jonstokes

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by jonstokes 1y ago
If you used UUIDv7 you get time-ordered UUID and could use that for a tie breaker.
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by jonstokes 4y ago
Wrong. "Here is a totally mind-blowing new thing AI will let you do this week that humanity could not do last week" is an endless source of novelty and eyeballs. Source: Am a publisher in this space and have seen the engagement nu
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by jonstokes 4y ago
I don't know LeCun personally, but there's a lot of backstory here that this polemical clickbait is leaving out. - LeCun has a history of getting mobbed by "AI ethics" types on Twitter, and in the past he was very defere
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You shouldn’t worry about a devastating Iranian cyberattack, yet(theprepared.com)
3 points by jonstokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 7y ago
I don't know who this "we" is you're talking about. Many of us are outraged over Saudi atrocities going all the way back to 9/11.
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I’m not scared of robots rebelling. I’m scared because they won’t(theprepared.com)
2 points by jonstokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 7y ago
The reason being an anti-vaxxer is bad is because of a concept called "herd immunity." There is no analog, here. I think that not only do you not understand much about kids, but you also don't understand the analogy you'
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by jonstokes 7y ago
I'm a parent of three girls, the oldest of which is 10. None of them will have smartphones, probably not even in high school. I run my house pretty much like the author of the article -- there are gadgets on the weekend, only. And even
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by jonstokes 7y ago
I think it's amazing that on a site that's supposedly filled with tech geeks, so few commenters seem to know the difference between spending time alone in your room in front a non-networked PC learning to code, and being glued to
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by jonstokes 7y ago
Looks like Zawinski's Law is still 100% true: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” Coined by Jamie Zawinski (who called it the “Law of Software
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Show HN: Replace Mint.com with Rails and ActiveAdmin(github.com)
1 points by jonstokes 7y ago|0 comments
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“The Prepared” – a funded “prepper” media company(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jonstokes 7y ago|0 comments
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Amazon’s Fake Reviews Problem: A Case Study(reddit.com)
2 points by jonstokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 8y ago
My first reaction to "could this be related to the storm," was "oh no, now this QAnon stuff has spread to HN."
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Russian roulette with the sun: An interview with John Kappenman(theprepared.com)
5 points by jonstokes 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 8y ago
What's wrong with SES? (Not a rhetorical question. I've played around with it and it seems ok, so looking to hear about downsides.)
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Why fake miniatures depicting Islamic science are everywhere(aeon.co)
14 points by jonstokes 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 8y ago
Thanks!
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by jonstokes 8y ago
This ^^. The "OMG... HORROR" in this article about the mere fact of x86 usage is deeply silly. The stuff about C64 and so on at the end... there's just no redeeming this mess. The mods should nuke it.
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by jonstokes 8y ago
AWS has absolutely taken down websites because they didn't like what was on them, just recently, in fact: https://freebeacon.com/issues/gun-rights-activists-posted-gu... I'm a journalist and have seen a scree
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by jonstokes 8y ago
This is the sort of article that makes me imagine a dialogue between a senior software engineer and a newb developer that goes something like this: Newb: Hey man, I think for this project I'll write my own SQL datastore from scratch. I
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by jonstokes 9y ago
In my personal experience, Dry-rb is the "bargaining" stage of grief over the current state of Ruby and Rails. When you finally reach "acceptance," you move on to another stack entirely.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
My experience is that people who come to feel about Rails the way he describes in the intro (I went through this exact progression, myself) end up moving on to another stack entirely, typically either Elixir or JS. My personal shift has bee
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by jonstokes 9y ago
I'm using this, and so far it's working just fine: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sam-local I'm only testing Lambda functions with it, and not really testing APIG + Lambda integrations or anything fancie
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by jonstokes 9y ago
I totally buy it that there is no such thing as an "unidentifiable alloy." I also buy it that journalists, not being materials scientists or indeed scientists of any sort, do not know the difference between an "alloy" an
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Yeah, it was the same with Bill and Melinda from what I recall.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
No I didn't miss it. That's what I'm saying -- there has to be something beyond "consensual relationship with subordinate" going on here. The fact that someone complained to HR supports that hypothesis. My point was
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by jonstokes 9y ago
LOL... Because I really was cracking up at the Comic Book Guy thing :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Opt9bJlqg
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Don't forget that Larry dated Marissa for a long time, and she was his subordinate. And then there's Eric, who was notorious... Anyway, my understanding was that it has historically been OK at Google to date subordinates, so I&#x2
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Please don't get your history from The Oatmeal. If you want to read a real account of what Edison actually did, the opening chapters of this classic are great: https://www.amazon.com/Networks-Power-Electrification-1880-

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