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by enriquto 5y ago
Great! Can't they do Whatsapp as well?
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by enriquto 5y ago
I find the TED format of a talk disturbingly creepy. Yes, rehearsing and dumbing-down a bit your public talk is a good thing. But when it is done to such absurd extremes it becomes really disturbing, almost scary. It is a purely US-style
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Censorship is inherently dangerous because it can be weaponized to silence dissenting minorities. It's its main purpose. The word "can" in your sentence is a bit too generous.
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by enriquto 5y ago
> How on earth do people running Slackware manage their library dependencies and keep everything up to date? slackpkg update slackpkg upgrade-all This is how you get the most recent version of all installed packages.
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by enriquto 5y ago
I'm a Slackware user (as a "pet" testing machine) and one of the things that bothers me about this distribution is that I don't know which packages I'm supposed to install. For example, by default it wants me to in
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by enriquto 5y ago
Which is sad, because in real life many users really want this feature. "--Can you please implement dark mode for your site/webapp?" "--Dude, just use whatever css you want."
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by enriquto 5y ago
I don't get this point of view. If you live in Russia, of all places, you'd likely want to avoid Yandex. On the other hand, for people from non-Russian countries Yandex is probably a better and safer choice than Google.
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by enriquto 5y ago
Sure they do. Even if you only count optical satellites, each sensor produces an image of about 40.000 x 40.000 pixels every few seconds. There are hundreds of satellites doing that and sending the images to earth. All of these data is a
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Great question. The premise here is that search is an integral part of the product experience (...) I remember, as a youngster, a Google advertisement that was in the form of a math quizz. One of the questions was about how many color
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by enriquto 5y ago
Earth observation satellites produce an even larger amount of data. It is stored forever in publicly accessible places (a large amount of it, for free).
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by enriquto 5y ago
So, you are admitting that HTTP and HTTPS are both equally insecure (they can be blocked or falsely approved by malicious authorities/service providers). At least, plain HTTP seems harder to censor: you do not need anybody's perm
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by enriquto 5y ago
sounds great! Does this mean that fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu will, finally, be back? It was an important--I would say, constituent--part of the internet for many years.
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by enriquto 5y ago
Yes, so what's the difference?
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by enriquto 5y ago
What if you don't trust any certificate providers?
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by enriquto 5y ago
No, the idea is that they are all vectors in the same all-encompassing vector space. You can always sum them. What's missing on the formula is that all of these vector spaces are subspaces of the same larger one. That's implici
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by enriquto 5y ago
> I don't understand the + in the first reply! If X and Y are vector spaces (e.g., a line or a plane through the origin), then X+Y is the sum of all elements of each. If you think about this example (dim(X)=1 and dim(Y)=2) you can e
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by enriquto 5y ago
Why would you want "cd folder/<TAB>" instead of "ls folder" ?
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Is this because you type a lot of Greek (or math)? Just regular math, where greek letters abound. A colleague mocked me because I was "still" writing \varphi instead of φ, so I learned to type the greek letters directly. &gt
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Also, do you mind if I ask how you are entering Greek letters directly? I've setup my keyboard (on linux) so that the CAPS-LOCK key acts as a "dead greek" composer. If I press "CAPSLOCK+a" it types "α&quo
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by enriquto 5y ago
Hey, it looks great, I love it! Would it be feasible to support unicode variables? Having to spell the greek letters seems a bit clunky. If I type them directly it gives a parsing error. Notice that in modern LaTeX (say, xetex or luatex)
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Maybe they changed the process at some point. I think it is more likely that, depending on your geographical location, they use different printing shops (they pick the one which is closer to you). And printing shops have widely dispar
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by enriquto 5y ago
The dystopia described in Stallman's "The right to read" is almost here... and we don't even get to colonize the solar system.
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by enriquto 5y ago
As I understand it, this sentence says that the application should be safe even if it was exposed to the public internet, not that it needs to be exposed. It is a good practice to securize everything even if visible only internally. The &
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by enriquto 5y ago
> What is the point of explaining, say the QR factorization (...) engineers? As a personal data point, I'm a mathematician that regularly teaches the QR and SVD factorizations to engineers. Not because I find them interesting, but
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by enriquto 5y ago
> every system around it has migrated to a new and shiny tech stack, and all the subject matter experts are long gone This seems to be an unfortunate property of software related to web development and similar stuff. Fortunately, scient
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by enriquto 5y ago
> Legacy systems have legacy dependencies, and run in legacy environments. In my experience, a sort of opposite of this sentence tends to be true. Modern systems have too many dependencies, most of the time needlessly so, but still requi
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by enriquto 5y ago
What's "IA" ? (For me it's "Intelligence Artificielle", but what you say does not make too much sense. Do you have a super-fancy way to search for drivers?).
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by enriquto 5y ago
Very bad memory! But still, I don't need to be reminded upon each single command who am I, or where I am. It is better to display this information on the window title, or just run "pwd" in the rare cases where I feel lost.
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by enriquto 5y ago
I'm at the opposite end of the cli taste spectrum (my PS1 is a single character), but I love this site.
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by enriquto 5y ago
> rotate it around various axes Wait, doesn't it rotate around a plane?

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