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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
well I'll be that guy... If you're going to disturb the normal way of righting expressions, RPN or prefix notation (AKA Polish Notation) could be a better option. Both don't need parenthesis because they don't need prece
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
> Any webpages embedding facebook/twitter/microsoft/google trackers have already deanonymised you I bet OP has already blocked at least 3 of them. Private browsing is only a partial solution, blocking/unblocking domai
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
> As a native English speaker, I have learned this watching non-natives try to learn English spelling over the years. It is hell! I studied French in middle school and high school. I remember there being a similar level of ambiguity in t
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
Do you know if the encryption scheme covers metadata? For instance, who sends something to who.
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
> Their value is going to stay limited if people don't want to actually use them. Namely, in the case of PeerTube, content creators. Youtube is convenient because it comes with builtin monetization. You can probably expect loud obje
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
Apparently 2 meters is : A 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) high tsunami hit Chiba Prefecture about 2+1⁄2 hours after the quake, causing heavy damage to cities such as Asahi. (Tohoku 2011) [1] WRT comparison with hurricane waves, I assume they carry
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
And what does "modern" has to do with it anyway.
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
Nope. That's the divine invisible hand of the market.
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
On a linux-like system, one could block access using file permissions, e.g chmod a-r /dev/snd/pcmC0D0c for a microphone. Probably less easy to do on Android, though.
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
Thanks for your answer. The fact that the legal framework you suggest aimed at preventing abuse doesn't exist already is terrifying, when you think about it. The situation is also deeply unfair: wealthy students can keep the device pro
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
I wonder, if the device is equipped with a microphone and/or a webcam, does it mean that the school has the right to remotely activate them for "monitoring" purposes? It not too far from what they did when the monitoring soft
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
I wonder if this minimal cell could be described instead as something between a bacteria and a virus. I am not a biologist, but IIRC viruses penetrate cells then hijack the cell's standard machinery to replicate itself, until the cell
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
> I think the whole message would be more palatable if it weren't written as a decree including the dig on "retro computers" Yes, and more generally, as far as I am concerned, the antagonizing tone of the message, which is
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
Summarized translation: Following the propaganda of the ministry of interior, several articles were published in press about GrapheneOS, which is described as a solution for criminals because it allows to hide things. La Quadrature du Net
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
TFA shows that most vulnerabilities have a "window of opportunity" smaller than one day. Are you anxious going on week-end because Friday evening a zero-day or a major bug could be made public?
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
Yes, I observe a 30-40x slowdown with that method on my interpreter. I was perfectly aware of the cost, Anton Ertl had shown in the 90ies that it wasn't the best on Pentium already [1]. The trick is that you can regain 100% the speed o
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
Not really. The article was written 10+ years ago, saying that one cannot use Forth in commercial products, yet Forth Inc. and MPE are still in business.
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
> So the question I have for hardcore low level programmers: why don't they invest more on the memory allocators A partial answer is that part of low-level programmers avoid memory allocation and threads like plague. In some cases t
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
Video games can alter the perception of reality. TFA is about the "Tetris Effect", which is nothing new per se . Perhaps the new elements is that studies confirm its existence, and that it could be leveraged to prevent or mitig
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
That "Fun" is a de gustibus sort of thing is the important point. I wonder if there is something like relationships between the various flavors of fun, or if one can infer good "collateral fun" activities from the main
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by astrobe_ 11mo ago
Yes, and Norman was a "creole" of a Germanic language brought in by the viking conquest and French, which itself is a creole of a Celtic-based language and Latin (due to the conquest of France by romans). Celts and Vikings were al
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
I think that's why the * is generally preferred over the & for this purpose. It also can give some hints about ownership issues. This "pass by reference" thing is syntactic sugar and sometimes is great to have, but as Per
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Yes, and math has the notion of "free variable" and "bound variable" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_variables_and_bound_varia...
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
You can add the Flight Simulator series to the list, which spawned a vast ecosystem of add-ons, both free and commercial. I believe though, that what you actually need as a big or small company, is good game first and foremost; the engine i
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> Intelligence is whatever we consider ourselves capable of Then, what is what we are incapable of? Magic? ;-) > Maybe the only thing we can do is advanced pattern matching Pattern matching as a way to support the excellent heuristic
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Insects are more resilient than mammals in many ways. For instance, radioresistance [1]. Plus fast, quantity-oriented breeding cycles that makes them more reactive to changes in the environment. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
> Does Forth really reduce the burden of naming things? I would say that you have less names, but they are more important. Plus, it is more difficult to name things because you prefer short names; in all languages, when you have a good n
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
It is too risky for companies to rely on a language that have a small pool of programmers. The bigger the company, the bigger the language must be. AI multiplies this availability, not productivity.
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Yes, I remembered that some MUDs touted much more rooms. I've found Aarchon (15K) [1] and SlothMUD (23K) [2]. And that's just the number of rooms, the other numbers (8K mobs, 7K items, 12K NPCs) are massive as well. But big MUDs u
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by astrobe_ 1y ago
Or just watch its market share erode until it vanishes from the charts. You picked "beginning" too, and indeed it started when they betrayed the power-users userbase they had (the one that installed FF on their mum's comput

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