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by dirkt 6y ago
I remapped the key on the upper left, where ESC should be, to ESC. Well, it's now to the left of the number row, but I've used keyboards where it was in that place. So muscle memory works fine for that. The keys that are there (ca
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by dirkt 6y ago
Very simplified explanation: If you understand Turing Machines, you probably also understand other automata. So you probably understand nondeterministic automata [1]. A quantum computer is like a very restricted nondeterministic automaton,
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by dirkt 6y ago
I do review a list of dependencies when I investigate which node package to use. For those for which I can choose, that is. Sometimes I also take a look at the code. And I've chosen the one with less dependencies often enough.
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by dirkt 6y ago
Until a vaccine is found, 60-70% of the population will need to get infected for "herd immunity". While at the same time making sure infection doesn't grow exponentially, and overwhelms the health system. Loosening the lockdo
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by dirkt 7y ago
And the style (or the missing comments) is really what makes it hard to read. I am fine with higher-order functions (I do that in Haskell all the time), and letters for variables, but please, please, give your functions meaningful names. Or
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by dirkt 7y ago
Same for me. I have a German physical keyboard using the US layout, but with left-alt + the keys where the normally umlauts are allowing me to type äüöÄÜÖß and additionally „“‚‘ quickly. But I've grown up learning programming on US-lay
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by dirkt 7y ago
This rumor is being debunked e.g. here: https://old.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/fkp75t/coronavirus...
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by dirkt 7y ago
This story has been retracted by the author: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=96915
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by dirkt 7y ago
In other parts of the World that didn't get as many IPv4 addresses as the US, the standard for home connections is that you DON'T get a public IP address, you get a private IP address behind carrier grade NAT And that's reall
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by dirkt 7y ago
They did Chinese subtitles for some of the 35C3 talks, so I guess that one will get subtitles, too. If you do know Mandarin, you can help out if you want to.
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by dirkt 7y ago
> It's pretty common nowadays for developers to simply prefer the US layout if their country's is not great For a long time, I've been using a modifcation of the US layout with an additional modifier giving me äöüÄÜÖß in t
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by dirkt 7y ago
There were French and German versions of LOGO, for example. No idea if this counts as "serious", but it was used in schools back then.
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by dirkt 7y ago
If Y actually has an answer - but often enough Y is so convoluted that it just won't work. Asking the poster about X, and offering a solution Y' which will solve X should at least be attempted. If the poster insists on Y, then he&
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by dirkt 7y ago
> It may actually be nigh impossible to learn German, even if you want to. I wanted to, so badly. Almost no one would speak it with me. The trick is to be direct about that you want to speak German. Germans are direct, it's not impo
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by dirkt 7y ago
Both your links deal with leaking information to the carrier (signal). But the issue in the parent post is about leaking information to the people you have in your contact list. These are very different issues. And it looks like signal hasn
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by dirkt 7y ago
I can actually read in both modes: With a voice in my head, complete with sound and intonation (nice for poetry), and without the voice, which is much faster. I guess one can train yourself to "switch", e.g. by focusing on the nex
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by dirkt 7y ago
Nice. Makes it much easier to do the conversion in your head.
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by dirkt 7y ago
As a newbie, a long time ago, I had been exposed to vi and emacs about at the same time. I couldn't find a way to get out of vi. In emacs, there was a small text message that explained how to get help, and how to do a tutorial. I'
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by dirkt 7y ago
Having programmed both in Haskell and Java, my experience is very different. In Java you have to "please the compiler" all of the time. Most of the types you add don't help in finding bugs. The type system is not expressive e
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by dirkt 7y ago
Even though they hide it by using different names (probably to avoid scaring off people), Rust is heavily inspired by Haskell, so that doesn't surprise me at all.
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by dirkt 7y ago
What is nearly always missing is some sort of overview that explains you which parts are there, what are they good for, and how they work together. Either these are very rare, or there are hard to google because they are drowned out by the
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by dirkt 7y ago
Germany didn't. Actually, Germany plans to stop using coal, though later than many Germans would like. The problem is (a) that there is an entrenched and politically important coal industry, and just shutting all of it down is politica
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by dirkt 7y ago
Wrong question: It's not a competition. There are cases when you have some complicated json and just want to search for stuff. Then you use grep + gron. There are cases when you want a complete json processing tool. Then you use jq. Yo
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by dirkt 7y ago
And "Master the Mainframe" is even open to non-students (look for "Learning System"). Comes with material and tasks to work through to get acquainted with the mainframe. Very much recommended for anyone who is curious.
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by dirkt 7y ago
To nitpick: Pure musics CD (CD-DA) can't contain any DRM or rootkits, because the format doesn't allow for data - it's all sound. Only combined CD-ROM/CD-R + CD-DA formats together with the unfortunate eagerness of Windo
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by dirkt 7y ago
It's a pilot system, so one goal is to exactly answer these kinds of question: durability, maintenance etc. I've passed the installation on the A5, and the pylons are on the side of the road, and I've seen machinery parked on
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by dirkt 8y ago
Seeing the number of "nuclear energy is our saviour, and will solve all our problems, and is the only option" posts on the Internet, yes, the first step is to talk about the safety of nuclear without comparing it to other options.
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by dirkt 8y ago
> My point is that nuclear power is safe, as long as all disaster scenarios are taken into account I don't know if you are old enough to remember it, but that's exactly what nuclear energy proponents said in the 70s. Since then
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by dirkt 8y ago
I am not the one you answered, but the title DID put me off, and therefore I didn't read the article (and I probably won't read it, even if it is good). I loathe the tendency to pack emotion and opinion into everything, and exagge
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by dirkt 8y ago
It was monitored. From the original thread https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl... on reddit: One of our multi-practice facilities is having a new MRI installed and apparently som

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