Bootvis

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The Genius in My Basement (2011)(theguardian.com)
1 points by Bootvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Any specific parts you’d like to understand better? I’m sure someone here is well versed in this topic.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Does anyone have examples of use to share?
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by Bootvis 7y ago
I found his name in Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs and Steel”, I’m halfway and it’s an interesting read about how the world became to be as it is and generally interesting tidbits.
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Sequoyah – Inventor of the Cherokee Script(en.wikipedia.org)
68 points by Bootvis 7y ago|17 comments
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by Bootvis 7y ago
This podcast is very informative on this topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-11/this-is-w...
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We don't allow users to pick passwords so we don't store your information(twitter.com)
13 points by Bootvis 7y ago|8 comments
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The Eccentric Genius Whose Time May Have Finally Come (Again) (2014)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by Bootvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/519/
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Facebook rejects advertisement biography Ahmed Aboutaleb (politician)(translate.google.com)
1 points by Bootvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Could you tell what "insidious daily propaganda" you have obeserved and how about sides are equally manipulated?
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by Bootvis 7y ago
I believe the best you can do is to delay streaming. Now you have the problem of deciding when to start...
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by Bootvis 7y ago
It will be the e d of same day delivery and that’s just fine with me.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
I’m guessing: Keep it simple(x)
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Until it's not and the fund manager goes bankrupt...
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by Bootvis 7y ago
You can dispute Zig, but in practice there is FORTRAN that is faster for many math procedures.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
I just don’t like being extorted.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
I'm guessing here that the perceived mistake was that it was better to have a plugin based architecture where you can use all those codecs written by others.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Also check out this Bloomberg podcast with the author (currently it's the first one in this overview): https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/odd_lots
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Mesh: Compacting Memory Management for C/C++(github.com)
3 points by Bootvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 7y ago
The key here is 'unnecessarily'. If it it works just as well on an AMD CPU it should be enabled on an AMD CPU regardless of who submitted it.
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iOS 12.4 jailbreak released after Apple mistakenly unpatches vulnerability(9to5mac.com)
2 points by Bootvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 7y ago
For R and CRAN this is also being done. Maybe not with 100% coverage (there are 14k packages on CRAN) but an attempt is made to fix packages by R-core developers if breakage occurs.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
I have one apple.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
That depends on the position, I believe it is easy for a software engineer in a big corp. For senior management or an engineer in a small corp with lots of domain knowledge: a lot harder. The second set of people can try but when shit hits
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Implementing sanctions are economic warfare supported by superior force.
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by Bootvis 7y ago
That is besides the point. If Google retaliated in any way it's bad.
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A New Plan for Keeping NASA's Oldest Explorers Going(voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)
2 points by Bootvis 7y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 7y ago
Thank you for your reply and all your work. I probably should have phrased my comment better. My point was that it’s perfectly possible to use ggplot without explicit knowledge of tidy principles or tibbles. This is great! And for example,
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by Bootvis 7y ago
The claim that ggplot2 is tidyverse can be disputed. It existed before and works fine outside of it.

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