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by azag0 9y ago
This is the old security via obscurity. At least though, one should know that one publishes the full source.
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by azag0 9y ago
Or, with a little setup, the Closure snippet (def s (range 0 10)) (reduce + (map inc (filter even? s))) can be turned into Python's from functools import reduce from operator import add def inc(x): return x
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by azag0 9y ago
Personal experience: My general language-to-go is Python, and I'm very fond of Rust. But Fortran has no competition in numerical computing at native speeds in terms of convenience. I was just recently rewriting a small Fortran library
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by azag0 9y ago
You are a European citizen, but you want to live in Taiwan, or NZ, Canada, or US. I don't blame you, but that seems to be the source of your struggles. I'm sure I might have problems getting into those countries as well. Any parti
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by azag0 9y ago
Thanks! I didn't know this was possible. I was locked in Facebook because of the Messenger: that's how I communicate with most of my friends. I just deactivated my Facebook account and kept the Messenger.
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by azag0 9y ago
From that website: "A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming -- 3rd Edition - you can download the 2nd edition as a pdf but it's missing the new chapters in the 3rd edition on Mysql and Python."
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by azag0 9y ago
Python with pandas for data. Matplotlib and seaborn for plots. Export to PDF with the same font as used in the main document. If I need to include 3D graphics, I export the data from python to csv or json, and load in Wolfram Mathematica, w
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Ask HN: Self-hosted persistent no-login chat room?
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by azag0 9y ago
Re the final point: Was it like this from the beginning? I still have some identities signed by my original PGP key with which I signed up to Keybase https://keybase.io/azag0/graph
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by azag0 9y ago
You need the private key for decryption. Private keys sit locally on each device and don't go anywhere. Messages are encrypted with all public keys of the recipient and yourself, so every party can read the conversation on any device.
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by azag0 9y ago
I think of Keybase more as a cryptographic platform which can bundle devices and identities into a single package, see my "tree" for an example https://keybase.io/azag0/graph It also provides crypto for files
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by azag0 9y ago
Prague has Liftago [0] (from English "lift" and Czech "tágo", colloquial for taxi). It basically unites licensed taxi drivers. Payments are processes by Liftago. Works very nicely. I don't see a reason why a license
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by azag0 9y ago
In line with her being (at least publicly) less extreme than her father
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by azag0 9y ago
Just read the wikipedia article on fascism for a start
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by azag0 9y ago
That kind of misses the point for school use. But yes, for personal use you're right
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by azag0 9y ago
Especially when you can access notes on your own IMAP server with Apple Notes.
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by azag0 9y ago
Casinos do not make money on borrowing for gambling, but on gambling.
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by azag0 9y ago
Thanks for reminding me about the corpus callosotomy. I think I've read about it at some point, and then it somehow merged with lobotomy in my mind, although it's of course almost unrelated. Do you have a recommendation for some g
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by azag0 9y ago
A tensor is any quantity that transforms in a specific way under rotations. Essentially, it is required that a tensor describing some process gives the same answer no matter from which point (literally) one looks at it. Tensor fields are sp
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by azag0 9y ago
The reason probably is that tensors (in math/physics) can be represented as multi-indexed quantities, which are naturally expressed as multi-dimensional arrays in computers. 0-rank tensors are scalars, 1-rank tensors are vectors, 2-ran
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by azag0 9y ago
It saddens me that bitcoin's path towards a common payment network is so slow. I've always liked the technology (or the core ideas behind it), but its adoption is hindered by popular and factual association with illegal activities
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by azag0 10y ago
Illegitimate should not imply illegal, because there is no fine line, and this kind of legislation all too quickly leads to non-democracy.
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by azag0 10y ago
ad the last point: Isn't this perfectly fine in principle (minus the fact that Mypy is third-party)? Compilers in static languages also work only with the source code, in a way, as there is no runtime interpreter. So there should be no
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by azag0 10y ago
Would you expect a complex number as an output? I wouldn't, if someone didn't tell me that it supported complex numbers.
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by azag0 10y ago
I definitely encountered such issues in solid state physics. But they are very rare. The likelihood of a crash or an obviously wrong result is perhaps three orders of magnitude higher.
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by azag0 10y ago
Obviously, this is too complex a problem to discuss here, so I'll make only a few points: (1) It isn't really relevant for my point about paying the publishers. If anything, IP protection makes my point stronger. (2) I'm not
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by azag0 10y ago
No. The publisher wants their subscribers to be able to share the stuff they pay for with other people. If you use that feature to read for free any content they publish, you misuse it. Now, I am very much against any DRM, I don't even
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by azag0 10y ago
How come this isn't culturally perceived in the same way as not paying for software or movies or music? I've read various reasons why people don't want to pay. That's fine. But then simply don't read it.
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by azag0 10y ago
Can we stop calling it stupid? It's different. I prefer 1-based in Fortran where I deal exclusively with matrices, and 0-based in any more general programming.
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by azag0 10y ago
What would be the point of that? That portion of the traffic is already encrypted if you do encrypted IMAP.

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