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cubano

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wherever you go, there you are.

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cubano··on Tinn: A tiny neural network library written in C99
I would expect it would depend on what the function actually did with the data.
cubano··on Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail
I've been to at least 10 different county jails and to Florida State Prison twice, and I feel like I know already what you're biggest problem is going to be...

It's going to be the one(s) that screw it all up for the many.

All it's going to take is one criminal in your program to go out and kill and rob an elderly couple for society to force the politicians to end your noble and well-meaning experiment and put those people back behind bars.

I've seen it over and over in my many years of being locked up...programs designed to give inmates and convicts a shot at bettering themselves are totally abused by a few totally selfish and uncaring dickwads that actually enjoy the fact they just fucked it up for everyone else.

But regardless of that, I think your program holds great promise and wish you nothing but success with it.

cubano··on ‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
If that was the case, you have have been charged with Attempted Murder on a LEO and I'm quite surprised your not still in prison right now, unless it happened like 15 years ago.

It's a very serious charge to attempt any sort of violence against a Law Enforcement Officer (LEO), and at least where I'm from, prosecutors like giving the max sentence for cases such as those.

cubano··on Gallery of programming UIs
It sure is, as well as it's powerful brother, Borland/Inprise C++ Builder, two IDEs that definitely deserve a spot on this list.
cubano··on Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
Don't we already have a huge infrastructure of police, the courts, and insurance companies in place to decide these very things everyday?

I mean, how is this different then all of the other accidents that occur every day? Yes a self-driving car is involved, but do people really think autonomous cars aren't going to be involved in fatal accidents?

Of course they are...but I've always thought that autonomous vehicles only have to be like 10% safer for them to make tons of sense to replace human drivers.

cubano··on Branchless Doom
Please don't give anyone any ideas.
cubano··on Branchless Doom
To be honest, rsync sounds like a big win in that group..sheesh.

Good work all around.

cubano··on Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home
Are you truly having a hard time understanding how life under a Communist dictatorship and a Representative Democracy would differ for the average citizen?

It's really confounding to me that the younger generations seems to have such a hard time with this.

Do they not teach comparative history in schools anymore?

cubano··on Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley for Riches Back Home
maybe because native americans would be the term and your question sounds purposefully obtuse and perhaps even discriminatory?

just a guess.

cubano··on Google retires the Pixel C tablet as it shifts focus to the Pixelbook
I absolutely love my $65 Samsung Chromebook I got on a Black Friday sale a few weeks ago, and while of course it bogs when I have 15 tabs open, I am constantly surprised at how well it performs even under heavy loading.

The ridiculous price point of the Pixelbook literally makes me laugh out loud. A thousand fucking dollars for a damn Chromebook?? Absurd.

I personally like the $199 price point and would love to see manufactures deliver a kick-ass chromebook at that level....something that almost matches the Pixelbook performance.

cubano··on Project Euler
a26a zbuild 1b c ratty
cubano··on Exercism – Level up your programming skills
It's probably so easy for him to forget because he is so busy shipping working apps...
cubano··on As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support
> My wife just wanted me to listen while she told me about her day...

Yes. Totally this...just listen to her...turn off all that problem solving stuff and just look her in the eyes and keep your mouth shut, no matter what she is saying.

She is strong...she can solve her problems, but she needs you to hear her vent and offer emotional support.

cubano··on The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession
By definition the "wealthy" have always controlled the "vast share of assets and capital" in the world.

How could it be anything but?

The reality is that the "poor" in developed countries live better then 99.9999% of all humans have ever lived on this planet.

You disagree? Well consider this then...just very-short-90-years-ago, the 16 year-old son of the most powerful man on Earth died from a blister on his foot he got while playing tennis on the White House lawn.

We should all stop looking at the glass being half-empty.

cubano··on The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession
Isn't prepared to do what exactly?

Does The Atlantic think people are just going to lay down and die when it comes?

People will deal with it the way they always have of course, by modifying their behaviors to align with current financial realities.

I really don't understand the point of article like this.

cubano··on The two questions I ask every interviewer
There are so many cognitive biases in play when it comes to hiring its basically a total crapshoot no matter what processes and shit is in place.

