eriknstr
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Comment · 9 years ago
> I made a chatbot that rolled dice, and it was constantly criticized for being "broken" because four 3's would come up in a row.
> These accusations would come up even though they (all being computer science majors) know it's possible (although unlikely) for these events to happen. They just don't trust the black box.
This reminds me of a talk [1] given at Game Developer's Conference (GDC) about the game Civilization, in which the Sid Meyer -- creator of said game -- spent a bit of the time talking about the difference between fairness and perceived fairness. The talk is only an hour long and worth watching.
Comment · 9 years ago
> There's another one (maybe the same guy?) who moderates with a vengeful bias on Reddit. That kind of shit-throwing is anathema to a large company.
Also due to some being unhappy with the moderation of /r/bitcoin there's a separate community called /r/btc. Then again, there are many communities on Reddit that have split up due to disagreements about moderation, such as for example /r/meirl vs the previously vastly more popular /r/me_irl [1]. (The latter of these still has about 3x the amount of subscribers though, but /r/me_irl has grown to become large indeed.)
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3z2pax/me_irl...
Comment · 9 years ago
When I first switched from the terminal emulator that came with the first DE I was using (gnome 2?) to urxvt, it seemed very fast. When I later switched to Terminology, it seemed even faster. I've stayed with Terminology. I agree it'd be very interesting to see a proper comparison between Terminology, urxvt and others.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Also with a few web sites I might upvote it first and then read it :-|
I can neither confirm nor deny that I do this too but I can say that I think it makes sense to do this, and I would go as far as to say that I think it's healthy for the HN community that stories get upvoted by people who have not yet read the story in full, as long as it doesn't happen too much -- while a story might turn out to be lacking or even factually incorrect in some way I think there is opportunity for interesting discussion to be had as long as the topic at hand is interesting.
Comment · 9 years ago
But in return you might use more vertical space, and with a terminal size of 80x24, vertical space is more precious.
Comment · 9 years ago
Site works fine from my location.
I think you are correct.
> Read a sentence to help our machine learn how real people speak. Check its work to help it improve. It’s that simple.
Comment · 9 years ago
Empty space would be the better default I think yes.
Comment · 9 years ago
Filling the indent area with dots is not a sensible default IMO. Often when I work on a query I am going to reuse it in an application. If PgAdmin III or psql filled the indent area with dots then they would be included when I copied the query I'd written.
Even though I always reformat the query, and even though the text editor I use -- vim / neo-vim -- supports rectangular text selection, I would be annoyed at such dots.
Comment · 9 years ago
You are right. Internationalization might be the word for what I'm talking about, though some might argue that that's not correct either because they might say that l10n is a subset of i18n. Not quite sure. But anyways, yes, l10n in the sense that it works in my part of the world is desirable. I18n if only taken to mean translation (and things like right-to-left and such which arise from supporting certain languages) is what doesn't matter to me.
Comment · 9 years ago
Also some of us don't even like to have the software localized. English is not my mother tongue and it's not an official language where I live either but I always set the system language to American English on my computers and devices.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think I read recently that Chrome / Chromium is now able to run without having to use xvfb, so now truly headless.
Comment · 9 years ago
Maybe the Internet Archive has a digital copy of Dictionnaire Infernal?
Comment · 9 years ago
Off topic but the hash shown piqued my interest.
The source is linked from the page - https://github.com/btrask/stronglink
> A searchable, syncable, content-addressable notetaking system