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by peatfreak 4y ago
There's an undercurrent of victim blaming here. A lot of companies hire data scientists simply because it's "the thing to do" and they want to appear modern in the marketplace. But then these data scientists are typical
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Did you actually listen to the presentation? They explicitly addressed each of these points (except the bit about the confounding variables, admittedly).
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by peatfreak 4y ago
The good examples are _always_ cherry picked.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I'd be interested in seeing other "setting up an electronics workshop" articles by other engineers. Luke Gorrie, for example, has an article here: https://github.com/lukego/soldering
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I'm really curious as to how these were done, or might plausibly have been done. Is this indicated anywhere? After working on audio signal processing for quite a few years, I'm investigating image and video rendering, and applic
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by peatfreak 4y ago
This makes no sense!
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by peatfreak 4y ago
The whole point of the article is to discuss Make.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
It kind of makes the whole article irrelevant. Like a house of cards that is build on a foundation of Make, but when you get to the bottom there are no actual Makefiles there.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I've never seen so much disagreement about "what is Buddhism" as I have in online Buddhist communities. Everywhere I turn there is conflict, misunderstanding, and people proclaiming "this is not real Dharma, but I know
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by peatfreak 4y ago
The article has the following near the end: "To see more real-world examples of makefiles, see my [World Atlas]( https://github.com/mbostock/world-atlas ) and [U.S. Atlas]( https://github.com/topojson
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> I'm currently working with the AWS SDK Python documentation and it's a hot pile of garbage from all points of view (UX, info architecture, technical detail, etc.). I agree that pretty much all AWS documentation is woeful, and
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> It makes me sad that many people will use this as an opportunity to write off Buddhist practices. This would be a huge misunderstanding of the article. I read the whole article, and I found it to be positively re-affirming of Buddhism
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Homebrew is an awful system, it's the exact opposite of what should be held up as an example of a well engineered "packaging system". It's not even a proper package management system anyway, and there are far, far bette
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I never knew about MiroTalk before, so I'm happy to see this post. How does it compare with Jitsi, for example?
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> wasting time looking up the manuals God forbid!
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Ooh, I've never heard of FizzBuzzBang before, but this seems like such a natural (and surprisingly interesting) extension. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm going to check it out.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Interesting to see so many folks here running Exim. It's my favorite MTA primarily because I find it understandable, it has excellent documentation, and I'm used to it as it used to be Debian's default MTA. I get a lot of f
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> a) I Co-run the Data Science Weekly newsletter. Is the newsletter still running? I looked at the archive on the website and I didn't see anything more recent than April 2022.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Thanks for the information!! I just checked my copy, and it is indeed the Buss translation. I was reading it for several week a few months ago, and I ended up putting it down, just because it just wasn't happening for me and I couldn
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by peatfreak 4y ago
How does the Penguin translation stack up? It's the only one I can easily find.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> For software, a programmer literally owns the means of production, so all programmers are bourgeoise? No, they are not. Marxist analysis doesn't really map to information technology in service economies in the classical way. The
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Does anybody know how this works? As somebody with a serious interest in signal processing, machine learning, and audio, I'm genuinely interested. Have Adobe published anything about the technology behind this?
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by peatfreak 4y ago
This sounds interesting to me, especially as somebody who was exactly zero interest in learning anything other than regular JS (i.e., no TypeScript, CoffeeScript, or any other JS-extension languages). Is this some kind of pattern, and do y
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by peatfreak 4y ago
> Incidentally, the underclass that many on the modern left focus on were pejoratively considered “lumpen-proletariat”. This is absolutely correct in terms of orthodox Marxist theory. It's interesting how "lumpenproletariat&qu
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I've been using Debian for 20-25 years and it never gets straightforward.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
What a revolting attitude.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Thank you for this comment, I only wish it was at a higher level up in this thread. The number of ignorant comments in this thread is astounding. All this criticism feels like it was written by back-seat drivers who have no clue about the
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Oh, the arrogance and the irony.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
I like his music a lot, but I do get tired of nerds constantly fawning all over him.
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by peatfreak 4y ago
Which laptop has the best keyboard? This is a huge deciding factor for me. I've had Thinkpads with beautiful, solid keyboards and they are joy to use. But they tend to be pretty old models and I want to try to update if possible.

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