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by unoti 11y ago
> can someone familiar with both Elixir and Erlang explain what Elixir provides in comparison to Erlang. The syntax is nicer, but that's just a bonus. The real game-changer to me about Elixir vs Erlang is its macro system. This gi
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by unoti 11y ago
> is it because what they want to do simply is not possible in Ruby/Python/Go/JavaScript/etc There are several key distinctions about Elixir vs the other languages you mentioned. These are things that are basically n
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> How can you go on as a business if your business model has been exposed as totally fake ? They should take a few pages from the TSA playbook!
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It returns the value of a neighbor given an index, and an x and y delta value. So rel(20, -1, 0) would return the neighbor to the left (x=-1, y=0) of the 20th cell.
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by unoti 11y ago
If I were a neural net learning to tell real light vs ambient occlusion, I'd immediately learn to look for the spider webs. I was fascinated by this article and loved the author's approach of graphing real photos. But I got a gi
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by unoti 11y ago
Even though I know this isn't a real kitty purring in my ear, I can sense myself feeling relaxed and soothed by this as if it were a drug. I've heard that petting a cat or dog lowers a person's blood pressure. I bet hearing c
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by unoti 11y ago
> Hardware was the clear cut theme of Day 1... > L. Condoms — “Condoms That Women Want”... Do the condoms count as hardware, or software? Or perhaps both, depending on how long they are worn.
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For many kinds of business discussions, being able to read emotions is even more important than with interpersonal discussions. Many business discussions involve selling ideas, selling products, understanding concerns, and so on. Once som
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> Why phone? What is it that the phone offers that IM doesn't? Phone is better than text because phone gives you more information in the discussion. You can judge the other person's mood to some extent, get a feel for their en
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I drive by a lot of corn fields out here. California produces 16% of the nation's sweet corn, #2 in the nation. http://www.seecalifornia.com/farms/california-corn.html
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by unoti 11y ago
This might interest you http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/ it's a mesh network using modified wifi access points for setting up a very high bandwidth mesh network. Quite a few people in my area (Pleasanton, Livermore) a
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by unoti 11y ago
Opening up with the gambit about inventing unique ways of killing people was a genius way to set the tone for the piece.
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Groundless discrimination based on race, gender, religion, age, and all kinds of other factors happens all the time, and it's a real bummer. The simple fact is that people take all kinds of shortcuts in making decisions, and very litt
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by unoti 11y ago
There's some kind of JavaScript mess going on that prevents me from being able to read this article on my iPad. I can read it for a couple seconds until the page loads, then everything but the header and footer disappear. Amusingly, I
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by unoti 11y ago
Certainly not, no-- but that doesn't make the oppression we're talking about not real. We've come a long way. The oppression today is not anything like it was 50 years ago. But just because we've come a long way today
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"Guys" is fine, except when it isn't. It's a pain point for some people, and it's reasonable to be sensitive to that. > Yeah, and medieval oppression was actually real, unlike some other "oppression" I
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I learned a little about Green Bank because it's on the test for the Ham Radio Extra exam: E1F06 [97.3] What is the National Radio Quiet Zone? An area surrounding the National Radio Astronomy Observatory The National Radio Astronomy Ob
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by unoti 11y ago
Reamde is totally worth reading. Great fun!
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From a learning perspective, reimplementation has key advantage versus other kinds of projects: the design is completely done, so you can focus exclusively on the mechanics of implementation.
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Whoa, thanks for introducing me to Babel. It looks like user plugins could be wildly, astonishingly powerful for doing compile-time code execution.
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by unoti 11y ago
I just read your fascinating and fun paper. Your interest expanding your model using genetic algorithms will be well-served with his book. Last time I checked, a good amount of Koza's work was available online if you want to take a pe
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by unoti 11y ago
I was about to say that sounds even more vomit-inducing, when you consider all the g-forces going on, and then add goggles on top of it. But then, if the g-forces match what the passenger is seeing through the goggles, that could actuall
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by unoti 11y ago
The mating process looks like it is a mathemetical average of various statistics of the mother and father. It wasn't the kind of cool dna I envisioned, where the food search algorithm is a little program that the creatures execute. If
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by unoti 11y ago
Pro tip: if you stay with a friend, go ahead and do your own laundry if you're over the age of 9.
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by unoti 11y ago
Funny, I thought this was going to be "inverting binary trees considered harmful" because the sensible way to do it is to change your traversal algorithm to be right-before-left, and leave the data alone. Silly me!
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That's the number one problem with social media-- sometimes you are subjected to what people have to say.
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> you also need engineers who can fill in all the rest of the tasks that make up a production worthy system. I have not found that the uber-algorithm guys always pay attention to detail, put in good comments, think of all the edge cases,
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by unoti 11y ago
Is their story on mobile deployment any better yet? I switched off of Unreal Engine because it required overly beefy phones, outrageous download sizes, and slurped down huge amounts of battery, even for something trivial like Tappy Chicken
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This is really nothing new. It's a DevOps version of Joel on Software's famous essay about Architecture Astronaughts from 2001: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
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My son has been playing Witcher 3 for the last few weeks, and literally every time I walk by, there's a cutscene. I'm pretty sure I have yet to see anything but cutscenes. It's all cutscenes. Listening to it in the backgro

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