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by alex_duf 9y ago
For every 100 experiment maybe one will be fruitful. No one is criticising Mozilla for coming up with Rust, yet if they didn't take the time to experiment Rust wouldn't be around. So yeah, good on them, I'm happy for them to
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by alex_duf 9y ago
I don't like the fact someone with access to my hard-drive can figure out all the services I'm using just by looking at the filenames. It's convenient yes, but I prefer one encrypted file that contains it all.
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by alex_duf 9y ago
I can understand how it rotates, but how does it moves? as in going from one module to the next one?
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by alex_duf 9y ago
The reason I ask is that it seems subsequences of DNA are enough to generate proteins, or other molecules. (am I right? if not anyone who knows biology please correct me) It doesn't have to be the whole code that's dangerous, what
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by alex_duf 9y ago
thanks
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by alex_duf 9y ago
How likely is it than storing arbitrary data in a bacteria's DNA would allow it to create something dangerous for humans?
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by alex_duf 9y ago
So whilst the chain is split, am I correct to assume you can spend your money twice?
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by alex_duf 9y ago
It's the same in France as well, you can be fired any time the first four months, no reason needed. Equally you can also leave any time you want if you don't like the job.
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by alex_duf 9y ago
Probably a good thread to mention the fairphone http://fairphone.com/ Not the prettiest phone but it does what it says on the box/ it's easy to fix it yourself
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by alex_duf 9y ago
By ridiculous, what I meant is that it's a PR stunt. If anything it signals to the auto industry "don't worry you still have time to produce combustion engines"
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by alex_duf 9y ago
It's ridiculous. ICE sales will drop long before that.
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All Volvo cars to be electric or hybrid from 2019(theguardian.com)
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by alex_duf 9y ago
I quite like your guidelines on what to upvote or downvote. I'll try it as well. In fact, I wish there was a voting etiquette described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Nothing too formal, but jus
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by alex_duf 9y ago
As a server side dev I feel the same way about everything javascript related. Handlebar and knockout were all the rage, I blinked and now it's all React. Actually React may be dead and it's Vue.js that cool kids are using. I just
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by alex_duf 9y ago
I wonder if we can do scala native -> llvm -> webassembly. Anyone tried?
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by alex_duf 9y ago
My thoughts exactly. It can't be worse than cookies or ETags, but it's another dimension on a vector of personal ids.
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by alex_duf 9y ago
Really thorough article! thanks for sharing. I'm wondering how long before the cache digest is used as a fingerprinting mechanism.
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by alex_duf 9y ago
An interesting anecdote about B12 is that it's actually coming from bacteria, usually found in the ground. Animals are rich in B12 because they eat grass. Technically if you don't wash your vegetables you would get more B12, but y
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by alex_duf 9y ago
computing prime numbers, searching new decimals of pi, folding proteins or whatever useful calculation there is to do out there.
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by alex_duf 9y ago
no
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by alex_duf 9y ago
It's the nature of the computation that bugs me. We have a network growing exponentially relying on the fact that we're hashing random numbers. Academic research aside, it sounds very useless. That has nothing to do with the way b
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by alex_duf 9y ago
The amount of power we're wasting computing a giant rainbow table drives me mad. We could at least burn coal to compute something useful. I'm not dismissing bitcoin altogether as it brought a great deal of interesting concepts, in
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by alex_duf 9y ago
I really like the command "join" as well
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by alex_duf 9y ago
The thing is if we're successfully at avoiding a cataclysm, we won't know we were right. In this specific situation, I'd rather not know we were wrong that know for a fact we were right.
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by alex_duf 9y ago
except if you want type checking at compilation time
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by alex_duf 9y ago
> Whatever the details, this is exactly the sort of thing the NSA should be spending their money. Breaking the cryptography used by other nations is squarely in the NSA's mission. I can't tell if it's sarcasm. (it's a
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by alex_duf 9y ago
> ... and buses are even worse. London buses have a capacity of 80 to 130 people and are often full. How can that be worse than 60 to 110 cars for each bus? Even at half the capacity (single deck) you use the space way more efficiently t
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by alex_duf 9y ago
Yet malware creators rely on bugs to spread their work, so why not. Fighting fire with fire...
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by alex_duf 9y ago
They don't seem to talk about energy source. Is this going to be battery powered or nuclear powered?
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by alex_duf 10y ago
That's actually very impressive!

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