Hacker News: notretarded

New comment by notretarded in "Show HN: Call a Dev – Pay Stack Overflow users $1/min for live programming help"

notretarded — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:52:42 +0000

Most of the higher rated accounts have their cred built up from asking good questions rather than good answers.

New comment by notretarded in "Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position"

notretarded — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:50:49 +0000

I didn't want to

New comment by notretarded in "Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position"

notretarded — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:49:40 +0000

How dare you

New comment by notretarded in "Apple’s tech interview scope for junior position"

notretarded — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:12:30 +0000

New comment by notretarded in "Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities"

notretarded — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:31:42 +0000

Being 15yo.

New comment by notretarded in "Google Open-Sources Trillion-Parameter AI Language Model Switch Transformer"

notretarded — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:53:46 +0000

In the source code it says "I have discovered truly marvelous weights for this, which this header file is too small to contain"

New comment by notretarded in "Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out"

notretarded — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:25:01 +0000

You're overestimating the competency, drive, and intelligence of an average developer.

Fortunate are you to have worked with people to give you such a point of view.

New comment by notretarded in "Vivaldi 3.6 Introduces Two-Level Tab Stacks"

notretarded — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:28:00 +0000

I remember this as a Firefox plugin back in the early 2000's. Why is this news?

New comment by notretarded in "Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]"

notretarded — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:04:35 +0000

It's not penalty or step size. It's loss as in amount of information lossd (not encoded in your network) compared to one perfectly encoding ground truth. Learning rate, as in what is the maximum amount of delta you are allowed to change your inputs to minimise your information loss analogous to how quickly you can possibly learn in one experiment.

New comment by notretarded in "What Can You Put in a Refrigerator? (2015)"

notretarded — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:05:06 +0000

Hacker news really has gone down hill of late..

New comment by notretarded in "How I was failing to find time for life while working remotely"

notretarded — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:46:43 +0000

> Watching a movie? Is the movie good enough you want to give up 2 hours billable?

Lie?

New comment by notretarded in "The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud"

notretarded — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:38:16 +0000

I'm in two minds about this (deeper integration with a particular vendor - i.e. "serverless")

Reduced time to market is incredibly valuable. Current client base is well in its millions. Ability to test to few and roll out to many instantly is invaluable. You no longer have to hire competent software developers who understand all patterns and practices to make scalable code and infrastructure. Just need them to work on a particular unit or function.

The thing which scares me is, some of these companies are decades of years old, hundreds. How long has AWS/GCP/Azure abstractions been around for? How quick are we to graveyard some of these platforms. Quite. A lot quicker than you can lift, shift and rewrite your solution to elsewhere.

New comment by notretarded in "Vuejs rejects close to 75% of outside contributions"

notretarded — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:17:51 +0000

Ahhh the applying Torvalds approach to code reviews.

New comment by notretarded in "Trump Twitter ban 'raises regulation questions' – UK govt minister"

notretarded — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 15:00:20 +0000

It's far less nuanced than that. It's the "old man shouts at cloud" meme, grumpy, lazy, old man wants to communicate to the word using methods he already knows.

New comment by notretarded in "Show HN: Array – A Better Python List"

notretarded — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:53:43 +0000

Why would I use this over numpy?

New comment by notretarded in "Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)"

notretarded — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:42:46 +0000

Because it implies you are invested in the particular technology enough to care about minutiae.

Personally I just like using it as banal objection to win arguments.

New comment by notretarded in "Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)"

notretarded — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:41:36 +0000

Because that's its most common use - to impersonate as a privileged user - so su quite naturally becomes super user

New comment by notretarded in "Apple Fixes Bagel Emoji (2019)"

notretarded — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 19:26:14 +0000

Uh oh. It's not vegan then.

New comment by notretarded in "Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F#"

notretarded — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:58:22 +0000

what do you think HTTP GET /foo.js does? This is no different.

New comment by notretarded in "Best of show – abuse of libc"

notretarded — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:58:20 +0000

>Format specifiers can take extra “arguments”. - "%hhn": store the number of bytes written mod 256 to the char pointer ...

Oh boy. I'll put that down for my "thing I don't think I wanted to know" of the day.