aliasEli

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by aliasEli 5y ago
> Is the performance or user experience over web really that bad, even in this day and age to warrant shipping a 100MB package to the user? On slow networks (mobile) it is really frequently bad due to the large number of URL's (most
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It can be very hard to determine who is really doing the attacks. For example, we know that North Korea is surprisingly active in this area[0]. Even though they are probably using servers in China, the only nation that they still have somew
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Why 0? If you remove the substance at the end point (e.g. water evaporation by trees) you should have a non-zero flow.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Overall, this is a reasonable article, which may or may not be applicable for your situation. I am a big fan of CI (continuous integration) and automated tests, but please don't do this: > Even better: continuous deployment! When th
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> How many frustrated autobahn drivers will oppose CO2 reduction efforts elsewhere? I am not sure how to put this nicely. Autobahn drivers that currently drive at the maximum speed are already quite likely already frustrated. They probab
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696774
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The patent system all over the world is completely out of control. The fairy tale is that it protects brilliant inventors from evil companies so they can make money from their inventions. In turn this will stimulate others to do new inventi
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Unfortunately, they seemed to have recently lost some important eyes: Hubble. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696971
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The first major problem with estimates is that there no good requirements. If you don't know what you have to build, it is pretty nonsensical to give out estimates.
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But it is very sad that it took such a long time before he found the courage.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696621
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Air conditioning is frequently applied at places where it is used very inefficiently. Take a car for instance, any car will generate heat, but if you want to cool it you will need to use more energy (which will generate more heat). In most
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by aliasEli 5y ago
I normally read AC as something opposed to DC, but not as air conditioning. My country is located in a moderate region. So our cars traditionally did not have A/C. Long time ago, when I visited Arizona, we tried to keep cool by opening
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It's OK to use emoji's for people you know well, just like it's OK to use inside jokes with them. The problem starts when you are communicating with people outside your cultural circle. There is no dictionary for emojis. For
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Yes, but some customers don't state it in their requirements because they either think it is an obvious requirement, or because they have not thought about it at all. No matter what, as an ethical software developer you should always c
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Placebos can be very effective. Just giving patients some pill will in general show better results than giving no pill. Giving a bitter placebo pill works better than a sweet pill. So it is important that we know which placebos were used in
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by aliasEli 5y ago
This is very good example of how science should work. Someone makes a (somewhat counter-intuitive) claim. Someone else does not believe it. There are some discussions and experiments, and there is a common conclusion. This is a nice video t
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by aliasEli 5y ago
One of the essential points of this video is that it is pretty difficult to explain the science behind this. But if you want to know more about it, instead of watching the video you should probably read https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by aliasEli 5y ago
The basic idea here is extremely good. Test your applications under realistic circumstances. Many web pages load an insane amount of URL's which result in horrible behavior. This site lets you experiment with what happens when results
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by aliasEli 5y ago
It is a pity about the reporting. But it is a fascinating area of research. I never expected that we could measure gravitational waves in our life time.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Security. Adding security as an afterthought normally leads to insecure systems. Always analyze your security requirements, perhaps you decide that some parts do not need strong security, but at least you have done the analysis.
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The attractive part for the spammers is that the costs are extremely low. There are lots of databases with leaked e-mail addresses available. So even when only a small fraction of the recipients fall for it and the scammer only makes a limi
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Sad news, it has given us lots of data and many beautiful pictures. Sadly, there is no operational space ship anymore that could repair it. This seems to be the end.
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In almost all programs inheritance is for re-using code, so it is implementation inheritance. The big problem with that approach is that in most cases there is no contract for sub-classes, the properties that a sub-class is required to have
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Emojis are in general pretty ambiguous. Don't use them in professional communication.
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From the abstract: > We lack explanations of why people engage in online harassment beyond simple bias or dislike. > Drawing from examples of networked harassment taken from qualitative interviews with people who have experienced hara
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by aliasEli 5y ago
Eucalyptus forests outside of Australia a a complete ecological disaster. Nothing lives there except these trees, no birds, no animals.
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by aliasEli 5y ago
A long time ago I had a bet with someone who claimed that he could influence the outcome of a die roll. So we set up an experiment to see if he could roll a 6 more often than expected. He would do the rolls and I did the scoring. Statistics
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The news for me was that there is still legal in the most parts of the US.
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Branchless programs are also very desirable for security reasons. If you have a cryptographic function where the execution time depends on the key, it leaks information about that key. So learning how to write brancheless programs can be ve

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