MadWombat

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by MadWombat 2y ago
It seems to be one of those "pick any two" jokes, but those usually only have three items on the list. And yet pretty much everything on this list feels mutually exclusive.
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by MadWombat 3y ago
"What special sauce do you expect Mozilla to implement that'll suddenly change their fortunes?" XUL extensions maybe? The reason I gave up on Firefox after literally decades of using it was because they kept removing features
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by MadWombat 4y ago
shrug perverse incentives. For a lot of college students, the actual learning or lack thereof, while still important, does not affect them directly. But getting a bad grade does. Drop in average grade might affect their scholarships, vari
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by MadWombat 4y ago
"You should measure the satisfaction of the students" OK. Then how do you measure competency? Right now, a medical diploma indicates that the person took all the requisites and passed all the tests to be a practicing physician. If
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by MadWombat 4y ago
"The current re-emergence of Python as a machine learning/data science languages is basically a new trend" This new trend is about a decade old by now. Pandas was released in 2011, numpy in 1995. Google released Tensorflow to
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by MadWombat 4y ago
"It's elegant when writing but frustrating when reading" As a person who used to use Perl 5 rather extensively back in the day for all sorts of things, I fondly remember the joke that Perl is a "write-only language"
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by MadWombat 4y ago
Web3 is not going to happen. The crypto economy is failing. The promise of crypto was (and still is among the devoted) to provide a viable alternative to government backed currency. At this time, crypto accounts for a fraction of a percent
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by MadWombat 5y ago
"This is why automotive UX is so hard. It’s the context and the severe consequences that make it far more impactful..." I see what you did there :)
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by MadWombat 5y ago
DO NOT CLICK THE LINK Whatever document was there before have been vandalized.
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by MadWombat 5y ago
So you prevent them from recording your conversations with friends by having no conversations and no friends.
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by MadWombat 5y ago
Paid my $15. Great effort. A bit cryptic, but a nice deviation from a standard DAW experience. A bit weird how a lot of things you would expect to be separate modules are combined (like LFOs are created by right clicking on parameters and f
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by MadWombat 5y ago
One of the specific features of DroidScript is that it is a remote IDE. That is, when you start DroidScript on your phone it will serve the IDE UI via HTTP and you can then connect it by using your phones IP address (DroidScript convenientl
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by MadWombat 5y ago
It is cute that this is implemented in the browser, but to be honest, this does not sound any different from a whole load of generative modular synth patches out there.
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by MadWombat 6y ago
I am very confused. I am using a Mac for work and I am using Windows at home. And after reading the readme, I am still not sure what this thing does. Can someone explain?
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by MadWombat 6y ago
"It’s called surveillance capitalism and it’s certainly not about giving you a great user experience, it’s about making money" Well... it also happens to create a better (if not great) user experience along the way. I definitely p
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by MadWombat 6y ago
TL;DR; X11 (and X windows) is a standard and a protocol. X is a short term for X11 and X Windows Xorg is a specific implementation of X11 protocol under the GNU open source project. Pretty much every UNIX under the sun had some kind of X11
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by MadWombat 6y ago
"Embrace, extend and extinguish" ™ I might need to branch out into other languages.
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by MadWombat 6y ago
Because Quest 2 is a stand-alone VR headset. It is not a display device for a computer, it is an all-in-one. So you install games on it to play them.
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by MadWombat 6y ago
> Every laptop Apple has manufactured in the last ten years has an LED connected to the same circuit which powers up the camera It would be very helpful if you could provide some evidence of that
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by MadWombat 6y ago
"Whatever reason Apple had to design the camera system this way back in 2008, is probably still a valid reason" reading comprehension is an important skill to develop
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by MadWombat 6y ago
I just did a google image search for "person". The first 5 images were of Greta Thunberg. She must be the most representative person ever. The next few images contained Donald Trump, Terry Crews, Bill Gates and a French politician
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> People should fear being destitute its the natural human condition. People should die of diseases, its the natural human condition. Women should die in childbirth, its the natural human condition. Men should die in wars, its the natura
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> There is no free market of proposals Drivers are free to accept or decline any ride requests around them. How is that not a free market of proposals? Pretty much every driver I met used multiple applications, Uber, Lift, Juno. I don&#x
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by MadWombat 7y ago
Reddit seems like an odd choice, but there is the personal finance stack exchange site https://money.stackexchange.com/
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by MadWombat 7y ago
The author needs to do some basic math on his example pricing. The way it is stated it encourages me to upload terabytes of random noise.
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by MadWombat 7y ago
I will need to take a closer look. If you are right, this might be more useful than I thought at a casual glance.
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by MadWombat 7y ago
> A SQL Schema can carry a custom query, it's called a view. This is not feasible. I might not have enough access to create views. I might not have access to create functions. I cannot deactivate permissions if I only have a single
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by MadWombat 7y ago
One thing that bothers me about systems like this is the underlying assumption that database architecture always reflects the presentation. But what if ti doesn't? I am looking at the Hasura docs and all it really says is "we will
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by MadWombat 7y ago
They did it on desktop already, what did you expect?
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by MadWombat 7y ago
What is a "small handful" of people? One percent? One tenth of a percent? 0.1% of a billion is a million.

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