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by devishard 10y ago
I don't think that the imprecision of human song interpretation can be used as evidence that AIs are inaccurate.
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by devishard 10y ago
There are two levels to power that I've identified in anti-authoritarian groups. The first is the making and enforcement of the rules, and the second is the meta-game in which people get into positions of making our enforcing rules. It
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by devishard 10y ago
I agree, but only because questions so often go bad in titles that I now avoid them on principle. This is a rare situation where the question asked in the title is answered in a non-obvious way, so I can't actually point to anything wr
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by devishard 10y ago
If you came to that conclusion within a few seconds at the beginning of this article, your diagnostic criteria is basically "uses drugs -> has drug problem". A stopped clock is right twice a day, but is never useful.
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by devishard 10y ago
Yes. Your experience might be different, but I have a limited capacity for the number of people I can remember basic facts about to be polite, so when I was keeping track of 100+ people on Facebook I didn't have the mental space to kee
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by devishard 10y ago
I didn't have a plan for replacing the social contact of Facebook when I quit. I lost contact with a lot of people. But it turned out that most were acquaintances, not friends, and I could do without them. My acquaintances now are the
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by devishard 10y ago
Surely you realize production cost and value to the customer are related?
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by devishard 10y ago
"almost every program" != "any program"
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by devishard 10y ago
I'm interpreting "embarrassingly parallel" to mean that it's obvious the task can be parallelized, and I'm saying that many tasks where this isn't obvious in a more serial language are obvious in Erlang. No, I&
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by devishard 10y ago
I'm not saying Amdahl's Law is wrong, I'm saying that it doesn't apply to as many problems as people think it does. I said "almost" for a reason.
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by devishard 10y ago
>> Your Erlang program should just run N times faster on an N core processor > But only if your program is embarrassingly parallel with at least N times available parallelism in the first place! If you have one of those it's a
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by devishard 10y ago
It's not "removing a possible value from your map", it's having your type system explicitly check that you're handling the edge case at compile time. This works in practice in a wide variety of languages.
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by devishard 10y ago
Instead of responding to the fact that JavaScript: 1. Has no adequate threading model. 2. Has no reasonable type system. 3. Has better alternatives on the server side. ...you're making it personal, and about the people. Look at your po
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by devishard 10y ago
> Look at all this horrible code! So sad that all these people are not as smart as me. Look at this horrible language! So sad the people that created it are not as intelligent as me! It's not about being smarter; smart people are a
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by devishard 10y ago
That edit is fine and says a reasonable thing that I agree with, but there are two reasons why I said "women" instead of "gender". 1. "Hackers don't give a fuck about women" is a more shocking statement th
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by devishard 10y ago
> In a world without copyright, large corporations would have free rein to slurp up all the world's public software, extend it however they like, create whatever remaining functionality they needed, and publish none of it. None of w
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by devishard 10y ago
That's true, but for sufficiently large organizations, it would only be a matter of time before the code associated with the binaries was leaked, and without copyright, you would simply be able to use that leaked code. Under MIT/B
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by devishard 10y ago
> The FSF is not opposed to copyright as a concept. I'm not sure you're knowledgeable enough on the subject to make that claim. > You can argue over duration, but copyleft would not be possible if everything were in the publ
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by devishard 10y ago
Working within the copyright system that exists and affects us all should not be misinterpreted as agreeing with copyright. Copyrighting software is terrible for society. But given that copyrighting software exists and can't easily be
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by devishard 10y ago
> It's a poor "manifesto" too. What exactly are the aims of The Hacker? "Exploring", "Outsmarting you", and "judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like". Platitudes, re
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by devishard 10y ago
I've had nothing but positive experience with RethinkDB drivers. RavenDB has good drivers for some languages, but admittedly not every language is well-supported. Still, I can't see a situation where I would choose a non-working d
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by devishard 10y ago
> It's a completely reasonable tradeoff as long as you can quantify the risk and quantify the cost (here's a tip for something that scarily few engineering organizations does: track not just time spent on projects, but calculat
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by devishard 10y ago
But there are other databases that are good at that, too, and don't drop your data. RethinkDB? RavenDB? Depending on the type of data you're using either of those could be an option, and won't just drop your data randomly.
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by devishard 10y ago
There's a third possibility, superdeterminism, in which literally everything is determined by previous conditions, so that no communication is needed, even via a property outside of our spacetime, because everything was determined by p
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by devishard 10y ago
Exactly.
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by devishard 10y ago
That's a very generous interpretation.
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by devishard 10y ago
I'd usually start from a problem and choose a store rather than looking at what stores excel at. So I won't speak to places where I haven't seen something solved, but here are some examples: 1. Redis is great for caching in f
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by devishard 10y ago
I understand that some data loss is acceptable sometimes, but you can get the super-fast writes with a store that doesn't drop your data at random (such as Cassandra) so why would you choose the store that does?
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by devishard 10y ago
> I have to say that I did not experience a single data loss that was a result of the database misbehaving. Okay, but numerous people have experienced data loss using MongoDB. You can spend 10 minutes on Twitter and find someone talking
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by devishard 10y ago
> There are a lot of applications where your database is not the or even a source of truth, but effectively a big cache that you can either fully rebuild or where rebuilding isn't necessary (the data is too "fast moving" f

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