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iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on Dry Bean Dataset: Images of 13,611 grains of 7 different registered dry beans   archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/da... · Posted by u/polm23
iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
When I click through I only see a 4MB zip file. Where is the dataset?

It's great to have this kind of data available. So much computer vision research is done with a small number of datasets, e.g. imagenet, and there are lots of gaps to fill in on how sell these techniques apply to industrially relevant data like this.

iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop   cfenollosa.com/blog/fed-u... · Posted by u/ecliptik
zmmmmm · 5 years ago
I would like to see someone do the equivalent experiment now with a Win10+WSL2 setup.

I'm carefully watching Apple to see what the next line of Macbook Pros looks like. Esp. how well the M1 architecture fits into a development workflow that will still for the forseeable future center heavily on deployment to x86 architecture. We already are seeing significant time wastage from employees having to fight architecture issues with docker. We will see where that ends up. And then, whether the rumors are true that they might support more ports and even options without the touch bar. These things would signal a genuine change of heart on considering developers to be first class citizens in their ecosystem. If all these turn out positive I'll be sticking with it. If not, Win10+WSL2 are looking extremely compelling.

iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
WSL2 has quirks that make it not the same as running linux natively. For some workflows this may not matter but I have seen it evaluated for some use cases where not everything worked.

Also, windows is, for lack of a better word, obnoxious, in the way it bothers you about updates (and other messages of various kinds), and forces you to restart frequently and kn its terms.

The few times I have used windows recently, I found it the opposite of "just getting out of the way and letting me work", and I fear that even if wsl did work smoothly for what I was doing, just the fact that windows was running in the background would degrade the experience.

iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop   cfenollosa.com/blog/fed-u... · Posted by u/ecliptik
iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
I was linux only until last year when someone convinced me to try a Mac. I have been very happy with it: it's way less intrusive than what I had pictured (I think prejudice against commercial OSes from my windows days). Memory and CPU issues that seem to crop up in ubuntu using desktop apps are not present - I had a lot of trouble using e.g. zoom and g-suite on ubuntu without having either lockups or full blast cooling fan. And I still have a unix-like OS that I can do my usual development, ssh-ing, and file manipulation on.

I currently have a Mac for "office productivity" stuff and ubuntu for development, but if I had to only have one computer, it would be a Mac.

iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France   bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/beaker52
jessaustin · 5 years ago
At this point I try to laugh at everything, with the possible exception of low racist crap, just so I'm not associated in any way with the stick-up-the-ass no-one-can-laugh-if-not-everyone-is-laughing crowd.

It hurts me, because I used to have very sophisticated taste in humor.

iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
There is another comment in the thread where someone suggests that maybe its time we do away with april fools. Personally, I think most of the jokes are dumb (and honestly mostly closer to the kind of inoffensive-to-all anodyne crap that can still be distributed as a "joke"). But I find it horrific that people think doing away with it is the answer (it's also possible that person is trolling I suppose)

Anyway, I've said before, this reminds me of "The name of the rose" where the inquisition era zealot couldn't accept that religious men should laugh, because if they can laugh, they could laugh at God and the whole power of the church would fall apart. There is an echo of this in the current lack of tolerance for any humor that derives from making fun of something, grounded in the misunderstanding that finding humor in something means disrespecting it.

iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France   bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/beaker52
gregorygoc · 5 years ago
Come on, people may have 600€ in their bank account to survive a month and they receive some fake ass invoice, which is supposed to clear almost all of their savings. That’s the definition of “not cool” April fools joke.
iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
I'd concede that it's not cool, if true, that banks and tech companies have so much power over people that a fake invoice someone knows they aren't responsible for makes them afraid for their survival.
iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France   bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/beaker52
iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
I think most agree it was a bad joke - there is no 'absurdity' to it. Even when you find out it is fake, it's not really funny, it's more like "oh, why did you do that".

That said, I'm amazed how angry commenters here seem to be getting over it. Yeah, they tried to do something funny, it wasn't, it backfired and annoyed people. But at the same time, lighten up. Not everything needs to be a rage-inspiring transgression.

iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
Haha, I guess I'm a minority. Other commenters thought it was "morally reprehensible", "fraud", and are "livid". I'll try to do a better job of seeing how evil those around me really are.
iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France   bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/beaker52
iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
I think most agree it was a bad joke - there is no 'absurdity' to it. Even when you find out it is fake, it's not really funny, it's more like "oh, why did you do that".

That said, I'm amazed how angry commenters here seem to be getting over it. Yeah, they tried to do something funny, it wasn't, it backfired and annoyed people. But at the same time, lighten up. Not everything needs to be a rage-inspiring transgression.

iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving   blog.waymo.com/2021/04/ca... · Posted by u/mgreg
iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
I'm curious about the co-CEO thing. That seems like it is universally something that doesn't work and is just what happens when nobody wants to make a tough decision. Is there any context on why it might be the right move here?
iujjkfjdkkdkf commented on This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem   nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/mo... · Posted by u/dtx1
oblio · 5 years ago
I started with a Pentium I, 166Mhz, 16MB, 1GB HDD, and I'm not even that old. I imagine we have folks here that started on a PDP :-)

My P1 would stutter while playing MP3s :-))

iujjkfjdkkdkf · 5 years ago
We had an Apple IIe, but our first x86 was a 386 with 2MB ram and a 25MHz processor. I think the HDD was 40 MB.

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