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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
I have to use windows for work but hate MS and want to move to linux at home at least. I did some f/oss work that needed unix, installed Ubuntu on a spare box, picked gnome - and it was horrible. Big, clunky, so much weird user-hostile
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
I've never seen it either but that's irrelevant. The original guy talked about someone blocking a crap project with good results. That's a positive. So someone responds by assuming it's a negative: "...applaud an un
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Or it might not. Have you any reason to search for the negative in a prima facie positive?
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Where you see some inevitability "...you're going to get a labour or conservative government no matter what", I see choices not taken. It's if you're implying political free will doesn't exist. It's very h
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Thanks. I'd rebut by saying the two party condition actually isn't - there are several inc. middle-ground lib-dems for example. That they are a small party is - I think - because of the tribalism of the electorate who self-polaris
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
To the downvoters: please complement your downvotes by explaining where I'm wrong in my analysis. In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve ( https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre slightly misquo
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
For Boris Johnson truth was there when convenient, otherwise just lie. He lied to the british people. That's not the problem. The problem was too many people wanted to hear nice things so swallowed what he told them uncritically. Liz T
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Perhaps you could explain what that means, given REST is defined fairly well in Fielding's dissertation, and fits in quite well with pushing data around with the HTTP method indicating the operation. Wat else?
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
I feel you're trolling. SOAP was a horror and REST is nothing to do with data formats. And while XML was fine, XML schemas were hellish and I've awful memory of them. > and now half of the services are SOAP and half of them are
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
> The usefulness of popcnt, et al, in cryptography was known at least as far back as Alan Turing Ok. Why?????????????? @gpderetta is correct at least in quoting hacker's delight where it was also said to be rumoured the NSA wanted p
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Theft.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Granted... > in much the same way that the 3.15MJ of output won't convert to 3.15MJ of electricity as the conversion is not loss less ...and very much touche! That's a good point. But I do feel the overall loss should have been
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Maybe I missed it but it's not a net positive output. From the article, the implication it is: "LLNL’s experiment surpassed the fusion threshold by delivering 2.05 megajoules (MJ) of energy to the target, resulting in 3.15 MJ of f
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
How many of the top 500 supercomputers run windows? They care.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
That would seem to be just a new porcelain for git.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Seems to be the work approaching time cube nuttiness: " Was this connected at all with Herod’s purported slaying of all male children in Bethlehem, 2 years old and younger, after inquiring of the visiting Magi as to the timing of a new
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Where does "infinite amount of additional parameters" come from? It's just one parameter - something's (we call dark matter) is either there or it isn't. > I fail to see how dark matter could ever be falsified I
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Meant in the nicest way: you do learn the most curious things on HN.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Physical surely helps but the theory of cognitive reserve suggests heavy brain use may build up a reserve of extra connections which insulate one somewhat from brain loss. I can't quote selectively as it's a big chunk of text, but
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Rotate then. You don't have to wash it every time.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Society 'upgraded' how - what does that mean? Anyway, there is an environmental price as well as a $$$ price to clothing production. What you pay might not be the true price (eg. aquifers getting drained, soil erosion, CO2 emissio
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
> Just because a methodology appears to work for one or even multiple organizations doesn't mean it's going to work in every case the only justification for a thing is if it works. If they regularly do, as you just acknowledge
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
Your last para: beautifully put.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
I know what you're saying but it is regrettable. The problem lies with people who want stuff for absolutely nothing, even if it's valuable to their work. Short-termism at work.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
The word structure is commonly used but never seems to be defined.
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by _a_a_a_ 4y ago
I'm afraid that does not illuminate at all.