tormeh

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by tormeh 5y ago
Could Copilot integrate linters? I.e. it doesn't suggest code that doesn't pass lint? That'd get rid of this, at least. I love linters so much...
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by tormeh 5y ago
Zing! But well, depends on the algorithm. Some aren't that complicated to understand, like linear regression. Others, like DNN are basically impossible. But with ML you're at least always testing the code you don't understand
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Do the costs of the cloud outweigh the benefits?(economist.com)
1 points by tormeh 5y ago|0 comments
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by tormeh 5y ago
>At the beginning, there were irregularities in her CV. Now she has a recently unearthed history of plagiarism in her book and the party tried its best to avoid confession of any wrongdoing. The CV irregularities seem to be rather minor
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by tormeh 5y ago
tl;dr: The Americas had very few animals suitable for domestication, and so Americans had less animal-to-human spread of diseases.
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by tormeh 5y ago
Is this Chrome catching up to Firefox's Quantum projects? I.e. Stylo and WebRender? It puzzles me a bit that Firefox, Chrome, etc. don't reuse each others components. Obviously Chrome can't just plop in WebRender, but is it r
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by tormeh 5y ago
You can just use whatsapp or whatever. The phone network with SIP/SS7 etc. is hopeless, but you don't have to use it, and most people I know prefer other forms of communication anyway.
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by tormeh 5y ago
The issue with testing environments is that they almost always differ from the production environment in important ways. Cloud and infrastructure-as-code can mitigate this to a certain extent, but I doubt this issue can ever be fully elimin
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by tormeh 5y ago
I was referring to how well European electrical utilities like Enel and Iberdrola are doing. They seem to be leaders in renewable energy construction, not only in Europe, but also internationally. I guess they have lots of practice dealing
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by tormeh 5y ago
My previous comment on this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27508759 (Slightly edited) copy-paste: Economist ran an article on this: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/06/05&#
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by tormeh 5y ago
Not so sure. Why compete with Google by trying to do exactly the same thing, but worse? It's a shitty business plan. Might even be too shit for SV.
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by tormeh 5y ago
Why does Boeing have a higher market cap than Airbus? That seems nuts to me...
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by tormeh 5y ago
It is a barrier, but not a huge one, assuming you're talking about software. Translation is pretty cheap, all things considered. For consulting businesses and employees it's a different story, obviously. The real problem, particul
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by tormeh 5y ago
Economist ran an article on this: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/06/05/once-a-corpora... We're in the service economy now, and Europe has no real single market for services, due to all kind
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by tormeh 5y ago
Wrote this for diagnosing OOMs on our Hadoop cluster at work: https://github.com/mbrtargeting/oom-monitor
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by tormeh 5y ago
Also Intel. Being Nvidia-only is not very good from an accessibility point-of-view. It means that only ML researchers and about 60% of gamers can run this.
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by tormeh 5y ago
Simple price anchoring mixed with entitlement, I'd say. Not unique to business owners at all, but extra aggravating when it's an employer.
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by tormeh 5y ago
> [...] and send it across borders - sometimes What are the exceptions?
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by tormeh 5y ago
International law is very much a gentlemen's agreement, though. It's not like domestic law. Domestic law always wins.
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by tormeh 5y ago
I agree. Lots of studies seem focused on slightly slowing the accumulation of damage in our bodies over time, but this is a battle that can only be lost. Entropy always wins. What we need is tech to repair our bodies. The most promising ca
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by tormeh 5y ago
Sounds like a principal-agent problem. The people actually buying the ads on behalf of the customer don't care about accuracy. Just train some model, no matter how shitty, and call it "best-effort". Boxes are checked and ever
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by tormeh 5y ago
I bet this is a result of customer self-selection. This is all a hunch, but I bet a shit-ton that the advertisers who actually care about good targeting only buy from a small number of leading providers (Facebook, Google, etc.) whose stats
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by tormeh 5y ago
Demographic and location segmentation is just a shitty way to target and is a prime example of looking for your keys under the lamppost because that's where the light is. That said, your point is unfortunately very relevant because man
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by tormeh 5y ago
The blanket statement "Advertisement does not work", which I really hope is a strawman, is trivially wrong. If you start a new B2C business the only way to do inbound sales is advertisement, as by definition no one knows about you
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by tormeh 5y ago
The bank could take collateral in something else than the house. But if you have that kind of collateral, you might not need a loan in the first place...
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by tormeh 5y ago
> This is one of those factoids people constantly repeat because it sounds like it would be true Preventing immigration (both permanent and temporary) has been a political priority in Japan for centuries. Are you saying this has changed
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by tormeh 5y ago
> I think the real problem with GPT3 etc is it's not really original. Everything's a remix.
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by tormeh 5y ago
Redox OS is pretty cool, but without at least one big corporate sponsor it won't be able to amass the ecosystem needed to be viable for most use-cases. That said, I believe it's almost self-hosting now, so definitely a real OS tha
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‘A united nations of crime’: how Marbella became a magnet for gangsters(theguardian.com)
2 points by tormeh 5y ago|0 comments
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by tormeh 5y ago
True. It's similar to cryptocurrencies that way, but there is an underlying demand that I find comforting. Bitcoin etc. can be completely abandoned without consequence, but we need gold. Gold will probably always have some value. And a

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