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by abhianet 9y ago
Is that not how Amadeus happened?
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by abhianet 10y ago
> But the GPUs also have new destinations: notably data centres where artificial-intelligence (AI) programmes gobble up the vast quantities of computing power that they generate. Should not it be "programs"? Or is "program
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by abhianet 10y ago
It's like Netflix, but distributed! https://popcorntime.sh/en Snarkiness aside, this is beautiful!
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by abhianet 10y ago
Truly forgotten. I have read a number of works by Smith but never came across this one. Would be adding this to me reading-list. On a side note, this sounds a lot like The Bhagvad Gita [1]. Is there a relationship between these two works,
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by abhianet 10y ago
This can also be read outside the states as follows: For about $50, you can get a smartphone with a high-definition display, fast data service and, according to security contractors, a secret feature: a backdoor that sends all your text mes
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by abhianet 10y ago
Cool. I wonder how they test this stuff.
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by abhianet 10y ago
What happens if I send it a mail from an mlooper address? Can I get it to setup an infinite loop?
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by abhianet 10y ago
Completely off the topic, but interesting to know nonetheless. It always makes it worth the time spent going through comments on HN to find such buried gems.
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by abhianet 10y ago
This is a more technical viewpoint. A more holistic view would have considered native ads, ads disguised as content, or even content disguised as ads.
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by abhianet 10y ago
"Never attribute to attacks that which is adequately explained by bugs."
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by abhianet 11y ago
It is more attractive to look at WASM as a way to bring a lot of other languages into the web. We are already transpiling a lot of code, ES7, TypeScript, ClojureScript, Dart, and so on. I would say WASM makes a lot better target than JS wil
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by abhianet 11y ago
IMHO autonomous driving systems still do not mix well with humans on the road. Could even say they are not compatible with each other. With how things have been going, soon we would have systems predicting behavior of human driver for safer
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Self driving cars crash five times as much as regular ones(fortune.com)
6 points by abhianet 11y ago|14 comments
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by abhianet 12y ago
The footer also says "BROUGHT TO YOU BUY" Not sure it was intentional or not, but surely reduces the trustworthiness by a lot and then some
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by abhianet 12y ago
I wonder why no one mentioned "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy" (Douglas Adams) yet. I died laughing twice while reading it.