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by briffid 2y ago
The most interesting for me is the offspring, reproducing a different structure with the same genes. I think mathematically this could be the missing link in evolution, where random gene modifications are just not probable enough to drive e
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by briffid 2y ago
I've been on and off Linux desktop for more than 25 years. I always gave it a chance, for home use and work use as well. And it always failed to prove it worth the effort. For home use it failed most miserably when it booted up with a
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by briffid 2y ago
Were the Indians really unaware of lunar eclipse? People living in the nature probably were quite familiar with the phenomenon, so they couldn't predict it, but were not surprised when happened. This sounds like a made-up story from th
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by briffid 3y ago
I developed the most feature-rich editor for Lilypond (as a plugin for jEdit). It had midi, virtual keyboard, integrated pdf viewer, templates, snippets, autocomplete, lots of cool stuff. I also built an on-the-fly syntax checker. However,
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by briffid 3y ago
How to study - in a totally outdated, ineffective and expensive education system? Ok, I just went through the taking notes part. It is necessary only because professors don't give a shit to create notes themselves, write good books or
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by briffid 3y ago
Geometry Dash! Its level editor is actually a full-blown game engine now. Though my child built several games in Scratch around this age.
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by briffid 3y ago
It's you who brought Orban here first, quoting something he didn't say, then refute it. Are you from some kind of propaganda school? Orbán posted this in fact: "My congratulations to the first Hungarian woman winning the Nobe
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by briffid 3y ago
Having the name wrong, because the author forgot that Eastern Europe has been part of Europe for around 1000 years now, is acceptable. But the decision to support 5.5 speakers of Danish instead of 40 million speakers of Polish for example,
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by briffid 3y ago
I don't get it. DNA is about people, Indo-European is about language. DNA tells nothing about what language those people spoke thousands of years ago.
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by briffid 3y ago
Checked exceptions turn out to be part of the API, meanwhile violating Liskov substitution principle and preventing some design patterns. This is because a superclass implementation might throw a checked exception, then its subclass not nec
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by briffid 3y ago
This can be good if I have multiple mailboxes/profiles and it opens private mails in my private browser profile, and work mails in my work profile.
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by briffid 3y ago
Most software documentation is: - the part of the software you didn't have the developer resources to implement - so you decide to write documentation to have the "code" that runs on the user's brain
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by briffid 4y ago
Great article.
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by briffid 4y ago
The definition of woman is the "adult female human", and a someone who gives birth is by definition female. That's the female sex of mammals and other animals, including human. The other sex is male (who provides the sperm fo
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by briffid 5y ago
Significant part of CS papers are master-bation.
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by briffid 5y ago
it does using virtualbox and Windows
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by briffid 5y ago
Why not full Slovakia, part of Austria (Burgenland), Slovenia and whole Croatia? All them were lost for Hungary after WWI. :D Anyway, Hungary is not a revisionist country, there are revisionist politicians who has never ever been part of th
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by briffid 5y ago
Delivering lethal weapons to a war is hardly commerce.
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by briffid 5y ago
Fact is that the weapons are partly transported by Hungarian C-17 planes. Hungary EU and NATO member and executes her duties, but if possible I think it is OK to try to reduce risks.
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by briffid 5y ago
Reuters forgot to mention the second part of the argument. 150k+ Hungarian people do live in Ukraine and they could be attacked directly. All countries are allowed to assess the risks of involvement. Hungary's border with Ukraine is sh
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by briffid 5y ago
And it is also especially helpful if intelligent beings drive the whole process :)
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by briffid 5y ago
Of course everything is in the interest of the public, so everything is going to be transparent, accountable, appealable, based on clear rules. As usual for Google.
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by briffid 5y ago
Don't work at all. That's the safest.
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by briffid 5y ago
That's a good point: it is easy to derail with politics, I agree. Though living in a politically polarized country I just ignore political examples. Yeah, the guy is lefty, righty, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative. Ok, so what
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by briffid 5y ago
The organizer's problem is not that it's not about the topic, but that the audience would become uncomfortable hearing, which is ridiculous.
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by briffid 5y ago
I hope the code of conduct advances free exchange of views and opinions. I even don't understand how an audience can be uncomfortable hearing an opinion, listening to arguments? They don't have to act or agree. Otherwise if they o
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by briffid 5y ago
So WinGet is terrible even though it was copied from the great AppGet? And WinGet is still in insider, no GA, and AppGet is ceased? I don't get it. AppGet was a hobby project, and its maintainer ceased to maintain it, because Microsoft