misterdoubt

This is the part of the design that struck me as particularly useful -- that the monitor, keyboard, and trackpad/whatever can all be plugged in to external sources.

misterdoubt··on Travis CI acquired by Idera

https://circleci.com/product/#how-it-works

misterdoubt··on Bill Gates: The Best Investment I’ve Ever Made

Clickbait spoiled: it's his global health work, natch.

misterdoubt··on Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997

Ooh, I fondly remember late '90s nights tinkering in QERadiant. These days I'd be able to tinker way harder than just editing levels.

misterdoubt··on Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

Johnny.Hexadecimal?

misterdoubt··on 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0

Depends how you define 'primitive type.' A decimal number is built-in for C# and comes along with the standard libraries of Ruby, Python, Java, at least.

misterdoubt··on 9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0

Using one of these workarounds requires a certain prescience of the data domain

I'm a little concerned if merely knowing the existence of floating point arithmetic constitutes "prescience."

misterdoubt··on Google One

Google Photos is a key source of data for their work on image processing, classification, etc...

misterdoubt··on The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Also available here:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/tips-and-trick...

I, too, am making the Notepad++ -> vscode move.

misterdoubt··on GNU Wallpapers

Well with your live stats and feed plugin running transparently over the desktop and Winamp taking up non-rectangular space, it was critical to consider a desktop peeking through.

misterdoubt··on Translating Between Statistics and Machine Learning

X causes Y if surgical (or randomized controlled) manipulations in X are correlated with changes in Y

X causes Y if it doesn't obviously not cause Y.

This seems to conveniently overlook the decades of quantitative social science built on "I controlled for a couple things, and p is less than .05, so X causes Y."

But I'm not clear on the community context here. Is this just good-natured ribbing?

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