r41nbowdash

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by r41nbowdash 6y ago
200loc/h, it's 4-5 weeks of work for a single person
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by r41nbowdash 6y ago
many of my friends are activists, and i'm hesitant to disclose to them which technologies they could use. 95% chance they're going to use it for getting drugs, or avoid monitoring to organize gatherings, which, without law enforce
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by r41nbowdash 7y ago
false art. 304
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by r41nbowdash 7y ago
Yeah, I don't think it's about the data storage, as much as the possibility of backdooring your phone by a rogue state.
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by r41nbowdash 7y ago
i ran analysis on our codebase, most of the files had 40% rewrites, with some outliers being 90% rewritten. the file sizes followed linear distribution, usually from 100 to 2000 lines of code. when the 90% rewrite hit a larger files, it acc
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
occasionally, like 2-3 days straight after a longer break from the practice, to tune in, or at random, to gauge how consistently i can clear my head the main selling point for me was the api, and possibility of using it as a brain-computer
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
>Meditation can be tough to learn, but you only have to do it once it is hard to learn. been to a 10 day vipassana retreat this year, and out of 100 hours of sitting, i've spent maybe 5-10 truly concentrated, and we're talking
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
the central planned economy just ground to a halt
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
"the proof is left as an exercise to the reader"
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
may have something to do with the way population interacts with the police like i feel totally safe around the cops, but at the same time i realize the "am i being detained" attitute would put me on a fasttrack to the realm of pho
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
>8-channel Cyton system that's the interesting bit, because they got the results on a portable, consumer-grade device
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
Technically, they're wrapping a native library, so it's possible to create a benchmark where there's no performance gap whatsoever. The bottleneck is at the intersection of the runtime enviroment with the library, which makes
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
Yeah, nice assets can really make a difference, the thing is you can pull twice as much polygons in the same scene with Unreal Engine (oversimplyfing) http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/projects/pacman-benchmark/thesis-co...
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
The main advantage of using Unity is its out of the box support for multiple platforms, and garbage collected runtime, other than that it's slower, and graphics are on the ok-ish side (the best looking Unity game i've seen is Batt
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
Low content post, but i can't shake off the feeling we've been there already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZpvOPI_aI
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
It creates power in the advice-seeker by making the advice-giver invested. It can serve as an indicator of ongoing dynamics. If used to gain power, it's going to blow up in your face. From the psychoanalytic point of view, verbalizing
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
Refreshing my math with Richard Hamming's "Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics"
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by r41nbowdash 8y ago
"Most students will not use such trivial devices as flash cards; it seems to be beneath their dignity. They suffer accordingly." Richard Hamming
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
At the beginning of the 20th century something around 40% American cars was electric, same with 20% of the Berlin taxis. There's a wonderful book "The Shock of the Old" about the meandering ways innovation takes. https:&#x2F
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
Trailing backslashes are so ugly
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
log periodic models predicted the end of the s&p 500 bubble somewhere at 2015, and it's still exceeding the exponential growth (can't find a source, saw it somewhere)
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
looks a lot like "ends ways means" approach http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a222381.pdf
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
Aaand it even has the latency calibration at the beginning
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
my favorite insight about balancing putting in the hours vs deliberate practice comes from a Super Hexagon tutorial: the moment it starts to feel like grinding, you should stop.
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
fun fact: you can run shortest path algorithms on pretty much everything as long as it fulfills the monoid constraints (taking min and combining paths, operating on distances is a monoid) so basically, for the cost of implementing two opera
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by r41nbowdash 9y ago
* firefighting instead of building resilience * fear of senior devs/architects, not holding them responsible for keeping stuff in order * playing blame game instead of looking for structural solutions * information compartmentalization