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by eointierney 3y ago
How fast can hackernewsers do better in the language of their choice? I feel like this is a question that should be put to almost every submission, just to stimulate the phagocytes as my Da would say. In this instance probably Python becaus
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by eointierney 3y ago
Let's play D&D And let's use our own intelligence to do so Intelligence is practiced thought, wisdom is practiced intelligence, love is practiced wisdom
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by eointierney 3y ago
This is well put. Mathematics is our candle in the darkness of our understanding, and the more math we know the brighter our candle flames. But Mathematics is not a candle, it is the purest analogy we have ever encountered, and it enlighten
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by eointierney 3y ago
You are very kind :)
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by eointierney 3y ago
I reckon desktops have been dying for a long time, and I love me a good desktop. After many years of enlightenment16 on underpowered (scavenged) computers KDE Plasma became my desktop of choice. It still is. Nowadays it's a choice betw
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by eointierney 3y ago
Bollix, professionals do not obsess but continue to explore I've met a few truly practical experts and they spend more time talking about what they've just learned than children A tool in their hands is never the same thing twice
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by eointierney 3y ago
I remember encountering an early draft when he was still doing his masters? Absolutely cracking paper, one for the ages. Thanks Chris :)
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by eointierney 3y ago
Fixed it is! Thanks to all in the nixos community
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by eointierney 3y ago
Yes indeed, and I just tried installing it and got: error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/7sagfaqcqv5flgvrzs5b30ndfchwvpa4-source.drv': specified: sha256-s//GkCKvppqJ+7x8pNwV
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by eointierney 3y ago
The problem is not that they want to ban encryption but that they can't. It's like banning poetry
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by eointierney 3y ago
Can we just backronym AI to Approximate Intelligence and carry on? There are so many dangers and possibilities of AI that are fascinating, and none of them are even remotely as interesting as those of actual animal and human intelligence. I
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by eointierney 4y ago
Computers cannot lie but there may be unobservable errors in the calculations we use them to assist
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by eointierney 4y ago
All taxes are so simple as to be computational and therefore susceptible to automation Anyone who says otherwise is corrupt
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by eointierney 4y ago
Oh my gosh, I feel for you. I'm Irish, still in Ireland, a lifelong pacifist, and have nothing but the deepest respect for your duty and honour to and for your country. And from a distance I must agree with you. Yes, in the supposed Gr
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by eointierney 4y ago
You are awesome and your daughter is awesomer
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by eointierney 4y ago
Never met Don Becker but as it was the Beowulf project that got me interested in GNU/Linux he is synonymous with ethernet drivers
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by eointierney 4y ago
While Brexit is quite comprehensively idiotic there are winners: pretty much everyone now sees how dumb it is to leave the world's largest trading bloc in an bad-mannered huff and wreak yet untold havoc on your own economy just because
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by eointierney 4y ago
As a modifier it's kind of a mollifier Edit: just looked it up and wikipedia has a difinition I didn't know :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollifier However in the colloquial usage 'round these parts
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by eointierney 4y ago
Polymath was always an idea that appealed, mainly due to Leonardo da Vinci (check out his drawings of turbulent water). I think the problem is career paths, as though a working life must optimise for linearity to achieve success, when inste
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by eointierney 4y ago
Thank you! F-Droid is one of those projects that adds so much peace of mind and usability to my computational life. It is a must-have.
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by eointierney 4y ago
Ha! Love this. Bet you're already weird in a wonderful way :)
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by eointierney 4y ago
Did not Galileo grind his own lenses for his telescopes? Did not Yogi Berra state that in theory there's no theory between theory and practice but that in practice there is? Is an abacus useful in Computer Science or is it an impedimen
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by eointierney 4y ago
Spending a few hours a month maintaining GNU/Linux is perhaps the single most effective learning process for Computer Science I know. The entire stack (except binary blobs) is always available and something novel occurs everytime. I lo
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by eointierney 4y ago
Great idea but you should include every field of Science
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by eointierney 4y ago
Elite on the BBC Micro as a child, awesome. Still the best game I ever tried to play. Used to play it two-handed with a cousin of the same age, we'd load up his elder brother's saved game from cassette just to play with all the we
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by eointierney 4y ago
Anthropomorphisation is a curse, eh? We've seen this in deities for as long as we've been around, royalties then took the crown, later subsumed by governments, then the daft notion of non-human personalities called companies. Now,
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by eointierney 4y ago
Apart from an early dalliance with Enlightenment 16 due to scavenging 486 computer components from skips in Cork (I fondly remember the donation of a P90 from my friend Barry) KDE has provided me with an almost ideal desktop environment of
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by eointierney 4y ago
Our scientists are engineers and our artists are logicians. The telescopes are always amazing
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by eointierney 4y ago
KDE is _by far_ the most configurable desktop environment available, and it makes it easy. The control panel is amazingly consistent.
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by eointierney 4y ago
"Can visualize what the array operations are doing under the hood" Either you take the time and trouble to understand what you're actually doing or you're just a lazy wizard with some facility for incantations.

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