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by edjroot 7y ago
Funny you mention PIA as they've just been acquired by a reportedly shady group. https://www.techradar.com/news/cyberghost-owner-buys-pia-for...
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What's Wrong with GNU Make?(conifersystems.com)
2 points by edjroot 7y ago|0 comments
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by edjroot 7y ago
Wow, I didn't know the effect of the deprioritization was so strong. Now I wonder if there's some unofficial HN client that sorts by "controversial" (just like Reddit).
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Captain Forever(captainforever.com)
2 points by edjroot 7y ago|0 comments
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by edjroot 7y ago
Since we're complaining about Google Translate, I'd like to mention how ridiculous their "verified translation" system is. It works by throwing automatic translations at people who, in their majority, have never studied
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by edjroot 7y ago
> What are the positive and negative tags for, how do they get applied? If you hover over the tag, it shows you a score that represents a "sentiment". The README says "entity extraction and sentiment analysis are provided
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by edjroot 7y ago
You can also get a few extra features on the mobile app, such as step-by-step solutions, if you pay a very small, one-time value (not sure how much).
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by edjroot 7y ago
Just a few hours earlier, this discussion on Turing-complete stuff hit HN's front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847939 Now I don't know if there's any causal relationship between the two (or th
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by edjroot 7y ago
There was a discussion about this on the front page of HN literally a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19847939
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by edjroot 8y ago
It depends on what makes you "not super happy", but as someone who uses Dynalist all the time for everything, I must say the only reason I haven't switched to Notion is that their free plan has a hard limit of 1000 "bloc
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by edjroot 8y ago
I recently watched a documentary where Dijkstra says the opposite: https://youtu.be/RCCigccBzIU?t=1125 "One of the things I discovered as early as the 1960s is that mathematical elegance is not a question of aesthetics
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Make vs. Tup (2016)(gittup.org)
35 points by edjroot 8y ago|33 comments
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Carpalx – keyboard layout optimizer(mkweb.bcgsc.ca)
1 points by edjroot 8y ago|0 comments
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by edjroot 8y ago
Adding to the other replies, there's also IndexedDB, which can store considerably larger amounts of information cross-session.
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by edjroot 8y ago
Oh my God.
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by edjroot 8y ago
Slightly related, but I've always wondered if there are similar (preferably successful) explorations in maths. "Mainstream" notations are clearly optimized for handwriting, but there's just so much room with current tech
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by edjroot 8y ago
Same here, except my urge goes as far as writing to-do list tools (but obviously never actually getting to the point of having something usable). I guess it's easier to blame current solutions for not having {insert essential feature
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by edjroot 8y ago
As someone who 1) knows a few functional programming concepts, 2) hasn't programmed extensively in a functional language, 3) would like to get productive fast (in web development), but also 4) wants a language for the long term (think
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by edjroot 9y ago
That's exciting, thanks a lot! I was just considering using a graph database for a future side project. I also read Neo4j was an inspiration. Is there any "human-made" comparison between the two? All I could find was "A
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by edjroot 9y ago
I remember having read about Gun a few years ago [1] and there was a lot of (apparently) valid criticism. Do you know how much of that is still valid today? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076558
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by edjroot 9y ago
Not to sound edgy, but you don't (and probably never will). Use Firefox instead and be happy with your extensions :)
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by edjroot 9y ago
You can set a flag on Chrome (chrome://flags/#extension-active-script-permission) to block the extension by default and only activate it when you click the pageAction/browserAction or if you whitelist it (for that websit
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by edjroot 9y ago
> We can absorb gigabytes of information through our eyes and other sensory organs, but we can only emit a few bits of information. That's pretty much what Elon Musk cites as his motivation for Neuralink.