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by danieldk 7y ago
I have also seen people who use the online version/simulation of teletext. Probably because it is so brief and has very few distractions. E.g.: https://nos.nl/teletekst
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by danieldk 7y ago
How it'd work - ARM SoC expands on what the T2 does today, except it now runs all system threads, any ARM native user space apps, and maybe specialty fixed function blocks that Apple throws on those chips (e.g. media encode). Meanwhil
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by danieldk 7y ago
For how much longer? I'm not asking facetiously, the trends across the entire industry are quite obvious at this point. [...] I'm sure there are no ulterior motives at play here though. /s If that's Apple's trajec
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by danieldk 7y ago
I co-developed a Qt C++ app of ~40,000 lines. I think the amount of platform-specific code was at most a couple of pages (handling macOS' behavior to keep an app alive when all its windows are closed). It is not perfect, but it feels a
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by danieldk 7y ago
You could use something like NixOS, which has interpreters, libc, etc. in non-canonical paths. And you still have the protections of Linux and speedy security updates. Of course, this is security by obscurity, an attacker could adjust the m
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by danieldk 7y ago
So better (as said) is to use a separate VM to access trusted domains (and yes, also VMs aren't these days so trustable). I would use the VM for accessing untrusted domains. If an exploit has your host system, then it also has the tr
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by danieldk 7y ago
The problem is that neither the original thread, nor the threads here (which seem to be quite heavy on Google commenters) answers the question 'why?'. I think this wouldn't have caused nearly as much commotion as it does now,
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by danieldk 7y ago
Qt. Supports Linux, macOS, and Windows. Supports at least one high-level programming language very well (Python). Has good tooling and a lot of support. It's LGPL, which is fine for most cases. But you could always buy a commercial lic
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by danieldk 7y ago
My wife and I both have iPhones on KPN. No alert. We have an old Moto X 2013 that we use when we have to check our old German T-Mobile numbers for missed calls or SMSes. That phone did get an alert. Thrice. It is worrying that these alerts
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by danieldk 7y ago
That's true, but it also gives plausible deniability to accidentally taped evidence (e.g. mic left on before/after a press conference). The person making the newsworthy statement, could always claim it is a deep fake. Of course, i
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by danieldk 7y ago
For many languages, it is even useless with stemming, you would want lemmatization plus a certain amount of fuzzy matching.
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by danieldk 7y ago
If you really want low cost to compute for Deep Learning and you needs lots of compute and don't want to pay for V100s, then the AMD Vega R7 is the card for you. 700 dollars, 16GB Ram, 1TB of GPU bandwidth (higher than the V100!), wor
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by danieldk 7y ago
IANAL, but why do you care if you are not redistributing ZFS or Linux? As far as I understand, both the GPL and CDDL only impose limitations on redistribution. So, it is more a problem for distributors, like Canonical. Even there, people li
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by danieldk 7y ago
We ended up with two solutions: for family, we now upload photos to Smugmug with a password-protected gallery. The simplest plan is good enough for us and is ~50 per year. For file sync, we switched to Resilio Sync. I had used Resilio Sync
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by danieldk 7y ago
Me and my wife ended both ended our Dropbox Plus subscriptions last weekend (after being paying users for five years or so). As a side-effect, my mom also cancelled her subscription (since she was using it to share photos with us). The prim
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by danieldk 7y ago
The 2012 Mac Mini was the high point of the Mini. Strong hardware, decent prices (I think I bought mine for 600 Euro), very serviceable. RAM was replaceable by removing the cover on the bottom (no screwdriver required). Replacing storage wa
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by danieldk 7y ago
I loved the fact that you could buy articles instead of getting another subscription. I disliked the pay per article model, because it reinforces how expensive news articles actually are in the real world (outside ads-sponsored, click bai
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by danieldk 7y ago
Well, try! is dead quite literally. Rust still has the macro, but it is superseded by the ? operator.
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by danieldk 7y ago
The default bash on macOS is protected using SIP. Files covered by SIP can only be replaced by Apple-signed updates. (Of course, one could disable SIP altogether.)
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No NVIDIA, so no CUDA. (Of course, one can buy a card, but that was already possible with USB-C and an eGPU enclosure.) Is there a particular reason they stopped shipping Macs with NVIDIA?
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by danieldk 7y ago
And Rust is used in various parts of Firefox now. Dropbox uses Rust in their Magic Pocket storage backend. npm uses Rust in its registry service. Sure, Rust is not going to replace Java anytime soon (probably not at all). But for a language
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by danieldk 7y ago
But Scheme and Common Lisp (and its dialects) are drastically easier to learn than Haskell. Furthermore, I think it also has to do with the order in which these courses are taught. When I did a small introduction to FP at my university, a
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by danieldk 7y ago
Smaller cities present issues in Germany (and Europe as a whole) for a multitude of reasons, for example healthcare[0], reliable bandwidth, older populations[1], etc. Well, Nentershausen is very small ;). We had weekends with friends in N
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by danieldk 7y ago
What was your criteria for choosing the city you are in presently? We lived in Tübingen (Germany) for five years. But the city was just a tad too small for my taste. There are only few stores (outside tourism-focused stores) and it there
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It does not necessarily have to do anything with laziness. The further you get the fiercer your competition. Most people around here were probably the best in elementary school and high school, perhaps even university. But if you go further
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Therefore, I find myself in a situation where making a lot of money isn't my goal, but I feel that I have to do it if I want to achieve my goals. Can't you work remotely? There are a lot of smaller cities (at least in Europe) th
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by danieldk 7y ago
Code points are not the proper abstraction, since a character can be composed from a variable number of code points. Also, bytes from 0-127 in UTF-8 (MSB is 0) are ASCII characters. In multibyte code points, the MSBs of the first byte are 1
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by danieldk 7y ago
I was not really convinced by that line of argumentation either. For me, the more convincing argument is that Go would have probably happened in a parallel universe as well. Imagine that Griesemer, Pike, and Thompson had worked another comp
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Python was picked up by companies like Red Hat at the end of the nineties (e.g. in the Anaconda installer). So in Linux circles Python had already gained quite a bit of popularity.
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by danieldk 7y ago
Yes. But I think it’ll only a matter of time before they stop, too. It will probably take at least 5-10 years before all major distributions will stop and their support periods will be over. Once we are there, there is still NetBSD and Op

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