tzahola

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781.
by tzahola 9y ago
Gave me a good chuckle.
782.
by tzahola 9y ago
B-but they had that rainbow flag avatar thingy for LGBTQA folk! They can’t be the bad guys!
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by tzahola 9y ago
Daily reminder that there must be a sane timeline where telcos didn't proliferate ASN.1 to death, and machine-to-machine communication was solved decades ago.
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by tzahola 9y ago
Imagine a scatterplot of two correlated variables. Overall there’s a clear tendency for samples to be around the diagonal. Now zoom on the top 1% of the plot and surprise, you’ll see no apparent correlation.
785.
by tzahola 9y ago
It’s too powerful for the average programmer. Hell, even javascript is too powerful, just look at how a >1 year old codebase looks like.
786.
by tzahola 9y ago
Or they can install ultrasound beacons in the stores. They already have access to the microphone for obvious reasons.
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by tzahola 9y ago
It’s equivalent to the usual definition, but spares you a few steps when proving the existence of eigenvalues. I.e. you only need to prove that T - hI maps some nonzero vector to zero.
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by tzahola 9y ago
I had the same uneasy feeling about determinants when I was studying linear algebra at the university. Years later I found Sheldon Axler’s “Linear Algebra done right”, and I loved it!
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by tzahola 9y ago
This is the future you chose :^) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/amid-unprecedented-con...
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by tzahola 9y ago
You can set nearest neighbor interpolation for the texture (aka no interpolation), and gl_FragCoord can be used to determine which pixel the fragment shader is operating on.
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by tzahola 9y ago
Nonworking shareholders are being paid for their investment risk. The company pays them for taking said risk instead of investing their capital somewhere else. Workers are paid wages for creating said surplus value using the company’s capit
792.
by tzahola 9y ago
>compensation was tied to value. It is the definition of value. Value is the compensation others are willing to give you in exchange for your goods/services.
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by tzahola 9y ago
>The world still needs plenty of professions where the pay sucks and college is required Quite a self-contradictory statement. I mean, if the world was in such a dire need of said professions in such quantities, then their pay wouldn’t s
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by tzahola 9y ago
>your child’s information isn’t used for ads I’ll translate: Your child’s information will be used, but not for ads.
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by tzahola 9y ago
Communists have been consistently achieving this in the past 100 years, so at least we know it’s possible!
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by tzahola 9y ago
TL;DR: a few new heuristics to tweak the step size of gradient descent. The more I read about this kind of machine learning research, the more I'm getting convinced that we're very-very far from the Kurzweilian singularity...
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by tzahola 9y ago
I don’t m8
798.
by tzahola 9y ago
Yet another layer to go through when debugging. Wonderful! /s
799.
by tzahola 9y ago
Cringe
800.
by tzahola 9y ago
Very nicely put, thank you!
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by tzahola 9y ago
"There are a number of very valid reasons to install cameras and microphones in every living room. Consider the amount of domestic abuse that could be prevented this way! Also, interior designers could further understand and tweak the
802.
by tzahola 9y ago
Is there a browser or extension which doesn't enable mouse and keyboard events by default? I would like to see permission alerts for mouse and keyboard listeners similar to location permission requests.
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by tzahola 9y ago
Reminds me of IPv4 address space exhaustion articles of the past.
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by tzahola 9y ago
Amdahl’s law
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by tzahola 9y ago
>CISC's bullied them away and we've been stuck in Intel's quagmire every since You know that ARM means Advanced RISC Machine, right?
806.
by tzahola 9y ago
>I was able to work on only greenfield projects with minimal oversight I'm pretty sure those enterprise CMSes started out like this too...
807.
by tzahola 9y ago
Though politics does cater for the lowest common denominator...
808.
by tzahola 9y ago
>Why do we value youth and beauty instead of education and accomplishments? I for one, do value these traits. If I were to choose between two equally looking girls, I would choose the smarter. On the other hand, I have a strict lower bou
809.
by tzahola 9y ago
Yes. And the free market is in the clear for choosing other cloud providers.
810.
by tzahola 9y ago
There are plenty of companies hooking into private APIs within Word and Excel with their “productivity tools”. Probably an important MSFT customer was using one of these tools as a crucial part of their operations, so they convinced them no

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