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by uw_rob 3y ago
Some would call this Software 2.0 https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35
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by uw_rob 3y ago
Far be it from me to try to change your mind here, but based on my first hand experience this isn't true. Myself, and all of members of my team in my location, were laid off 2 weeks ago from one of the big 4 tech companies. Within the
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by uw_rob 4y ago
For better and worse everything productive is becoming OS agnostic. In 15 years I don't think many first-class applications will be truly native. They will be UI via HTML (webapps, electron, etc), CLIs based on POSIX, or company mainta
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by uw_rob 4y ago
Honest question: Was ChatGPT used to edit the response here? I do not doubt that the response represents your opinion.
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by uw_rob 4y ago
Not to accuse anyone, but it's written in the style of ChatGPT.
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by uw_rob 4y ago
Thank you for your work on StarCraft. The level of depth to the game and my endless fascination into how it worked was my inspiration for becoming a software engineer. Your blog is definitely a good reminder that it was built by humans too.
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by uw_rob 4y ago
When it comes to security someone must always sleep with one eye open - co-owning this responsibility is totally reasonable. Microsoft takes security seriously and is investing heavily in it; if they are already in your orgs trust boundarie
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by uw_rob 5y ago
The underlying message is that adequate resources is all that it takes for an individual to hoodwink the justice system and be found not guilty of a violent crime. Well, ok, fair enough. Now, GoFundMe shouldn't be a substitute for fun
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by uw_rob 6y ago
This isn't necessarily true - there is a implied assumption that the infections are still following the same distribution among people with different risk factors, but that isn't necessarily the case.
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by uw_rob 7y ago
> You don't know anything about my setup, so you have no basis for claiming this. Sure, but the discussion isn't specifically about your setup, it's about the advertising claims that a VPN will help prevent tracking. Which
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by uw_rob 7y ago
From my understanding, Shazam can differentiate between songs that share samples by doing classification on a windowed section of input. I.e, take 5 seconds of recording, and classify on t=0..2, 1..3, 2..4, 3..5. The idea being that the sam
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by uw_rob 7y ago
If you skip the PR, you'll notice that they killed the non-TB Macbook Pro. Really a shame to see them double down on a failed design. I am still hopeful that the next generation will kill the TB off.
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by uw_rob 8y ago
> Poverty might be related to authoritarian, but not necessarily caused by it. There are some good arguments for why it might be the cause of it. A book I really enjoyed on this subject is called "The Dictator's Handbook".
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by uw_rob 8y ago
> touchbar -> you can buy pro without touchbar Kinda. If you do, you get the 2016 specs machine, not the 2018 bumped specs. Maybe it is not rational, but if I am forking over that kind of money for a machine, I would want to get the b
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by uw_rob 8y ago
Yes. Some key quotes about this: > The female rats did not show evidence of a link between the radiation and such tumors. > Experts say it is not unusual for cancer patterns to vary between sexes in both people and animals, including
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by uw_rob 8y ago
In the politest way possible, and without dismissing your feelings, it seems that you have discovered the placebo effect in action.
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by uw_rob 8y ago
Netflix does have ads! And quite a lot of them too. They are just in the form of product placement. Sometimes entire scenes will be for pitching a product. Because of that I refuse to watch any of their original programming.
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by uw_rob 8y ago
You should look into disabling javascript on untrusted pages with something like uMatrix. I visited the GoPro site without any popups, nags, notification requests, etc.
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by uw_rob 9y ago
> It’s absurd that someone thinks that they have an expectation of privacy when they voluntarily choose to send a message to someone else. How does this world view reconcile with the fact that many different states have 2 party consent?
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by uw_rob 9y ago
Tragedy of the commons situation. It is advantageous for an individual ISP to wait out for the other ISPs to block source IP spoofing.
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by uw_rob 9y ago
I don't think the response is good enough. - They make no promise of the target lifespan of their devices. It appears that their internal culture believes that devices that last only 1 year is acceptable. They do not say if they want t
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by uw_rob 9y ago
> And SlayerS isn't a player, it's a team name. I think the parent comment is fair. At MLG Anaheim in 2011 SlayerS unleashed their TvZ blue flame build and slaughtered with it. Blizzard nerfed it pretty hard fairly shortly afte
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by uw_rob 9y ago
> the APMs for humans are obviously averaged over a minute This is wrong. I don't know the exact number, but APM is averaged over around a second. I suspect this is done because APM is a more meaningful compared to APS, for humans a
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by uw_rob 9y ago
APM isn't averaged over a minute time frame. I don't know the exact calculations they use ( and it has been changed a couple of times) but roughly, if you go above 5 actions per second your APM will be shown as 300. I believe the
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by uw_rob 9y ago
Just to make sure I am correct, your 401k gets matched with 0.004 of your total pay? Thanks
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by uw_rob 9y ago
> And that's easy - it's a setting. (Non) problem solved. I still don't think this is a non problem. When you are using many different tools that are updating constantly, it is easy to not notice one adding telemetry. And
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by uw_rob 9y ago
> Can you say with an straight face that most universities, for example, aren't more extreme left than in the past? You shouldn't make a claim and then ask someone else to disprove it. What numbers are you basing this belief of
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by uw_rob 9y ago
How would you respond to the fact that A lot of ISPs have local monopolies and they have 0 incentive to pass on any savings they materialize to customers? Also, many ISPs are also media companies, and sabotaging internet based entertainment
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by uw_rob 9y ago
> you have one big consumer that is eating the major part of that every day, making the others miserable, isn't it reasonable to limit that consumer's bandwidth somehow? NN doesn't force ISPs to not have bandwidth caps on
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by uw_rob 9y ago
> What I don't get about eBay is they found initial success in being an auction site then they almost immediately decided they wanted to be an online retailer instead. Why not just be the best auction site you can be rather than be

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