setzer22

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by setzer22 6y ago
EDIT: Just to be very sincere and transparent. The content of this post has been removed to avoid further discussion. I do not think my kind of views are welcome in this community.
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by setzer22 6y ago
For those who migt've missed the reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Wvn-9BXVc
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by setzer22 6y ago
> He doesn't force anybody to use the Epic Store. Unless you want to play Fortinite (which is made and published by Epic Games) or games that have an exclusivity contract with the Epic Store. So you're not forced, except when y
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by setzer22 6y ago
Specter is always on my clojure toolbox. Not only it makes transforming arbitrarily nested data painless, it also is usually more efficient than the average hand-rolled code! A great example of why macros in Lisp are powerful, and how they
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by setzer22 6y ago
Fair enough. But that was not my rationale, it was just a made-up corporate rationale that is not too far from what I can observe in reality. Take, for example, lobbyists in right-to-repair hearings. They use arguments like this: "If w
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by setzer22 6y ago
Worth mentioning that, apparently, this is the programming language that will power DFINITY, an ethereum-like network for distributed computing.
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by setzer22 6y ago
I find the name of the NPS_0487a3ac_throttle cookie suspicious enough, but the article does not comment on it. Is this a common practice? Throttling the website for users who uninstalled your application?
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by setzer22 6y ago
Genuinely curious. You insist a VCS is not how the industry operates. But then how do those AAA devs manage synchronizing changes across a team of several hundreds of people? I imagine there must be some equivalent to VCS that better fits
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by setzer22 6y ago
To be fair, S-expressions are not a made up format and in fact predate most other formats you mention.
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by setzer22 6y ago
What should they do? Static analysis would be nice, but it's probably too complex to adopt in that kind of codebase. In the end, the only viable option is to forbid this behaviour, and document a rationale so nobody will enable it back
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by setzer22 6y ago
I stand corrected. I did not know numba and assumed it was similar to numpy and others, which do wrap C. I still stand by my comment, though. We need to discuss technology by its own merits. Of course I'd also choose Python for an ML
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by setzer22 6y ago
The "python is performant because you call into C" argument implies that whenever any fundamentally new algorithm is developed you need to do it in C. This is actually gatekeeping things like machine learning to the few that can b
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by setzer22 6y ago
I, for one, think the HTML API (as in, the interface presented to the programmer, not talking about any other API meaning here) couldn't be worse. How many attributes do you need to enable to place two pictures side by side in vanilla
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by setzer22 6y ago
Since when are linux users "famously considered cheapstakes"? I was under the impression it's quite the opposite! Of course, all generalizations are just that. But if anything, the linux gaming community has many passionate p
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by setzer22 6y ago
Yes, auto-updates are built into snap. Also, the "solutions" to disable it are pretty much workarounds [1]. All this looks like just what made me stop using windows 10. [1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/930
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by setzer22 6y ago
(Answering a bit late, sorry I missed your reply!) I still don't get it... How do you know when to activate the trap handler if you're not checking every time? It's not enough to wait for an error condition (e.g. an invalid p
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by setzer22 6y ago
But DeepSpeech has already been trained with millions of data samples! I'd feel way better about it if they went for a slightly worse DeepSpeech based implementation, but kept it working in the free software spirit they have been known
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by setzer22 6y ago
Wow, that's extremely accurate! Disabling the tab bar has also went this exact route (when you use a tiling wm with tabs, some people like to disable browser and terminal tabs as it's redundant) I managed to do it with a combinati
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by setzer22 6y ago
Genuine curiosity: How can it check the types at the call side quickly ? Let's say I have a function that averages an array of floats. Does the JIT have to check each of the array's inputs to have the right type? That looks like
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by setzer22 6y ago
But the opposite could be argued as well? Taking on a new disruptive problem is a huge risk, and big corps are generally risk averse...
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by setzer22 6y ago
Not trying to take merit away from VSCode, but emacs and tramp mode also do that. And not just with remote machines over ssh, docker containers work as well. Also docker containers over an ssh connection (or whatever crazy combination you m
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by setzer22 6y ago
Your 15/30ms is close to the timings of 30 vs a 60fps videogames. While testing for a single frame you'd probably get very mixed results, most people can distinguish the pattern of when the framerate drops from one to the other. T
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by setzer22 6y ago
To be fair, there's a great use case for migrating COBOL to python. But I don't think banks would trust an automatic conversion done using ML...
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by setzer22 6y ago
This was very apparent when reading the generated stories [1]. Especially the shoggoth cat dialogue, I found that one really creepy. The fragment below comes straight out from the uncanny valley: Human: Those memes sound funny. But you didn
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by setzer22 6y ago
As a spec user in production, I must say it's very nice usability-wise and can help alleviate most of the issues coming from a lack of a type system. But god it's slow ... Some static analysis support would also be hugely appreci
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by setzer22 6y ago
I've had a reviewer in a (scientific) journal tell me some paper is relevant, and thus I need to cite it, because it "appears on their top google results". People should be educated on the huge bias introduced by personalized
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by setzer22 6y ago
I used FreeOffice for a while, but strangely enough, I saw it struggle with medium-size documents. At some point, there were several seconds of input lag. Apart from that issue, their goal is MS Office compatibility, and they deliver quite
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by setzer22 6y ago
Sometimes the views you see here are extremely biased. It's normal, we use computers all day, we are experts. We learn and adapt. For some people, a computer is just another tool they've been recently forced to use in order to liv
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by setzer22 6y ago
No offense intended, but isn't the real work you do in MS Office creating documents? Software is never about manipulating menus and buttons per-se .
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by setzer22 6y ago
I think this problem is not at all exclusive to propietary software. Take blender, for example. I spent quite a bit of time learning all the bits of the interface 5+ years ago. When I tried to go back, the software UI had changed so much th

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