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Tips for Seamlessly Using Cygwin and WSL in Windows 10(medium.com)
2 points by chalst 7y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 7y ago
It is funny that of these three names, two were among the four explicitly exempted by Sokal and Bricmont of being impostors in a 1997 letter to Liberation following publication of the book: "Famous thinkers like Althusser, Barthes, Der
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by chalst 7y ago
The idea that company directors have a fiduciary duty to maximise shareholder value is mostly a myth: it is one of those ideas that many economists like that seem to simplify things but actually can't be made to work. James Kwak has a
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Threat modeling and circumvention of Internet censorship(bamsoftware.com)
1 points by chalst 7y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 7y ago
SSC had an interesting post on the EQ: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/25/neurons-and-intelligen...
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by chalst 7y ago
Cf. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
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by chalst 7y ago
Most scientists who use statistics are not statisticians.
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by chalst 8y ago
The claim made before is that the description of physics becomes simpler as you go deeper (and deeper means more general). But that seems to have gone into reverse now.
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by chalst 8y ago
Maxwell's equations seem unreasonably simple. But their successor, electroweak interaction, is far more complex. Who knows what complexity an electrostrong theory might hold?
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by chalst 8y ago
I'm curious as to which languages you do recommend. You don't see Smalltalk being used a whole lot in devops. Actually, class-based handling of raw data can be done very nicely if you have multiple dispatch, which solves the so-ca
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by chalst 8y ago
The approach is rather closer to Zircon. https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/
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by chalst 8y ago
Good to have a story to the original PDF, but you should also post this link on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19582562
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by chalst 8y ago
I agree that the "whole IT industry would be far better off if people took time to look into and understand the original ideas behind OOP". I also agree that OOP can be great at modelling system-level state. And about the compatib
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by chalst 8y ago
I'll put Soros down as one of the traders who definitely did have a lot of insight.
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by chalst 8y ago
I think that dynamically sized types make life easier in places where it might be good to figure out how to manipulate the concrete data. https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/dynamically-sized-types....
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by chalst 8y ago
Probably. But in the link I posted, did you notice the qualifier "as secure as your browser's implementation of the Web Cryptography API"? Also, AIUI, Webkit implements no PRNG so some Webkit-based browsers might have stupid
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by chalst 8y ago
People who are very rich usually want to be clubby with other people who are very rich. The super rich who talk in concrete ways about how to tackle the failures of capitalism are relatively rare.
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by chalst 8y ago
WRT to the relationship with IPFS, with IPFS you really need to find a decent number of other people to "pin" your content. Filecoin would solve the problem of how to ensure that people with whom you have no relationship actually
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by chalst 8y ago
The password length defaults to too short, and in some circumstances is seeded poorly. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/77345/security-...
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by chalst 8y ago
I hope this article strikes a chord. Two quibbles: Haskell is prone to something that might be considered a class of bug that Rust avoid: the space and time performance of idiomatic Haskell code can be very surprising. I also wonder at the
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by chalst 8y ago
Excellent. I have a general concern that some working with ML don't appreciate the experience and technology that statisticians have developed to deal with bias, which I think is the biggest problem in the field. I tweeted "ML is
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by chalst 8y ago
With respect to the password-creation problem, I find the entropy of the passwords LP creates too low in any case, so I create them from /dev/urandom + base64. I've never had LP fail to recognise these hand-generated password
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by chalst 8y ago
I'd say that if you want to learn Rust, then this is an excellent project. I'm not convinced that if you want to learn how databases work that Rust is a better language than C: it's more complex in that the checker makes you
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by chalst 8y ago
Interesting. Deutsche Welle has a nice piece on how the Nazis made only limited and fitful progress in developing the existing Autobahn network: https://www.dw.com/en/the-myth-of-hitlers-role-in-building-t...
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by chalst 8y ago
For an interesting bit of rival vapourware: https://filecoin.io/
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by chalst 8y ago
There's new research that suggests that there are soil-based sequestration methods that work far faster than the well-studied approach of growing forests: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08636-w
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by chalst 8y ago
Nice, easy to read code from what I've looked at, and impressive to have assembled it so quickly. Were there any ideas you wanted to prove with your implementation?
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Let’s take a crack at understanding distributed consensus(preethikasireddy.com)
4 points by chalst 8y ago|0 comments
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On the vagaries of init systems (2018)(davmac.wordpress.com)
1 points by chalst 8y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 8y ago
The virtue of the LtU link is that it gave a brief outline of the talk.

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