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Big Tech Disrupted Disruption(pluralistic.net)
3 points by chalst 3y ago|1 comments
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Why Not RDF in the at Protocol?(pfrazee.com)
2 points by chalst 3y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 3y ago
Scheme is in recent standards (since R6RS) divided in two: a core language, suitable for reasoning about, and a full language, aimed at expressing economically the kind of solutions software engineers come up with. The full language is mean
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by chalst 3y ago
I guess you are aware, but Godot can be compiled to JavaScript: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/expo...
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by chalst 3y ago
Another time capsule, this time in the form of an endolink: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938998
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by chalst 3y ago
I have, in technical descriptions of compilers.
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by chalst 3y ago
In a certain sense, decreases are reciprocals of increases. You can calculate the reciprocal of each “faster”, or you can work with the figures as given and what you want is the reciprocal of the final result. This follows from the elementa
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by chalst 3y ago
Good idea! It can be done fairly easily by people who are good with changelogs. FWIW, the most recent changelog is at https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html
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by chalst 3y ago
5.5% compounded over 5 years is a bit over 30%: not a huge amount but an easily noticeable speed-up. What were you thinking of when you typed “significantly faster”?
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by chalst 3y ago
Not being able to call your card issuer is a reason to change issuer. I would put 30+ minutes wait time in this category, although I know someone who is a seasoned hand when it comes to getting through tasks during phone waiting times. It w
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by chalst 3y ago
That’s an issue that can be dealt with by calling the card issuer.
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by chalst 3y ago
Congratulations on the launch of your app! Have you thought about what sort of developers would develop modules? Have you made any efforts to engage the free software community?
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by chalst 3y ago
> There is also Kohei Tokunaga's container2wasm initiative8, which converts arbitrary Docker images into WASI binaries. It looks promising, but it generates 100+ MB binaries for even the smallest Alpine-based images. NixOS produces
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by chalst 3y ago
The browser extension is for Chrome. Is support for Firefox planned?
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by chalst 3y ago
It still has an Arm license, but the outcome of the lawsuit against Qualcomm last year was that Qualcomm could not use the Nuvia design, which used Arm technology, on the idea that Qualcomm did not get the same rights as Nuvia had to use Ar
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by chalst 3y ago
This is a direct consequence of the lawsuit by Arm that prevented Qualcomm from using the Nuvia design in its hardware.
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by chalst 3y ago
Secret recording is illegal in Germany. It violates Section 201 of the Criminal Code. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
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by chalst 3y ago
Also titled “Curse of the CEMBI”, where the acronym is for ‘Corporate-Employed Maintainers with Bad Incentives’.
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Let maintainers be maintainers(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
187 points by chalst 3y ago|58 comments
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by chalst 3y ago
My understanding is that Colima is based on such a front-end, but Lima is not.
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by chalst 3y ago
tl;dr summary: The essay is aimed at people who feel (in a deep way) that they aren't deserving, a debt of sorts that can be reduced but no amount of productivity can ever eliminate.
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What if you get things done? (The Imperfectionist)(oliverburkeman.com)
2 points by chalst 3y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 3y ago
This is how it works in a reasonably competitive economy. The economy is not competitive for the EU markets that matter and this means time beyond what you call short term doesn't see many new entrants. Unless by long term you mean wai
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by chalst 3y ago
He has returned to the topic, this time with a focus on those who are capable of exposing the fraud but instead turn a blind eye. He calls this 'passive corruption'. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023&#x2F
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by chalst 3y ago
Andrew Gelman has written about this case, drawing parallels with past cases and asking about the psychology of the fraudsters. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/06/21/ted-talkin...
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by chalst 3y ago
I recall encountering a simple domain-specific PL in school in the late 1980s that allowed physical systems to be easily modelled.
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Bob Carpenter says LLMs are intelligent(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by chalst 3y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 3y ago
> Do people ever go on Twitter to view tweets that are more than 2 days old? I do, fairly frequently.
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by chalst 3y ago
> If people love native so much, why do sites like Reddit and LinkedIn heavily push mobile web users to the app? Because that's how sites can avoid the privacy features that are inherent to browsers. What proportion of visitors to t
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by chalst 3y ago
> Methane degrades to C02 in 1-1 proportion Source? I understood that the long-term radiative forcing of methane was lower than CO2, which is incompatible with this claim.

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