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by david_draco 4y ago
"Gerrymandering is universal in any political system that has geographic units that demand representation." A unstated assumption here is a winner-takes-all election system, which is common in the US and UK, but not other countrie
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by david_draco 4y ago
It was. That was the original design, to ask the user for each site. Then people downloaded browsers that did not ask them ... and browser developers switched it off by default.
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by david_draco 4y ago
The middle ground is to keep copies of all emails on your computer through a email client (via IMAP or POP), so that when you are locked out by your email provider, you can resume your business and communication with your contacts with your
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by david_draco 4y ago
There are N programming languages and M libraries (e.g., dates, file-formats, databases, data analysis method X). Currently, each language (Go, Rust, Python, Julia), needs to reimplement each library from scratch, which is a huge effort and
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by david_draco 4y ago
Free speech + Karma + community self-moderation + community self meta-moderation can work, as slashdot (and HN) showed.
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by david_draco 5y ago
It wasn't clear to me from the article whether that is still the case, or whether it has now transformed into a segment based on straight carrots. Would be interesting to know how the volume of discarded carrots has developed over the
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by david_draco 5y ago
> 2) There should be a higher price to pay for this kind of fraud. At the moment, University incentives are to protect the prestige and not for honesty. There should also be a University list of shame, based on author affil of papers acc
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by david_draco 5y ago
Meld is great. The only nitpick I have is that winmerge was more efficient in resolving a file with the alt-down alt-left/right commands going one diff block at a time. In meld, these commands operate depending on focus. When the focus
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by david_draco 5y ago
This (pyodide) is limited to pure-python and a small, curated list of packages. So many packages using cython packages are unfortunately not usable at the moment.
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by david_draco 5y ago
> What is LibreWolf? > This project is an independent fork of Firefox [...] > LibreWolf is always based on the latest version of Firefox So it is a dependent fork of Firefox
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by david_draco 5y ago
howdoi works great: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi Most frequently, it looks up the first stackoverflow answer and prints it.
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by david_draco 5y ago
and insects in millibillies
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by david_draco 5y ago
Now I am curious about improvised in-air operations that were not successful?
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by david_draco 5y ago
They hammer on effectiveness, in juxtaposition with "wars being effective" (how do you measure this, are they really resolving problems?). Yet they claim they do not want to compare. In any case, even if economic sanctions were 3x
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by david_draco 5y ago
Myth 9: .NET development is dominated by Microsoft, not a community Myth 10: if Microsoft decides to kill .NET or go in a new direction, you are screwed (at least more than with the mentioned community-developed open source alternatives). I
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by david_draco 5y ago
Logging in is also annoying via Tor, requiring so many CAPTCHAs
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by david_draco 5y ago
This is conflating archive format with compression algorithm. The very broad statement "7-Zip achieves a better compression ratio, but it is much slower to compress than RAR" should be demonstrated over all compression levels with
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by david_draco 5y ago
Why do you consider Google Adsense&Analytics the only possibility for monitization?
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by david_draco 5y ago
The animal population has been known for decades, it is bats in rural Wuhan. People catch the bats and sell them at the Wuhan wet market. Mystery solved.
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by david_draco 5y ago
Yes, as mike_d explained, those specific bat coronaviruses occur in Wuhan, of course it makes sense to build a lab there, and, just as portrayed in Contagion, that the virus would jump over there. Correlation-causation fallacy.
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by david_draco 5y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder essentially called the nuclear fusion PR a fraud, because they do not report true (full-system) efficiencies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY
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by david_draco 5y ago
To get this through what you have to do is a) create a Chrome clone that rejects third-party scripts and has other security enhancements by default (do browsers really still need http support?). Then, you can say "Your site doesn'
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by david_draco 5y ago
Isn't the point comparing traditional heuristic techniques against DNN-learned techniques? I understand the latest Stockfish is etching quite close to AlphaZero techniques, but maybe I am wrong.
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by david_draco 5y ago
such as? Do you have a link?
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by david_draco 5y ago
I wish there was a file system that, when the CPU is unused, trawled the disk for unused files and transparently compressed them.
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by david_draco 5y ago
Re security: This is probably best fixed by packaging apps with SELinux rules, which are enforced and cannot be disabled, plus responsive maintainers. There could be more than one app version to allow different SELinux rule strengths, per-a
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by david_draco 5y ago
What would be the consequences of dropping MD4 support in wpa-supplicant? Does OpenBSD not work with WPA-PSK at all or is that implemented separately?
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by david_draco 5y ago
When will BrickerBot be reborn? The world needs you!
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by david_draco 5y ago
The initial anti-body levels produced by Biontech are ridiculously high, something in the 10,000s, while other vaccines produce 1000 or 100. Any value above a few dozen or so is good. So 20% of 10,000 after six months is not really worriso
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by david_draco 5y ago
Yes, in the sections under Intro > Comparisons

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