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by dpwm 8y ago
> I would actually say it is easier than LaTeX, in the sense that it is more discoverable. Agreed. I think what I was trying to say is that LaTeX will have more answers on Stack Overflow. However, once you've found the command (and
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by dpwm 8y ago
> its being maintained by a tiny number of maintainers That is true, but it is quite stable and it works well. The last released version is from 2015. The last LaTeX release was 2e in 1994. LaTeX 3 is apparently still being developed by
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by dpwm 8y ago
> There were also some development effort to “easy” LaTeX typesettings (for instance ConTeXt) but they not became widespread as “WYSIWYM” editors such LyX or TeXMacs, IMVHO because they are in fact less flexible than plain LaTeX and plai
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by dpwm 8y ago
For those like me that hadn't linked Proton Technologies AG and ProtonMail, it's worth noting that this guide may actually have a service to sell you (ProtonMail). The ICO guide linked by the parent doesn't.
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by dpwm 8y ago
On deeper inspection it seems the whole thing is a bit of a plug for Proton Mail. For some reason my disengaged brain hadn't linked Proton Technologies AG with ProtonMail, which was plugged frequently enough for me to notice on first g
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by dpwm 8y ago
> Legally, it's quite dangerous since it might give you the feeling of being compliant while still being at risk. If you're soliciting free advice online – even from a law firm – it may as well contain such a disclaimer. Nearly
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by dpwm 8y ago
I'm not sure why you're pointing this out – it could be because it's interesting or it could be as a warning. If as a warning, nothing here seems particularly unreasonable. > GDPR.EU is a website operated by Proton Technol
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by dpwm 8y ago
I'm not so sure. LinkedIn was always quite spammy. Sourceforge did some absolutely egregious things, including bundling adware with windows binaries. Maybe the people at Microsoft don't know it, but one of the reasons GitHub has s
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by dpwm 8y ago
I'm familiar with most functional languages. This post was in a language with slightly unusual syntax. Still, I found what this is written in to be surprisingly quite readable. It turns out it is {lambda talk}, a simple functional lang
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by dpwm 8y ago
I've actually played quite a few FPS games with a Kensington trackball. It takes some getting used to, but if you set the ball up so that a 180° rotation corresponds to the cursor travelling the width of the screen it seems to work wel
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by dpwm 8y ago
Yes.
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by dpwm 8y ago
> The real issue with GDPR is that it's extremely under specified and we're left to educate guesses to find out what and what's not illegal until the matter is settled in courts. Best practice now may not be best practice
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by dpwm 8y ago
Mainly less freedom on pricing. But even then there are some territories where you're going to get 35% after bandwidth costs are deducted [0]. Strangely, from what I've seen, KDP appears agnostic on DRM and gives you the choice. [
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by dpwm 8y ago
If it's put on KDP and using their print on demand, it works approximately as follows: The cost of the printing of the book is subtracted. You then get 60% of what is left. The only way amazon's percentage will reduce below 40% is
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by dpwm 8y ago
I doubt that, since his distributor is Google Play. It's not a standard term on e-book platforms and I can't see why any author would go for exclusivity on Google Play.
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by dpwm 8y ago
It's probably something the author has thought of. As soon as you take payment you enter into a world of pain. Stolen credit cards, suspended Paypal accounts, technical support, requests for different formats. Perhaps the author prefer
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by dpwm 8y ago
I really can't tell if this is satire or serious. On each pirated book, the e-book "distributor" (i.e. google play) is doing nothing. They won't be doing any marketing, they won't have any distribution costs: it&#x2
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by dpwm 8y ago
> Checks to ensure the author is the legal owner of the copyright? As far as I can tell, the check is basically a tick-box declaration that you have the rights to publish. Amazon also want tax and payment information. Some self-publisher
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by dpwm 8y ago
And Amazon on e-books take 65%, unless you're willing to give them additional controls on the e-book -- in which case they'll take 30%.
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by dpwm 8y ago
I was researching this recently, specifically in the UK. I found a 2013 article from a small indie publisher that didn't want to publish any more books. [0] eBooks are where you can make money, but even then the distributor will make d
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by dpwm 8y ago
> It really isn't trivial. Rate limiting is great, but not enough. Rate limiting alone isn't a solution. But it can be part of a solution that doesn't require reCAPTCHA. > If you lock people out after a certain number
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by dpwm 8y ago
It truly is pervasive now, and the likelihood of being asked to select crosswalks or store fronts or signals subjectively seems to be rising. I question whether that would be the same if I capitulated and used Chrome. What would once be a c
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by dpwm 8y ago
It would be quite humorous, and also quite telling of the experience of those implementing this, if it turned out to be classic class imbalance during training. If 90% of the training dataset is nsfw, and you train a classifier naively on t
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by dpwm 8y ago
> I think that's fundamentally wrong and should - at least in an ideal world - never happen. Agreed. But it does. Some of the perks removed were never perks but a form of negligence. Some of the expenses being denied for seemingly a
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by dpwm 8y ago
It depends on the environment and the employee. In the cases I personally know of, there was at least an element of the employee believing they had been cheated out of something: perks being removed, legitimate expenses being denied for se
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by dpwm 8y ago
> One new development is that you used to be able to get your invoices mailed via snail mail. Then that disappeared and you got your invoices mailed via email. Then that disappeared and now you have to create an account on some portal so
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by dpwm 8y ago
Also, from the "why the cloud" page: "Faster than live" Really? I think that's a little bit too far. Don't know much about the product. If it works, it's impressive enough: let it sell itself.
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by dpwm 8y ago
This is part 3 in a series of articles. I've just tracked down parts one [0] and two, [1] posted recently. [0] has quite a few comments on it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18495812 [1] https://ne
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by dpwm 8y ago
In most states it's not considered admissable. That is why they use New York.
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by dpwm 8y ago
If you do password hashing properly, using a key derivation function, you shouldn't be able to do that filtering efficiently at all.

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