ObscureScience

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by ObscureScience 2y ago
I notice that many of the tools (at least in the repos linked) seem to have stopped development since a couple of years. As some of these are wrappers for tools or use APIs that could mean that they do not work any more, or without special
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
What I have mainly have been looking for in the free software ecosystem is a good tool to work with PDF tagging/structure/element attributes. At work I really have only been able to do the work I need on random PDFs with Adobe Acr
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
It would be interesting to see this using median income or similar meassure rather than GDP per capita. Inequality by itself doesn't have to be a problem (depending on economic ideology) but if all purchasing power is restricted to a f
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
I don't see how it would be different if the owner change, as long as the borrow takes precedence.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
If the moved value still is not allowed to be read or mutated while borrowed elsewere I don't trivially see the issue.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
My understanding of this is that he managed to hype the language with certain killer features. A lot of people were enthusiastic and invested alot of time in learning and building in it. Evan than "suddenly" said they wanted to ta
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Ok, I'm not excluding the possibility of a lab leak, but I would expect it to be just badly handled regular microbiological/pathological research rather than genetic engineering.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Is anyone even suggesting a genetically modified virus?
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Are we talking a Windows environment? I'm sure there are commercial solutions, but I think sandboxie could achieve something similar (don't know how secure it is considered). If you can chose your system QubesOS may be interesting
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
That is not the definion I'm accustomed to. To me, invasive means both "non-native" and causing an issue to the indeginous ecosystem. Found an article which seem to mirror my understanding of the terms: "Invasive: a spec
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
As Zig promises "not hidden allocation", I assume you can build your allocator in Rust and then use it for all memory allocation in Zig.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
The difference is that most other language are backwards compatible to a fault (it's hard to have the stability cake and eat improvements)
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Isn't Chez Scheme the default runtime by now?
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Ok, sorry for assuming your intent. No, its nothing like that. They are all the distro provided stable versions installed as "regular" applications. And it seem to be the start up process that differs, as putting them all in a ram
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
That's pretty odd to assume. All but Debian are running more or less the latest, and Arch is on the "fresh" track.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
I can imagine what would be/is valuable is type checked embedded SQL queries.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
I would not say that the C# runtime is slow, but it is a JIT compiler that is not optimizing for start-up (as far as I know), and it is "doing a lot of work" at runtime to achieve the eventual performance it is capable of. Start-
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Note that modern versions of MS Paint (with few improvements over the original) takes seconds to load on a quad core 3+ghz machine, loaded from an SSD.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
This would make sense if not for the claim that they list the same drivers as the replacement part for both models. Or do they when picking up the order do the testing to see if it's a 595 or 555 part?
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
The experience configuring sendmail is worse than configuring icewm if you want to play audio files.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Easyeffect is a great application, but the UI was significantly worsened with the change from Pulseeffects. Especially the management of the effect chain. It has bad feedback when using drag and drop, and a sungle wrong click on remove (nex
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Since you did not address the monetization suggestion; I hope that there will be some mechanism to prevent open DBs to just become closed/paywalled over night. If such a premium content is implemented, similar to free software there sh
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Unless length of the list (a "Vector" in typical dependent type nomenclature) I can see the issue. I have not read the paper, but why is not a the empty list the value that returns None when called with this function? I assume the
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
I guess it's also distributed systems, but that's about it.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
I was looking at my wallet in keybase, which I haven't for years. Other than the Stellar Lumens that Keybase has given away,I have under assets BTC "trustline" address. I vaguely remember adding something to be able to receiv
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
It won't solve the basic issue you bring up, but https://www.improvethenews.org/ at least help to make us more aware of those biases.
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
I would however say that the justification for using /usr/bin is to simplify the possibility of having most of the system on a separate partition. Merged mounts and namespaces à la Plan9 would be an elegant alternative
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by ObscureScience 3y ago
Is that true? I genuinly have no experience with it. In their example they debug Firefox which I would consider a big application. Of course there are many levels above, and maybe you are talkning about tens of GB of memory usage?
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by ObscureScience 4y ago
I did not catch from you comment if you knew, but "sound" and "unsound" are specific concepts in type theory, and they are binary properties. A system either is or is not sound.
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by ObscureScience 4y ago
Hi, what do you mean when you say that literla types are both one of the most frequent uses of a type system, while at the same time modern languages doesn't support them? Did you mean to say "most useful" rather than "m

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