zerebubuth

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by zerebubuth 10y ago
How much of that attitude do you think is due to a cultural shared failure to value basic science and theoretical research, and how much is due to a failure to communicate the benefits of such activities? I think it's quite possible th
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
Change my business cards to say "artisanal codesmith" and go looking for employers who value the wabi-sabi of code with genuine organic bugs. [edit - spelling, or were they genuine organic errors?]
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
Given the shift toward streaming services and away from relying on phone-local storage, do you think it's possible that phones could move from an ownership model to a rental model? If so, then there might be greater pressure from phone
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
I think it depends on context. As you point out, a lot of coverage is given to climate change denialists - out of proportion to the number of scientists who are sceptical of the consensus. Other examples of that include vaccine safety, evol
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
A little over half of those polled were okay with "Police and intelligence agencies [having] access to this information for anti-terrorism purposes". The YouGov report also shows that there's much less trust in politicians an
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
> Wait. They think they didn't do well, got an offer, but turned it down because they think they didn't do well on the interview? Yup. Happened to me: I felt like I did poorly in one of the interviews and had to ask myself whet
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
> I'm in favor of a regime where there is a benchmark for the recall and precision rates for the automated analysis, and anything that hits the benchmarks is acceptable. I think the benchmark rate is "indistinguishable from a h
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
> So will this bill reduce, increase or have no effect on the attacks? Many of the recent attacks, particularly those in the past week in Germany and in Nice, France, don't appear to have involved extensive planning. If that's
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by zerebubuth 11y ago
Congratulations! For me, it's 353 days, and I attribute this success to having vaped for a year prior to that, and being able to gradually reduce the nicotine levels without reducing the frequency of vaping. I think it's unfortuna
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by zerebubuth 11y ago
I think the analogy holds for the case of employees not having the capacity to give extra hours due to other commitments. However, I totally agree that people aren't AWS servers, and the reason I felt the analogy was bad was that such
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by zerebubuth 11y ago
> So, one of the questions would be: does 20h/wk + 20h/wk = 40h/wk skills+involvement, ie. is it linear? Wouldn't 20h/wk jobs be limited to inherently part-time, low importance tasks--which means you got to have
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by zerebubuth 11y ago
> I think there is a lot of room to improve the visual display of code, but I don't think much of it is as the token level. I absolutely agree - the power of mathematics isn't so much that people find it easier to read ∊ for se
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by zerebubuth 11y ago
Many of these studies appear to be variations on the form "We selected some people, gave them some money and told them we'd be back to check up on how they were doing." I wonder if there's a significant effect from the e
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by zerebubuth 11y ago
> This system defeats any large payment entity from payment tracking. Merchants of physical goods must know the identity and delivery address of their customers in order to deliver them. Given how easy many companies find it to embed 3rd
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by zerebubuth 11y ago
> The current hotness is spec paxos, which gets the positive trade-offs of both cheap paxos and fast paxos, if you're able to actually implement it in your DC (has networking assumptions). Sounds interesting, is "spec paxos&quo
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by zerebubuth 12y ago
> Tools are everything. What makes or breaks a paradigm/language are tools I completely agree. In my experience, and it's probably the same for many people, I spend a non-trivial amount of time not writing "primary" c
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by zerebubuth 12y ago
OpenGL might well be the "only truly cross-platform option", but it seems to me that, for games or mobile app development, getting stuff drawn on screen is only part of the problem. The rest is about doing so with the minimum use
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by zerebubuth 12y ago
Ceph's filesystem interface is built on a lower level protocol which is available through the librados [1] API, which might be a possible solution if it builds for (or can be ported to) Cygwin / Windows and all you need is a clien
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by zerebubuth 12y ago
In many ways this reminds me of the L4 project [1] - very lightweight "shared nothing" processes, semi-cooperatively scheduled [2] and with attention paid to minimising the context switch overhead. And this was before "shared
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by zerebubuth 12y ago
> While routing works well on OSM, the POI layer and the address layer (important for geocoding) still needs a fair bit of work, at least in the US. OSM is built from the contributions of hundreds of thousands of individuals mapping thei
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by zerebubuth 12y ago
They do, at least in part. "We use OpenStreetMap for our walking routes." [1] I don't know why they don't use it for display maps (or why they don't attribute OSM at all). [1] http://www.wired.co.uk/
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by zerebubuth 12y ago
> But the internet is global. It might work correctly for you when testing, but somebody in another country finds your app utterly useless. This appears to be based on a misunderstanding; the OSM project isn't an app released by a c