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by beagle3 1y ago
WhatsApp backup on your Google account contains all your message history, and is unencrypted. If you use google cloud backup for your phone, Google can read your WhatsApp messages, and has been able to do so for more than 5 years now.
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by beagle3 1y ago
Xmake[0] is as-simple-as-premake and does IIRC everything Premake does and a whole lot more. [0] https://xmake.io/
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by beagle3 1y ago
Half of the difference is likely VAT, which is included in European listings but the similar US sales tax is more often NOT included in listings. (Some US states have no sales tax, but most do)
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by beagle3 1y ago
You didn’t address points I already raised about mean() - how does it handle an empty vector? How does it handle NaNs ? You have to read the documentation to figure that out. In K, the implementation is in front of your eyes; NaN handling f
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by beagle3 1y ago
One thing humans are good at is pattern recognition. Terse APL is - once you are used to it - very recognizable. Many constructs take less characters to algorithmically specify than to name: (Examples in K because that’s what I know best):
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by beagle3 1y ago
The spectrum only had one mode: 256x192 1-but pixels, 32x24 palette (each 8x8 box had two colors, “paper” for a 0 pixel and “ink” for a 1 pixel). Other computers of the time (C64, Apple II, BBC / Acorn) had distinct text vs graphics mo
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by beagle3 1y ago
It’s also hubris and overconfidence. My child had a disease that’s very rare and hard to diagnose. A week at Johns Hopkins with hundreds of thousands of dollars of tests found nothing. The doctors sent us home with a “it’s just a virus, it’
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by beagle3 1y ago
Thanks, Bill. Rest in Peace. I was amazed by Bill's software seeing it on a Mac back then - MacPaint mostly, then HyperCard. I was not even 10, but I was already programming, and spent hours trying to figure out how to implement MacPai
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by beagle3 1y ago
Since when? Last time I tried in iOS 16, notes backed by imap were plaintext only.
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by beagle3 1y ago
I didn't downvote, but ... as someone who used both, this statement seems nonsensical. APL is mathematical notation that is also executable. It is all about putting a mathematical algorithm in a succinct, terse way. MATLAB is a clunky
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by beagle3 1y ago
For American higher education, It was Pascal ages ago, and then it was Java for quite a while. But Java is too bureaucratic to be an introductory language, especially for would-be-non-programmers. Python won on “intorudctoriness” merits - c
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by beagle3 1y ago
Sounds exactly the same as SAM on the C64 circa 1985 (and likely Apple II around the same time?) Is this early 2000’s? Dr.Sbaitso circa 1992 sounded better. AT&T had an offering in 2002 that sounded completely natural.
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by beagle3 1y ago
compute was critical, but compute was happening anyway. I fail to say why you are convinced that there would not be transformers.
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by beagle3 1y ago
Juergen Schmidhuber and his students came up with much of the basic NN elements, such as RNN, LSTM and others without behemoth resources (and several years earlier). Ttbomk, the one thing they DIDN’T come up with was the transformer; howeve
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by beagle3 1y ago
Nim has solved this in a very practical way, which works great - case insensitive except 1st letter, and underscore insensitive. So hello_world and helloWorld and hello___wOrlD are the same identifier, though HelloWorld and hello_world are
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by beagle3 1y ago
I think Nim is much more of a pascal successor than Go ; It retains some of the syntax and feel, although it uses Python style indentation instead of begin/end. It is by no means pascal-simple - although the subset used by 95% of progr
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by beagle3 1y ago
It’s readable / writable in any Linux system if mounted properly - the SHR is just an (extremely well done and convenient) UI for setting up standard raid partitions in a way that uses the entire disk.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Thunderbird has it all. I don’t like the way thunderbird does it, but I like outlook even less… so thunderbird it is.
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by beagle3 2y ago
You are describing Nim.
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by beagle3 2y ago
No, but I would expect to do binary long multiplication and division, which have been used since before the intel 4004, and which it has surely seen in many Z80 and 6502 code bases fed into it.
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by beagle3 2y ago
Interesting. Surprisingly, it decided to encode the multiplication and division as addition/subtraction loops, which is incredibly inefficient - multiplying e.g. 32,000 by 32,000 (ignoring the overflow ...) will take 1,024,000,000 iter
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by beagle3 2y ago
So let’s say we have blogger with a blogger API, and twitter with a Twitter API, and by some miracle they agree on a merged-with-flags API. Along comes Tumblr, and … the APIs don’t fit, in the sense that they significantly limit the planned
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by beagle3 2y ago
There are a lot of people in Europe working on KDE, including the really open web browser. They are the provider. The problem with a web implementation not being a small thing is inherent due to the size of the spec. You can definitely ma
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by beagle3 2y ago
There is one such client architecture. It’s called the web. You are describing the present state.
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by beagle3 2y ago
The reason the web won is that it does NOT need specific clients for every single thing. Essentially every kind of service (e.g. email, blogging, q&a, live news) is available without JavaScript, thus, using a pure html through http inte
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by beagle3 2y ago
You have just given the rationale for STEPS, which I am aware of and agree with. But the claim was that the EU should embark and find this to “gain independence from the US”, even though free software already gives you that independence. So
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by beagle3 2y ago
Free (liber) software is already independent of the US by virtue of being open source and free. In what way would your solution offer more/better independence ? I am all for a production 20K trusted free+open computing base, but … I do
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by beagle3 2y ago
There is no such thing as “plain”. You can’t eat pure magnesium. mg oxide is cheap, but apparently mostly laxative. Mg citrate is part laxative but also absorbed. Mg glycinate is more expensive but avoids the laxative effect. For the muscl
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by beagle3 2y ago
But it is closer to absolute than you make it sound here. There are information theoretic models which are “universal” with respect to a class; that is, they are essentially as good as any in that class, for every individual case you apply
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by beagle3 2y ago
So is teeth rot if you eat the wrong things. Are you surprised at dentistry and all the people who use its services? We are so far gone from the natural processes that this argument does not really have any meaning IMO.

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