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by akie 5y ago
Even if you have great world-class software, you will get bogged down so easily in university politics and the slooooooow moving oil tankers that they are that I would strongly recommend you to spend your time and energy elsewhere.
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by akie 5y ago
That's a completely false statement. Nothing about it is true. The whole world is experiencing surges in electricity prices, not just the EU. Even within the EU, countries like France, which gets up to 70% of its energy from nuclear po
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by akie 5y ago
Just imagine how nonsensical this headline would have looked to someone in the 19th century.
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by akie 5y ago
I mean the officially authorized biography, which in my opinion shows Steve Jobs as a real asshole, is a good read.
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by akie 5y ago
Ok, let's pretend they don't exist and potentially hang the app.
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by akie 5y ago
I mean, did you see the very complicated extremely optimized C and C++ code lower on the page? Despite that, they "only" got to 10% of the performance of the ASM code.
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by akie 5y ago
There you go! We can call it CARPA (Climate Advanced Research Projects Agency) to help sell it.
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by akie 5y ago
How about the following scheme: 1. A government, any government, puts aside about €500 million. 2. Anyone who can submit a proposal, and anyone with a decent enough plan and a convincing group of people to execute it gets €250k. Total budge
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by akie 5y ago
Because all (current) 18 comment are talking about crypto instead of about carbon removal, I'm just going to say: THANK YOU STRIPE! We indeed need a lot more options for carbon removal, and directly investing in companies who want to m
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by akie 5y ago
Have to say that EHang's version looks nicer and safer. They also have a two seater version. Same flight time (20 minutes).
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by akie 5y ago
What good is it to have a legislative body, elections, and laws, if we then allow rich companies to ignore these laws at their discretion?
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by akie 5y ago
No way to contact them?
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by akie 5y ago
Mozilla is not the same as Firefox, unfortunately. If I remember correctly Mozilla itself is relatively flush with money (through a deal they have with Google) and doesn't really need the money. Their chair is paid extremely well, in a
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by akie 5y ago
Give me a way to pay for Firefox, please, and use the proceeds to hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome? Please?
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by akie 5y ago
In the end, those who own the apartments and the buildings will always be able to capture a significant part of the economical output of a city or country. All that clever software that increased the company's revenue by 10%? A large p
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by akie 5y ago
I'm so exasperated with this extreme anti-government slant on this website. Just so disappointing.
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by akie 5y ago
That seems like a very thoroughly argued decision.
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by akie 5y ago
I always had to laugh out loud whenever I passed one of their Kançler posters https://www.nzz.ch/international/darf-man-eine-spass-partei-...
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by akie 5y ago
It would be good if people could stop hero-worshiping famous universities and people from those universities. There are quite a few idiots who graduate from these institutions.
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by akie 5y ago
Can you rely on businesses to be ethical or to not succumb to political pressure? The answer is no.
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by akie 5y ago
> the sheer incompetence of this overextended bureaucracy where one tentacle doesn't know what the other tentacles want to ban Tell me, which Murdoch newspaper have you been binging on?
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by akie 5y ago
I have no clue about the underlying issue, but I'm guessing it's occurring on a boundary or an interplay between two systems. Something like "the username can be part of the URL, and if the URL contains .mov, some browsers wi
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by akie 5y ago
If anyone ever says that software engineering is completely unlike plumbing, I will point them towards your comment. All systems, however nicely architected, are full of duct-tape solutions like this.
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by akie 5y ago
> I guess we're just learning to make better and better AIs. The way I understand it, most of the recent successes in AI and ML are because we finally have the computing power to implement the models we made in the decades before.
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by akie 5y ago
> This already helps to eliminate lots of unnecessary code. Well, I think you just moved the validation code to another place. Instead of putting it in your app, where (in my opinion) it belongs, you are putting it in a hard-to-read and
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by akie 5y ago
I might be exceptionally dense, but it's hard for me to see practical applications for something like this. In the end, if you implement this in your application, you will have a mechanism to say "this input document is invalid&q
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by akie 5y ago
Lazyness, indifference, time/budget constraints, and software that didn't bother to optimize for this. In other words: Hanlon's razor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor ), more or less.
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by akie 5y ago
Technically correct, but did you see the regex he uses? It spans 82 lines...
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by akie 5y ago
I'd like to state my support for the author's choice of CSS selectors in this particular use case. I think it's a natural fit for this domain and already very well known, perhaps even known better than XPath.
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by akie 5y ago
I would like some substantiation for your claim that Android is doing better in terms of privacy. Everything I’ve seen more or less points to the opposite.

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