delluminatus

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by delluminatus 10y ago
According to the article, this plant would employ 30k-50k people. The secondary effects of these jobs would be equally massive. While I would prefer an American company operating the plant, merely employing this many people would be a serio
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by delluminatus 10y ago
I'm guessing you were thinking mostly about financial and political self-interest (the things we usually classify as "greed") when you wrote this post. But I think there are other, equally important ways to be selfish. For ex
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by delluminatus 10y ago
I find that you need to explicitly state your intentions ahead of time. Otherwise, people assume the worst, and get defensive right away. Then communication closes down. So my method is this: before I even ask the question, I couch it in no
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by delluminatus 10y ago
It shouldn't be about faith. Every "crowd" has all kinds of people, and even the very smartest people aren't always right. By reading critically (and following up with research if necessary), you can decide what's r
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by delluminatus 10y ago
I don't think it's either. "Scaling" refers to growing the amount of compute power you are using. This change falls into a different bucket, which is making more efficient use of the compute that's already available
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Zen Buddhism is a classic example.
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Sorry, but the OP wasn't talking about ipfs at all. He was talking about Cloudflare. Having said that, thanks for the interesting digression. You've made me want to try out ipfs.
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Same deal when I flew United the past weekend. Samsung Note 7s were not allowed to be turned on or charged on the plane. I think they are taking their cue from the FAA recommendation [0]. This is especially bad for Samsung, I think, because
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Whether or not you use an SSG, I find the biggest hurdle is getting/making a good theme for your blog. It looks like this comes theme-included, which is actually a pretty big deal if you want to get up and running fast.
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Like what?
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Have you considered using https://pinboard.in ? It's a great tool for bookmark organization using tagging. I have over 3500 private bookmarks on that site, but I rarely lose links or have issues isolating sets of links relat
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Some mechanical keyboards let you configure this with DIP switches on the keyboard itself. My keyboard even came with an extra set of keycaps for swapping the caps lock and left control keys.
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Yeah, it seems like "Another Day, Another Hack" is just the name of the series they use to cover security-breach-related news. It's unfortunate that it confuses the meaning of the article to imply that there was literally &qu
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by delluminatus 10y ago
A desktop PC is more than able to do good speech recognition as long as it's able to train the model for individual voices. Getting good results without training the model for the user beforehand is harder, and you would probably never
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by delluminatus 10y ago
As another "software engineer", I can say that we simply don't ever need a tool like Jupyter for our jobs. It's excellent for exploratory programming, research, and publishing -- but it's not really meant for softwa
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by delluminatus 10y ago
Redux tries to enforce a convention that all application state is stored in a single object (the "store") and modified using a single pure function (the "reducer"). These conventions make it easier to reason about the ap
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by delluminatus 10y ago
While I agree with your assertion that debugging should ultimately happen in the head instead if in the IDE, debuggers can still be useful for console.log folks like us. Because they show you the values of all the variables in scope, a good
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by delluminatus 11y ago
Who would use a beta version of a crypto product in a production setting?
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by delluminatus 11y ago
Actually, Amazon already did -- one of the sample Lambda functions you can use is just that. It runs on a scheduled timer, and if I remember correctly, will alert using AWS Simple Notification Service, which can be configured to send alerts
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by delluminatus 11y ago
I don't think there can really be a distinction between what art "should be" versus what art "is". You could maybe argue that a particular piece or style of art should be different, but does it really make sense to
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by delluminatus 11y ago
Just do "tar -xf" for all your file extracting needs. The other command-line parameters are pretty much only needed if you want to override the detected compression format.
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by delluminatus 11y ago
They lost nothing more or less than some years (or months?) of their lives.
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by delluminatus 11y ago
It's true that it doesn't affect our day-to-day life. But I think it is important in the context of being an informed citizen (and, more fundamentally, an ethical person) to have an understanding of different moral systems and the
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by delluminatus 11y ago
Are you familiar with the Trolley Problem? [0] It's a simple thought experiment, which is intended to make you re-think whether murder is always an evil act. Suppose a trolley is barelling down a track towards five tied-down people. If
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by delluminatus 11y ago
I just want to say, well done on giving your notice. To someone who's never experienced it, it might seem like having no work would be great, but it's actually terrible for our sense of self-worth in my experience. A surprising nu
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by delluminatus 11y ago
Great post, as an AD tutorial and as a (an?) Haskell exercise. Having known nothing about AD before, I feel like I have a good understanding of what it is -- as he says, it's so simple -- but I don't understand why the algorithm
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by delluminatus 11y ago
Are you familiar with Ghost, the open-source Markdown-based blogging platform? It might suit what you're looking for. Also, I haven't written any books, but I wonder if Markdown is the best choice for a canonical format. The synta
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by delluminatus 11y ago
It's a good point that a lot of editor latency issues aren't specific to typing. One thing that has always annoyed me is if an editor has slow find-and-replace for large files or projects. I also find it interesting that you claim
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by delluminatus 11y ago
That looks like a fun project. I like the idea of looking toward an improbable future goal for the sake of better understanding simple problems facing us today (like how to represent and compute semantics). I think the really difficult prob
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by delluminatus 11y ago
I really like the idea behind Cycle.js, but I don't think it does a very good job explaining itself. The idea as I understand it is not very complicated, but the language is rather esoteric. The main benefits of Cycle.js in my eyes are

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