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by VMG 6y ago
Try swapping a few characters in the compressed string before decompressing and get a totally unrelated, but somewhat plausible, sentence. --> 䔹䧹焫놉勏㦿顱㦽膑裚躈葊 Swapping last two: 䔹䧹焫놉勏㦿顱㦽膑裚葊躈 --> Try swapping a few c
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by VMG 6y ago
...and briefly held the record of having computed the precise approximation for Pi https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/
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by VMG 6y ago
The company who has the best latency would still beat the competitors.
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by VMG 6y ago
That is true, but if somebody unfamiliar with the encoding writes down the characters or communicates them over the phone they have consider the case for every letter. That is a poor user experience.
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by VMG 6y ago
The proposed base46 encoding has Oo Il
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by VMG 6y ago
Base58 has certain issues (lowercase-uppercase ambiguity) which is why we now have https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi...
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by VMG 6y ago
the more characters you have in your alphabet the higher the risk of pairs that are difficult to tell appart 0Oo 1l etc
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by VMG 6y ago
I've been using Gnome+Wayland for over a year and been quite happy with it
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by VMG 6y ago
to be fair, affiliate codes don't spike the CPU
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by VMG 6y ago
> "reality is that which, when you ignore it, doesn't go away". Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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by VMG 6y ago
Is there any evidence that the code produces scientifically-valid output?
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by VMG 6y ago
The problem is not the lack of unit tests: The problem is that for outside observers there are no tests at all that compare the model outputs to some ground data. All the criticism would be moot if the model delivered sensible predictions.
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by VMG 6y ago
This is just a list of excuses. Following good practices have nothing to do whether it is "commercial software" or "front-end software", as the author claims.
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by VMG 6y ago
I didn't say this will always be the consequence, but it will be the typical result.
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by VMG 6y ago
From personal experience, I can tell you that the consequence of this will be that ministries will be using unencrypted and unauthenticated email and SMS.
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by VMG 6y ago
nope, people will use SMS and email
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by VMG 6y ago
does it run on linux?
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by VMG 6y ago
not that I agree with the final decision, but I can imagine "Play"/"Pause" to show up in a device manual and Smiling Poop as part of a chat message. Neither applies to the "external link" symbol.
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by VMG 6y ago
Maybe they need medicine, cars and a computer to write HN comments as well? Or is that just a privilege for us here?
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by VMG 6y ago
A very good explanation of this can be found on https://brrr.money
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by VMG 6y ago
can you do it with no environmental damage?
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by VMG 6y ago
Imagine the cartoon with the dialogue "yes, millions of people continued to live in subsistence farming and faced an early death, but for a beautiful moment in time the Yangtze Finless Porpoise continued to reproduce"
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by VMG 6y ago
Interestingly, it is mostly affluent countries who even care about biodiversity.
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by VMG 6y ago
I'm using a french press with hand-grinder and the beans are roughly $30/month max. In terms of enjoyment maybe the highest ROI of the money I'm spending.
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by VMG 6y ago
These "statically linked" packages can solve certain problems very well. Packaging or installing Steam for non-Ubuntu platforms can be very tricky. I'm using the Steam flatpack version on Arch and it saved me a ton of hassle.
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by VMG 7y ago
that policy is easy to understand can be reverted easily this is not true for surveillance systems
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by VMG 7y ago
And actually building on these potentially very low-power systems...
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by VMG 7y ago
aside from the other issues mentioned here, alternative encodings like ISO8601 and others are human-readable and human-editable
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by VMG 7y ago
See also Bech32 which includes error correction and detection: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0173.mediawi... > Why not use an existing character set like RFC3548 or z-base-32? The ch
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by VMG 7y ago
> It might also be that your brain is just more used (years of extra experience) to infix notation. Maybe infix notations is preferred because it aligns more closely to natural language grammar (for some languages)

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