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by xkemp 7y ago
There's some momentum behind Swift-on-Server, I believe. And Tensorflow Swift seems to be a rather serious project.
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by xkemp 7y ago
Of course now that the UK has left the EU, nobody really has any ideas of what, specifically, they want to deregulate. Asbestos in food? Attractive new opportunities for US pharma to sell opioids? Houses no longer need windows? EULAs on jea
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by xkemp 7y ago
"Power" can be tanks and submarines. It can be the gavel of a Supreme Court judge. Or it can be the position of a UN High Representative. Just by being quoted in the papers and us discussing his views, he has power. Sure, it'
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by xkemp 7y ago
The US charge should obviously be thrown out. Difficult cases make bad precedents and all that. But this guy isn't really doing Assange any favours, as far as I can tell. He's claiming the imprisonment in Britain amounts to tortu
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by xkemp 7y ago
This thread is insane... How did we go from someone borrowing others' phone on occasion to these ideas of Social Darwinism? At this rate, someone is going to suggest euthanasia within two more comments tops. For most people, lending th
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by xkemp 7y ago
I recently used a Linux desktop system (Ubuntu 19.4) for a a few weeks, the first time I've used a non-MacOS desktop in about 15 years. In the last view years, I had gotten the impression that Linux on the desktop had made progress. I
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by xkemp 7y ago
Well, yes, they obviously can as in could , as could any other OS. This incident doesn't actually show any local files being sent to MS, however. Online search can be disable with a registry entry, which proves that the online servi
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by xkemp 7y ago
Or, maybe, document/file search is a pretty useful and commonly expected feature for a desktop operating system? And extending it to online search is an entirely natural next step? Even if this were a plot against Google, it would simp
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by xkemp 7y ago
We know the historic average, but also variability, and I'm pretty sure that data just so happens to be a standard example of what is specifically called the "normal distribution". So I don't see what the problem is with
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by xkemp 7y ago
Quitting in protest really requires you to do it somewhat publicly if you want to maximize its impact. Losing one employee has some, but not much impact. But the publicity destroys a lot of goodwill among prospective employees and the gener
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by xkemp 7y ago
Yes, of course. I was thinking of the risk of death and injury, not broken gadgets. Because it is somewhat disconcerting to think how often we/babies touch/stick in our mouth a cable with an almost direct connection to the grid.
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by xkemp 7y ago
We could easily go to the moon. It's just a completely useless exercise to do so, unless you can find a way to taunt China into another round of the space race. The scientific case for the moon was always weak, and most anything they c
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by xkemp 7y ago
This somewhat legendary teardown of an Apple charger is a fun read: http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-... Basically, they seem to do a pretty good job isolating high- and low-voltage circ
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by xkemp 7y ago
It's interesting how "it's business" has become catch-all for absolving every breach of previously accepted social norm. As a hiring manager, you're unlikely to be on the clock. And even if, I am somewhat certain th
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by xkemp 7y ago
It's not enough for the vote to be secure . It's not even enough for it to be provable . It needs to be understandably secure. As in: every moderately intelligent person must be able to understand how the process works, end-to
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by xkemp 7y ago
I don't understand why "otherwise smart people" feel the need to diminish the potential and successes of ML. When chess was basically solved, it was dismissed brute force, with a sarcastic challenge to do Go, and we now the f
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by xkemp 7y ago
I'm entirely self-taught and can entirely understand wanting that belief to be true, but it just isn't. A university can give you so much more than just learning some programming language. At the very least, it's going to for
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by xkemp 7y ago
There's some momentum for Swift on servers. It has at least the potential for C-like performance, although the last time I tried it wasn't quite there yet. Might also be useful for having a second stack that works on the client as