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Bach to the Future – Humanising Music with Neural Nets(futurice.com)
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by ash 8y ago
The parent comment has a typo in book author name. The book is actually "Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Cave on Earth" by James M. Tabor. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812979494 (Curiously, Goo
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by ash 8y ago
Copenhagen Consensus tries to prioritise "solutions to the world’s biggest challenges" using cost–benefit analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Consensus https://www.copenhagenconsensu
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Databases always have a schema (2018)(utcc.utoronto.ca)
147 points by ash 8y ago|72 comments
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by ash 8y ago
Need to support Windows 7, for example.
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Mtime comparison considered harmful(apenwarr.ca)
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Redo, buildroot, and serializing parallel logs(apenwarr.ca)
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Databases always have a schema (2018)(utcc.utoronto.ca)
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Should a Distributed Company Hold All-Team Meetings?(xaprb.com)
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by ash 8y ago
There's a very promising attempt to get WebSQL-like features to browsers: Relational Database Proposal. Proposal tries to solve limitations Lovefield library authors had to deal with. (Lovefield powers GMail Inbox if I'm not mista
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by ash 9y ago
> And in the past they did also have a few safeguards. … Both was removed about 50 years ago, and a explosion of "new" patents has been requested ever since. Patent model requirement was abolished in 1880, not 50 years ago: ht
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by ash 9y ago
> Any Dutch old enough to remember when Amsterdam was full of cars and almost zero bikes ? For those interested, some history about Amsterdam cycling and "Stop the child murder" protests: "How the Dutch got their cycling
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by ash 9y ago
> We now require declaring a license when requesting a download: > https://caddyserver.com/download/<os>/<arch>?license=persona... > The value for the license variable can be either personal o
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by ash 9y ago
Just a few reasons: * To overcome government censorship and surveillance. * To stop internet providers from injecting ads and tracking scripts.
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Eclipses and Decibels(apenwarr.ca)
82 points by ash 9y ago|46 comments
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UI Museum: Norton Commander 5.0(ilyabirman.net)
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by ash 9y ago
I didn't say I know how to do it. And I didn't say it's easy. Yes, currently we have fast browser and slow compilation. Just let's not assume situation can't be improved at all.
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by ash 9y ago
Why not fast browser and fast compilation at the same time?
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John Oliver is wrong about Net Neutrality(blog.erratasec.com)
10 points by ash 9y ago|9 comments
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by ash 9y ago
Be careful with generalisations. The laws could differ a lot in different countries and even in different states in the US. See the "Real World Divorce" book for details: http://www.realworlddivorce.com As far as I rem
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by ash 9y ago
Unions sound nice in theory. But in practice, pilot unions work only for very senior pilots [1]. All other pilots in the union get paid much less and have worse working conditions. The detailed story about the effects of pilot unions: http
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by ash 9y ago
RFC 3339 allows application to use space instead of T between date and time: NOTE: ISO 8601 defines date and time separated by "T". Applications using this syntax may choose, for the sake of readability, to spe
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by ash 9y ago
Technically "Z" postfix is a TZ identifier for UTC time. It's short and makes the timestamp compatible with RFC 3399: 2017-04-27T09:43:04Z
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by ash 9y ago
> ... why this kind of data and/or problems require specific software and why it can't be handled by traditional RDBMs? There's Tgres, that stores time series in Postgres, efficiently (using Postgres arrays and views): ht
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by ash 10y ago
Why couldn't you use explicit `any` type when you 'need to get shit done'?
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by ash 10y ago
strictNullChecks errors are easy to fix: 1. Add `| null` or `?` for things that could be null/undefined. 2. Start handling "is this thing null?" cases. In some occasions it could be annoying. E.g. when you are absolutely sure
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by ash 10y ago
Sure! I'll just note there are more CI systems than CircleCI and TravisCI. Especially on premise and on older distros.
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by ash 10y ago
> React Native already requires Babel. Could you elaborate on that please? Is it impossible to skip Babel when using React Native? > Not at all. Installation is very fast and easy. (Last time I checked Flow npm package gives you binar
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by ash 10y ago
I haven't tried Flow. But there were a couple of practical things that influenced my decision when choosing between Flow and TypeScript: * TypeScript has larger community. * Flow requires Babel. TypeScript doesn't. One less depend
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Databases have failed the web(josephg.com)
88 points by ash 10y ago|135 comments

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