aleph_naught

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by aleph_naught 9mo ago
You can build on your own machine. I have github actions that trigger a local macos runner for local expo android/ios builds.
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by aleph_naught 1y ago
It's all just a series of S(S(S(....S(0)))) anyways.
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by aleph_naught 2y ago
I have some minor PTSD from prior insect bites, and the start of that video was giving me anxiety.
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by aleph_naught 4y ago
> It is far too early to be calling that a failure. Any what exactly do you think the end outcome will be when a) it is impossible to stop omicron and b) the CCP isn't ramping up the vaccination effort on the 80+ yr olds? If live in
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by aleph_naught 4y ago
> was to shut down all people coming into the country before Omicron arrived. Even that wouldn't work, there are covid reservoirs among wild animals now (e.g. deer).
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by aleph_naught 5y ago
That's what I thought when it came out initially, but after the series 4 release, I decided to get one, and I use it many many times a day: * Apple Pay on the watch is the fastest way to pay on any NFC enabled POS; now works on Caltrai
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by aleph_naught 5y ago
It is more than just following around, you need to be followed home or to a known location in order to be alerted: https://youtu.be/vjLbxywixro (Unrelated, but kind of sad that I got more information on how airtags actuall
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by aleph_naught 6y ago
> since no one other than Google is really allowed to crawl the web. ??
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by aleph_naught 6y ago
These captchas are used to crowdsource training data for semantic segmentation ML models. By shifting the image around, users statistically fill out the boundaries of objects by selecting which squares include the object. As a result, in m
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by aleph_naught 6y ago
I got the Modi2/Magni2 set for my HD650s when they originally came out. Total disappointment: pots had static when inc/dec vol, and had balancing issues. The headphone amp on my macbook didn’t suffer from any of that, was indistin
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by aleph_naught 7y ago
Historically we've had the opposite problem. Countries tend to move toward austerity at the wrong moment in time, due to political pressures or pressure from debtors. (Though this is much more difficult to navigate when the country&#x2
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by aleph_naught 7y ago
Up until the 80's wages and productivity moved in lock step, and since then wages have flatlined due to a various factors (weakening of unions / globalization). Furthermore, we are reaching the limits of what monetary stimulus is
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by aleph_naught 8y ago
> This article is one of many where the actual point being made is buried beneath unnecessary and divisive ad-hominem attacks. This is consistent with his writing style though, at least since Antifragile. I had a hard time getting into
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by aleph_naught 8y ago
Anecdotally, I would very much agree with this, with an added caveat: there are diminishing returns on mental horsepower after 2 stdevs (e.g. 130 iq). After a certain point obsessiveness separates the wheat from the chaff, by very wide marg
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by aleph_naught 9y ago
I really like the wikipedia model, but I know it wouldnt work for every outlet. I’ve contributed more to public radio and wikipedia than any other news service subscription. Ideally, nytimes/wapo/economist would be completely ope
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by aleph_naught 9y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted, but as someone who did try deleting an appleid, there is no self service way of doing so. Basically ended up removing all possible data; and filling the rest with fake values. Finally I changed the pa
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by aleph_naught 9y ago
A few questions, if you don't mind answering: > 400-450k Where is that in the pay distribution? Near median? Realistically, where, comp-wise, would the average SWE plateau? How many hours are you guys putting in a week? What was t
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by aleph_naught 9y ago
Just before I left JPL, the SPICE team had announced a plan for a complete rewrite in C++. The SPICE team is exceptionally small (especially considereing how widely used and impactful the software has been). IIRC since the team’s inception
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by aleph_naught 9y ago
Go to: https://myaccount.google.com/signinoptions/two-step-verifica... And remove SMS from the listing. I currently have 3 2FA mechanisms listed: Security-Key/Yubikey (default), Authenticator App (set on two devi
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by aleph_naught 9y ago
I was wondering that myself. Root vegetables like carrots and beets would be really difficult to press by hand.
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by aleph_naught 10y ago
I got about 200 pages in, and just could not continue with it. 'incomprehensible mess' would perfectly describe my sentiments. As having taken undergrad/grad courses in logic and set theory, any interesting nuggets about recu
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by aleph_naught 10y ago
> The Economist (left-leaning but has good reporting) The Economist's mission statement is, almost literally, to advance neoliberal (unrelated to the canonical American definition of 'liberal') thought and policies across
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by aleph_naught 10y ago
I'm guessing by 'non-democratic' means, he was referring to Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
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by aleph_naught 11y ago
the DSN (deep space network) is a shared resource under high contention---it is effectively used by every deep space mission from Voyager to MSL(via MRO relay). missions generally have a dsn rep that negotiates dsn tracks based on need. h
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by aleph_naught 13y ago
People are incredulous when I tell them I use 90% of the stuff learned while getting my CS degree. Stuff I've done in the real world: AI: I've lost count of the number of times I've had to implement A* Graphics: wrote a ray t
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by aleph_naught 13y ago
> The Koreans are very very bright and smart so I was puzzled by their inability to fly an airplane well. They would show up on Day 1 of training (an hour before the scheduled briefing time, in a 3-piece suit, and shined shoes) with the
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by aleph_naught 13y ago
Not hard to do in Chrome, just point to a different user-data-dir for each category of browsing you need. I have three, one for general browsing, and two others for gmail accounts. That way I can use google without being logged in to the