worace

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by worace 5mo ago
IMO this is a common trap. Certainly there's no boundary of cognitive capability that separates capitalist elites from those below them in terms of an AI's ability to outperform them. But that doesn't really matter when we ta
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by worace 5y ago
I enjoy this author's podcasts and newsletters, and an interesting angle they've covered recently is that Facebook, ostensibly trying to "clean up their act" with regard to being seen as a platform for disinformation and
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by worace 5y ago
Foursquare | Variety of Eng + Data Science Roles | Los Angeles, New York, Seattle | Onsite Post-Covid | Full-time You may remember Foursquare from that check-in app in the early 2010's. The check-in app is still around but these days w
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by worace 5y ago
The typical way to build and distribute Mapbox vector tiles has been by packing them into a sqlite database with individual rows for each Z/X/Y quad tree coordinate. This is what tools like tippecanoe typically produce. The proble
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by worace 5y ago
Yeah point 3 is underappreciated for sure. > You need to open a JIRA ticket to get a namespace, create GPG keys, register keys in a keyserver, and add SBT plugins just to get a manual publishing process working. It’s a lot more work than
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by worace 6y ago
Well if you're already happy using IntelliJ, I'm not sure there's much reason to switch. It's more that you're not forced to switch in the other direction. I'm happy with my Emacs setup, and in particular I spe
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by worace 6y ago
Metals is such an awesome tool. Definitely one of the most polished LSP implementations I have used, and a great demonstration of what the protocol is capable of. I know it's all old hat to the IntelliJ crowd, but I just don't lik
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by worace 10y ago
What about wall-mounted out of the box bitcoin miners? Get around the physical access/security difficulties by making the homeowner own the machine and capture the benefit from its computation (rather than relying on network-based reso
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by worace 12y ago
awesome, thanks for the thorough clarification; will have to take some time to peruse that doc
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by worace 12y ago
Adding to the confusion, the NYT has an article up right now which seems to report the opposite. To quote from the NYT article lede: "WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on Thursday to invite public comment on
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by worace 14y ago
This reminds me of a funny behavior I noticed when I visited Iceland - parents would simply leave their kids outside in a pram when they went into a cafe or a restaurant. Struck me as something you would never see in the States but I guess
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by worace 14y ago
That comment about parcelling land reminded me of something I read about the parcelling system used in the French colonies along the St. Lawrence and Mississippi rivers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigneurial_system_of_New_Franc... Basi