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The 2nd paragraph is 100% accurate.

https://youtu.be/DXY_8cJlGMc

The nature of each failure matters as much as the frequency of failure. The way in which accidents humans get into occur is vastly different from the way in which self driving car accidents occur, ev…

The rule is: Styleable XOR Unusable = 1.

I know about datalist, but it's the saddest autocomplete experience you can offer. If something is not fully styleable, it's automatically garbage. If it's styleable, it may be decent.…

Pretty much. We had one lab period and couple of classroom periods in a week. We even wrote java on notebooks! Can't imagine writing java without IDE autocomplete these days, but "back then&…

Come on, they are obviously talking about streaming services. Everybody knows you can pirate anything at any quality.

They wrote 2 whole paragraphs about SIMD.

My experience matches this. It's so liberating as well. I find it easier to internalise such code in my head compared to abstraction-soup. As you can imagine, I like golang.

$ alias breakpoint alias breakpoint=' while read -p"Debugging(Ctrl-d to exit)> " debugging_line do eval "$debugging_line" done ' …

This story is from an indian company, the on-call "expectations" might be different in your country. We were responsible for a 400k RPM service. It handled ads, so it was fairly important to…

I simply do not care. I will just use - (the one next to zero on the keyboard) everywhere. There are a grand total of zero situations where using one in place of the other hampers information reconstr…

The image processing in a macaques brain has been doing PCA since way longer. Atleast according to [1], around 1hr36m in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI …

> 18mo I wonder if it's something to do with the memory being reinforced (maybe in surprising ways). E.g one of the memories I have from around a similar time is me receiving a toy gift (video…

+1. Indexes, triggers (very good abstraction covering everything from computed fields to dependent fields), transactions.

It's a useful assistant. Never again do I need to argparse each flag onto a class Config: fully manually again. I also found it useful in catching subtle bugs in my (basic, learning purpose) cuda…

A conclusion true to the concerned executive's MBA.

Any kind of migration breaks code. Every single line of practical code hit by a breaking change should be considered a bug. Before the security theater takes the stage, let me clarify by saying that…

Typically you train it on one set and test it on another set. If you see that the differences between the two sets are significant enough and yet it has maintained good performance on the test set, yo…

My favourite is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113941

[Edit] I seem to have turned this into somewhat of an information dump... Like other commenters said, you typically find those out by just trying them out one by one and seeing what works. However, yo…

Yep, exactly. The whole thing is just theater. I hate it. I know I can just use X11 (and I do), but the already small appetite for developing for linux will be stretched even more thin in the coming y…

Precisely. The hype articles write all about the journey to The Wall, and then leave out the bit where you smash headfirst into it.

I would cut down a little on the AI usage, it might be getting a little too ahead of you. While it's completely fine to ai generate your own physics engine for learning or whatever, I noticed you…

True. Btw curious, is there a defined encoding for text in mp3 metadata? Or is that a pain too.

Oh yeah I can imagine the pain for drives from that era. I remember reading that sometimes you need the right "codebook" - what was the word - installed and stuff like that.

> tar I remember only two flags for tar. That's it. tar -x tar -c c for create, x for extract. I use it like so: tar -c src | gzip > src.tar.gz and extracting like curl …

It's backwards compatible with ascii right? But yeah I suppose you would need support for all the other foreign-language encodings that came in between -- UCS-2 for example. But basically nobody …

Yep. Chennai here. Saw one the other day.