.
by strbean 7y ago
TIL filling time in an interview instead of being as concise as possible makes you an idiot. I thought it was just called 'being a good interview subject'.
824.
by strbean 7y ago
It works great in Chrome on my 2019 MBP over commercial high speed internet!
825.
by strbean 7y ago
Thanks!
826.
by strbean 7y ago
I dislike the whole "Pop out the system settings dialog and enable things for the application" approach. It throws users into what is likely unfamiliar territory, which just obfuscates things further. I think a list of permissions
827.
by strbean 7y ago
Out of curiosity, could you give some examples of such theorems?
828.
by strbean 7y ago
You could host your DoH server somewhere and use a different IP for inbound vs. outbound requests. Then the only point of failure is the cloud host, no?
829.
by strbean 7y ago
> There is an objective definition of truth in any particular model. "in any particular model" - this is exactly parent's point. From Wikipedia, a restatement of the 1st incompleteness theorem: > there are statements of
830.
by strbean 7y ago
I feel like almost every one of those points is highly debatable. - New ECMA standard every year VS. new PEPs every year - Modules and classes: cyclic dependency hell, obscure multi-import issues, __init__.py ugliness, imperative class decl
831.
by strbean 7y ago
"Price: from $2.07." Options: - $299.99 - Medium (Brown) - $299.99 - Small (Black), - $2.07 - XXXXXXXL (Purple/Green/Orange) (SOLD OUT)
832.
by strbean 7y ago
> You're only 1/4 related to grand children. A strategy of living a long life to help raise a grandchild means that 3/4 of your effort is promoting someone else's genes. But you are helping to raise 100% of your desce
833.
by strbean 7y ago
Well this just gave me a chill down my spine. It isn't too crazy to imagine this happening.
834.
by strbean 7y ago
Also seems like a problem that could be partially solved by tailoring the NN architecture. Does that make sense?
835.
by strbean 7y ago
My issue with Amazon recently is that their search is so doctored now I literally can't find the product+brand combo I am looking for half the time. Any sufficiently small brand is drowned out by knockoffs and other crap. I can't
836.
by strbean 7y ago
Bleh. I see those honeycombed mice and I automatically mentally fill all the holes with finger-crud and dust. No ty.
837.
by strbean 7y ago
Your aside is pretty much dead-on the big ethical issue with bias in ML right now. For example, ML can do quite a good job of predicting recidivism rates in convicts, and justice systems have been using this to aid in sentencing and parole
838.
by strbean 7y ago
Working on quitting nicotine right now, the only problem is when I don't have it I'm all of those besides Lonely.
839.
by strbean 7y ago
I hear Reagan scared the economy into shape the same way he scared Iran into releasing those hostages ;)
840.
by strbean 7y ago
Could those people be referring to Chromebooks and other ChromeOS netbooks? They apparently run any android app, although they aren't really running android as the OS.

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