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thrax··on Study Suggests Link Between Air Pollution and Psychiatric Disorders
The mentally ill gravitate to places with mental health/social services... Aka cities. It's not rocket science.
thrax··on Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python
Syntactic whitespace is pretty high on my personal fascism chart.
thrax··on Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python
It's common knowledge amongst Nazi apologists, internet trolls, and actual Nazis.

The way your comment is phrased is disturbing.

Its not a problem of adoption. It's a problem of normalizing hate. If you don't understand that, I don't want to be associated with you.

thrax··on Q-Learning
I will contrast with my anecdote.. I build a simulation of 10x10 cityblocks with a population of 30 pedestrians.. I made a reward function based on distance to a random "target point" with penalty for walking in the street vs sidewalk.. and penalty for walking into walls.. the inputs were a 360 degree raycast of 16 samples.. and "distance to target" and the outputs were awsd keyboard inputs. I left it running overnight and by morning, bots were pretty efficiently walking around the city to their random targets via sidewalks. It felt like magic. I could have coded the behavior directly but the learned version seemed somewhat noisier and more organic. This was done a couple years ago using the a JavaScript deepq learning library. It feels like a squishier version of a-star or something.
thrax··on Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator
This is slick.
thrax··on Tell HN: Danny Cohen Has Died
RIP
thrax··on Basic Electron Framework Exploitation
This is pure FUD. Literally "hacker with her hands on your keyboard can compromise your machine."
thrax··on Blender 2.80
Btw there is a toggle to make the UI work more like 2.79.. it definitely helped me transition.
thrax··on A tiny language called Z (2013)
Is this like a lisp meets python?
thrax··on The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)
Funny timing, because a GOP candidate looking to unseat Ilhan Omar, was just busted for serial shoplifting at a Target.
thrax··on Fast Software, the Best Software
Check out photopea.com it's a free web based Photoshop clone.
thrax··on Winnti: Hackers attacking the heart of German industry
I worked for Mercedes Benz. They do a LOT of their software development in the US/silicon valley, and I was very impressed by their process and work environments.
thrax··on Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
I think there is a lot of evidence that explosive progress could be made quickly. Alphago zero, machine cision, sentiment analysis, machine translation.. voice.. etc etc etc

All these things have surged incredibly in less than a decade.

It's always a long way off until it isn't.

thrax··on Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
Revenge of Microsoft Bob!
thrax··on Amazon Accidentally Sold $13k Camera Gear for $100 on Prime Day
Repeat after me: Amazon is not a person. Why aren't you arguing against the daily electrocution of toasters?
thrax··on SpaceX says Crew Dragon capsule exploded due to exotic titanium fire
Too many syllables.
thrax··on Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
Just wanted to throw out a plug for photopea.com .. discovered it recently and it handles everything that I, as a programmer ever needed from Photoshop.
thrax··on QuickJS JavaScript Engine
This guy never ceases to amaze me.
thrax··on Ross Perot Has Died
Really glad he's dead. He was just another cheerleader for the unfettered greed and capitalism that is destroying the Earth. Good Riddance!
thrax··on The International Space Station is growing mould, inside and outside
And not that synthohol garbage they make in the replicators!
thrax··on Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
Ok Google directions home.
thrax··on Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
They should have made it a Dynamo charger. Apocalypse GameBoy.
thrax··on It’s Game Time: Oculus Quest and Rift S Now Available
Porn
thrax··on Let’s Not Put the Government in Charge of Moderating Facebook
We don't have the tools. If FB won't moderate the content they publish, then the government will have to. Putting the burden on users is how you 4chan/gab
thrax··on Seattle police use family DNA, latest science to identify killer 52 years later
Quelle surprise.. another military/police type.. just like EAR/ONS... Seems like we could save some time and just check dna against known mil/police dna first.
thrax··on Dear Programming Job Applicants (2010)
I learned vi by being too lazy to change my default editor in git..
thrax··on Dear Programming Job Applicants (2010)
TFW Dwight Shrute is your programming job interviewer...
thrax··on Oh shit, git (2016)
Don't gatekeep. Git isn't just for programmers.. it's for people that are learning.. people using it in non programming capacities and tons more. Telling people to "git gud" is not helpful. Not everyone knows, or indeed cares to know what a Directed Acyclic Graph is, and sites like this help people's anxiety who are just learning, or who have already screwed up and just want a solution.
thrax··on I do not use a debugger (2016)
I do 99% of my development in the chrome debugger. I usually step through every line of code for the first run through. It catches an incredible amount and variety of subtle bugs. Printf debugging is for chumps.
thrax··on The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
I wonder how many of the specialist shops are just a byproduct of a population of highly ambitious fetishists...
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