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I always find that sharing those little tedious details is what creates visceral understanding of a situation. In this case, the true horror of being a liberated Black person in th…

The way to think about it is that you're processing a list, where the first argument is an operation, and the subsequent arguments are numbers to add. Clojure, and other Lisp based…

It's hard to stare in the face of the abyss.

From the current state of the art in AI, let us extrapolate that a true "superintelligence" (SI) is inevitable in the future. Maybe not in the next 10 years, but definitely in the …

This is a technical question really. With such deep layoffs, I think a lot of people expected that Twitter would fall apart as a service pretty soon. That hasn't happened, and the …

I was looking for an Org-Mode type solution for vscode, and was surprised to find that it's basically no longer being actively developed! [1] Really surprised by this. I would have…

I moved to Mars! My family immigrated to North America soon after and I studied and worked in tech ever since.

During 1999-2000, I helped hundreds of people learn how to use Flash. I was, looking back now, probably one of the top experts on Flash 4 at the time in the world. The twist - I wa…

Yes - City would be great for people doing stuff around activities, events and local places. But Country would be more powerful for e-commerce I suspect (my usecase).

Hi Josh - it would be incredible to have this filtered by location, and I think you can get that from Google Trends.

Stories like this are often instigated by someone inside the organization with an agenda. They reach out to a journalist, give some quotes anonymously, and put them in touch with o…

Title is incorrect. This is not on Mechanical Turk. Tasks like this are not allowed on MTurk as per TOS. The original tweet author says so on the thread.

I do vaguely remember "good kings" and "bad kings" ... some kids were forgiving and more than fair, and others were vindictive. So not everyone gravitated towards tyranny and some …

As a child in primary school (in Lesotho, southern Africa): when a teacher left the classroom everyone was supposed to silently complete work. To enforce this, one student would be…

I had a page up on the iwarp.com domain too from the late 90s! http://counterwave.iwarp.com/ -> it was pure Flash (Flash 4) so it doesn't really even work anyway. It was so much fu…

I think to be fair, he said two things: 1. There is no way governments will just let an unregulated currency take over in a meaningful way. 2. Thus, the current Bitcoin rally is si…

I will be curious to see if people belonging to different internet subcultures develop their own accents. Already different groups of people are quite isolated in terms of the vide…

What disturbs me is the potential for a government, like in Iran or Russia, to use this technology to automatically screen and label people, as a precursor to mass-scale systematic…

Exactly. When getting started initially, it can be a huge time savings to get your basic full text experience running in Postgres directly, if that's already your main storage DB. …

Postgres supports a sophisticated full text search featureset while mysql does not. Implementing full text search on Postgres is not that difficult and can prove to be a much cheap…