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hace 27 díasdiscuss

I think the last time I emailed a stranger when I had no business reason to do so was to thank someone for creating an excellent set of instructions for running OpenBSD on the exact model of laptop I wanted to use. I didn't expect a response and I didn't receive a response. I just thought he should know that something he did helped someone else, and now he knows.

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I read Persepolis in French, and I don't speak French as a native language, so I worry that I missed some of the art and the nuance of it. But, even so, I thought it was beautiful. She was an extremely talented storyteller, and I'm sad that she left us so soon.

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This is what the internet is for. I only remember playing this game once or twice on a friend's N64, so I don't have any nostalgia for it, but the idea that someone chose this as their strange, impractical personal project is really satisfying.

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

I build ukuleles and guitars from scratch. That's not as niche as what a lot of people do -- it's just woodworking -- but I do software for a living and enjoy making durable, physical things in my free time.

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hace 5 mesesdiscuss

I've used React on projects and understand its usefulness, but also React has killed my love of frontend development. And now that everyone is using it to build huge, clunky SPAs instead of normal websites that just work, React has all but killed my love of using the web, too.

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hace 11 mesesdiscuss

What are the consequences of simply disregarding the UK ruling? Does Wikipedia have British employees, offices, or financial assets?

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

I made a RNN for a college project because I was interested in obsolete historical technology and I thought I needed to seize the opportunity while it lasted, because once I was out of school, I'd never hear about neural networks ever again.

Mine worked, but it was very simple and dog slow, running on my old laptop. Nothing was ever going to run fast on that thing, but I remember my RNN being substantially slower than a feed-forward network would have been.

I was so confident that this was dead technology -- an academic curiosity from the 1980s and 1990s. It was bizarre to see how quickly that changed.

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hace 2 añosdiscuss

One thing I learned -- I think it was from The Pragmatic Programmer -- that helps me when I feel forced into making a quick decision is this three-part answer:

1. I don't know, 2. It depends, 3. I'll get back to you.

If people don't accept that, I'll follow with some variation of "Do you want me to guess or do you want me to lie? Either way, I'd be feeding you bullshit, and you deserve better than that. Give me a little bit of time to collect my thoughts."

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