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by ergl 6y ago
Network effects have a lot to do with it. Conferences will give you style files that only work with Latex, and some require the .tex sources when you submit your article.
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by ergl 6y ago
I admit I've been lucky with deadlines. The shortest span has been 3 weeks, but that was one time where most of the work was already done, and only then we looked for suitable conferences to submit the paper.
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by ergl 6y ago
Writing the paper is the easy part, after spending months researching past literature, coming up with models and hypothesis, and performing experiments. I really doubt Latex is the bottleneck for doing research.
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by ergl 6y ago
This is what Quiver does underneath the covers. Every note has an unique id, same as attachments (photos, files, pdfs, etc). My only problem with Quiver is that it seems that development has stopped, so the chances of adding new bits (like
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by ergl 6y ago
At work: I type up all the notes about the papers I read, meeting minutes, list of tasks, and also me wondering "out loud" about bugs, design notes, etc. For personal use: I write down notes about articles I read, copy-paste some
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by ergl 6y ago
> The cost of that is many angry people. The benefit of that is that folks like me can find my people. That benefit outweighs the cost. It outweighs the cost for you. It certainly doesn't for society at large.
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by ergl 6y ago
The reviews for that game were amazing just because of the lack of self-awareness: [Keith Schlesinger] criticized the "not well developed" victory conditions, reporting that he got a high score in one game by "sacrific[ing] n
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by ergl 6y ago
I'm personally longing for transparent moderation logs (like lobste.rs does) coupled with user-elected moderators. AFAIK this was one of the defining features of Aether ( https://getaether.net/docs/faq/voting_a
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by ergl 6y ago
Ah, right. Your wording of "Exact opposite maybe" made me think you were suggesting that. I agree that what engineers _should_ be is different from engineers _actually_ are, and that today you see how software is definitely enabl
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by ergl 6y ago
Wait, are you saying that (software) engineers should _actually_ be authoritarian? And you suggest this is because otherwise "authoritarian tactics" wouldn't work?
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by ergl 6y ago
I thought this was going to be a roundabout article about the effects of being on my chair all day during lockdown.
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by ergl 6y ago
How do you define "authenticity"?
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A Vacancy Has Been Detected(kellysutton.com)
1 points by ergl 7y ago|0 comments
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by ergl 7y ago
Sure there is, unless you consider incurring infinite debt a positive thing.
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by ergl 7y ago
It's not far-fetched. Differential privacy is going to be used for the US census this year. Here's a report on it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02201 Also, it's not a magical solution. Here's one of t
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by ergl 7y ago
Yeah, except it didn't seem to work too well last time: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6 "Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population"
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A Software Engineer’s Advice for Saving Social Media? Keep It Small(eyeondesign.aiga.org)
1 points by ergl 7y ago|0 comments
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by ergl 7y ago
The word "rapid" is doing a lot of work in both yours and GP post. The fact is that a hundred years is a very short amount of time if you really think about it. My grandfather was born in 1913, and if Thoreau had lived a long life
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by ergl 7y ago
Yeah, personally the feature I'm looking forward to is materializing "changes" into a document without losing editing history. At some point your set of changes grows too large or you want to trim it to, say, a few weeks or m
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by ergl 7y ago
No, the state of the art CRDT solution for json is something like Automerge ( https://github.com/automerge/automerge ), that treats the document like a collection/combination of CRDTs of different types. (the author
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by ergl 7y ago
This is mostly what Blurb ( https://www.blurb.com ) does!
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by ergl 7y ago
Snapchat created Real Life Magazine ( https://reallifemag.com ) but other than that it doesn't have editorial control.
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by ergl 7y ago
Are those use cases supposed to make VR sound good?
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by ergl 7y ago
Now do rent.
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by ergl 7y ago
It's hard not to flag this article when it brings comments as absurd as calling the NYT neo-Marxist, the "Fox News of the left" or "far left" to HN. If there is an interesting idea underlying the linked opinion piec
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by ergl 7y ago
Definitely, and I'm not trying to say anything like "both sides". You absolutely need moral judgement. All I'm saying is that it's quite easy to fall into a mental pattern where oppression becomes acceptable. Most p
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by ergl 7y ago
Injustices are subjective. Nazis would consider it a great injustice that we don't allow them to go around killing other minorities, or that we made Nazi parties illegal in the western world. What I'm getting at is that the OP sta
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by ergl 7y ago
It just depends on what minority you use. Blacks/LGTB/Jews? Not many people would consider it. White supremacists/Nazis/Islamic Fundamentalist? It's already mainstream.
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by ergl 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20076814 The idea of a federated package registry is good: it tries to avoid centralization and control of a language ecosystem by a private company (like it happene
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by ergl 7y ago
Given that we've depleted most easily accessible mines as well as easy coal and oil sites, I very much doubt that any future civilization will be able to reach our technological level ever again.

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