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by antpls 8y ago
At least in Coq, there is no "bug" when you write a proof, it uses mathematical notations and logical rules to conclude a fact. Because of that you cannot state all the problems you would be able to state with x86. What I meant is
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by antpls 8y ago
I agree with you, there is no much data about the effectiveness of more rigorous software development tools. It's clearly a research topic. My intuition is that, with advances in robotics and AI, we may see the need of more robust logi
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by antpls 8y ago
> However, if you make a mistake in your proof, then the compiler will happily verify the wrong thing. I don't use theorem provers in my to day to day tasks, but I had the 101 course at University. Back then I wrote basic proof with
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by antpls 8y ago
> The thing to realize is that theorem proving is not a business goal in most cases. What you care about is being able to deliver software that works well in a reasonable amount of time. Sure, you might end up with a binary search bug in
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by antpls 8y ago
> I think you missed the point I was making which is that you still have to know that you're proving the right thing. Right now, it's a missing part in many theorem prover systems (but I didn't do exhaustive researching, s
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by antpls 8y ago
The idea is that, if you can describe the problem (here, sorting) with a few lines, you don't have to prove that the Idris code is correct, because the machine do it for you. You can throw that sort function without even looking at the
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by antpls 8y ago
> Missing targets for producing a car isn’t. Why should we trust you on that fact? Do you have all the documents required to prove that all the previous car models of all manufacturers in the world were built and sell on time? In my expe
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by antpls 8y ago
If you look at SpaceX launch schedules, many are delayed for several weeks/months. Yet it has a better public image than Tesla. I think missing deadline isnt that unexpected, it happens in many projects. If the goal is still achieved a
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by antpls 8y ago
Twitter, Mastodon can be tools for political system such as democracy. Twitter don't sell anything to the end user : it is free, it is not really a "product" for an end user. Why did people use it? Because it's a new way
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by antpls 8y ago
The way Google returns results is totally different than 15 ways ago. When it was once algorithmically, impartially sorted, it favorised spreading of information without political or judgemental intents. Now Google, while still not evil, ha
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by antpls 8y ago
> Idealism alone won't convince people to switch to Mastodon instead of using Twiiter or Peertube intead of Youtube. Just curious, according to you, is democracy an idealism that happened alone or with a product?
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by antpls 8y ago
You are comparing apples to oranges. Google, Facebook, WhatsApp are companies. Firefox and Linux Kernel are "software products". ActivityPub is an open proposition about a technical standard.
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by antpls 8y ago
> Humans don't dispose of things properly. That's a fact. Creating more plastic waste will create more plastic pollution. Are you implying we should create less humans in a first place? > It's far easier to not create t
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by antpls 8y ago
Let's hope it goes to more EU consumer associations
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by antpls 8y ago
Instagram is more open than FB for example. As others said, you can also find people who post high quality pictures from camera on it, but that defeats the initial mission of Instagram (capturing the moment). Looking at images is somehow mo
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by antpls 8y ago
I'm between 25 and 30 and I find myself in the same situation. I suspect the addiction comes from a cognitive or psychological trait related to sorting and filtering things together. If they show you 5 pictures you don't like much
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by antpls 8y ago
With video chat, Instagram is also competiting with WhatsApp. Instagram could soon host the whole WhatsApp user base too.
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by antpls 8y ago
The amount of advertisement is already big. Constant interruption with sponsored stories, sponsored pictures, even "influencer" or anyone else who has more than 100k followers start using their images to advertise a product or a p
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by antpls 8y ago
Ads displayed to me are never relevant. What is wrong is that you have no choice, they force you to watch ads even if you don't want to, or if you have disabilities, which literally sucks your life out of you.
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I used to block ads on websites. It is now impossible to block them with Instagram. We are back to the TV/radio system...
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by antpls 8y ago
"IDF"? "SW"?
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by antpls 8y ago
That submission reconnects with the initial YCombinator and Hacker News spirit
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by antpls 8y ago
That didn't prove anything sufficient enough to answer a categorical "No". For most people, it points to the fact that knowing the shape of Earth is irrevelant and far away of their everyday problems. If it doesn't make
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by antpls 8y ago
The trend of "the Earth is flat" on the internet has nothing to do with people actually believing it or not. People aren't uneducated, they challenge the whole system. They challenge freedom of speech, censorships, fake news,
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by antpls 8y ago
What if that communication was an attempt at discovering the leak source? Maybe there is an uniquely identifiable token or wording in the original mail(s) (per division, or team). Did any one counted the spaces or looked for invisible Unico
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by antpls 8y ago
> Since I left, I heard ownership of it was transferred to Corporate IT and they were making it into a web app to run on their intranet. Heaven help those guys. At my last job, I developed automated processes. Some software companies sel
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by antpls 8y ago
I think the parent's point is that power allows you to secure food in the future.
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In my opinion, the whole idea of "papers" isn't going to stay. Papers was a way to share information when internet didn't exist. In a future, researching agents (most probably AI or robots) will "chat" and &quo
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by antpls 8y ago
In an ideal world, any well formed experiment is a source of new information. You are supposed to have valided or rejected an hypothesis, and by sharing it, other people can build on that knowledge. We don't live in an ideal world, and
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by antpls 8y ago
Could you explain what you mean?

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