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by eslaught 6y ago
Ok, but they don't control inflation. At some point, I think it's obvious that printing money becomes counterproductive. But where exactly is that line?
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by eslaught 7y ago
If anyone's looking for NumPy that works on distributed machines with GPUs, see also Legate, which is produced directly by NVIDIA: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2019-11_Legate-NumPy... https:/&#x2F
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by eslaught 7y ago
You can (or at least used to be able to) sign up for PayPal with an email address. Or at least I'm fairly sure, since PayPal keeps prompting me to put in a mobile phone number, and so far I've always been able to exit out of that
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by eslaught 7y ago
Just FYI, you can disable that notification: https://www.macworld.com/article/3447396/how-to-stop-getting... It does not prevent the red notification dot on the System Preferences app, but it does mean at least yo
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by eslaught 7y ago
The whole point is that those PWAs probably never got built in the first place because the foundations were always shaky at best. It's a chilling effect. But if you look at native apps, especially ones I use on desktop OSes, they'
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by eslaught 7y ago
Here's the HN discussion from when this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13179903 Personally, though I agree the version number is going up too quickly, I appreciate that it at least aligns with their p
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by eslaught 7y ago
I'm using it as a shorthand for the features provided by LaTeX's microtype package, namely proper kerning, protrusion, and expansion: https://ctan.org/pkg/microtype?lang=en
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by eslaught 7y ago
The first thing I want to know about a typesetting system is: does it do microtype? And are there any innovations at that level? I don't see any mention of this in the "SILE vs TeX" section of the manual, but to me it seems l
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by eslaught 7y ago
> It's known that having laypeople try to figure out how to improve among themselves is among the worst possible ways to learn something, direct instruction is more effective and having a skilled coach or teacher give one-on-one ins
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by eslaught 7y ago
Digging around on their website got me to: https://scroll.com/sites Don't personally read any of these, but still seems like a promising idea.
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by eslaught 7y ago
Fortran's most recent spec update was in 2018... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_2018
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by eslaught 7y ago
But still beholden to the same rendering engine, and therefore Google's technical decisions about the future of the web. Which is exactly why I would strongly prefer for Mozilla to stay strong, even aside from the non-profit aspect of
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by eslaught 7y ago
I think it's harder to get to this point with e.g. writing, but it is possible. There have been more than a couple times I've thought to myself (while writing), "wow, this is actually what I had imagined in my head." Whi
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by eslaught 7y ago
Zulip is open source: https://github.com/zulip/zulip
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by eslaught 7y ago
Expanding on your comment about vowels, I don't think it's fair to say that music is completely arbitrary in the same way as, say, language. Whereas for language we can be pretty confident in saying that it really is truly arbitra
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by eslaught 7y ago
Research is funded by research grants from government organizations or private companies. Administrators (those involved in enabling research) are funded by "overheads" i.e. a percentage of money taken off the top of grants before
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by eslaught 7y ago
I'm in the US and have gotten a non-trivial percentage of spam calls in Spanish and Mandarin. I don't think it's just the language issue.
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by eslaught 7y ago
Is there any way to get Slack to provide open source projects with an upgraded account? I have been unable to convince one of my projects to move to something else, but we are at the point where we get less than a month of history on Slack&
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by eslaught 7y ago
Ok, but what on this list actually requires an internet connection? I guess the integration with your power company. But aside from that? You could put a local AI model into the Nest, and it shouldn't need to talk to the internet at al
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by eslaught 7y ago
Looking at the license [1], it appears to be GPL v2 with a classpath exception. This means it doesn't directly deal with the issue of patents, only copyright. There have been cases in the past of companies going after users for patents
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by eslaught 7y ago
It used to be that if you created a symlink (even an internal symlink) it would result in storing a duplicate of the symlink target instead of the symlink itself. On the first machine, it would preserve the symlink, but on any subsequent ma
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by eslaught 7y ago
This is no longer true on the latest macOS; OS updates are no longer delivered via the app store. (You get to it via settings, or you can get to it via the apple menu in the top bar.) But anyway, I figure the app store is a place I go to ge
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by eslaught 7y ago
> Safari harasses you about being the default browser But does it advertise to you by default? This seems not comparable at all. Pretty much every browser will want you to set it as default (and at least the option to stop the nagging is
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by eslaught 7y ago
As suggested in a cousin: onety-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty thirteen. Every word (phrase in the case of hundred/thousand) becomes strictly one digit, as opposed to normal English where e.g. "thirteen" is actually t
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by eslaught 7y ago
I think you're underestimating how many will miscalculate. Case in point: timeshares.
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by eslaught 7y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=higher+kinded+types
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by eslaught 7y ago
I think abandoned is too strong of a word. Many research projects have an explicit goal of building an MVP (and an explicit non-goal of doing anything beyond that). The research project is only really "dead" when there are no more
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by eslaught 7y ago
Chapel is a bit difficult to compare to since the language is so broad. It provides something of a kitchen sink in terms of features: everything from network atomics up through forall-style parallel loops that automatically distribute their
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by eslaught 7y ago
A couple of tentative comments from skimming the paper; I haven't seen Partisan before so take this for what it's worth. Partisan is an actor model runtime that appears to be (mostly?) compatible with Erlang. The main selling poin
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by eslaught 7y ago
Here's a free idea for anyone who's interested: I want to see a CSS for program optimization. You label your code with whatever semantics labels you want. By default they do nothing, but you can load "code profiles" to i

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