darkFunction

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   by darkFunction 9y ago

   Many but not all. Sia for instance will continue to exist independent of the company, it is fully decentralised. I believe your statement is true of StorJ as they rely on centralised services but I can't comment on the others. Bitcoin
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   by darkFunction 9y ago

   It's worth noting that many new blockchain implementations are not intending to merely facilitate the transfer of monetary value but aim to decentralise resources, which is a less "fictional" goal. Look at Sia / StorJ &#
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   by darkFunction 9y ago

   The problem with smart contracts is that of defining trustless "oracles", or, how do you get data in and out of the network without relying on vulnerable points of centralisation. As soon as you require information about something
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   by darkFunction 9y ago

   For those who still have access and don't just want to deactivate- https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
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   by darkFunction 10y ago

   Did you read the same article?
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   by darkFunction 10y ago

   Impressive work. I played around with the same idea before while learning a bit of python, and found (in my project at least) a breeding strategy to give better results than a hill-climbing algorithm. https://github.com/dark
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   by darkFunction 10y ago

   Used Sikuli for some casino fairness testing https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4wlbnhIAAEti1z.jpg:large
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   by darkFunction 10y ago

   The miners aren't forced to run the code that anyone commits.
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   by darkFunction 10y ago

   I lived and worked in London for a number of years, and in the end, no amount of extra salary was worth the packed commute, sky-high rent, bad air quality, and (controversial...) the bad manners of people in general. Moved back to Scotland
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    Good job! Love the simplicity. Current state of event discovery is rubbish and so fragmented across sites and categories of event. Just had a look at my home city (Edinburgh) and there's way more happening than I would guessed by brows
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    Bitbucket's wiki on our project page (6-person startup). We document mostly application behaviour for technical users of the app (server team, content writers) and a little bit of architecture if the complexity warrants it.
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    This reminds me of a programmer and very talented blogger who wrote a book ("And Then I Thought I Was A Fish") about his experience of staying up for many days under the influence of LSD, and who is also committed to an institutio
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    I don't understand what kind of NN they used on the painting and the photo of the antelopes(?). What was it pre-trained to recognise? EDIT: in clarification, to pick out abstract features of an image, it must obviously be trained on m
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    I mean the learning curve and changes in tooling (C.I., testing libs, etc)
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    I absolutely agree with you. But as a startup moving at full speed and burning through investment, it's not just the size you need to take into account. It's the maturity of the tools, especially around unit testing (and automated
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    It's probably premature, but I'm hoping they will make good on this statement: > When the binary interface stabilizes in a year or two, the Swift runtime will become part of the host OS and this limitation will no longer exist.
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    Wow, 'Ace' is really taking off- http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... 'Adolf' seems uniformly credited to just a few poor souls- http://rhiever.github.io/n
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    Got a Filco with browns, and dampening O-rings. It's really loud though. I'd like something quieter, the Cherry Clears sound good.
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    Absolutely agree that it can. For cases like you mention, where it's convenient to be able to rapidly test the outcome of a piece of code, it can be orders of magnitude faster and you have a greater confidence in the end result. On ave
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    by darkFunction 11y ago

    I've long argued against people who say TDD is 'just as quick' when you get used to it. It's simply not true. I still test everything however, the payoffs are multitude. It's important to accustom your product manag
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    Agree completely. The argument that mindless consumption is a good thing just because it drives the economy is short-sighted and ridiculous. If money itself is wealth-generating then people are going to be much more mindful about their spen
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    I struggle to focus on more than one thing, in programming and in life, one thing is intensely the single focus of all my passion and energy until one day it is not.
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    I agree with the idea of the 'urban cycle'. New, young professionals are happy to share a small bedsit in a bad area if it means a high salary, but at some point in life you have to rebalance your quality of living. That's a
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    Thanks! I'm pretty familiar with Edinburgh already but haven't seen the Blue Blazer. I'll check it out.
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    I'm leaving London with my girlfriend in a week, to move to Edinburgh. Been here seven years, both on a good salary, yet we live in an impoverished area and would never be able to afford to buy a decent place to live even where we are
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    It's interesting that the UK uses solely submarine-launched missiles and the rest of the world isn't represented by nuclear submarines at all. I would imagine there are a few advantages to submarines, such as stealth, range, abili
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    I love, recommend, and use Noisli often in our open plan office. The only tiny annoyance is that I really like the ambient cafeteria noise, and after a while I start to notice the looping! There's a very prominent bit where a lady shou
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    Oh man. CrunchBang is my go-to distro when I need something lightweight that just works out of the box. The default install is a great, well-featured system.
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    You can make a certain amount of capital gains in the UK without paying tax. It's in the region of 10K I think. I guess buying bitcoin at market price and selling at 'a different market price' counts as capital gains on an in
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    by darkFunction 12y ago

    I don't understand what the inputs to the model are.