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by ntr-- 3y ago
> Most of us do it in our free time. I used to believe this but after my most recent position I no longer do. A lot of the developers there didn't code outside of work hours, or if they did it was just using the same technologies as
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by ntr-- 3y ago
> competitor can't afford to keep buying you out forever Not saying this is in fact the case, but with trillions of dollars of QE and the Cantillon effect it seems entirely possible that in some industries they could.
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by ntr-- 3y ago
I'll give you 1kg of wheat for an ounce of gold right now.
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by ntr-- 3y ago
It was once pointed out to me that French derived vocabulary is avoided in received pronunciation, compare: - Napkin / serviette - Lavatory or loo / toilet - Graveyard / cemetery see: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by ntr-- 3y ago
It's baffling to me how many "senior web developers" don't have their CV hosted on a website. Regardless of whether it's plain HTML on a CDN or a hectic fully 3d WebGL demo, a senior dev should have a domain with a
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by ntr-- 3y ago
what do the actual rules of the road say the braking point should be for an 8 person minivan with 5 passengers in dry weather? what about 8 passengers in the wet at night with ice on the roads? old argument i know, but if a human gets that
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by ntr-- 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230411013742/https://www.wired...
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by ntr-- 3y ago
you are 30 minutes from home for a 15 minute appointment and do not like waiting for your car. do you: - send the car home no, it would only get halfway home before the end of your appointment - send it on a rideshare journey let's say
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by ntr-- 3y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30311830/ > Further analysis of these 15 reports indicated that a two-hour exposure to blue light (460 nm) in the evening suppresses melatonin, the maximum melatonin-suppressing effec
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by ntr-- 3y ago
> you cant take all the money! A cursory reading of the list of signatories shows mostly academics, so your summary of their motivations appears to be incorrect. > not like that, not by democratizing it, but under OUR CONTROL I also d
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by ntr-- 3y ago
I can't imagine how much time you must have available to be able to respond to an error with: > Could there be a mistake here? in place of simply correcting and then getting back on track with actually solving a presumably difficult
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by ntr-- 4y ago
don't tear down the entire db for each test, make utilities that create the base objects you need to operate on and chain them together
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by ntr-- 4y ago
I worked on a very interesting project aligning point clouds using SVD, for a pair of point clouds of the same scene that are not aligned: - select 3+ pairs of matching points in each cloud (tops of trees, edges of a building etc) - calcula
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by ntr-- 4y ago
try not to cry, cry a lot, and then resolve not to vendor lock yourself to a black box data store next time. jokes aside, redshift is based on pg^1, you can try an older version to get some semblance of it running locally. 1. https:/&
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by ntr-- 4y ago
> Tipping is about making sure the people who are performing that service for you are getting paid what they’re owed Here in AU we call that "wages". Having to do quick maths while under social pressure and the threat of having
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by ntr-- 4y ago
I did this some years ago for a game and at that time many APIs were completely broken, the most important one being push notifications. Has that changed now in your experience?
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by ntr-- 4y ago
> He was full of pep; must have had his grande latte enema.
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by ntr-- 4y ago
> So I'm not really sure what information the statistic that there are about 140 Poker millionaires in a year vs 75k Ivy grads conveys. Poker is played competitively both online and in the casinos of every country all over the world
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by ntr-- 4y ago
> In Wason's study, not even 10% of subjects found the correct solution. I knew I was different, but I didn't think I was that different...
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by ntr-- 4y ago
I've been trying to point this out to my colleagues repeatedly, somebody posted a react discussion about new suspense APIs, the only response I could summon was > at last, we can make websites
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by ntr-- 4y ago
Not the parent but I will offer you my opinion after I laughed at their comment because it reminded me of many of the engineers at my current work: "First principles" in this context is not just reaching for the nearest/newes
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by ntr-- 4y ago
With what? a rear facing camera that runs the same object detection software?
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by ntr-- 4y ago
It means > Don't fuckin' come here and ignore the rules
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by ntr-- 4y ago
https://docs.rs/ndarray/0.15.6/ndarray/ Rust to the rescue, as it always is for safety. (I don't know if this directly translates for tensors, I used it for manipulating point clouds and iirc it allows f
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by ntr-- 4y ago
I think what other commenters are getting at is that at some point you won't be interested in * manipulating lists with functional programming * manipulating lists with OOP * manipulating lists with a non memory managed language * mani
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by ntr-- 4y ago
Obligatory: > The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it of
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by ntr-- 4y ago
Unrelated to stable diffusion, but I was showing DALL-E to my sister last night and a prompt with > Huge rubber tree set off the TOS violation filter. AI alignment concerns are definitely overblown...
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by ntr-- 4y ago
typescript DOES support this out of the box. https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#baseUrl
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by ntr-- 4y ago
> ...each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being
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by ntr-- 4y ago
> And in this sense of the word, science has utterly destroyed magic. ahh good, so which interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct?

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