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by etatoby 8y ago
I've been told by a physicist friend of mine that one of the big problems is the amount of data produced by LHC sensor arrays. While the LHC is running, 600,000,000 particle collisions happen every second. Every collision produces part
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by etatoby 8y ago
I will add another couple of points. In kindergarten (many decades ago) sometimes we were given individual assignments, such as sticking figures in the right place, coloring things, basic counting... But other times we were forced to inte
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by etatoby 8y ago
Considering the power and money at stake in the alcohol industry, the presence of even one study proving that any alcohol level is bad for you, would be worrying. The fact that it's not just one study, but many, is more than enough.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Just read Real World Haskell and do all the exercises. After you really understand functor and applicative, and do all the exercises, monad will not be much more complicated. After you learn the math, that is, the algebraic structure that i
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by etatoby 8y ago
That's their purpose. This entire endeavor is quite evil IMHO.
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by etatoby 8y ago
This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omert%C3%A0 also called Conspiracy of Silence
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by etatoby 8y ago
So cloud providers who take a piece of open source software, install it, upgrade it, and generally maintain its operation in order to provide a service to their customers, billing the service, are now the bad guys? Sounds like somebody
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by etatoby 8y ago
Question: why all this mess instead of simply re-licensing under the AGPL? (which was created to address the specific issue Redis is having)
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by etatoby 8y ago
So why aren't they simply re-licensing under AGPL? That's what I would do.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Yes, that was my impression too. I find Dvorak so natural, with the alternation and the inwards rolling motion. Plus it's already supported by every OS ever.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Soon it will be: ... webassembly vm (insert variable height custom stack) application ... Sad times.
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by etatoby 8y ago
I've been using sc a few times. It's great to have an improved version! > XLSX file import > Use SC-IM as a non-interactive calculator, reading its input from a external script. Wow, does this mean I can use those "
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by etatoby 8y ago
Yes, that is some next level BS. Why should I learn to use an arcane thing like info just to read a manual page, when 99% of the software on the same computer uses man? It's not just laziness. GNU software is usually good, but it has a
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by etatoby 8y ago
It's a common misconception that sending something "from your email address" requires any degree of accessing your email account. It does not. The visible "From" is transmitted as a regular header and you are free t
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by etatoby 8y ago
Programs reflect the character of those who wrote them. That's why using GNU stuff is such a pain (for me, at least.) They are the most fastidious, unforgiving, unhelping pieces of software to ever be written.
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by etatoby 8y ago
> the GDPR requires opt-in and forbids "click I accept or leave our service" That's an asinine law if I ever saw one. Telling me how I should run my business? Really? From what vantage point, if I may ask? If I had a com
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by etatoby 8y ago
Unfortunately the app I'm using to browse HN does not provide a Vote down button. Are you serious? Do you seriously believe that in an organism as complex as us, all the infinite ways it can fail boil down to a single catchphrase? Do y
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by etatoby 8y ago
Too little, too late, IMHO.
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by etatoby 8y ago
> Are technical people still going to recommend to their less technical family members a Mac? I've done that for decades. Not anymore. More or less after 10.6.8 the software started getting more and more fiddly, slower, and less i
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by etatoby 8y ago
I don't like the Arc language because it's dynamically typed and thus inherently unsafe (see other threads for this sort of discussion.) But I like this particular feature. If you think about it, an array is a mathematical functio
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by etatoby 8y ago
I've been writing Bash scripts (among other things) professionally for 15 years and I didn't know (and had never seen used) most of those tricks: read -d'', printf %q, @Q, all those -z options, and even realpath. Bash an
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by etatoby 8y ago
> I've seen a million times in UX testing where ordinary people go click... wait... click click click click click because they didn't receive any feedback to an action. Not just ordinary people. I see the same behavior daily
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by etatoby 8y ago
I now use Brave browser exclusively, with JavaScript and other things turned off by default. Turning it on for trusted websites is one click away, once per domain, and it could save me in the future.
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by etatoby 8y ago
Thank you, very informative. Here's an idea: if you want to drive home the point that you don't do it for the ad money, and if you want to force yourself not to depend on that money, you could give it all to FOSS foundations. You
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by etatoby 8y ago
From Google's point of view, the Blender Foundation are the bad guys. They host a very popular channel on their servers, using up a lot of bandwidth, storage, and resources, they don't pay a cent to the hosting provider, and on to
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by etatoby 8y ago
The article's use of the term "erector set" had me similarly puzzled.
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by etatoby 8y ago
This is what I don't understand. Why did the LA Times add the IP filter in the first place? Why do they care if they get sued and/or fined by a foreign country? Let the EU block their IPs or DNS themselves if they feel like it.
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by etatoby 8y ago
I'm looking forward to seing the first non-EU company (that has no EU offices) fined by the EU and the middle finger that will ensue.
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by etatoby 8y ago
So are we going to lose access to Google and most other services? Because they are effectively "pay with your data"
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by etatoby 8y ago
Nobody knows. It's like knowing how electronics work, from transistors downwards; and how software works, from machine language upwards; but completely missing the entire concept of a CPU, how it's built, how complex (or not) it i

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