akavel

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SN 1006 — brightest stellar event in recorded history(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by akavel 9y ago|0 comments
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by akavel 9y ago
What benefits does it have over git grep , esp. if I'm using a monorepo? What new patterns/possibilities does it enable? Is it maybe speed somehow? (I assume it could then be more "live search/exploration"/rap
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by akavel 9y ago
Also, apart from inventing/discovering new algorithms, there's another part in inventing how to use them to help in particular "real-world" (or "non-quantum programmer world") problems. So, maybe one of the kno
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by akavel 9y ago
Whenever I'm reading about some alternative shell and thinking about switching, I'm afraid of losing my proficiency in bash. For better or worse, it's the de facto standard in scripting, so I see it as an important skill.
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by akavel 9y ago
People are switching to git because of popularity and GitHub, regardless if it's technologically superior. Not always the better technology wins, often rather "just" the more popular one.
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by akavel 9y ago
By reading (esp. code), writing code, and reviewing (i.e writing about code). Reading, esp. code (including learning new languages and reading in them), shows me new paradigms, new idioms, new ideas, sometimes parts of new ideas which may
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by akavel 9y ago
Would you care to write an "Experience Report" for benefit of the Go community and development future? Pretty, pretty please! The rationale and idea is described on https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2#TOC_5.3 . an
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by akavel 9y ago
@dbirulia I see you have a "free plan" (the "paid plan" is currently too much for me for expected value, in my country it's ~10 coffees, not 2), but it has "Advanced OCR" grayed out. Does it mean it has no
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by akavel 9y ago
Ah, so you mean the various orgs, policies, moderators, etc. "administrative" social structures that emerged on Wikipedia? In other words, more or less "meta.wikipedia.org"? If yes, that was not clear to me from your ori
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by akavel 9y ago
I disagree about "wiki not being used much [other than] Wikipedia [except super-niche areas]". Just a few successful, absolutely useful and worthwile as much as notable examples off the top of my head: - http://www.scp-
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by akavel 9y ago
Hm; tried to revive some primary school-level physics/chemistry knowledge to calculate price-per-molecule or #-of-molecules-per-£. Is my calculation correct, or have I botched it? :) Given atomic mass of C is 12.011, of N is 14.007, t
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by akavel 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for the info! Though from the article about the system ( https://genode.org/documentation/developer-resources/package... ), it's not clear to me how to: a) tweak compilation flags of librari
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by akavel 9y ago
IIUC, it didn't build the whole OS, it was more of a port of Nix, not whole NixOS, to Genode. But I may be wrong. As such, it could be seen as a step towards the goal. But I believe a different approach might be also possible: by start
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by akavel 9y ago
Me, I'd like to see such a marriage between NixOS and GenodeOS (which provides capabilities management and has the advantage of using a microkernel as base, so much smaller attack surface, aka TSB, than Xen + Linux) http://w
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by akavel 9y ago
It seems to be either simulation (networking) or manual control? Wonder why there's conflict between them?
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by akavel 9y ago
Anyone knows if it supports hills and uneven terrain? In the video all I can see is flatland?
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by akavel 9y ago
The rationale analysis they published via the linked article is interesting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zpjDzL7yhGBZz3_7jCjWLfRQ...
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7GUIs – A Notational Usability Benchmark for GUI Programming(github.com)
92 points by akavel 9y ago|6 comments
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by akavel 9y ago
See also an attempt at: http://www.luna-lang.org/ I'm crossing my fingers hoping they'll finally get something out in the public.
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by akavel 9y ago
If I assume that RT is a propaganda tube (which I do), there's nothing to be carried away by here. For people living in communist countries, there was an important mental exercise: if Russian media claim something, let's start by
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by akavel 9y ago
Eh, it's absolutely not yet Twitter doing something . It's only RT saying that Twitter was doing something. Please, if I say you did something, does this already mean you really did it? Wow, or maybe I wanted to damage your rep
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by akavel 9y ago
I'm somewhat sad they didn't include a few things: - a box/whisker plot in the latency comparison graph — esp. if we're to talk about Go's GC... - some discussion/arguments why the particular C implementation w
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by akavel 9y ago
Somewhat tangential: does anybody know if the recent advances and popularization of machine learning lead to some improvements in open-source handwriting recognition software/engines?
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by akavel 9y ago
Umm, but then a story linked from the article as "alternative example" (thus presumably "better" than the tank story), and it being one from HN by the way, seems to have a nearly identical gist, at least for me as a laym
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by akavel 9y ago
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com - a blog "dedicated to the misuse of chinese characters in western culture". Highly recommended for disillusionment and entertainment value! :)
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by akavel 9y ago
AFAIR, there's already some service on IPFS which will pin files for you for money. I.e.: why would someone? Because you'd pay them for that - simple :)
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by akavel 9y ago
Given that it's explicitly a short -lived secret (below 24h), and one-use - so probably Google crawler (or typing into url bar - presumably to immediately follow by Enter) would invalidate it on first access - I don't feel convin
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by akavel 9y ago
Ummm; for me, as a total layman w.r.t. ML, the Tensorflow snippet actually looks much more readable and understandable at high level... I guess it might be harder to evaluate what's exactly happening inside (what precise algorithms are
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by akavel 9y ago
Hmm; I wonder, maybe in such case contacting some kind of national office which has the power to fine companies for breaching personal data protection laws could be an answer?
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by akavel 9y ago
An interesting related idea which was prototyped and merged into Haiku OS some years ago: video: https://youtu.be/ccniJHjo_Uw?t=124 user guide: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.h

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