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Comment Re:Yet another political post?? (Score 2) 129

User ID checks out, for most this site is long past its intelligent user base. Discussions no longer happen between normal people and prominent figures in the tech space. The ad revenue keeps this site alive and the "disable ads" feature for some users can't hold a cookie for its life (on purpose I suppose). It's a bummer.

Comment Most don't know anything (Score 0) 42

They just jump into a jupyter note book, put up some annoying graphs that may or may not indicate a correlation between some sets of data. Remove outliers and then jam it into what ever machine learning model of the month they have access to in PyTorch or Tensorflow and then get confused when it isn't magically creating good models when compared to other methods.

There are cool things that CNNs and DNNs and capable of, but often those that describe themselves as datascientists don't know how to achieve it.

Comment It's actually great (Score 2) 93

Golang has honestly been great to work with when upgrading between versions. For anyone who's ever worked with swift 1.0 and seen the version change nightmares that went through, then golang looks almost perfect in comparison. There are some issues like implicit interface compliance that both simplify working with the language but also poses some problems for maintenance, if your implementations are all under the same package then things get easier but that's not enforced either.

Generally the error handling idiom is good even if there are certain instances where handling a returned error ends up being a no op (like on rows.close()) it still nice that fail fast and elegant is somewhat part of the language.

Too many complainers in here haven't really even used the language in a project before.

Comment Almost agree on principle here (Score 1) 178

How often do new connections come out for phones and other devices? How is battery technology going to change and with that the energy requirements they have? Will a single charging standard support that? If the requirements get updated and need more power/different strategies will the governing body of the EU be fast enough to make that the new standard connector? What about other phones that don't have that new power requirement?

EU would likely stifle the forward progress of battery technology and charging on phones.

Comment Re:FDM printer with concrete (Score 1) 34

I see, there's still a team inserting different elements into the walls while its being built and isn't completely standalone 3d printing. Would be cool to see them implement different infill strategies and maybe remove the need for workers adding metal reinforcement. Glad to see it's real.

Comment Plugins are the true vulnerability (Score 4, Insightful) 47

Until Wordpress implements compartmentalization and permissions within their plugin system, none of this really matters. Any plugin can access any file anywhere and modify it. They can modify your htaccess to redirect to malicious domains they can do what ever they want. Wordpress has a small review process for plugins on their own repository but after that initial review they will never check that crap again even if the plugin destroys sites. I guess this is a step in the right direction though.

Comment School + my own shtuff (Score 1) 515

I got my degree and went to work, hated the work I was doing and quit the job and spent a year part time tutoring math barely affording rent and every morning I'd spend the day working on software. I worked through several books on game development, c++ development and general development practices. I also did some cs work in computer graphics and some math work in cs at school but those did not help me learn how to write truly functional software.

Comment How about reading code? (Score 1) 122

Will the system recognize when I find a piece of code that's an illegible thousand line file filled with SQL queries and no comments as to their purpose? Can it predict when I've been given a task to modify this code and won't do a good job because it's like shitting on a pile of shit? Or is the idea that it will catch the perpetrator of this dung pile and hold them responsible? What if the person who wrote this turd station was completely comfortable shitting onto a keyboard and into a codebase? Their heart rate never skipped a beat when they crapped out this functioning but illegible and unmaintainable mess for which I am now responsible. Looks like this system only finds those who know they're guilty of committing a sin. Not those who are ignorant or ambivalent.

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