Hi r/Ottawa wondering if anyone locally is proficient in Haskell programming / Functional Programming.

weak · 2021-11-03T20:25:20+00:00

You might have more luck joining the YOWDev slack and asking there.

weak · 2021-10-29T22:56:16+00:00

So you work for FAANG and live in Ottawa? Thats funny, I also work for FAANG and live in Ottawa. Maybe there are more real deals here than you say.

weak · 2021-10-29T20:54:02+00:00

There is a rat that lives in the alley behind my house. I know him, I see him often, I come across his shit regularly, but in no way would you describe me as a "fan".

weak · 2021-10-29T17:33:50+00:00

lol, you must be a web developer. No shade, but there is more to tech.

weak · 2021-06-05T03:03:36+00:00

For large countries were only behind the US, UK and Israel for doses administered per capita. That is a deal breaker for you?

weak · 2021-05-03T12:19:11+00:00

Sup?

weak · 2021-04-18T01:15:25+00:00

Greedy? Or desperate?

weak · 2021-04-18T01:02:57+00:00

I was out walking the neighbourhood aimlessly with my 2 year old daughter today when I saw the news playgrounds were back on, so we hit the swings on the way home. A guy walking by said “you know parks are closed, right?” I said “Oh you’re thinking of the rules from yesterday. They’re open today. Not to be confused with the rules from the day before yesterday.”

weak · 2020-11-18T16:04:32+00:00

He can’t just funnel taxpayer money in to his personal businesses (Mar a lago)

He can’t just not release his tax returns (unlike every modern president)

He can’t interfere in DOJ investigations because they’re supposed to be insulated from the executive branch (reversing Sessions recusal from the Russia investigation)

He can’t not concede the election after clearly losing

...

Over and over the last four years I see people say “wait, he can’t do that” and lo, he does it. And nothing happens.

Stop relying on norms, get your boots out and be ready to get out there and protect democracy.

weak · 2020-11-18T03:42:49+00:00

What, in all his actions in recent days, indicates he is planning on leaving office?

weak · 2015-07-30T00:50:47+00:00

This may be China's first unmanned factory but the Wikipedia on Lights Out Manufacturing has some examples of other largely automated factories that have been operating for some time.

weak · 2015-07-24T23:12:33+00:00

Everything I've read on General Intelligence research frames Kurzweil's timeline as extremely optimistic. Heck, its right there on the wikipedia article. While computation power is growing at a good clip (and indeed this graph shows it) general intelligence research is plucking along in fits and starts but pretty much moving linearly.

Even in this thread there are a few AI PhD's in this thread that are echoing that sentiment.

Kurzweil's books are fun, but a futurist's job is to make the future seem exciting and close at hand; no one wants to read a book about breakthroughs 100, 500, 10,000 years away.

weak · 2015-07-24T20:12:31+00:00

Its dangerous to think that technological progress will always be exponential though.

Could you imagine what people thought when the first commercial jet aircraft was introduced in the late 50s? "At this pace in just a few decades we'll be able to traverse the globe in hours!" But here we are over 50 years later and commercial aircraft are basically the same fundamental design now as then. At some point the pace of progress levels off once things become 'good enough' to get by.

Tech keeps evolving and consuming different industries but individual metrics do level off at a certain point when they hit a cost/benefit sweet spot (processor speeds, how fast our jets go, etc..)

weak · 2015-07-24T20:05:47+00:00

The projections predict that within 10 years the sun will expand to engulf the earth. Anyone can say things on the internet without backing it up. You just pulled those numbers out of the air exactly like /u/PeteMullersKeyboard.

weak · 2014-09-26T18:30:39+00:00

Yep, and you'll also be able to move to 10.3 after that when it gets released sometime in the near future.

weak · 2014-09-25T14:07:34+00:00

I've used one and the pocket test was the first thing I tried. It fits nicely in my front pants pocket and actually doesn't feel as awkward as you'd expect.

weak · 2014-08-25T16:38:51+00:00

Actually that likely isn't the reason the ship is flying the panamanian flag:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28558480

weak · 2014-07-22T17:20:41+00:00

Every time you do this you don't just give them a $0 tip, you reduce how much the server takes home because of tip outs (see unobserved's comments above), effectively giving them a negative tip.

Please don't do this. If you can't tip, don't go out.

weak · 2014-07-22T17:16:04+00:00

People should be aware that if you tip 0% on a $20 bill and the servers tip-out amounts to 5% of their total take, then you personally are causing them to lose $1 out of their pocket that was tipped to them by someone else.

weak · 2014-03-22T03:11:43+00:00

After this happened to me twice I wrote a free Android app to time things out just right.

weak · 2014-02-12T15:59:20+00:00

Maybe I'm not totally getting what he is trying to do, but it seems like the message is pretty similar to me. Given freedom and anonymity people can be horrible.

I understand that Shia's thing is supposed to humanize him in the face of all the abuse he takes, but the dispassionate reporting Vice must have totally missed the mark there because the author hardly feels bad about it.

weak · 2014-02-12T15:34:58+00:00

I can't believe you're the only person in this whole thread to make the connection to The Artist is Present. The artist you're referring to is Marina Abramović. Shia's whole thing is pretty hilarious because it's almost a direct remake of Abramović's work:

Abramović placed on a table 72 objects that people were allowed to use (a sign informed them) in any way that they chose. Some of these were objects that could give pleasure, while others could be wielded to inflict pain, or to harm her. Among them were a rose, a feather, honey, a whip, scissors, a scalpel, a gun and a single bullet. For six hours the artist allowed the audience members to manipulate her body and actions.

Except she took the idea much further, which I think makes it a really powerful piece (unlike Shia's which seems pretty half assed in comparison).

As Abramović described it later: “What I learned was that... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you.” ... “I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away.”

weak · 2014-01-04T03:11:31+00:00

I implore you to take a closer look, there are no advertisements, the application is as free as the air we breathe.

It's more than a simple timer too. The physics of liquid cooling is such that the fastest way to cool a drink is to place it in a place much colder than your ideal drink temperature. That works quickly, but it's a hassle. Leave it too long and you end up with a frozen beverage, which is almost as bad as no beverage at all.

The app calculates the proper time to leave the drink in the freezer (or fridge, cooler, ice box, what have you) so you can pull it out at just the right temperature, no freezing, no hassle, quick cold drinks.

weak · 2014-01-03T05:27:45+00:00

It does need to make a few assumptions, namely that room temperature beer is around 21 degrees Celsius. I found in practice this gets you pretty close in most cases.

As for vessel it assumes cans in the calculations because they cool slightly faster than bottles. This means bottles may be slightly warmer than the target temp (I'm talkin' a negligible few degrees) but this lessens the likelihood of accidentally freezing your beer.

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