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My North Star for the Future of AI(theatlantic.com)
1 points by fluster 3y ago|0 comments
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by fluster 3y ago
You do realize fire spreads, right?
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by fluster 4y ago
I view them as similar to python's "private" functions, which are really just functions starting with an underscore. The interpreter will let anyone call them like any other function, but the general rule is don't do it
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by fluster 4y ago
Here's another dictionary ( https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/amazing ): 1. Causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing. 1.1 [informal] Startlingly impressive Did pointedly ignoring common usage add anyt
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by fluster 5y ago
Another way to translate it would be “the cost of British labour was reduced, pushing down the artificially high unemployment rate,” but the best way would probably be both of the above at the same time, and some other more complicated stuf
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by fluster 5y ago
I’m not sure if this is a legitimate question or an attempt to make some sort of “but also not-the-West is bad!” point; if the latter, this is a comment on an article about caste discrimination in California, which is probably why the its o
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by fluster 5y ago
Does anybody have advice for dealing with oncall (for all the software people out there)? My issues are light as they go, and I’m pretty productive for things with timeframes longer than a week, but managing a ticket queue is just brutal,
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by fluster 5y ago
Pretty sure a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253047 , might want to look there for discussion
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by fluster 6y ago
From a section on Persian customs, somewhere in 130-135 of book one (which is as precise as my copy gets): “If an important decision is to be made, they discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house