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by apag 2y ago
So the question is now whether they also come back this time as they did before, or whether this time it’s for good.
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by apag 2y ago
It’s now usable without JS once again. It was not long ago that repositories stopped being viewable without JS enabled, but they are now again. I hadn’t tried interacting in Issues without JS enabled in years, but I just tried to out of cur
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by apag 9y ago
More of a self-flagellation than an apology, frankly… it was actively uncomfortable to read, unlike even his initial angry mail. I have yet to respond to him because I didn’t know what to say after that.
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by apag 11y ago
It was not a good point. AlphaGo can’t decide that it’s bored and go skydiving. Humans aren’t merely capable of playing Go. And when they do it, they can also pace around the table, and drink something, all at the same time, on a ridiculous
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by apag 11y ago
Let’s not forget that aside from being vastly more energy efficient as a Go player, Lee Sedol is additionally capable of taking on a virtually unlimited list of other, equally machine-challenging tasks – while AlphaGo can only do one thing.
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by apag 12y ago
It’s simply not the full experience without sitting through it running on while the choir swells.
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by apag 13y ago
Why would you need VNC? You only need a browser. On the machine on which you thought you were going to run the VNC client, you open the browser and go to beets’s web UI. Then you pick some music to play, and beets streams it to the browser,
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by apag 13y ago
Hey, cool! Nice to get an attribution – is it OK if I add the citation to the post? Anything else you remember about it?
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by apag 14y ago
And here is how you get a web page you can open to view the whole thing in a one sitting: perl -e'print "<style>img{width:2048px;height:2048px}</style><pre>"; print /X$/ ? "\n" : "<img src=$_.png>" for @A
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by apag 14y ago
Thanks for sharing! I was just going to do that myself, glad that now I don’t have to.
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by apag 15y ago
Then again reading said book made me believe they’re fairly easy to write well. You need to keep in mind what a quantifier really does (“this will gobble up the whole string and then yield bits until the pattern matches”), but in the end I
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by apag 16y ago
You do understand that “due to a bug in Rakudo” means that this is a limitation of the implementation rather than the language, and that it will be fixed in due time – right?
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by apag 17y ago
OK, Mr. PickyPants, I went and fixed my usage. Happy now? :-) (Thanks for the nudge.)
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by apag 17y ago
Good comment. I just want to react to the last sentence. I use `git commit -a` plenty and without compunction. There are many times where a tweak or very simple feature doesn’t involve any exploration, and in those cases I rarely need the e
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by apag 17y ago
That’s true, most of the time it doesn’t really matter. But it’s like properly formatting and indenting your source. Any one particular instance of sloppiness is irrelevant, but in the aggregate, the care you put into it really makes a diff
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by apag 17y ago
Yes, that’s what I meant. I tried to keep the terminology simple (there were several other places where I avoided jargon) because I consider the article’s target audience to be people who aren’t already deeply familiar with the subject.
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by apag 17y ago
Yes!! Exactly. Thank you for putting in words something that was too hazy in my mind to even think of expressing it. Would you mind giving your name if I add this to the article as a quote?
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by apag 18y ago
For posterity (hopefully this link will last longer than the front page), here’s what was on it: http://static.thepiratebay.org/doodles/cartoonish.gif
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by apag 18y ago
You can’t get out of it. You can only prepare: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-p... Surprised that no one has posted it, so I submitted it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490767
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by apag 18y ago
Exactly how would it do that, pray tell? There is zero contradiction between that statement and materialism.