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by waveBidder 2y ago
Git is not the same thing as github. It's designed to be decentralized, even if it isn't getting used that way atm
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by waveBidder 2y ago
I wonder how much it would've taken to keep github running without Microsoft buying them and running them into the ground like this.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
I do this too; have you found effective ways to tell firefox to maybe chill on eating all memory? I find if I don't restart ~1/week, it will end up reserving ~32GB of RAM for itself, which is just absurd.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
The behavior of smashing their competitor's means of production was typical of guilds, and iirc it was one of the last instances of guilds acting to defend their interest in England. I'm more sympathetic to the Luddites than most
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Historically, guilds were first and foremost a tool to enforce monopoly power on the part of masters against anyone else trying to enter the market (and against eachother to maintain monopoly pricing and supply). Luddites were actually just
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by waveBidder 2y ago
> It's like saying you can't murder with a handgun, but if you set up an automated machine gun turret, now it's OK. This is a great analogy. You can't actually afford to run this at scale legally? Too bad.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
You would probably enjoy Feynman's lectures on computation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17274.Feynman_Lectures_O...
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by waveBidder 2y ago
An SVM is purely a linear model from the right perspective, and if you're being really reductive, RELU neural networks are piecewise linear. I think this may be obscuring more than it helps; picking the right transformation for your pa
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Valve has a money printing machine and is thus under far less pressure to follow the incentive gradient.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
that's actually the normal view, with saying both info and stat mech entropy are the same is an outlier, most popularized by Jaynes.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
except agencies need to be able to work on timelines faster than once a decade
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by waveBidder 2y ago
ah, so the same genre as House of Leaves
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by waveBidder 2y ago
I more or less ignore the front page and use the bell as an rss, having found channels I like via recs from channels I like and friends
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by waveBidder 2y ago
The first step in getting people to care is proving there's a problem, and accurate models help with that. Not as much as actual data mind you.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
it seems like it is if they're former SF residents priced out of their homes.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Congratulations, you've just invented a bank.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Pretty odd comparison as the selfish gene is about gene level incentives, not individual level ones. there's even a chapter devoted to the chromosomal effects that lead to eusociality. then again maybe the people you're thinking a
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by waveBidder 2y ago
check out "Why the West Rules for Now", it's a historian's attempt at that
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by waveBidder 2y ago
having spent my PhD writing in Julia, coming back to object oriented programming felt like programming with a hand tied to my back. many operations just make more sense dispatching on multiple arguments rather than just one, and. cramming m
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Well, every major city being eliminated by a nuke would also hamper these systems in a total war between developed countries.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
you can easily generate reams and reams of long division text if you so choose, and i'd assume openai has done so to get to this point
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by waveBidder 2y ago
calibre has a converter, though often that can get jank
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by waveBidder 2y ago
they're referring to that time spot prices went negative during the early pandemic when nobody was driving, demand was way down, and storage suddenly became a problem.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
… it was also only sparsely populated
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by waveBidder 2y ago
bollards don't have to be Brutalist utilitarian objects. one could, for example, make light poles actually intended to wreck cars that trespass into pedestrian spaces. Target's bollards look decent IMO.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Probably classified given the way the vote to do this went down. Check back after the election, they might make it public then
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by waveBidder 2y ago
oh I'm sure they get /something/, its just not proportional to the their contribution. I'm out of the habit of using the library because I was far away from one, but my normal approach is to just buy the physical copies
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by waveBidder 2y ago
a couple of alternatives are donation models (patreon), or quadratic funding, where a common pool is used to provide the incentive to contribute to the creation of a public good at the actual value you get out of it (see Radical Markets for
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Honestly at this point, I feel like the ethical thing to do is "steal" digital and buy/borrow physical, the copyright surrounding digital goods has been so thoroughly gamed in the favor of publishers.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
never thought I'd see a creationist on hn. Giraffe's have a nerve that goes all the way down the neck and back up, merely because it couldn't unwrap from a vein as giraffes evolved longer necks. No designer would include such

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