SavantIdiot

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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
And it got flagged. HN: still a bro club after all these years.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Irix! When I got my MFA in '88 we had Mac IIs, Amigas, and a SGI workstation. There was a huge difference: the macs/amigas sat quietly on the work desks in their sleek beige boxes, the workstation was about 3'x2'x3'
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Pivot tables are so 1990's. Vector functions (you have to press three keys at once !) and 2D table solvers are all the rage. Get with the hip crowd. /s
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Two satires from The New Yorker on HN front page in one day! This should have been about Excel. I see way more puffery surrounding Excel than I do Word.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
You're doing the same thing you are criticizing your straw-person leftists as doing. As a leftist, it is quite easy to critique her ideas in good faith: she disdains anyone who doesn't confirm to her idea of "productive"
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I gave my partner an airtag as a test to see how accurate it was. After three days of daily driving around going to work errands etc, they received no warning whatsoever but I could still track. Don't know why, but it scared both of us
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I soured on the idea (more work, ROI?) and never used them, but when I see pages like Webpack, Bootstrap and Python docs, I drool over their well-designed, easily cross-referenced doc system and wonder what they use. Someday...
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I joined a project that used it back in 2014. What I found was that the documentation ended up being about as useful as reading the header files, and less useful once you open the code in an IDE that allows semantic browsing. OTOH, if someo
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
A bit of a grandiose article, but yeah, they actually do mess with your head. Maybe not as woo-like intensity as OP elaborates. I did one and it took me a long time to feel anything, and suddenly I couldn't tell how big my body was, or
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I made a spreadsheet of all of his books, and read everything my library had, which was about 70% of them. His early stuff is shlocky and gets tedious by the 10th book from that era. About 20% of his stuff is truly groundbreaking, the rest
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Not clicking on that. I recall seeing a picture of rows of hundreds of crabs strapped to harnesses, bent in half, with needles in their backs draining their blue blood. Still can't get it out of my head.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Now I don't know what "rotation" means. After reading that thread, the phrase "rotating through spacetime" is still just gibberish. It sounds like he's trying to solve a physics problem backwards by making the
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> "nerds aren't the good guys anymore," Why would anyone assume this was ever true?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
If you have terabytes of photos, be honest: no one is ever going to look at them. Pare them down to the good ones, get high-quality prints, and make a photo album. There's really no way to guarantee electrical devices will last without
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> Intel's internal manufacturing operations must earn Intel's business This is putting lots of high-level employee's future earnings on the line in a far more direct manner. It will be interesting to see if they accept thi
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I'd say 99% of folks based on my 50+ years of experience on- and off-line. I think I've only known a handful of people who can think critically about their opinions.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Critical thinking is just plain HARD . Let's face it, it is lacking as much on HN as it is on any social media site. That's because it requires a Vulcan-like lack of emotional investment in an opinion or worse, a belief. Critical
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I've been thinking about this for a day and thanks for pointing this out. I remember the scene well, as I've seen the film several times, but I didn't catch the distinction between putting glasses on and taking them off. As y
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Come off it. Everyone loves to watch a loudmouth fail [1], regardless of what they are bragging about. [1] Except maybe Buddhists and the elderly.
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
I found the learning curve to be quite steep with few examples of graphs that looked well-designed. By default, large graphs look like crap because engineers designed it, not designers (it takes both!). However, that was back in the late 90
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
All I want to know is: will the annoying guy at my gym who put brags about putting all of his retirement into Bitcoin this summer provide me with some decent schadenfreude at some point?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
What are the best object detector models these days? Is this it? The last object detectors I played with were SSDMobileNet and Yolo. Their off-the-shelf performance was really bad for a cameras I set up pointing at my house and street. But
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> The view that everyone is manipulated while only you see the truth is the ultimate ideological position Except Zizek never claims that. Not everyone is claiming "only I see the truth and you are a sheep". Some of us are claim
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
This article is a good summary, but I think it still doesn't drive home the point. I didn't really grasp ideology until I watched (don't wince) Slavoj Zizek's "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology." I understoo
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
> That's reductive of my point. > they wouldn't be able to purchase anything made by an international company I suggest you don't make sweeping generalizations, then. > The overall being one's choices for a new
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Nope, not just you. Been coding since the 80's, and command-line tooling has become more noisy and less parser/redirect-friendly over the past decade (but option parsers have def. gotten better). To be fair, once terminals started
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Gustin and Everlane. These two clothing companies provide 100% transparency on their sourcing and labor practices. You absolutely can choose to wear clothing that doesn't enslave people. Maybe not 100% (shoes are still difficult to sou
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Wrong. You are making the "all or nothing" fallacy. You absolutely can make the ethical choice when you have the choice. In some cases, you are simply forced to make the lesser evil choice. Transparency is the first step. Yes, in
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Other than a crappier website, what difference does the servicer make?
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by SavantIdiot 5y ago
Is technological lock-in, or "hostility" toward a user as you put it, an ethical issue? I would think the use of Chinese labor abuses to make iPhones is the ethical issue. Funny you didn't mention that.

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