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871.
by toxik 5y ago
Heck, some humans even do literal garbage collection while driving!
872.
by toxik 5y ago
Interesting point of view: autonomous cars as a form of contact-rich manipulation
873.
by toxik 5y ago
Or so we thought, yet here we are with low interest rates and no inflation.
874.
by toxik 5y ago
I still think everybody should be vaccinated as far as it is possible, BUT it seems that what you said might not be true. The second vaccine dose can make your natural type immunity weaker.
875.
by toxik 5y ago
I suspect the marginal utility is better in having a larger % vaccinated. If those on the fence about it hear that there are circumstances where it’s better to only take one dose, or none, many won’t vaccinate at all because it seems less i
876.
by toxik 5y ago
I, and HN it seems, disagree. Israel’s anti-BDS tactics provided little interesting context while moving the discussion to an unrelated topic.
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by toxik 5y ago
What-aboutism at its finest.
878.
by toxik 5y ago
Turning off notifications is a set and forget thing. It’s a setting. It’s not a habit, not a technique, not a vague concept. It is a literal toggle switch.
879.
by toxik 5y ago
So why don’t you disable the notifications you don’t like?
880.
by toxik 5y ago
Huh. Somebody actually likes this? I find it super distracting when I’m driving. But I have a phone mount so I can see the directions ahead of time.
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by toxik 5y ago
I agree on size, biggest issue with AW is its size. On the other hand it’s so damn useful to always have access to your digital life. Calendars, weather, reminders, timers, notifications. Those are the things I use the most. I have never ha
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by toxik 5y ago
”We have redesigned the Volvo XC60” is absolutely a normal way to talk. You are specifying a particular model from a line of models. “Volvos are some of the safest cars” is the way I would expect one to talk about Volvo’s cars in general. C
883.
by toxik 5y ago
On the other hand, you have tremendous agency in your life. Denying it is just as unhealthy as obsessing about it. As always, the most sensible approach is somewhere in between.
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by toxik 5y ago
I can't speak for Perl's general usefulness, but pronoun variables are just not terribly useful, because you can make them up on the spot. For example, result = input result = transform(result) result = transform2(re
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by toxik 5y ago
On the other side of the fence, I tried VSCode and the heaps of issues I faced with basic editing was so off putting. Even basic IntelliSense stuff like suggesting local variable names reliably and timely. Just give me my dumb trusty keywor
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by toxik 5y ago
I find that you can often use analogies or describe very vaguely to at least make some sense. It does take nuance out of the thing you’re describing but maybe that’s helpful. I’ve had multiple times that I explain in simpler terms, and I co
887.
by toxik 5y ago
Following this comment, I looked up the definition on the nearest Wikipedia server, and it seems that you are simply wrong.
888.
by toxik 5y ago
Nitpicking here but O(4) is nonsense, that simply means “constant”, and would be written O(1).
889.
by toxik 5y ago
I wonder if you could make some kind of handheld brake lever cable system for inlines. That’d be sweet.
890.
by toxik 5y ago
I think people who don’t want to be called gay are homophobes. It seems like you implied that though. It’s very normal to not want to do things that make you unpopular.
891.
by toxik 5y ago
I agree in spirit but disagree in practice, I think. Like we said previously, the domain is humongous so even establishing meaningful relationships between labels and sublabels is extremely difficult. Many cases are likely ambiguous too, ou
892.
by toxik 5y ago
Yes, in the purity. It’s okay to give slightly contaminated medication to horses, not to humans. The human Ivermectin is purer.
893.
by toxik 5y ago
These models typically don’t have hierarchical labels like that, and they apply a softmax to their output - which means /one/ label will be considered correct. (A softmax means taking the exp of your predicted scores, then divide
894.
by toxik 5y ago
Which is inherent to the problem. The domain is the space of _all possible natural images_, it’s so big, it’s ridiculous. Fundamentally, these techniques do not analyze images like humans do, but are rather trained to pick out any salient s
895.
by toxik 5y ago
Ah yes, temperature is surely the big difference between - let me check my notes - work camps where people starve to death and an office job that you signed up for and are free to leave, with good prospects for your future career. Apt analo
896.
by toxik 5y ago
The dropping of “how” is HN’s helpful title mangler at work.
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by toxik 5y ago
And with two’s complement, we can even have negative numbers!
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by toxik 5y ago
It's an interesting study in human self-organizing behavior. We like to see our opinions confirmed, so we like sites like reddit, which breeds this exact behavior. This leads to the groupthink or hivemind as reddit users call it.
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by toxik 5y ago
Or bounded… by the heat death of the universe. I think there’s a point though, if you’re writing a stack machine or something like that where it makes sense, you’d know. But many novice programmers reach for the old while-bool-var construct
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by toxik 5y ago
This sounds like saying “Do what leads to your desired outcome.” Vacuous statement.

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