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811.
by beagle3 6y ago
I installed Magic Lasso and Firefox independently, and also together, and together they were basically perfect. (It’s been 2 years or so, for all I know, they have both advanced to the point of being sufficient alone - but I did not experim
812.
by beagle3 6y ago
AmigaOS. Mostly because of the underlying hardware and ecosystem. Simple things were simple, and complex things were complicated but possible. Today everything is complex and complicated for little reason. (Compare e.g. the elegance of Amig
813.
by beagle3 6y ago
Have you ever tried Delphi (and to a lesser extent/polish Lazarus?)
814.
by beagle3 6y ago
There was a point in time they were acceptable, but that was too long after DHTML/AJAX was good enough for the simple things, and Flash for the flashy things. The first iterations were so incredibly slow, bloated and foreign that I wou
815.
by beagle3 6y ago
You can easily set a server-side commit/pre-receive hook that would enforce any specific agreed upon standard. Anyone who isn’t a team player, doesn’t get to commit (open source) or paid (commercial / closed source). It is one of
816.
by beagle3 6y ago
I agree, in the grand scheme of everything internet/web, it’s not even a rounding error. And yet, the 2000% overhead is viscerally bothering me. I’m not even saying “there must be a better way” - it is quite possible that there isn’t g
817.
by beagle3 6y ago
They have shared data. I believe it was even acknowledged publicly (and especially now, with the “the tos change actually reflects practices”). They’re ignoring GDPR and a variety of other laws; why would this agreement be different?
818.
by beagle3 6y ago
WhatsApp and Facebook have been sharing metadata since about 1 year after the acquisition (so, 5 years already). They weren’t public about it, but they have acknowledged it. I don’t know if that applies to Europe as well; they promised Euro
819.
by beagle3 6y ago
My only gripe with delta chat is that the metadata most email stores keep per email message is measured in kilobytes (sometimes tens of them). View-source is very enlightening. For email messages which are often 1K-200K themselves with atta
820.
by beagle3 6y ago
Having used ORMs, SQL and NoSQL, My experience is that NoSQL is basically never the right choice for anything. It saves you minutes in the beginning in return for hours within a week’s time, then hours in return for days, then it just keeps
821.
by beagle3 6y ago
The problem you point to is the ORM, not the DBMS. And if you think “of course, but how can you OOP properly without objects? (And thus ORM if you use an RDBMS)” — you might join some of us in the conclusion that OOP is way overrated. Don’t
822.
by beagle3 6y ago
Structured programming saved us from “spaghetti code” but Java culture introduced “spaghetti class hierarchy” and practitioners seem to practice it quite religiously.
823.
by beagle3 6y ago
This is completely and trivially solvable via a checkin filter that refuses tabs (or expands them to a given number of spaces). Why fuss about it?
824.
by beagle3 6y ago
I saw you wrote that you don't think the network is your problem, but it could be. The 1300mbps and UniFI makes me think you are using a wireless connection, and those often deliver much lower bandwidth than they should, and always hav
825.
by beagle3 6y ago
Is this a specific olive specie? I have an olive tree in my yard, about 10 cats who live in the yard and the street, and none of them ever seemed to care about the tree or the olives.
826.
by beagle3 6y ago
Brings a lot of 20 year old memories.... 3rd Voice, Gooey, Webby/Cahoots, ICQ Surf, Zadu, Odigo, MessageVine. At some point in mid 2000, there were approximately 40 different services providing “comment on page”, “chat on page”, “meet
827.
by beagle3 6y ago
You are likely to be banned by WhatsApp even if it works for a couple of weeks; they are quite trigger happy if the client is suspect (which has happened with the pidgin plugin before)
828.
by beagle3 6y ago
It’s not happening anymore, partly because of reputation and partly because they’re no longer the 800lbs gorilla they once were - but the “Microsoft kiss of death” was a thing - cooperating with Microsoft often resulted in great damage to
829.
by beagle3 6y ago
Did they? Is there a breakdown somewhere of their patent licensing revenue from Linux licensees, and the legal expenses they have in enforcing it? Did they give up Linux patent licenses from Android makers? They had billions coming in from
830.
by beagle3 6y ago
You depend on what the repository serves for "apt-get". You may pin it, but it still doesn't guarantee you're going to get the same version if it was replaced on the repository without changing the version.
831.
by beagle3 6y ago
Indeed, but it’s important to differentiate between model execution complexity, and model optimization complexity. A linear model, if the inputs are e.g. squares and variable products, is a quadratic equivalent. A logistic regression yields
832.
by beagle3 6y ago
The Czech is called RSJ, the israeli is called Final. I can’t find the british ones now. Here’s a list for you if you want more names: https://www.planetcompliance.com/2017/03/26/introduction-hft...
833.
by beagle3 6y ago
No, that’s not the most likely explanation - it’s actually very unlikely. Medallion is not unique, there are other firms with comparable win record (Virtu, a Czech one, an Israeli one and a couple of British ones at the very least) but only
834.
by beagle3 6y ago
sshuttle is definitely no efficiency daemon - however, it only requires being able to ssh to the other side, amd run Python there, and that’s it - whereas for Wireguard you need root on the other side, a sufficiently new kernel (or building
835.
by beagle3 6y ago
LZW is just a (nontrivial and very effective) trick to improve on the early behavior of LZ78; they are both asymptotically optimal. LZ78 is incredibly simple, elegant AND easy to get your your head around. I had implemented it once in 2 lin
836.
by beagle3 6y ago
Not at all. Shannon's work is incredibly profound, and deals with distortion of analog signals, channel capacity under different constraints, and many other things. He was very much aware and discussing repeated sequences in the 1952 c
837.
by beagle3 6y ago
The important contribution is not in the simple algorithm (which I suspect others have come up with before, and I know others have independently come up with after): Rather, it was what Lempel and Ziv proved about both of their simple algor
838.
by beagle3 6y ago
It’s worth reading a bit about sshuttle. It basically leverages ssh into a simple one way VPN as far as ergonomics and user experience go (but the underlying implementation is closer to opening LocalForward connections on demand). Highly re
839.
by beagle3 6y ago
Thunderbird and Outlook both group by sender, and have for more than 20 years.
840.
by beagle3 6y ago
It isn’t so black and white. Nim, if you let it use C as a backend, will let you use C macros, despite being generally safe and not remotely a C superset. Yes, the use of C macros (and any kind of ffi) is unsafe, that cannot be avoided. But

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