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by dpwm 8y ago
If it pays off by helping make Lisbon a strong European tech scene, which it looks like it could do, it's not necessarily a bad deal for the taxpayers of Portugal.
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by dpwm 8y ago
The linked piece is a surprisingly compelling read.
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by dpwm 8y ago
Yeah, I don't know why I said in home directory and just mounted when I need it. Might as well be mounted all the time and system-wide. It just all came out in some kind of rambling excited nonsense. The TeX Live packages are by far th
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by dpwm 8y ago
> If you create a tarball of TinyTeX on macOS or Ubuntu, it will be only 50MB This is excellent and has accelerated my long-term dream: an up-to-date TeX distribution that can live in my home directory in an lz4 (hc) squashfs archive (72
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by dpwm 8y ago
I didn't "get" Kafka until I read some of the short stories he had written. In particular, the Stoker stood out to me.
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by dpwm 8y ago
I do this too and at first I needed to rewrite quite a few emails. Over time it's completely changed the way I write emails.
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by dpwm 8y ago
I originally thought it was on Windows XP, but I think it's most likely it was Quod Libet on Linux. It's the second picture on the article. Don't know how I missed it.
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by dpwm 8y ago
Cap'n'proto's RPC layer[0] is interesting and is heavily inspired by E language's network layer (capTP) and the author says that Miller was involved in the design [1]. I also seem to remember that one of the authors of P
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by dpwm 8y ago
Having spoken to one of them in person about all their posts being disappeared from Facebook. The only action that they can think of for "violation of their terms of service" they know of is having posts critical of government cla
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by dpwm 8y ago
Attempts so far to ban bot accounts have resulted in a purge of real people who are critical of western governments. When Facebook decided to ban the accounts as identified by Ben Nimmo's team at the Atlantic Council, it also purged pe
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by dpwm 8y ago
I remember using these somewhere, perhaps a music player, and how amazing they were. It's interesting to note that Thunar (XFCE file manager) and Dolphin (KDE manager) have removed Miller columns, in KDE's case because the column
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by dpwm 8y ago
> In practice that just means that those with inherited wealth expend some of it on building a personal myth of being self-made independent of their family legacy. This happens a fair bit in the UK. Due to the media's obsession with
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by dpwm 8y ago
> It has now been a while, that achievements are rarely done in trios, duos or in solitude. It is a farce to all other hard working scientists. Achievements in modern science are usually seen as incremental, done as part of a larger team
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by dpwm 8y ago
Just to add another datum: Thinkpad T420, 2011. Bought used two years ago and still the best laptop I've ever owned.
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by dpwm 8y ago
The risk of identifier collisions with itemgetter seems really low. I've never had a problem with from operator import itemgetter sort(values, key=itemgetter(2)) The main problem is the effort of typing the import, but last ti
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by dpwm 8y ago
> How is this argument related to the confusion of the terms Machine Learning and Neural Networks...? We're talking about the title. > The most appropriate term is the most precise one, in this case : neural networks That is gene
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by dpwm 8y ago
> It should be "Neural networks Confronts...". I disagree, for the following reasons: - The paper is called The Elephant in the Room. Technically the paper confronted the popular machine learning approaches, so the reversal w
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by dpwm 8y ago
I am an anxious person. About a decade ago I was a passenger and at one point I was within about one second of almost certain contact with a vertical box section on a very slow moving vehicle. There was no way that my friend, and inexperien
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by dpwm 8y ago
Thanks for that clarification. Nice to learn something new :) I was incorrect in my usage of the term. EDIT: Actually, if I was referring to TV lines then I guess I wasn't wrong, but "lines" is ambiguous to the point of confu
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by dpwm 8y ago
To be fair you're probably right given the way the capitalist system being developed defecates all over its own foundations, but I wonder how Netflix might feel about their trademark being used for marketing purposes in a way that make
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by dpwm 8y ago
Or even 1401 if it's black on white. I was being a bit sloppy in my language. Lines was historically a common term for vertical resolution back when it would have been scan lines.
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by dpwm 8y ago
I'm not so sure as many will notice it on a device with a 5" screen. By my calculations, assuming an angular resolution of the eye of about 1 arcminute[0] and holding the device at 300mm, I get about 700 lines as the upper limit o
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by dpwm 8y ago
Also, the vast majority of breaches are due to this human error. Anything that attempts to mitigate that in one way or another is to be welcomed. From browsing the docs[0], CLIP OS looks like an interesting project. However, I do question h
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by dpwm 8y ago
> I think you are misinformed It appears, according to that leaflet, that I was, and that central policy is that people should be able to register without fixed address. It does seem that at least one homelessness charity[0] has taken up
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by dpwm 8y ago
> I do wonder how having a postal address is related to being a legal or illegal immigrant. After all - if your friend has a fixed address, they can share it with you, so you can receive mail, can they not? It's generally not so mu
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by dpwm 8y ago
> I hoped to see that the author dealt more directly with the address problem. It's a hard problem, in part because you really need the state to address many of the problems with assuming fixed address. Instead of recognising the re
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by dpwm 8y ago
The Russians did it and the Russians didn't do it? The British narrative is the Russians did it. The Russian narrative is they had no part in it. If you disbelieve the Russian narrative, you believe they did have a part in it. It'
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by dpwm 8y ago
It seems strange to me too. It's not just that, but I have seen more than once someone well-meaning person changing history and pushing it, causing problems for other maintainers. Git is a complex tool and as a result more complex acti
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by dpwm 8y ago
The problem is that to be disbelieving the Russian spies requires believing the British spies. To believe the Russian spies (we didn't do it, somebody in the UK is killing Russians, they are liars!) requires disbelieving the British sp
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by dpwm 8y ago
> I hope the admins use it as a honey pot for locating shills. There are shills on all sides.[0] Many of the people you are calling shills are actually doubtful of the narrative put forward by a security cabal involved in one of the mos

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