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by akie 11y ago
No, what we need a catastrophe. People will stubbornly ignore inconvenient truths until they're undeniable and until the immediate cost of denying is higher than the cost of doing something. You see this in all areas of life (regarding
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by akie 11y ago
I talked to a (very) senior scientist at the World Meteorological Organization not too long ago. He was of the opinion that the U.S. weather models were about 5 to 10 years behind on the European models, and that this was caused by structur
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by akie 11y ago
> Do you think perhaps there's a reason why a simple and easy trick like commenting and renaming lemmas has been discovered and solidified as standard practice in programming, but hasn't been adopted in mathematics? Are mathema
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by akie 11y ago
I didn't know Blendle before, but I gave it a go after reading this article and have to say I'm impressed. Being the news junkie that I am, though, I can totally see how I would end up spending more than €50/month on this. No
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by akie 11y ago
Unsurprising yet depressing :(
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by akie 11y ago
In case you're unfamiliar with the term "scrubbing calculator" (like me), read this: http://worrydream.com/ScrubbingCalculator/
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by akie 11y ago
Yeah, they've done an impressive job on mobile as well. The numbers I posted are on a desktop machine. I've checked, and it seems to weigh in at only 1.1 Mb on mobile. Pretty neat.
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by akie 11y ago
This is a beautiful page, but my god, is it heavy. I'm counting 171 separate requests totaling 31 Mb - excluding the videos. I've not even loaded all videos, and my total is at over 400 Mb now.... Is this acceptable now?
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by akie 11y ago
Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:foI8v8a...
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by akie 11y ago
Weissensee is indeed awesome; a rare high-quality German TV drama.
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by akie 11y ago
Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:C81GXUo... (scroll down quite a bit to read it)
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by akie 11y ago
I was at lake Toba a few years ago. The lake and the island inside the lake are so big you need a car to get around, and while driving around you can't try but wonder about the size of the explosion that created it. Makes you feel real
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by akie 11y ago
Ah, I learned something today :-) I must have been mistaken because Open Office was always insisting that I install Java for it to work, so I guess I misremembered. Thanks!
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by akie 11y ago
Not sure how easy that would be. Emscripten converts C/C++ code to Javascript, but LibreOffice is written in Java. Theoretically it should be possible as Emscripten actually converts LLVM bytecode to Javascript, and you seem to be able
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by akie 11y ago
Love the Orwellian Newspeak: a "National Security Certificate" to protect people accessing "foreign resources"... If you don't know anything about the subject it really sounds like they're doing you a favor.
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by akie 11y ago
Not entirely sure how I managed to have missed GraphQL so far, but THANK YOU for mentioning it. I have to refactor a REST api next month but I think I will throw it all out of the window and go with GraphQL instead.
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by akie 11y ago
Really? My impression (also from abroad) is that Americans generally underdress and really like their loose shirts, hats, sport shoes and other informal wear. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's quite different fro
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by akie 11y ago
After which you'd have to load 8Gb from disk/SSD in under 1 second...
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by akie 11y ago
> "killing millions" Do you have a source for that?
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by akie 11y ago
Love how they use sentences like "Germans are particularly sensitive to electronic surveillance" and "(their) hard line on data transfers has drawn the ire of" to make it sound as if the Germans are the unreasonable ones
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by akie 11y ago
Ehm, yes?
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by akie 11y ago
That chat bot is beyond amazing. Easily the best I've ever seen.
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by akie 11y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770322
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by akie 11y ago
They never said they were the first to break this barrier (but I had to go back and check).
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by akie 11y ago
It literally fails on the first word I tried, the/a Dutch word for 'penis': http://imgur.com/Mw6Efx0
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by akie 11y ago
I've been working as a consultant for the UN for a while now, and most of what she writes is spot on (unfortunately).
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by akie 11y ago
If you get a redirect loop on this article, like I did, click here to access Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9c7coIh...
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by akie 11y ago
I think you're off by a factor 1000000 ;-)
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by akie 11y ago
Nice site. And even though I understand why they stuffed it into iTunes, I disapprove nonetheless.
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by akie 11y ago
That would translate to ~$60k for 6TB of RAM. Plus the cost of the server itself ($10k?)

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