JohnStrangeII

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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I went for GTK3 in Go (Gotk3) and kind of regret it. Not that there is anything particularly wrong with it, but I'd go for Qt if I could start afresh.
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Ask HN: Any recommendation for minimalist web app language?
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For me, the biggest advantage of Lisp dialects is that they make it easy to introduce very powerful and far-reaching abstractions - and idiomatic good code encourages these. For some tasks that's pretty awesome, for example anything th
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
There is no conflict of goals, languages offer certain features, some of them offer only "zero-cost" abstractions (C++ and Rust) and others offer more abstractions. You get what you pay for in terms of runtime executable speed &#x
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That's how I use the word, too. It's a Heisenbug.
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That's how I use the word, too. It's a Heisenbug, though only one that manifests itself when you try to present something.
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It's a difference of scale. A single bank is less likely to drag down a whole economy and might even be insured against certain types of losses due to criminal activities. In contrast to this, if the value of a whole currency is destro
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I don't think any of this is desirable. For me, it's similar to digital voting, I have strong technical concerns with crypto currencies. The cryptography behind them or the implementations will be broken. People claim that it&#x
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> One or two stories like that will kill Libra stone dead. Unfortunately not. The problem is that only few people are affected by such problems. Privacy issues and unacceptable EULAs are similar, not enough people get actual problems w
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I totally understand your position. The point is that it is always opt-in, though. There is no such thing as "use it as you like unless the copyright holder opts-out" anywhere in copyright law. You cannot just e.g. use substantial
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Protection by enforcing applicable copyright law, not in the sense of "helping someone out". The news companies can opt to give away their content to Google for free. The directive merely gave these companies more choice, by stopp
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Interesting. This probably exists already in one form or another, but it could also be good opportunity for a major startup. "Netflix for news" - premium access to the best articles from the best newspapers and news agencies, with
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
The directive works just fine. From the perspective of the EU commission it's perfectly fine not to scrap any content of other creators and not to make it available for free. It merely states that if you scrap content from other compan
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That's not what happened, no matter how often you repeat your mantra. First of all, Minsky didn't agree to the offer, as evidenced by eye-witnesses. So there was probably no rape in any case, although there could have been one at
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Since I'm trained as a new linguist, not the old school you're referring to, I feel compelled to reply in order to correct some potential misunderstandings here. Structurally, you could also just take the position of Pollard &
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
No, you're referring to very broad language families. See my other post or www.ethnologue.com for accurate information. It's a bit of a tricky business, because what counts as a language is often also determined by political decis
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Non-linguists tend to grossly underestimate the number of languages and diversity in regions of the earth. Because "language" is a political construct, it also depends a bit on how you count. According to official classification t
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The convergence is massive and even faster than in the 90s. Languages die nearly daily (a language dies when its last speaker dies) and with them their culture, and people consume the same media and news all of the world. I'm not going
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Your post has "false dichotomy" written all over it. Of course, space exploration is an international endeavor and most space missions are highly international. Planning international space exploration missions doesn't force
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It's ironic that the erroneous claim that national socialism is left wing is used as an example, given that the above poster seems no less confused. Has the knowledge between extreme right and extreme left be completely lost? These peo
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However, as a rule of thumb, larger and more complex systems tend to have more bugs than smaller and simpler ones.
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Fair enough, but I did give a concrete reason why I believe some "no name mentioned" products may be better than Defender and other common antivirus products.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Some people like it, but I personally find the G-Shock (exterior) design intolerable. At least, they should remove some of the spurious writings on their higher end watches. I currently have an old Casio Protrek PRG-550BD that seems to be i
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Windows Defender is on every machine, so what would be the point of writing a virus that is detected by it? The same for Kaspersky. These programs are easy to test against and well-known. They are designed to work against old viruses that h
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
The idea that readers of the New York Times would need some kind of paternalist guideline on which side to choose in this conflict is quite hilarious. The NY Times is reporting on the issue, and there are two sides to it, the line of the Ch
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The US doesn't have a citizen score, political re-education camps, Tiananmen Square massacre, widespread censorship (like disconnecting a phone when you say a certain word), filtering of all foreign content and blocking of sites like W
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Of all the efforts at an alternative mobile OS so far, Harmony OS seems to have the best chances of success, because it is backed up by the Chinese state and its pervasive surveillance apparatus. With government help and full integration in
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This is getting ridiculous. The reason why these classification of mass shootings was invented (by US Congress) is quite the opposite of what you suggest, namely to make sure that gang-related violence and "ordinary" shootings are
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Wikipedia has an extra page on that, which I took as the basis of my comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting#Definitions To quote: " The term was originally defined as the murder of four or more peopl
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Yes, they use the official definition of the term "mass shooting", as it was adopted after 2013 by the US congress, which defines it as a shooting with 3 or more victims. Moreover, they mention in the very first paragraph that t

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