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by urthor 5y ago
I think the exact opposite. All of my open source tools in 2021 are of extraordinarily higher quality than they were 10 years ago. All I see with the FOSS ecosystem is it picking up steam at an extraordinary pace from 2005. Postgres in
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by urthor 5y ago
I do wonder if we need a new type of copyleft license free and open source license that permits only free noncommercial use. Commercial use should bring with it a much difference set of obligations than non-commercial use.
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by urthor 5y ago
The core issue with data privacy is the enforcement mechanism. Yes, there are huge demands for limits on the business world's use of private data. But at the end of the day, any company that has your name/address/credit card
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by urthor 5y ago
I think we've just jumped from my "stochastic software engineering tip of the day" to a postgraduate level examination of validation and test set decision boundaries vs dataset boundaries. The thing is also, any individual hy
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by urthor 5y ago
No. See https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regio... A region is a networking paradigm. An AZ is a group of 2-6 data centers in the same city more or less. If a region goes down or is otherwis
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by urthor 5y ago
I sympathize, but what is the obstacle standing in the way of "if it's on Azure why don't we just use it?" That's often a moderately straightforward discussion.
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by urthor 5y ago
Exactly this. The difference between interpolation and extrapolation is almost the most important concept in all of machine learning practice. It's infinitesimally rare (from what I've seen so far) that a practical machine learnin
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by urthor 5y ago
Cannot agree with this more. Single cloud has a few extraordinary benefits for slow moving organizations. Once you hang up the sign and declare "we are an xxx shop" it becomes an extraordinarily effective tool to drag unsophistica
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by urthor 5y ago
Unfortunately you'll run into the rapid fact that in the ML/AI space you get almost zero points for building something. You get a whole lot of points for discovering something, designing something, or a proof. But there's a v
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by urthor 5y ago
Makes sense. Even from the outside the absolute interest of the 2005 generation in Myspace YouTube and Facebook was extraordinary at the time. I imagine from the inside it must have been an amazing high to be part of Facebook Twitter YouTu
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by urthor 5y ago
You should cultivate a relationship where you aren't afraid of being to the point. I haven't got time in my life to carefully and delicately walk around people's feelings with every single small work matter. If someone takes
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by urthor 5y ago
Sounds like the real world to me. I guess I've never hired someone at cheap rates, I only ever hired at 30 USD an hour.
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by urthor 5y ago
It's about proactivity and your ability to manage what happens to you at work. The passively employed, especially outside technology often have worringly insecure career trajectories. We are an insulated caste against the problems of
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by urthor 5y ago
Actors are very fungible. The commodity in cinema is entirely actors whose name the audience knows and remember . You can definitely staff a film entirely with superlative talent from the indie world.
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by urthor 5y ago
I was extremely surprised how low Upwork's fees are. In vanilla software consulting it's not uncommon for the middleman to take 20% or a third off the top. Or even more extraordinary amounts in the more traditional places like Bo
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by urthor 5y ago
exactly this. I take 30 minutes to get into flow state, how long the IDE takes to start is irrelevant.
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by urthor 5y ago
I've read The Pragmatic Programmer and large chunks of the Unwritten Laws of Engineering. They're excellent books, but they're targeted for early career developers and people struggling to figure out the office work life. It
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by urthor 5y ago
Ah, the more you know. Fish guy has spoken I guess. At least for white fish.
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by urthor 5y ago
Isn't practically everything you see in a fish market flash frozen anyway? Afaik there's very little fresh fish going around, period. It's all frozen on the boat.
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by urthor 5y ago
It is. It's also more than that. Writing is a communication medium . For some of the reasons we want to communicate, it's the perfect tool for the job. For some of the reasons we want to communicate it's a bit rubbish. Wri
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by urthor 5y ago
Chinese FDI inflows and outflows are actually almost equivalent in USD terms. Furthermore, China is well known for placing huge restrictions on capital outflow in its economy. I think it's safe to say that even if every last dollar of
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by urthor 5y ago
I really do despise the hotkeys on OSX. The way you shift windows around on two seperate 27" monitors is vastly inferior without multiple widgets is vastly inferior to the other two. I actually would have to spend far, far more time ha
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by urthor 5y ago
A cynic would say they changed because Azure is now their revenue driver. Strong developer relations are now life and death when Microsoft is pitching Azure to cynical developers choosing between Digital Ocean and their competitors. Before
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by urthor 5y ago
Hmm, that's a very good point. I wonder what the cost of tarmac vs rails is, I suppose it's a question for an expert.
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by urthor 5y ago
I forget where I read it, but the cost per km of rail vs buses is pretty appalling. I suppose that rail has theoretically the advantage in being more reliable. But I do wonder if you could carry the same quantity (outside the subway cities
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by urthor 5y ago
> So the real question here to a parent is, Do you want your child to get invested in a platform which has consistently proven to be unethical, immoral, indulge in outright illegal activities or has been attributed with degrading democra
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by urthor 5y ago
Is there even a better solution than to let the current supply chain issues play out? The status quo with supply chains and manufacturing is there for a reason, silicon in particular reflects its boom bust cycle as well as the absurd cost
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by urthor 5y ago
Ah that makes sense. The high performance cores are very similar iirc, accounting for binning and density. But if Apple has upgraded just the efficiency cores this time around that makes sense.
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I want to emphasize the fully part of fully parallelized with this. It's very common to multi-thread something across three threads for example. But something that is perfectly parallelized across all your threads, or at least 8 or
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by urthor 5y ago
I do think we have to temper the level of surprise somewhat. The key thing in consumer silicon chip design is always individual core design (or designs, there's Firestorm and Icestorm in big little). That's what matters for singl

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