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by yccs27 3y ago
The distributed systems engineer definitely uses a mirror to watch both directions at the same time while crossing the street. They've been caught by Time of Check - Time of Use errors before.
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by yccs27 3y ago
It‘s pretty clear they mean other computers.
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by yccs27 3y ago
Computing is not a subset of crypto mining.
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by yccs27 3y ago
The headline is so clickbaity - It‘s not all Microsoft‘s products, it‘s Microsoft-branded ones being discontinued (or rebranded).
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by yccs27 3y ago
GOTOs are the thing you can use to implement a conditional, a loop, an exception handler.
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by yccs27 3y ago
The same people who currently decide what things are illegal or taxed higher.
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by yccs27 3y ago
"Being an ally" and "Ready to defend against China" are very different qualities.
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by yccs27 3y ago
The Halting Problem is undecidable only for Turing machines, but we are restricting ourselves to finite state machines - and with a finite number of states it must eventually either halt or repeat a previous configuration. https:/&#x2
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by yccs27 4y ago
Wow, it really becomes snappy again after logging out. Unfortunate side effect: I had to log back in to upvote you and leave this comment.
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by yccs27 4y ago
Probably got traction because the headline is much clearer and the language is not twisted by the YC PR team.
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by yccs27 4y ago
I love it when hacky programming is compared to witchcraft, because it describes the feeling of reading and writing it. Reminds me of the "technical interview" [0] from yesterday‘s front page. [0] https://news.ycombinat
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by yccs27 4y ago
Language models like ChatGPT seem to "remember" paragraphs of text in a highly compressed form which is not always fully accurate when reproduced - so a mistake does not tell us whether the text is from memory.
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by yccs27 4y ago
There's dozens of websites with the corrected poem out there, hard to know if ChatGPT just 'remembered' it.
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by yccs27 4y ago
I'd say labels (for supervised ML) are fundamentally different from rules (for expert systems), because - labels are easy to decide in many cases - rules require humans to analyze patterns in the problem space - labels only con
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by yccs27 4y ago
The big difference is that data scientists only work on the model architecture and data sources, whereas expert systems need people who have expertise in the subject matter itself . One of the biggest changes from 'old AI' to mod
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by yccs27 4y ago
The error handling is atrocious. The language isn‘t just untyped - everything that‘s not defined is symbolic, and builtins will silently operate on symbolic expessions even if you don‘t expect them to. Consider this: myfunc[x_] := {2*
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by yccs27 4y ago
And the comments only cost your sanity! (jk, the comment quality is what I come here for)
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by yccs27 4y ago
I imagine something like AlphaZero would also benefit: It's basically a hybrid of tree search and neural network.
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by yccs27 4y ago
Sorry I was wrong - no integrated keyboard :(
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by yccs27 4y ago
This build also folds down and has an integrated keyboard like a normal laptop.
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by yccs27 4y ago
I can understand it insofar that my first association with the word "laptop" is the portable computer with integrated keyboard that mostly sits on my desk. This build isn't too far from that.
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by yccs27 4y ago
The paper looks interesting but it seems no one here understands it, so people upvote it in the hopes that someone knowledgeable will see it and summarize it in the comments.
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by yccs27 4y ago
I was thinking about foreign exchange options [0], which buy you the right to exchange some amount of money (your salary) at a given some later date (payday) with a fixed exchange rate. You‘d buy one for every paycheck within the period you
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by yccs27 4y ago
Additionally to the silbling comments - if the employer only offers USD payment, virtually all banks will offer some financial product to hedge against currency risk. This comes at a price, of course, but presumably the employer pays well e
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by yccs27 4y ago
Some Office features that came after 2010: - Latex math formulas - SVG graphics - Opening PDFs in Word - Alignment guides for images and other objects and these are just the ones I noticed with my limited MS Office use.
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by yccs27 4y ago
So many knee-jerk reactions by people disliking the change, so I want to give another view: I really like the new design. - When reading an article, I want to have absolutely minimal visual noise. Removing the old sidebar helps. - The small
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by yccs27 4y ago
I like it because I want to focus on the text, not the visual noise around it . Also a smaller text column is better for readability
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by yccs27 4y ago
Although that would be really fun, the proposed `Try` basically only allows you to call the `Result<_, E>` by a different name.
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by yccs27 4y ago
It currently works with `Result` and `Option` types, and with RFC#3058 will work with all types implementing the `Try` trait.
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by yccs27 4y ago
My wish for a dream config language is this: Allow a choice between unambiguously-typed expressions (quoted strings, only true/false, decimal numbers) and explicit type annotations. So this: regions: $[string] - no -

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