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by Delk 5y ago
> German is disliked by more countries than French hence French won. French has also been a traditional common language or diplomacy and international relations. It's probably got more inertia going for it in those circles than Germ
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by Delk 5y ago
For reference, that'd be around 800 km by road.
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by Delk 5y ago
Ah, the security of Windows 98 on common-use school computers. I think we all had some kind of a username and password with which we were supposed to log in. Except that, of course, in Win 9x it's really only a login to the network (fo
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by Delk 5y ago
That would be true if the development of our understanding had happened at a linear pace. It hasn't, though. Our understanding of the physical universe has grown so much within the last hundred or couple hundred years that I'm not
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by Delk 5y ago
Software engineering is taught as a part of the field that's called computer science, but the original question was about whether the field called computer science is actually a science. I guess the difference in that regard would be t
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by Delk 5y ago
> What saddens me is that the student who allegedly took his own life was probably so deeply surrounded by academia that he didn't know there's a world who won't judge him for having one fewer paper on his CV and will even
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by Delk 5y ago
Interesting. Is this because of officially shorter working hours per week, because of longer hours on the other weekdays, or just some kind of an unofficial practice? How common is this? As another Nordic, I've seen people gladly leave
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by Delk 5y ago
> You do a paper showing that problem X can be solved slightly better by downloading and training on a billion tweets. That's true. Sometimes you might try to tweak the algorithm itself rather than the data, though, or experiment wi
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by Delk 5y ago
Back when I did a stint at something NLP-ish for my master's, one of the problems seemed to be that, apart from lack of code, the data was also often non-public and specific to the study. That made it impossible to compare different al
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by Delk 5y ago
I think the important thing is that considering a project useless frees one of any obligation to think about its usefulness. It might not be useless but its value might come from not trying to be useful. Which is probably what you meant any
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by Delk 5y ago
I kind of got the same feeling about transitioning to PipeWire just a few years after PulseAudio got things working, but other than that, IMO it's not like things are being radically changed that often, let alone every release. The las
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by Delk 5y ago
FWIW, the article now has an update clarifying that it's not the OpenJDK (or JRE) packages that are being orphaned, nor suffering from poor maintenance, but "software written in Java". I suppose that would mean libraries or a
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by Delk 5y ago
Apart from Linux having gotten its start there, what exceptional contribution comes from Finland that makes it distinctive in the FOSS world?
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by Delk 5y ago
I generally want to agree with you on separating honorary doctorates from those earned through explicit academic achievement, and I think you're right that one shouldn't go ahead and call themselves a doctor for having received a
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm not really sure what to make of that. On one hand, yes, more and more things are being done in browsers, and possibly on phones, which in theory de-emphasizes the importance of x86 and Windows. On the other hand, especially when it
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by Delk 6y ago
Yeah, good point about unwinding. While still requiring concentration, indoor climbing is a lot more straightforward and requires less thinking. Top-roping might be even easier to get started with than lead climbing. You'll miss out on
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by Delk 6y ago
Rock climbing is sometimes fun. It's physical, it's social, and it's got a big dose of problem-solving. I don't approach it with such enthusiasm any more (there's enough problem solving at work and in life without p
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by Delk 6y ago
I suspect that might be at least partially because, in some cases or for some people, getting out of a deep depression might involve kind of disowning or denying the kinds of emotional states and thinking that were part of the depression. I
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by Delk 6y ago
I don't think that's an entirely fair comparison. You can design algorithms and prove things about them without hardware, and the algorithms and their properties will be valid in and of themselves. You don't get to "swim
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by Delk 6y ago
SSDs have also been getting pretty fast, though. I don't have lots of RAM (but rather on the low side for present day), but hibernation takes maybe 15 seconds on a SATA SSD. Hibernation was definitely a lot slower 10 years ago on a des
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by Delk 6y ago
I haven't seen tearing in years either except in somewhat exotic cases [1], so I wouldn't be surprised that there are other people who haven't either. Nor am I really surprised that some people do get tearing. My recent exp
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by Delk 6y ago
Out of curiosity (not to question), is this on Xorg or Wayland? I rarely use my external monitor, and I can't even remember the last time I had used it in portrait mode, so these comments made me realize there could be use cases (and n
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by Delk 6y ago
I wonder if there are significant differences between video hardware or drivers, or perhaps even generations. I've watched Netflix, a local HBO streaming service and YouTube on Linux for years on Intel graphics without noticing tearing
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by Delk 6y ago
I've been keeping a Keepass database on Dropbox (encrypted with password + key file, neither of which are stored on Dropbox, obviously) for a while, and haven't noticed any issues with syncing. I'm mostly using it from a sing
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by Delk 6y ago
Folders opening "in place" was a deliberate design choice called spatial file management or so [1]. It has its downsides and IIRC I wasn't a huge fan, but I wouldn't call it incoherent. I don't think anybody misses
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by Delk 6y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that reasoning generally, but specifically this is IMO not quite true: > The whole Github/MIT licence scene simply did not exist back in the days, it was either closed source or GPL. BSD-licensed softw
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by Delk 6y ago
Many anti-cancer drugs target cell division, or DNA replication, or something along those lines. It wouldn't be surprising that the same agents are used against different kinds of cancers (which consist of different kinds of cells&#x2F
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by Delk 6y ago
Finding a cure for cancers originating in a particular organ is at least somewhat narrower than finding a "cure for cancer", and as such probably not quite as unrealistic. You're still right, of course, since there are still
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by Delk 6y ago
I don't know, but based on a gameplay video it looks more like vector graphics to me. The terrain silhouette seems to have straight lines. I don't know how they pulled that terrain rendering off with 1994 hardware. The limited ren
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by Delk 6y ago
> I thought this was pretty interesting and goes into a hypothesis of why ECT might be effective (in the context of sleep deprivation being effective) https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/sleep-is-the-mate-of-d ...

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