jackfraser

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by jackfraser 7y ago
This is typical woke-capitalist garbage. Real juice is just fine to drink - in moderation! Before getting some exercise, it's a great boost, has vitamins, easy energy, and it's an excellent bribe. It's also trivial to get jui
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by jackfraser 7y ago
> not obvious whether to serialize that subfield as an attribute or as a child. Attributes are just strings, generally for metadata. I'd probably serialize an object from another language more verbosely. This is where an important
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Aren't we just reinventing the wheel, though? Got your structured data format, now you need parsers (tons available for XML, incl SAX, DOM parsers, SimpleXML, Nokogiri...) a schema and validation tools (XSD), a templating mechanism (XS
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Agreed. There's tons of employment for people that can work with microcontrollers, FPGAs, ASICs, bespoke control hardware, etc. which are often harder to get into than traditional software engineering.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Not a chance. Consider that we have working quantum annealers (the D-Wave machines), but they cost ~20 million dollars; and there are no real working gate model machines beyond a few qubits that don't seem to be particularly useful (i.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Lame. Is there any real reason to do this? Does the code take a lot of maintenance, aimed as it is against a protocol from 1971? Is there a reason to cut people off from easy interoperability with links on the older parts of the web, many o
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by jackfraser 7y ago
I see you also looked it up after seeing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20710511 Say what you will about fascism, at the very least it sure has a hell of an aesthetic
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Downcast for iOS - more configurable than the builtin, unobtrusive, lots of nice features, clean UI. No problems.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Fascinating, thanks. Not sure I understood it all, but I appreciate the reply.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Can you explain to a layman what's odd about it?
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by jackfraser 7y ago
You could probably run something on D-Wave Leap and get actual quantum noise or something if you like
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by jackfraser 7y ago
> It's time for real world identity linked accounts for participating in online conversations. You might be able to implement this in a small, affluent European country, but nowhere else. Consider the fact that in the USA, it is a s
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by jackfraser 7y ago
I am at once awed by the level of work that goes into a really good typeface, and also astounded that this still seems to be a difficult sort of terrain that people are not just willing, but positively excited to summit. Why go to the troub
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by jackfraser 7y ago
What if that's fundamentally a flawed way of building things? Maybe your site should provide all of the assets it needs...
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by jackfraser 7y ago
So the app should ask for a permission to a reasonable set of domains, and when you're installing it, you should get a clearly laid out permissions / privacy risk management worksheet to look at and agree to.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
> 50 ft decision height What does that mean?
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by jackfraser 7y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... Tree Style Tab, you'll never go back.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Stupid question, but the cores don't physically flip, do they? It's a purely electrical thing?
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Of course you want that country. The thing is, the magical panacea of giving out free money to everyone just devalues the money. $1000 Yang Bucks will become the equivalent of $100 now within short order, as prices for things go up.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Ah, but if the XServe had not died and datacenters had racks of these things, there'd no doubt be a production quality implementation by now. Shame.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Not much slower than, say, Hyper-V or Virtualbox or other hypervisors that live alongside a general purpose desktop OS. Remember, they're using the same Intel chips and VT-d and such as anything else; as long as you have enough CPU pow
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by jackfraser 7y ago
A file is just an object with a name in a namespace. Without a name, it's not really very much of a file.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Nah, I have no idea. Find an old machine with Win XP and IE 6 maybe.
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by jackfraser 7y ago
I keep reading that the Lorenz can be modeled on an analogue computer, and I want to find an example of how, so I can port it to a synthesizer and listen to it
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by jackfraser 7y ago
I miss Fractint. I spent hours playing with that thing as a kid, with no idea about the math behind it (and no Numberphile to help explain it). So I just zoomed and plotted and got really familiar with which particular SVGA modes I could us
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Actually, this greatly comes down to the datasource. Each exposes different analytical functionality at the database level. Combined with the templating and variable functionality, you can do a ton of excellent analysis on all kinds of metr
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Check out this link from the venerable Ken Perlin: https://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/experiments/demox/Hyper.html There's a hard-to-get-running-due-to-age Java applet there which, when it used to run easily, w
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by jackfraser 7y ago
Each is a different axis of rotation. You have considerably more of them in 4D!
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by jackfraser 7y ago
It's all about scalability. With serverless, you can have your functions running on machines all over the world, at the network edge closest to your end user. You can scale from minimal to maximal without any intervention whatsoever, a
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by jackfraser 7y ago
This is terrible! puts thinkpad into the back of his VW bug, unbottons Hugo Boss jacket, and drives away

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