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by throwaway7281 6y ago
This reminds me of the Banko and Brill paper "Scaling to very very large corpora for natural language disambiguation" - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3115/1073012.1073017 . It is exactly the point and it is s
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
The crisis just illustrates our stratified, ossified society: the "essential" workers are those who barely get by. Supposedly important people ("I need to fly around all week") are not that important after all, but for m
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
When I learned that Sam Altman (sorry Sam) was involved, I understood the direction, you mentioned. And yes, there is often no need to call something open explicitly, if it really is. Is into OpenOS, or just Linux?
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Facebook is reality, but it's also just a game. It goes like this: how deep can we go exploiting people by using information technology. How much "person" can we extract? How far can we go controlling this person (e.g. make s
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Yes, cron is a bit undervalued in that for one off (well locked) tasks it's perfectly fine to create a crontab entry. And simplicity is king. I feel people throw frameworks at problems where a simple shell/go script in a cron woul
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Having used a variety of modern ETL frameworks in the past years, I consider writing a hands-on book about what I have learned on the way. If I may ask, what questions do you find most difficult to solve in the context of real-world ETL set
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Rereading old code (and sometimes admiring it) is a way to gauge, whether you learned something in the past month. If you did not, change your course.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
We own infra because we need to own and control it and also because it's just vastly cheaper at the scale we use. Besides, we do have things like our own S3, k8s and other cloud-ish utilities running so we do not miss out that much, I
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Germans learn about the history of the Third Reich in detail and I always asked myself: how could this happen? Smart, hard-working, intelligent, compassionate, literate people start to plan industrial murder of millions of people on the bas
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I lived like a student when I was a student and did not change much of my lifestyle and could not be happier. I usually save 2/3 of my salary and do not miss anything. My runway today is about 15 years.
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
As a German, the idea that mass murder and high tech are different sides of the same coin has shaped my world view forever (after reading Dialectic of Enlightenment and On the Critique of Instrumental Reason). Horkheimer red-pilled me on ou
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I'm getting tired of this game. Even the deaf ones like me start to hear the drums now. You know, it's not that we do not have enough megacorps controlling every aspect of our lives. We need more of the "opposite" - plac
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I understand the price signal and the process of price detection through the myriads of needs and abilities. That's all fine and actually great, as a relatively robust distributed system. What I do not get is why keeping people in the
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Value-based pricing is the worst societal invention. Imagine a medicine can be made from simple ingredients, but you discovered a recipe by accident. It's very valuable since it might save lives, so the value is high, the cost is low a
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Uh, I have to yet find an "enhanced" "view PDF" page, which does not make things worse. Here's a direct link to a PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.04017.pdf
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I bought one old SE from the final batch, just because the 113g, its dimensions are perfectly fine with me. I'd like to write some AR code (and might buy an 2020 SE for that), but for normal use, the SE for me is peak iPhone/smart
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
Open source one of the most empowering paradigms. Here is a list of people and organizations running their own servers: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Jitsi-Meet-Instance...
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by throwaway7281 6y ago
I'm working remotely in the US and charge $55/h for development and consulting.