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by chaosite 4y ago
Sure, if you host it yourself you have to pay someone to admin it (usually significantly more expensive than a license), and if you use a hosted solution you have to pay the host.
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by chaosite 4y ago
This is literally what Engineering is, designing the components to spec such that when they fail the failure mode is acceptable. This includes the computers. That said, "throttle stuck at previous speed" is not a horrible failure
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by chaosite 5y ago
Alpha/Beta/Sigma/Omega/Upsilon male is discredited pseudo-scientific bullshit, and it is a bad idea to base one's personal philosophy on it. I also disagree that bullying is natural, but if even if it is, that still
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by chaosite 5y ago
My own brother once said to me he "could not live without oxygen." What does that sound like to you?
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by chaosite 5y ago
Dark patterns in software usually involve UI/UX, so knowing to code doesn't really help with those. On the other hand, being able to code an app might be enough to make someone go "why is it like that? I know it doesn't
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by chaosite 5y ago
They seem to submit a link then post an archive.ph link as a comment.
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by chaosite 5y ago
Cramming is not memorization. It's not optimal studying, sure, but you've still learned something.
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by chaosite 5y ago
See, no, the second you put in "superior" then you left any idea of a free market. The idea of a free market doesn't claim to make any value judgement of what group is better, the free market is purely about selecting fair pr
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by chaosite 5y ago
The argument you're responding to wasn't "it's okay since it's not an algorithm doing it". It was "it's not a filter bubble since it's not personalized".
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by chaosite 5y ago
Yeah, I was going to ask if they came across Ruby, which was heavily inspired by Smalltalk.
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by chaosite 5y ago
You're arguing semantics, I think. I would simply say that Lisp's AST is S-expressions (those nested token lists), and that the parser is Lisp's read function. Then your example is just something that's allowed by Lisp&#
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by chaosite 5y ago
> [...] Oberon [...] Sure, and that would be a good argument, there are several interesting languages out there that do various things better than C. I'm not intimately familiar with the Wirth languages, but I thought Oberon provid
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by chaosite 5y ago
You're being downvoted to oblivion, even though your general point (rephrased, C is an unforgiving language and safer languages are a Good Thing) is pretty mainstream. Here are my guesses why: 1. You start off by saying you can't
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by chaosite 5y ago
The threat in business to business contracts, in addition to "we'll sue you" for licensing violations, is "that's an unsupported configuration, you're on your own."
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by chaosite 5y ago
I have written code (at work) that crashes when the moon is in a specific phase. I had a "switch(moon_phase)" and forgot one of the cases... And the Android app was in debug mode, so any uncaught exception brought the whole thing
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by chaosite 5y ago
I mean, these terms are defined and widely understood, so, um, no. "gold open access" is where you publish to a peer-reviewed open-access journal, which may or may not involve the author paying for the privilege. "green open
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by chaosite 5y ago
I usually use tramp or something with my local emacs to control a remote box. Multiple remote boxes, actually.
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by chaosite 5y ago
So in my CS program, those were split into several separate courses. You had an (mostly theoretical) Automata and Formal Languages course, which had regular/context free languages (including regexs), grammars, and pumping lemma. lex&#x
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by chaosite 5y ago
Yeah, Computer Engineering is that twilight area between Computer Science and Electrical Engineering where you care that your algorithm is PSPACE-complete but also need to know how it's affected by parasitic capacitance, right?
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by chaosite 5y ago
The "Fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine is not absolute worldwide as it is in the USA. Evidence obtained illegally is not automatically disregarded in Israel, though it still might be.
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by chaosite 5y ago
That would be this one: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3928830... It's the latest in a series of articles by Tomer Ganon. (previously posted as: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by chaosite 5y ago
Note that Debkafile is biased (and usually proudly so). The article is editorialized, but not wrong. The Calcalist article says what they say it does -- that the Israeli Police hacked many phones, without oversight, and some of those phones
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by chaosite 5y ago
So this is a major crisis, i.e., a big problem, right?
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by chaosite 5y ago
Yeah, that's definitely a slap on the wrist. But now that website needs to stop doing that, or it would face actual consequences.
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by chaosite 5y ago
The hospital system literally vanishing is not really a possible failure condition. It just doesn't work like that, medical staff will always keep trying to treat whoever they can with whatever resources they have. The hospital system
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by chaosite 5y ago
That's incorrect. If the psuedonymized data is enough to fingerprint a specific individual (maybe with some additional data), the GDPR says you still can't keep it.
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by chaosite 5y ago
Why does it need to link the transaction that happened to a specific account? They certainly need to keep inventory records, but it's enough to note that an item was sold without linking that to a specific account. Are we using diffe
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by chaosite 5y ago
Yeah, I don't. Decentralized systems don't provide cryptographically-assured accountability, they require cryptographically-assured accountability in order to function correctly. If you give up the decentralization requirement,
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by chaosite 5y ago
That's really not how GDPR works. If it's possible to derive PII from some other data (like activity data), then it's also considered PII under GDPR. And it's definitely possible to derive PII from activity data.
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by chaosite 5y ago
If you have a fancy 4K TV and a decent sound system with Atmos which you want to take advantage of then you really should be buying physical media instead of streaming... I mean, if you went beyond having a sound bar, and ran wires for surr

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