elb2020

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by elb2020 4y ago
He could be autistic. Autists will have problems, severe problems, with grasping the concept that someone else can have different views, and they will struggle with seeing the virtues of trying to understand those views. They will, indeed,
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by elb2020 4y ago
I got 83, but I notice that some of my words were not included in the summary on the result page, including 'fright' and 'stupor'.
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by elb2020 4y ago
I keep a diary for some projects that I work on. It's basically one large, never ending text file that I keep versioned in git. I like the simplicity of the scheme. It's rare that I need to go back and look at something that I&#x2
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by elb2020 4y ago
Yet, people do seem to think that DALL-E 2 is going to be able to make sensible "long-form" illustrations and paintings.
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by elb2020 4y ago
It's a bit sad to ponder. On the other hand, the volume of white matter is still rather close to it's maximum, even at 60 years. And probably there are also individual variations, both when it comes to the timing of the onset of t
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by elb2020 5y ago
I'm not an AI expert, at all, but can the neural network of an app like Otter run locally on a phone? Is it even possible, processing power wise? Apart from that, I'm assuming that there's an enormous cost sunk into the train
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by elb2020 5y ago
Judging from his book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, he was not a very modest person himself, with regard to his own accomplishments and ideas, maybe that's why he was shocked by the modesty and restraint of other men with (p
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by elb2020 5y ago
I feel that the solution to this would be some kind of generic online storage solution. Like Excel, but for the whole web, where you can put any kind of data in, get an address (a web-ified pointer) to it, and be sure that you can look it u
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by elb2020 5y ago
I think they will always be limitations. Software is, ultimately, always about humans. Software is always there to serve a human need. And the "intelligence" that designs software will always, at some level, need to be intelligenc
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by elb2020 5y ago
Grammarly ads say that they will help you to appear more articulate than you are, so that you can land jobs where articulacy is required. It stumps me a bit, always.
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by elb2020 5y ago
"These sharks have an estimated lifespan of 400 years and they spend their time swimming around looking for mates." I will not complain about my own 50 year search, then.
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by elb2020 5y ago
A consultant should at least voice his opinion, I think, and not actively stay silent just to generate more billable hours. It might be slightly different for a contractor, but a consultant is, generally, hired for his knowledge.
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by elb2020 5y ago
Another ancient but still supported protocol is the finger protocol. For the current weather on the South Pole, try this from the command line: finger south_pole@graph.no Or, if you want the weather in Boston, Massachusetts, try: finger bos
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by elb2020 5y ago
It seems to me, that once a company reaches a tipping point of more than 50% non-engineers in upper management, it's the demise of the company as an engineering company, and it will slowly drift in the direction of being a technology h
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by elb2020 5y ago
"Different things are obvious to me than are obvious to you." I think this observation, while correct, is a bit too generic, since it's something which can be said about all people. I have close relative who's on the aut
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by elb2020 5y ago
If std::vector, std::array or std::unique_ptr could somehow have been implemented better without the use of templates in the C++ standard library, I think you'll find that they would have been implemented that way. I don't know wh
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by elb2020 5y ago
"The problem? Convenience. Who wants to type std::unique_ptr<Foo> when instead you can write Foo *?" I think this is an imagined problem. If you use Foo * for ownership, you will need to write new Foo() + delete foo. I don&#
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by elb2020 5y ago
I personally like his stuff from before Diamonds and Pearls, mostly. After that I think he got further and further removed from his original funk roots, and I think he sort of drifted off into a sea of wishy-washy new age stuff that he neve
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by elb2020 5y ago
And the corollary; never try to insert too much tone into the same.
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by elb2020 5y ago
"It looks like you forgot to do X; that's needed to do Y." "It looks like you forgot to do X. That's needed to do Y." I would actually prefer the second one here. It's neutral and to the point. I guess the
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by elb2020 5y ago
The book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall should probably also be mentioned here. It has this theory as one of it's central premises. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run
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by elb2020 5y ago
It's got a good grasp on the difference between Norwegian and Swedish, I see; it defines Norwegian as "very light, quiet, or peaceful; tranquil", as in "we live our lives Norwegian in a quiet quiet city", and Swedis
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by elb2020 5y ago
I agree. It does the same with for instance "ballsy", which it defines as "stunning and stylish", as in "the ballsy pink dress".
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by elb2020 5y ago
I think it's sort of self-fulfilling when it comes to the economy. The economy, after all, is the system of all of us using the maximum of our brains and abilities to compete with each other in the making of money. I think it's a
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by elb2020 5y ago
Maybe it sounded a bit elitist. I myself am not a game programmer, and I would indeed be among the 95 struggling to get out of the starting blocks. I do like low-level stuff, however, and I choose to be impressed by projects like this!
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by elb2020 5y ago
Or incredibly low expectations for programmers in general, which is fair. If you pick 100 random run-of-the-mill programmers from any corporation, and ask them to repeat this exercise, 95 of them would not even get out of the starting block
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by elb2020 5y ago
My dad says the same. But it's been five years since I quit tobacco, and I do not get the cravings anymore. I might get faintly reminded of it, still, connected to certain situations, but nowhere near what I'd call a craving.
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by elb2020 5y ago
> By the way, why there is no author? Because it's the Economist, they never run a byline on any of their published content, normally.
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by elb2020 5y ago
> Companies dump so much money into the [golf] purse because there are enough eyes on the game, and I think disc golf can get to that point. Maybe, but traditional golf also has the image, historically, of being a sport for the wealthy.
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by elb2020 5y ago
I've read somewhere that BMW and Audi have internal regulations in place, which dictate that at least half of the top level leadership group should always consist of people with engineering backgrounds. I have not been able to confir

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