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by beagle3 5y ago
I am talking about simple string concatenation. Take two python programs "a.py" and "b.py", exclude command line arguments and stdio file descriptors - and, yes, the string concatenation of "a.py" and "b.p
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by beagle3 5y ago
Peer review definitely could and should have caught the fake data in this case - there were too many implausible things about this paper that one could verify with a google search and see cannot be right. In fact, it took people about one d
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by beagle3 5y ago
By your definition, even Python is concatenative, as is any language whose “main” is implicit and allows shadowing. The definition I saw ages ago is much more strict: If P is a program in a concatenative language, then for any A, B such tha
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by beagle3 5y ago
Indeed. Synology, which I’ve been using for the last 10 years or so when the project cannot afford NetApp/EMC class storage, does this out of the box. (I’m sure netapp and EMC do too, but it’s not my problem when the disks inside the
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by beagle3 5y ago
No, but it does need to be distributed in such a way that users can replace the ffmpeg provided with the product, with their own version of ffmpeg (and of course, provide a source from which the distributed ffmpeg can be built, unless it’s
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by beagle3 5y ago
Some parts of FFmpeg are LGPL, and some codecs are GPL (e.g., if you have x264 libs in there). How does one comply with the GPL and LGPL with Wasm, other than a complete source dump?
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by beagle3 5y ago
This model was really bad, but he wasn’t wrong in general - while consumer drives have a higher failure rate, you can’t pretend the enterprise version can’t fail - and if you’ve built your system to withstand failure, whether 2 or 5 fail ev
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by beagle3 5y ago
Was (3) self censored, or just an off-by-one error?
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by beagle3 5y ago
On the other hand HIgh voltage sid collection (hvsc) distributes a zipped zip; Each file is 1k-20k, of which there are 40,000 or so. But they are catalogued in 3-4 deep directories, so if you just zip them, the metadata takes 30% or so of t
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by beagle3 5y ago
It’s because they only tested updates from one version to the next, and not every version to every newer version. It is a complete image, but phones today have nontrivial state that may be a problem - e.g. your baseband processor might have
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by beagle3 5y ago
They weren’t prescient, but they were functionally equivalent: they were spying on users (e.g. through Onavo) and knew stats about Instagram, snap and WhatsApp very early on, that let them respond well early (and price an offer, or build a
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by beagle3 5y ago
6) notifications. Though, (1) is wrong on iPhone; there’s an “add to home screen” action in the share menu.
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by beagle3 5y ago
OpenStreetMaps doesn’t have paywalls. In sone things it is worse, in my day to day use it is better, the only thing I use gmaps/Waze/Amaps is for live traffic. HN has neither paywalls nor ads. Fastmail has a paywall compared to gm
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by beagle3 5y ago
I don’t know if there’s some objective measure of “percentage of sensory perception occupied by ads” but I guess if there were it would be about 90% lower 50 years ago - and still people found things. It’s not binary ads/no-ads, and no
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by beagle3 5y ago
FB effectively gave data away to app developers (e.g. Cambridge analytica). They got something in return - as they do with all their partners - but this is not generally considered a sale, and often not even a trade.
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by beagle3 5y ago
It will block all the 3rd parties that have to do anything with retargeting like Facebook, google, Adnexus, etc. It’s unusual for sites to conspire directly and share data about IP (but that may change)
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by beagle3 5y ago
Magic Lasso works well on iPhone/iPad, and so does Firefox Focus ; I have both installed, not sure how they divide the work, but I hardly ever see an ad in Safari or Firefox on iOS. (They don’t stop YouTube from showing ads)
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by beagle3 5y ago
It likely doesn’t for IPv4 now that everyone has switched to HTTPS. Many ISPs used to insert “client id” and other uniquely identifying information while NATting/proxying. Luckily, they can’t do that for https - but I wouldn’t put it b
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by beagle3 5y ago
Use Firefox and install uBlock Origin. Your credit card company will still sell you out - but that does take a little more time, and will only include one item (rather than your entire browsing history) - meatspace cash is likely to help wi
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by beagle3 5y ago
I have no experience with phabricator but it sounds like sourcehut - are you familiar with that one?
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by beagle3 5y ago
Oh, I definitely agree. I appreciate the perspective. The Feynman lectures are great at giving an intuition and perhaps a general framework for thought. What they don’t give you are tools; like you say, you had to learn them in other places
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by beagle3 5y ago
My theory is something I call "The Feynman effect". Feynman has a talent of making the listener believe that they (the listener) understand everything at a very deep level. So it gives the feeling he's an amazing teacher --
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by beagle3 5y ago
... and as always, trust works really well, despite the occasional fraud, until someone finds a way to exploit it at industrial scale. And then it fails spectacularly.
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by beagle3 5y ago
> ... which hinges completely on the virus not evolving at all, which is outside of the realm of reality. This makes no sense. If you only only target the spike, you assume the spike doesn't change sufficiently. If you target the en
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by beagle3 5y ago
If the body cleared the virus, then what it chose is effective whether that’s the spike or the nucleocapsid. It is actually more likely to be robust than vaccine induced immunity. The claims about superiority of vaccine induced immunity tha
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by beagle3 5y ago
The most prolific by far variant factories are apparently immunocompromised individuals, including those vaccinated - which harbor infection for months and a weak immune system - which lets the virus optimize against weak humans, in the sam
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by beagle3 5y ago
This was probably already common fraud in Finland before Klarna if that’s what the law says - but Klarna would be a crazy force multiplier for the fraudsters and no help for the defrauded, so it becomes a much more pressing issue. (No knowl
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by beagle3 5y ago
I’m sure they have a list of VIPs, but just “frequent flyer” seniority is a good proxy that sorts the powerful from the plebs.
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by beagle3 5y ago
Apple revenue is not ad (or otherwise, location) driven today but that doesn’t mean it won’t be tomorrow. (Non ad location business: hazard profile based on where you hang out. Frequency of pub visits may impact your life insurance rates)
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by beagle3 5y ago
It is, however, based on Tesseract which works well on clean or scanned documents, but isn’t very good for text “in the wild” like street signs and not-parallel-to-view images. The Mac program uses VisionKit which does handle these cases be

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