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by swid 4y ago
I have designed several DSLs over my two decades of being a professional engineer. Not graphical; but the people using my DSLs are always developers. I will probably use YAML for the foreseeable future instead of creating new languages or i
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by swid 4y ago
I ran into unexpected difficulties from Firestore - the queries only allow 1 range clause, the transactions only allow up to 500 updates, and you can either search 1 collection or all of them with the same name. This was a problem for us wh
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by swid 4y ago
300 GB is nothing compared to the vastness of information in the universe (hence it fitting on a disk). AI is approximating a function, and the function they are now learning to approximate is us. From [1], with my own editing... When comp
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by swid 4y ago
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence Edit to say - he was making a joke, this will help you understand
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by swid 4y ago
Whoever downvoted you didn’t get the joke.
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by swid 4y ago
fwiw, in my industry, I should not assume anything about technical literacy. We’ve had honest debates over whether we can even rely on people to have an email address. Again, it’s not that I disagree with most of your premise, but in fact,
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by swid 4y ago
At my current company, we changed enter to stop submitting because it’s not intuitive to users. I think there are exceptions for forms with only one field. So perhaps that isn’t the best litmus test? I wonder if it’s written down that sho
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by swid 4y ago
While it is the case the dataset isn’t well curated or perfectly labeled, it could just mean that grammar is not understood - the labels could be clear to a human, whether the image is a picture of Bob Ross or a painting by him. But the tr
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by swid 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you misunderstood what I wrote. > there’s a difference between number of characters and width Billboards use large letters to fill the space, but normally they would be readable on a business card.
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by swid 4y ago
I almost agree, but there’s a difference between number of characters and width, and also graphics and tables are a different beast. Personally, I think websites should fill up the available space, increasing font size if it makes sense, pe
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by swid 4y ago
I guess it depends on the company culture a bit (do people under you have equity?), and it seems like you want equity as opposed to choosing a higher salary with no skin in the game, so that helps. But if I found out and I was working for y
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by swid 4y ago
Your tone makes me think I wasn’t quite understood - saying he will send them to space was a joke. This is vapor for press. I got that.
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by swid 4y ago
I imagine this is really carbon neutral, as vultures breathe and decompose. The article doesn’t seem to touch on that fact at all?
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by swid 4y ago
Don’t hold you breath… once Tesla said it would make a snake robot to automatically plug in the car at night, but that never came to market. And FSD is still not full. So what limited use case is this robot for? Boston Dynamics doesn’t see
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by swid 4y ago
Even if power is expensive, it only uses that power when you are using it. The whole card is 450W, so maybe 3 hours of intense could be a dollar? The card isn’t going to be running 100% for any game I know. Compared to a slower 250W card
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by swid 4y ago
I thought the other poster's comment was relevant, so I didn't answer (I posted an earlier comment being replied to). FWIW, I instead would have suggested that natural gas could cover any shortages, since this type of power is ea
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by swid 4y ago
Recently I saw on HN that Australia has a path to >98% renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro) with only 5 hours of battery storage. That’s a lot of value for less battery backup than I would have thought. https://news.ycombina
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by swid 4y ago
Yes it depends on those things, but inversion layers can happen anywhere and cover large areas. I think population density is a good consideration, but there will probably be days in the year almost everywhere where the dispersion is limit
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by swid 4y ago
I won’t fact check this, but the Bay Area Spare the Air page says the following, which seems pretty reasonable. It’s easier to find science on the danger of the particulate smoke, which you don’t seem to object to. > During the cooler wi
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by swid 4y ago
My brother in law has a blue check. He writes comic blogs and wrote a book about them, so he does have a public persona. But he has less than 5000 followers and he is certainly not famous.
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by swid 4y ago
I guess this applies to all crimes, even major ones likes murder and child abuse. We can monitor everyone all the time, or make sacrifices to live in a more free society. If you think the optimal amount of crime is greater than zero, at so
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by swid 4y ago
Here’s the list on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Z69DiD4sGs5aHt4OXE3fU?si=...
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by swid 4y ago
We don’t necessarily see more light as the universe ages, nor do we see farther away. The universe is expanding, and the farther something is, the faster it is moving away from us. It can even be moving faster than the speed of light rela
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by swid 4y ago
Precludes feels like the word word here. Nothing prevents you from satisfying your use case and spinning up vms before they are needed. I wrote the student vm system for udacity, and I spun up student vms before they needed them, with some
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by swid 4y ago
Outside of quantum effects, which I don’t think it important for sentience, the universe is also deterministic. You have no control over particle interactions, chemical reactions and electric fields, yet we feel. People always ask if the br
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by swid 4y ago
Useful to animals who evolved it. I have no more control over my individual neurons than an adder circuit has over itself. And this extends, layer by layer, all the way to the external actions I take. I don’t really control my inner dial
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by swid 4y ago
I agree with most of what you are saying; it absolutely applies to physical questions. Whether or not quantum computing can be practical depends on our ability to fight off decoherence in more and more qubits. But I'm more of a softwa
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by swid 4y ago
For the record, I am consistent because I absolutely think it is not possible we live in a simulation, because the immense resources it would take to simulate the large, detailed, world we live in. I don’t think even the most advanced civi
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by swid 4y ago
This question is like asking if a soul exists. I don’t think it does. I think, the state of brain gives way to us feeling alive. There is nothing special in there that happens outside of the physical reality. So by this view, simulating
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by swid 4y ago
We are using different definitions of simple. Any equation can be written down and calculated by a Turing machine. By simple I mean computable.

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