I do this too; have you found effective ways to tell firefox to maybe chill on eating all memory? I find if I don't restart ~1/week, it will end up reserving ~32GB of RAM for itself, which is just absurd.
The behavior of smashing their competitor's means of production was typical of guilds, and iirc it was one of the last instances of guilds acting to defend their interest in England. I'm more sympathetic to the Luddites than most guilds since it's around the time the labor/capital split in the productive class actually happened.
Historically, guilds were first and foremost a tool to enforce monopoly power on the part of masters against anyone else trying to enter the market (and against eachother to maintain monopoly pricing and supply). Luddites were actually just doing what guilds normally did.
An SVM is purely a linear model from the right perspective, and if you're being really reductive, RELU neural networks are piecewise linear. I think this may be obscuring more than it helps; picking the right transformation for your particular case is a highly nontrivial problem; why sin(x) and x^2, rather than, say, tanh(x) and x^(1/2).
Pretty odd comparison as the selfish gene is about gene level incentives, not individual level ones. there's even a chapter devoted to the chromosomal effects that lead to eusociality.
then again maybe the people you're thinking about are focused on the selfish, rather than the gene.
having spent my PhD writing in Julia, coming back to object oriented programming felt like programming with a hand tied to my back. many operations just make more sense dispatching on multiple arguments rather than just one, and. cramming methods into a class felt unnatural
they're referring to that time spot prices went negative during the early pandemic when nobody was driving, demand was way down, and storage suddenly became a problem.
oh I'm sure they get /something/, its just not proportional to the their contribution.
I'm out of the habit of using the library because I was far away from one, but my normal approach is to just buy the physical copies of the book, regardless of whether I read that or the physical one. There are publishers who go out of their way to be drm free and i do make a point to buy those (Tor comes to mind).
a couple of alternatives are donation models (patreon), or quadratic funding, where a common pool is used to provide the incentive to contribute to the creation of a public good at the actual value you get out of it (see Radical Markets for a description). there's definitely others- the main problem is there are powerful actors who benefit greatly from the status quo, and coordination is hard.
Honestly at this point, I feel like the ethical thing to do is "steal" digital and buy/borrow physical, the copyright surrounding digital goods has been so thoroughly gamed in the favor of publishers.
never thought I'd see a creationist on hn. Giraffe's have a nerve that goes all the way down the neck and back up, merely because it couldn't unwrap from a vein as giraffes evolved longer necks. No designer would include such a needless waste of resources. If there's a watchmaker, he's a blind idiot.