mtrn

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by mtrn 5y ago
The final step is to break down these monopolies. The government can do that and has done it before.
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by mtrn 5y ago
Yes and no. I feel that not doing certain things is a very simple thing to "do" things - and I appreciate simplicity. For example, I would probably prefer getting rid of half of the cars and trying to find ways so that people do n
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by mtrn 5y ago
I do not own a car, I do not fly, I buy clothes used or new just once a year. My newest smartphone I bought five years ago (and I just bought a new battery for $10, so I can use it for five more years). My utility company stats says my ener
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by mtrn 7y ago
> Was it always this bad and we just didn't see it before? After about two hours of using FB in 2007 I had this crazy feeling that someone having access to all those people's photos and activities won't necessary end well;
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by mtrn 7y ago
Question: How hard would it be to write create open source components to run a DSP collaboratively, e.g. with the power asymmetry created by aggregation > aggregated by DSPs removed?
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by mtrn 7y ago
I support sourcehut, because I would like to see it evolve, and hopefully keep the no-nonsense UI approach. Having a nontrivial site with a usable interface running without JS in 2019 is beautiful on its own.
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by mtrn 7y ago
We used Jena for a project with 500M triples, the uncompressed file was about 80G. It mostly works fine.
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by mtrn 7y ago
I managed complex datasets of a few TB with standard Unix tools just fine. If you are lucky, you have a sustained read and processing speed of 200M/s (or more with, if you are put in some work), which allows you to sift through a TB in
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by mtrn 8y ago
I once taught[1] the building blocks of git (basically bullet time view of a commit) and people found it a bit too theoretical - even though it contained all the elements, that helped me to understand and appreciate the simplicity. There is
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by mtrn 8y ago
I have been using something similar to ~/site/user/project for years and it worked well so far.
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by mtrn 8y ago
> Maybe I am just naive, but this all seems terrible. I do have most respect for TBH and I would consider everything he thinks and writes about, but this does not sound too good to me either. The idea of linked data and semantic web has
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by mtrn 8y ago
> What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? Interestingly, Facebook owns your data. I believe if they wanted to, they could close the company tomorrow and put a facebook.tar.xz of everythin
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by mtrn 8y ago
Luigi is a great Python library for building multi-stage pipelines with parameterized tasks. It easily extend to new storage types and targets. We currently use it to build a moderately complex product from dozens of data streams (files, AP
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by mtrn 8y ago
If it's not overdone, an animated walk-through can give you an impression of how simple something is - here a short animation can be worth a thousand words. For more complex topics I find animations less helpful.
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by mtrn 8y ago
Modernism. Cause and effect are separated. Or, as Flann O'Brien wrote: If one throws a stone up in the air, no one can tell where it will land.
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by mtrn 8y ago
I am glad, I do not need to worry that much about these things, thanks to my /etc/hosts file[1]. [1] One of many versions: https://gist.github.com/thomasbilk/1506210/2d20f47bbcca75b2f...
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by mtrn 8y ago
Yes, I used `load_data` and friends and it is certainly convenient. I was just curious about a kind of open source market place for models, where you could find niche models that people train in their spare time.
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by mtrn 8y ago
From the abstract: > Sharing the trained DL models has become a trend that is ubiquitous in various fields. Apart from the Model Zoo[1], are there any other sites for sharing serialized models? [1] https://github.com/BVLC
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by mtrn 8y ago
As a random data point: As I write this, irssi with perl and xmpp plugins consumes about 6M and never gets slow.
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by mtrn 9y ago
> Did anyone read this book? Just skimmed through a few pages, found a small name error: > Java millennium (Java ME) which is made to create Embedded Systems
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by mtrn 9y ago
I liked reading: Program design in the UNIX environment by Rob Pike. Sometimes, when I think about which features to add to a program I step back to see, whether a combination of program would actually yield better results. A practical view
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by mtrn 9y ago
Thanks for the featuretools project, it sounds really useful. Is it Python 2 only?
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by mtrn 9y ago
Playing devils advocate here: > What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can't evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate. How about a startup providing "tax-optimization" fo
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by mtrn 9y ago
The jq tool is great. Start using it today as a JSON pretty printer and learn it's more powerful features (selection, object creation) as you need them. The only thing I would like to add to jq would be the ability to use multiple core
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by mtrn 9y ago
> It's XML without the tools. XML can be really powerful, but a lot of real users actually don't know how to use XML. Many just use it as an enterprise version of JSON in which case I am happy to just work with JSON, plain and
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by mtrn 9y ago
This book helped me understand the basics of bitcoin as well. Great read.
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by mtrn 9y ago
> > Everything is in a flat structure, except when it comes to salary and responsibilities. > This part got a laugh out of me. I had to smile when one interviewer described his company to me as very process oriented, but without t
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by mtrn 9y ago
> I've been looking for a fast, simple, pure Go key-value store. Shameless plug: If you have write-once (or seldom) and read-often kind of access pattern for JSON documents, I wrote a simple (619 LOC), pure Go key-value store, that
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by mtrn 10y ago
> For people who believe code isn't literature descriptive names are wasted characters. Data point: I do read code like books and I can't stand longAndMeaningful variable names. Rather, cut to the chase.
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by mtrn 10y ago
Me too. It's just hard to achieve. Are there any projects or books that inspire you regarding simplicity in design and implementation?

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