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by stupidcar 5y ago
There are myriad GUI tools targeting the web platform. If none have achieved the success of VB, it’s not through a lack of capability.
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by stupidcar 5y ago
Almost all Latin American countries are presidential republics. This is a system of government that basically guarantees instability. The separation of the executive and the legislature is supposed to provide greater accountability, but eve
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by stupidcar 5y ago
It seems strange to me that software engineers are so frequently singled out for schedule slippage, when the impression I get is that every novel engineering project suffers from the exact same problem. Projects to design and build new mi
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by stupidcar 5y ago
The site is built and managed by Neoen[1]. Tesla are only the battery hardware provider. Neoen operates power and storage plants in 13 countries[2]. [1] https://www.power-technology.com/news/neoen-to-build-300mw-b... [
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by stupidcar 5y ago
Obviously, it's not less work. Given the need to develop complex additional ligatures, it's likely more. > I doubt that a programmer who wouldn't spend $100 for a font would spend $5 This is where we disagree then. I think
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by stupidcar 5y ago
The pricing model of programming fonts makes no sense. Most seem to be sold at standard desktop font licensing rates, i.e. the $30 to $100 range. 99.999% of developers are not going to spend this much on a nice-to-have. On the other hand, i
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by stupidcar 5y ago
If we're to believe the author, they meditated for 10 years and attended numerous classes, seminars and retreats. Clearly they were engaging it as more than a "stress-relief tool". The article I will take as a single data p
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by stupidcar 5y ago
At least in the UK, I've found Dell and Canonical's official line on availability often simply does not match the reality of the Dell online store.
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by stupidcar 5y ago
This article they quote from seems like a better source for details : https://electrek.co/2021/07/09/tesla-patent-reveals-elon-mus...
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by stupidcar 5y ago
Yep, but there's a couple of problems. Firstly, AFAIK Deepmind haven't made all the code and settings they used to train the model available (although the paper does describe the architecture). Secondly, training a machine-learn
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by stupidcar 5y ago
The model parameters are only available for non-commercial use. That's a shame, as I presume there might be a lot of medical startups that would benefit from having this kind protein-folding tech available.
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by stupidcar 5y ago
According to the AlphaFold Wikipedia article: > As of 18 June 2021, according to DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis a full methods paper to describe AlphaFold 2 had been written up and was undergoing peer review prior to publication, whi
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by stupidcar 5y ago
As a non-resident of San Francisco, I have no dog in this fight, but it shows up on my Twitter feed regardless. I was amused by a recent exchange where one user was complaining about the amount of human faeces on the sidewalk, and someone r
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by stupidcar 5y ago
These are all terrible, and they all stem from TypeScript's inability to properly restrict the type of JSX children. Something that's been an issue for years with no sign of resolution, because the proposed fix (from a member of t
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by stupidcar 5y ago
Do you have any empirical evidence it is more convoluted than equivalent popular languages?
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by stupidcar 5y ago
History can be important, but I don't see what knowing that developers used to (ab)use <table> for layout explains about modern CSS. By all means, include historical context if it helps explain why something works the way it do
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by stupidcar 5y ago
Agreed. After seeing that video, any time I'm in a crowded indoor space, I always make sure I take a look around for the nearest fire exit, as well as a couple of alternatives in case it is blocked.
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by stupidcar 5y ago
"Glitch" is an interesting word. I've rarely heard it used to describe problems within the software industry, and almost never by actual software developers. Yet journalists seem to love it, and you often see headlines like
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by stupidcar 5y ago
Why didn't you read the article I linked? It says: "The contract makes clear the Commission and EU countries can't sue the drugmaker for a host of issues, most notably if there are 'delays in delivery of the Vaccine unde
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by stupidcar 5y ago
A couple of months ago Politico also reported that the EU had waived its right to sue in the AZ contract[1], so what gives? Would it kill Politico to give some additional context when a story seems to blatantly contradict its own reporting?
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by stupidcar 6y ago
AI safety seems like one of those topics that trips up even smart people such as Hawkins, because it intuitively seems like it has very obvious solutions. And for each objection raised there's usually a "so you just..." conti
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Those accessible programming environments tended to exhibit exponentially worsening performance and maintainability characteristics as the complexity of the system being built with them grew. This would be have been fine, so long as these s
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The original claim regarding the EU dragging its feet over signing the contract was made by the AstraZeneca CEO, not the UK government. And the UK's contract is not entirely the same as the EU's. For example, the EU waived its r
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by stupidcar 6y ago
100% agree. It's telling that most contemporary pixel artists work by choice with a limited palette. The actual number of colors, even in complex pieces, is often shockingly small.
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by stupidcar 6y ago
An explanation of the above reports, including why they can't be used to make any inference about the safety of the vaccines: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Your objections seem to be predicated on the assumption that the attempt to separate storage providers from application providers wouldn't be properly enforced. Yes, obviously if Alphabet can just set up Google Cloud Storage and Google
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Can I ask why? As I see it, cloud providers are currently entrenched as Lords of Everything because they can both provide the infrastructure and the products that run on top of it. Making them act more like utility providers would reduce th
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by stupidcar 6y ago
The competitive advantages of owning both the application and the data are so high that don't see widespread BYOC ever happening without government intervention. I'd like to see an enforced separation in law between commercial app
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by stupidcar 6y ago
You say it's a dumb question to ask, yet you still deemed necessary to include in your own statement facts such as that these are "very early test launches" and that "so much went right". If it's so dumb for an
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by stupidcar 6y ago
Here's a project idea I'd really like to see: A version of Chromium, targeted at web developers, that is is modified to accept TypeScript syntax as a variant of JavaScript. This hypothetical browser wouldn't perform type-chec

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