Volker_W

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by Volker_W 4y ago
I have never heard anyone claiming that having a website is revolutionary and special.
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by Volker_W 4y ago
I consider C/C++ not having ownership of memory as a primary concept to be one of its ugliness's.
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by Volker_W 4y ago
What exactly do you mean? If you ask C/C++ programmers, what they don't like about C/C++ and fix that, you got Rust. C++ wants to stay backwards compatible, which is holding the language back. Rust was a fresh start.
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by Volker_W 4y ago
> I disagree with calling Julia "way more dynamically typed than Python." What I meant was the following: Take an example Python codebase. Pick a random function. Put a `print(type(arg))` in there. Run it in many different use
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My Experiences with Julia(weissmann.pm)
46 points by Volker_W 4y ago|27 comments
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by Volker_W 4y ago
Google: Antitrust
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by Volker_W 4y ago
> All my left-wing woke friends are CONVINCED that the social media platforms uphold the white supremacist misogynistic patriarchy... > All my alt/center-right/libertarian friends are CONVINCED the social media platforms uph
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by Volker_W 5y ago
I would guess "transistor-level simulation" means you simulate a NAND transistor by doing something like. bool c = !(a && b)
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by Volker_W 5y ago
I don't know a single website that does not implement RSS.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Looking at this comment section restores my faith in humanity and nuanced discourse. HN is way better than twitter.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
There was probably some bias in the selection of the participants. I don't think 50 % of the average male population know "piezoelectricity".
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Sure, but I'm surprised how big the difference is.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> I presume most of them are actually in service of the airplane operators. why?
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by Volker_W 5y ago
What do you mean with "leaky abstraction" here?
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by Volker_W 5y ago
This does not work if the one who wants to change a site controls the browser.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
For me, the cert has a fingerprint of 8C:5A:9F:E3:03:A2:C5:31:0D:42:C0:AF:41:E6:61:48:8A:C4:EF:91:CD:41:83:90:D1:86:AF:DA:47:47:00:16 signed by 67:AD:D1:16:6B:02:0A:E6:1B:8F:5F:C9:68:13:C0:4C:2A:A5:89:96:07:96:86:55:72:A3:C7:E7:37:61:3D:FD
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> Every single client ever now needs to have a cookie popup because google is going to punish you in your rankings if you do not use their integrations too. Source/proof?
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Google analytics is one of the worst privacy offenders.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Do you have good examples?
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Why don't you like plausible?
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> Make a better product Their product is open source and (assuming the say the truth) keeps the data on the server of the website owner. I would say this is better.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> What if there was a mechanism for signing a webpage? > This could easily be promoted as a safety feature, you only run the code the web server gives you, not something that has been exposed to a man in the middle attack several tim
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Statement from t-Mobile: Customers who chose plans and features with content filtering (e.g. parent controls) do not have access to the iCloud Private Relay to allow these services to work as designed. All other customers have no restrictio
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Men were so much better dressed back then.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
Everytime I think carriers cannot get even more scummier, they manage to do it.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> The security you get from TLS in these systems is not meaningful I don't like that phrasing, because it suggests that having TLS is equally good than not having TLS. Otherwise, you are right.
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> 10 cents per ad print Source?
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by Volker_W 5y ago
These ones would work for me: "CO2 pooling risk" "Gas pooling risk" "Risk of suffocation"
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> the trappings he wraps his videos in What does this sentence mean? (Grammatically, English is my 2nd language).
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by Volker_W 5y ago
> A 12V battery can kill you or seriously harm you. How?

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