mklim

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by mklim 7y ago
I bought a copy of "Auto Mechanics Fundamentals" based on this thread and I think it is definitely the book you're remembering. The exploding can image you describe is on page 9 and the first chapter builds up an engine from
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by mklim 9y ago
Depends on the context/language I think. Splitting a block of code into a function gives it a greppable name that (ideally) succinctly describes the point of the block. You can have that block just headed by a comment inline to try and
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by mklim 9y ago
bargl asked aantix permission to directly quote them without the intro further downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14395143 >Do you mind if I word for word quote your above to see if I get downvoted too? I w
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by mklim 9y ago
Of course, that's not what I'm trying to argue against. The fact that the city is vastly underpopulated per square mile is arguably one of the core sources of its public infrastructure issues. What I was trying to say is that ther
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by mklim 9y ago
Yeah. I think we're on the same page. I think the flashy Greater Downtown development is generally positive, I don't mean to be down on it--that would be especially hypocritical of me, as a former Midtown young adult transplant--i
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by mklim 9y ago
I lived in Midtown for ~5 years in 2010. I've heard it described by disillusioned longtime residents as "two cities" at once--there's the flashy Greater Downtown developments that suburban outsiders and young transplant
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by mklim 9y ago
Can't chime in on safety issues, but on usability: I know a physician who transitioned to using EMR roughly five years ago. It doubled the amount of time they need to take notes, to this day. They can't see nearly the same amount
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by mklim 9y ago
Agree in a lot of ways, but there's darker sides to this pro depending on context and who you are. One of the things that makes the Bay Area priceless to me (visibile minority) is that I'm consistently treated like a regular perso
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by mklim 10y ago
I'd second that the game is good enough to warrant a Switch purchase on its own, assuming you have that disposable income. [BOTW puzzle spoilers below] Comparing it to the Witcher 3 is actually a great way to highlight its strength--th
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by mklim 10y ago
Up until 2015 there was a related but more consequential issue that made it extremely hard to prosecute crimes committed on reservations by non-Natives. Tribal governments couldn't prosecute non-Native offenders, instead those crimes f
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by mklim 10y ago
>You could have made the same inane argument for all the uneducated factory laborers who have been replaced by machines. There's nothing inane about the argument. Have you ever been to Detroit? I've lived there for years. It&#x
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by mklim 10y ago
This is really impressive. I check out code poems occasionally and I don't think I've ever seen ones where executing them actually draws images related to the subject matter of the text itself. Love the piet one sort of doing it i
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by mklim 10y ago
I was just thinking of its rogue mode. I remember each person having their own cursor and being able to work independently in the same session with it.
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by mklim 10y ago
Not on its own, but I've used https://github.com/zolrath/wemux on top of tmux in the past to get that and it's worked well.
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by mklim 10y ago
>Put another way, there’s a risk of AIs learning to achieve their assigned task better by preventing humans from shutting them down. Thought experiment/short story that goes into this in depth: https://gist.github.com&#x2
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by mklim 10y ago
McDonalds specifically is starting to replace its cashiers with kiosks, though right now it looks like the former cashiers are switching to bussing tables instead. http://fortune.com/2016/11/18/mcdonalds-kiosk
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by mklim 10y ago
>I feel like we need a professional ethics code to handle situations like this. >But how are we ever going to get the rest of the world to afford us the same respect that doctors and lawyers get if we're unwilling to play ball? I
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by mklim 10y ago
>The distinction is that you're making a crappy general purpose framework, but you're making a really good problem specific framework that exactly fits the thing you're building. Strongly disagree. Your hand-rolled framewo
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by mklim 10y ago
BigScreen is great. Relevant article about using it for coworking: https://medium.com/@ftarnogol/co-working-in-virtual-reality-... Haven't used it for coworking personally, but it's been fun using it to watch
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by mklim 10y ago
There's a problem with your use case and the current tech--artificial locomotion in VR tends to cause people to experience motion sickness. It's similar to sea sickness in that some people don't feel affected at all and other
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Co-Working in Virtual Reality(medium.com)
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by mklim 10y ago
>So you feel that programmers are more inclined to treat the function name as an authority, as opposed to a comment. Is that an accurate? I'm curious what lead you to this conclusion. I think this is a reasonable claim, even though
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by mklim 10y ago
Related quote: >We are working with a number of smartphone manufacturers to create a specification for Daydream-ready phones. These smartphones enable VR experiences with high-performance sensors for smooth, accurate head tracking, fast
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by mklim 10y ago
It depends on where you draw the line for "trivial". Does it need routing/browser history? What browsers are you supporting, any legacy ones? Does the frontend do any kind of translations or visualizations with the data it&#x
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by mklim 10y ago
I've had the exact same experience. Every time I boot up SM64 or OOT everything looks so blocky compared to how I remember it looking as a kid, it momentarily surprises me every time. In my memories the graphics are on par with AAA gam
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by mklim 10y ago
On the other hand, I lived in Detroit for years. I think most people conflate "visibly poor" with "actively dangerous" and feel scared when they shouldn't. So many people would come in from the suburbs and visibly p
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by mklim 10y ago
> If you find yourself passing parameters and adding conditional paths through shared code, the abstraction is incorrect. It may have been right to begin with, but that day has passed. Once an abstraction is proved wrong the best strateg
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by mklim 10y ago
I don't think those are mutually exclusive. It would make sense that a classist/segregated society would both cause and be reinforced by elevated crime rates in the lower classes. Less legal opportunities for the lower classes to
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by mklim 10y ago
>soft sci fi is the usual boring eternal "human condition" story thats been told a million times before, but maybe if I put space ships in as my gimmick I can sell more copies. This is a pretty unfair description of the categor
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by mklim 10y ago
Possible. But there's still potential problems with that, tying in to the article's main issue of potential feedback loops/bias in ML algorithms. Let's assume pay is correlated to perf/job title, and members of grou

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