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The final step is to break down these monopolies. The government can do that and has done it before.

Yes and no. I feel that not doing certain things is a very simple thing to "do" things - and I appreciate simplicity. For example, I would probably prefer getting rid of half of th…

I do not own a car, I do not fly, I buy clothes used or new just once a year. My newest smartphone I bought five years ago (and I just bought a new battery for $10, so I can use it…

> Was it always this bad and we just didn't see it before? After about two hours of using FB in 2007 I had this crazy feeling that someone having access to all those people's photo…

Question: How hard would it be to write create open source components to run a DSP collaboratively, e.g. with the power asymmetry created by aggregation > aggregated by DSPs remove…

I support sourcehut, because I would like to see it evolve, and hopefully keep the no-nonsense UI approach. Having a nontrivial site with a usable interface running without JS in 2…

We used Jena for a project with 500M triples, the uncompressed file was about 80G. It mostly works fine.

I managed complex datasets of a few TB with standard Unix tools just fine. If you are lucky, you have a sustained read and processing speed of 200M/s (or more with, if you are put …

I once taught[1] the building blocks of git (basically bullet time view of a commit) and people found it a bit too theoretical - even though it contained all the elements, that hel…

I have been using something similar to ~/site/user/project for years and it worked well so far.

> Maybe I am just naive, but this all seems terrible. I do have most respect for TBH and I would consider everything he thinks and writes about, but this does not sound too good to…

> What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? Interestingly, Facebook owns your data. I believe if they wanted to, they could close the…

Luigi is a great Python library for building multi-stage pipelines with parameterized tasks. It easily extend to new storage types and targets. We currently use it to build a moder…

If it's not overdone, an animated walk-through can give you an impression of how simple something is - here a short animation can be worth a thousand words. For more complex topics…

Modernism. Cause and effect are separated. Or, as Flann O'Brien wrote: If one throws a stone up in the air, no one can tell where it will land.

I am glad, I do not need to worry that much about these things, thanks to my /etc/hosts file[1]. [1] One of many versions: https://gist.github.com/thomasbilk/1506210/2d20f47bbcca75…

Yes, I used `load_data` and friends and it is certainly convenient. I was just curious about a kind of open source market place for models, where you could find niche models that p…

From the abstract: > Sharing the trained DL models has become a trend that is ubiquitous in various fields. Apart from the Model Zoo[1], are there any other sites for sharing seria…

As a random data point: As I write this, irssi with perl and xmpp plugins consumes about 6M and never gets slow.

> Did anyone read this book? Just skimmed through a few pages, found a small name error: > Java millennium (Java ME) which is made to create Embedded Systems

I liked reading: Program design in the UNIX environment by Rob Pike. Sometimes, when I think about which features to add to a program I step back to see, whether a combination of p…

Thanks for the featuretools project, it sounds really useful. Is it Python 2 only?

Playing devils advocate here: > What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can't evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate. How about…

The jq tool is great. Start using it today as a JSON pretty printer and learn it's more powerful features (selection, object creation) as you need them. The only thing I would like…

> It's XML without the tools. XML can be really powerful, but a lot of real users actually don't know how to use XML. Many just use it as an enterprise version of JSON in which cas…