People hire people they like, period.

cubano··on The Trouble with High IQ
Welcome to the human race. We all feel that way at times I would tend to believe.
cubano··on After the end of the startup era
Why would we do that when are bodies are specifically evolved for eating both vegetables and meat?

I, for one at least, consider along the millions of years that evolution tried a version of homo sapiens that couldn't eat meat, and it was selected against...why would we now attempt to overturn the apparent wisdom of that selection?

cubano··on A convicted felon who became a Georgetown law professor
I've been to prison twice and I was raised in a very favorable environment.

These incarcerations have killed my career and ruined very important relationships.

My crimes? Both were rather low level drug charges where I was guilty of deep carelessness and rather bad luck more then anything else.

I guess you can call them a "series of bad choices", but only if you think overzealous US drug laws are a good thing.

cubano··on Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
I have a somewhat amusing FORTRAN story from my undergrad days at the Florida Institute of Technology...

So my first programming class ever was a Numerical Analysis class taught at FIT, and to be honest, this was my first exposure to a "real" editor (vi on a PDP11 in this case)..up to then it was all MS-BASIC with that wonky line editor and, of course, goto-s and line numbers.

At the end of the first class (8am ugh), the instructor announced that anyone looking to get extra credit and perhaps skip having to come to early class, to talk to him after class. Of course that sounded good to me, so I went to see him and he said "ok...if you can write me a bowling league manager in 10 weeks you will get an A and not have to ever come to class."

Ok...hell yes in fact! This sounded a ton more interesting then sitting around a silly class talking about programming. He gave me a spec sheet and away I went to lab to begin my struggles with vi and FORTRAN.

I wasn't easy, but holy shit did i learn a lot...more then I ever could have just doing the exercises in floating-point rounding error and non-linear simulations (I ended up doing that later as well) that were "taught" in class.

I can still remember FORTRAN (77 I believe) has the a very strict formatting scheme where the column had to match the keyword in order of the program to compile or something stringent like that. But mostly, coming from BASIC, it was a breath of fresh air.

I ended with completing the program with extra bells and whistles...sorting, multiple leagues and other things...and the instructor was duly impressed.

I got my A and never woke up before 8am again.

cubano··on Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch
C certainly isn't the language where one expects to encounter deep abstractions, is it?
cubano··on Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
Without a doubt this stunt marked the absolute death knell for WP...my God the arrogance of those people.
cubano··on Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs
Sure no worries..of course I personally knew that, but I thought it might be useful for you guys to know its being blocked by the AV.

It's a really nice product BTW...good job.

cubano··on Show HN: Sitebulb, a website crawler and auditor for SEOs
Avast free WebShield on Win7 is giving me a FileRepMalware error and is aborting the download and connection.

I am not exactly an expert on Avast and this particular error but perhaps someone here would like to know about this.

cubano··on Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men from Labor Force
I'd like to turn this around somewhat and find a study that shows just how many "productive", employed citizens are actually using prescribed opioids and ADD medicines (methamphetamines) that help them to work harder and longer hours, because my bet is that it would be at least a significant fraction.

My point? Maybe just because someone is taking opioids, people shouldn't automatically label them as unhireable.

People on suboxone and methadone would test positive for opioids as well...are these people also considered unhireable?

cubano··on Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit
Just go right to the source material and read Marx..to hell with all his imitators and wannabes.
cubano··on A black market where people pay for Instagram verification
it makes me want to straight puke my guts up.
cubano··on The chasm between public and private valuations of ‘Unicorns’
I find this really enlightening when all I've ever heard about from the under 30 generation was how they were going to "do thing different" and always apply social conscience.

The study found that it can exaggerate a company’s valuation by as much as 94 percent.

Ratchets can inflate a startup’s value by 56 percent or more, the study said.

etc.

Many if not all of these "techniques" sure sound old school to me.

cubano··on Building a Music Recommender with Deep Learning
> ...image representations of audio are horrible representations of it (other than for temporal changes).

Yes, and thus the reason why the classifier was so good at recognizing trance...it's one of the few genres that locks in at around 144bpm.

cubano··on Jim Mellon and high-profile partners roll the dice on an anti-aging upstart
Human history seems to prove that over time, any billionaires heirs will eventually drain the money away.
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