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by themgt 10y ago
If you really dig into what they're talking about, it presents potential avenues for "solutions" to issues from why physical laws are what they are to how consciousness and free will would be possible. It's a lot more th
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by themgt 10y ago
Minikube is great for finally providing a reasonable toes-in-the-water experience.
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by themgt 10y ago
He doesn't actually clarify his line of thinking. As someone who is also not much a fan of capitalism, my thought at getting those emails might be "this company cut corners trying to turn a quick profit making a crap product, and
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by themgt 10y ago
Exactly this. It's easy to do 'rails new' and push to Heroku, but when you've got redis, memcache, the worker process & scheduler etc etc you're really maintaining your own ecosystem. It's a lot of where ti
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by themgt 10y ago
Looks like a solid and and relatively straightforward upgrade from Rails 4.2. It's hard not to feel Rails has become a bit of a slow-moving behemoth though, with this release four years after 4.0. I've still got a couple clients u
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by themgt 10y ago
A company's "public beta phase" system named "Autopilot" just drove a customer head-first into a trailer and killed them, at least in part due to inadequate sensor hardware that seems unlikely a software update can
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by themgt 10y ago
Anyone running coreOS in production want to comment on their stack? We tried using it around a year+ ago, but etcd/fleet were too unstable and stuff like btrfs and other major features were being changed too often to get the supposed b
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by themgt 10y ago
Reading their blog about "smart contract security" [1] is just mind-blowing. Like, I thought that was the core of the product, but somehow they've designed a language which makes it extremely difficult to not get your smart
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by themgt 10y ago
Perhaps we're all computer simulations whose purpose is to a/b test marketing on real-world people based on their social media posts.
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by themgt 10y ago
Haha yeah I've actually seen her supporters claim the MX filtering meant it was "secure"! facepalm
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by themgt 10y ago
What is the average number of hours you spend on a given project? Honestly I think part of the reliance and importance placed on frameworks is that a lot of web dev (especially contract/freelance work) is still relatively small project
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by themgt 10y ago
I've also seen the writing on the wall for leaving Rails/Ruby. I think a lot is down to Ruby the language simply not being well-suited for an increasingly multi-core/concurrent future. That said, a more reasonable approach is
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by themgt 10y ago
I really despise smarmy sales talk like this. Why am I not surprised this is the consultant's website, apparently still written in ASP: http://www.cogeian.com/index.asp
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by themgt 10y ago
Simple analogy: would it be possible to design a digital hardware/software robot (and set of tools), such that the robot could: 1) build/maintain the tools it needs 2) use tools/knowledge/skill to repair/rebuild&#x2
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by themgt 10y ago
I think Aaronson's Q&A w/ MIT News is the most accessible explanation of why this isn't an "it works!" moment. It's a complex, nuanced argument so it's easier to just read than try to summarize here [1
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by themgt 10y ago
Great quote: It’s actually much harder to make a chess piece move correctly—to pick up the piece and move it across the board and put it down properly—than it is to make the right chess move.” She adds, slyly, “When I took A.I. as a studen
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by themgt 10y ago
Thanks for adding the cite. To me that's enough to put this in the clear. It is a great summary of our problems here in the USA.
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by themgt 10y ago
Agreed, I noticed that too. I was hoping he'd just subconsciously lifted some phrases, but the amount of the overall similar content/structure and the specificity of phrases do really kinda push it to the level of plagiarism.
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by themgt 10y ago
This sort of capitalist meme badly if not intentionally misunderstands human nature. Yes, being able to afford dental care and fly around the world is terrific. But John D. Rockefeller was arguably the wealthiest American to ever live. You
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by themgt 11y ago
Plot twist: Black holes are where Type III civilizations merged into a unified singularity, absconding off to their own self-created universe.
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by themgt 11y ago
My favorite is to use an elliptical machine, warm up a little then crank it to maximum resistance and just go as hard as I can until I'm done. I can induce a "runner's high" within a few minutes that feels amazing, and I
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by themgt 11y ago
I like the idea of Babel, but would prefer it as a sort of compile-for-production step. The performance and debugging complexity don't seem worth it as part of the development process. Seems like it'd now be possible w/ Node
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by themgt 11y ago
The research itself seems interesting, I just have a hard time understanding the applicability of an app doing this for me. I just went on a couple OKC dates after a recent breakup. First one we had a fair amount in common "on paper&qu
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by themgt 11y ago
Not at all. Standard living arrangement was e.g. some friends who rented a 3 bedroom, maybe 1000 sq ft house for $500/month (total, plus maybe $40/m for utilities). It was under a minute walk from two little markets with fresh pro
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by themgt 11y ago
The US has very little truly mid-density mixed use space. We are not talking about housing projects. Here's Valparaiso Chile[1]. There are very few places in the US with that medium level of density (parts of Boston and SF definitely q
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by themgt 11y ago
A major problem I see in the US, compared to basically anywhere else in the world I've lived, is sprawl. Seemingly every other developed country has done a much better job of having the vast majority of people live in at least medium-d
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by themgt 11y ago
That really felt like watching history being made. And damn, that ship is getting some waves.
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by themgt 11y ago
Ditto. I still use the old Mac Pro as my main workstation, and really wish Apple would just release a new pro tower. For the love of god do not merge it with the iMac.
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by themgt 11y ago
Possibly a better idea, but still stretching the limits of human engineering, would be to try to structurally reinforce the weakest points of Greenland/Antartica, e.g. Jakobshavn, Thwaites, etc. It's important to understand these
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by themgt 11y ago
The point in the analogy though is, the pain is a symptom. Understanding how pain is transmitted through nerves and how to block it is certainly useful in the treatment of broken bones, but far more important is understanding that the pain

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