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by cwyers 5y ago
I click on it and I get a page talking about how Kansas is flatter than a pancake. I don't know why it didn't work for you.
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by cwyers 5y ago
"Ambient musicians aren’t meant to become famous, and particularly Kirby, in his experimental deconstructions of old sampled ballroom music, is perhaps the last musician you would expect to gain any significant recognition." What&
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by cwyers 5y ago
Yeah, he is past the point of having feelings to hurt. You know whose feelings are probably hurt right now, though? Like, picture yourself as a budding werewolf novelist, the sort of person who went to the University of Kansas and got a Bac
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by cwyers 5y ago
I missed your article when it first came out, and I'm glad to have encountered it here; thank you, I think it helps explain some things here and more generally. I do think that this explains why the "Base R" people feel so th
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by cwyers 5y ago
Because they didn't want to maintain two different libraries? (I don't work for Red Hat. My employer runs mostly Windows boxes. I mostly use Ubuntu when I use Linux.)
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by cwyers 5y ago
The point is, if you build a signed app meant to run on any device, you are going to include code/assets for all of them. What Google wants to do is basically "tree-shake" the APK so that when you download it, it only contain
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by cwyers 5y ago
No, you just categorically don't understand. libsystemd is not systemd the init system, it doesn't require systemd to be running, it is simply the name of "the shared library that everything developed under the systemd projec
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by cwyers 5y ago
"The science" is not this monolith that stands on its own. The science behind this is the belief that fully vaccinated people are not significant spreaders of the disease. That is correct, and it's good for the CDC to recogni
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by cwyers 5y ago
ETL is a term that dates back to the 70s, and is familiar to anyone who is doing any medium to large scale database management. I'm not saying that everyone has to know about relational databases, but to treat the _relational database_
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by cwyers 5y ago
In the Costco model, Costco pays up front for the vodka and incurs all the risk if the vodka doesn't sell. In the Amazon model, Amazon charges third-party sellers "rent" to be on the platform in the form of a cut of all trans
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by cwyers 5y ago
I am not against proof of stake, exactly. But proof of stake has been around for a long time, and is a very small part of the crypto market right now. I don't really understand why, but until proof of stake is able to get adoption, I d
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by cwyers 5y ago
Because it doesn't work. I wish it worked! It does feel like something out of a cyberpunk novel. I loved "Crypronomicon." There's nothing punk about Bitcoin anymore, though. IBM, the least punk organization in the histor
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by cwyers 5y ago
Read the Bitcoin paper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf It does not, at any point in there, say that the benefit is to avoid state control. It talks about how the cost of requiring a third party in transactions discourages
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by cwyers 5y ago
I'm not asking for a pitch deck or a prospectus. I'm asking for a little bit of humility and learning from history. Like, credit where credit is due, the original Bitcoin paper posed a real problem (real in the sense that solving
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by cwyers 5y ago
I just... do not understand how smart, even _brilliant_ people, the sort of people who know enough to make something like this, can look at Bitcoin... the waste, the way it has utterly failed to achieve what it set out to do[1], everything,
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by cwyers 5y ago
Then instead of reassigning new data to foo, just assign new data to foo2. You can still use the notebook to experiment, what you are doing is removing ambiguity.
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by cwyers 5y ago
How does RStudio have little interest in interoperability with other languages? They produce the reticulate package[1] to allow calling Python code for R, they have added support for Python to RMarkdown and RStudio[2], they let you host Pyt
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by cwyers 5y ago
Because they're vegan cheeses. There's a lot of cultures with strong vegan food traditions, or at least, there's plenty of dishes that are naturally vegan. Vegan cheese doesn't fall into those traditions, it's a pro
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by cwyers 5y ago
There really isn't a way around that. There are vastly more poor people than rich people, and the difference between emissions of cars typically owned by rich people and poor people is marginal if anything. If you want to make an impac
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by cwyers 5y ago
Well, at least until someone ports DOOM to it.
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by cwyers 5y ago
Also, from the article: > The ESP32 is a microcontroller that has very little RAM and isn't quite suited to deal with HTML and such. So I had to use a Raspberry Pi as a rendering proxy and transforms the RSS and the text on the page
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by cwyers 6y ago
Three paragraphs in: > It’s true that Rome’s collapse reverberated widely, at least in the western – mostly European – half of its empire. (A shrinking portion of the eastern half, later known as Byzantium, survived for another millenniu
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by cwyers 6y ago
Xbox One/Series X/S actually runs games within a VM as well: https://wccftech.com/xbox-one-architecture-explained-runs-wi...
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by cwyers 6y ago
Look at these directions for using Popcorn Time with a Roku: https://rokuguru.com/popcorn-time-on-roku/#/?playlistId=0&vi... Compare it to the onboarding process for Netflix or Disney+ on Roku. I know, that fo
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by cwyers 6y ago
Depends on how much this Video Spotify would pay them, versus how much they can charge for their own offering. If you can get $10 * N subscribers, that's a better deal than $1 * 5N subscribers. They're only shooting themselves in
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by cwyers 6y ago
> “COBOL doesn’t present any security problems because it doesn’t really talk to any resources,” Malik said. “It just says ‘read’ or ‘write.’” Well, in a world where "talking to resources" is most of what we want software to do
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by cwyers 6y ago
It also looks like it's been unmaintained for several years, and it talks about supporting R 2.x. R 4.0 has enough changes to the language internals that I'm not sure it would work with recent versions.
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by cwyers 6y ago
And they can say "no" or "money please."
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by cwyers 6y ago
The part of Android that talks to the Qualcom drivers is the Linux kernel, which is GPL already.
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by cwyers 6y ago
This assumes that the person making the SoC owns all the rights to the code for their drivers, instead of licensing them from other firms.

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