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computerdork
·Hôm qua·discuss
Hmm, it didn’t occur to me. Yeah, not sure it’s obvious to many people so was glad for the explanation
computerdork
·3 ngày trước·discuss
Funny!
computerdork
·4 ngày trước·discuss
Ah okay, thanks!
computerdork
·4 ngày trước·discuss
Thanks for the info:)
computerdork
·5 ngày trước·discuss
Thanks for the explanation on this. Think I partially understand. Birds can distinguish calls on at least two characteristics, by the sound of it and by its function. And the authors have developed experiments to show that birds can do both. Is this correct or did I get on the wrong track?
computerdork
·5 ngày trước·discuss
This is a helpful explanation - am not a researcher so I have little idea how to run an unbiased, meaningful experiment (except that it takes a lot of effort and thought to run one). Useful analysis
computerdork
·8 ngày trước·discuss
Scenes from the human harvesting operations at in the Matrix come to mind, but am sure it's different than that:)
computerdork
·8 ngày trước·discuss
those advertisers are crafty:)
computerdork
·8 ngày trước·discuss
Totally agree - having been telling this to friends for years, to no avail.

Btw, what network monitor are you using? Was it just a diagnostic tool in your router's admin page? Or is it something special like dd-wrt? Because seems like it's kind of hit or miss if a router's stock admin includes a reliable network monitor.
computerdork
·8 ngày trước·discuss
Actually, think all the devs here should know this too (and am surprised people on HN are making such a big deal about this). Agreed, 500Mb is what most households need because, yeah, 90% of the time 4k video is the most demanding thing we do (which is only 25Mb/s per person in the household).

Having been telling this to my family and friends whenever they want to upgrade to 1Gb/s, but to noavail. They rarely ever take the suggestion (ah well, to each their own).
computerdork
·15 ngày trước·discuss
Oh, wow, that is actually an interesting application of ai
computerdork
·15 ngày trước·discuss
interesting connection to Cage. Maybe Springer Nature also sees the empty pdf as a form of art? :)
computerdork
·17 ngày trước·discuss
...By the way, on a different subject, 4 days ago, had read your comments on a different post dealing with Alzheimer's. Just now, asked you a follow up question, and it's easy for them to get buried in your hackernews comments threads, so thought I'd just mention it. Thanks!
computerdork
·17 ngày trước·discuss
This is of course an older thread, but wanted to ask you, what are the major camps in Alz these days?

...and had also heard about how amyloid research had been based on bad/fraudulent research. One of the biggest scandals was by Tessier-Lavigne from Stanford, correct?
computerdork
·22 ngày trước·discuss
Am pretty sure he's right. I rent out my house, and it is very illegal for the landlord to record video inside the house (or even of the driveway). You are infringing the privacy of your tenants and is a huge no-no.

Yeah, if you accidentally recorded families walking through their homes unclothed, this could land a landlord in jail.
computerdork
·22 ngày trước·discuss
Yeah, hopefully, someday someone will write a really good one that becomes universal used.
computerdork
·23 ngày trước·discuss
True, the pull command is simple. But it's really the pushing and merging that cause the problems.

And, yeah, don't know if i'd call it simple in the way you're using the word. It's simple in that the tool is very "RISC" in nature instead of CISC, doing smaller simple operations instead of larger more complex ones (except for a few exceptions like pull). But for procedures like pushing your code, it's complex. You have to do a lot of things yourself that other VCS take care of. As you probably are aware of, you need to make sure you do things in the correct order, because the tool won't help you if you make a mistake. Don't think something like source control should be this way (especially when other VCS's don't require this amount of thought).

Just my two cents.
computerdork
·23 ngày trước·discuss
thanks for the history on this, funny stuff:)
computerdork
·23 ngày trước·discuss
Oh sorry, yeah, didn't use the right term, meant commit... Still, conceptually in terms of source control, think it's the right term (meaning the process of having your code changes added into the main repo).

... and btw, haven't thought about git in awhile, and am reviewing its concepts. It does really have some nice features - always used to think the staging area was an unused feature (and at least for me, it kind of is), but local branches are super useful, and it seems like all that focus on git being a distributed vcs allows (and requires) a dev to work more locally first in very flexible ways. This is really, really nice. Still not sure all the complexity is worth it...

Know this has been said countless times, but some abstraction layer on top of git (that is actually apart of git itself so that it becomes standard) would have been really nice. Understandably, since git started its life in use by sharp linux-devs, usability probably wasn't at the forefront, but yeah, how many countless hours worldwide would have been saved if git was easier to use? (the dreaded botched friday-night commit and update)
computerdork
·23 ngày trước·discuss
was wondering how and who created this site:)