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by ethelward 7y ago
That's just plain wrong. German PoWs in the USSR had a death rate of 15% to 30% depending on the sources, while Soviet PoWs in Germany had a death rate of 57% to 65% depending on the sources.
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by ethelward 8y ago
That's just plain wrong. If the AK shares anything with another weapon, it's actually the M1 Garand and its bolt. https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/22/no-germans-di...
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by ethelward 8y ago
> One thing is clear, the bomb was used on an essentially defeated enemy. The bomb were used on an enemy that was sooo defeated that there was a coup attempt by the military between the two bombs to prevent the emperor from capitulating.
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by ethelward 8y ago
Orientation = attitude ≠ AoA
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by ethelward 8y ago
What is that[0] then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_indicator
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by ethelward 8y ago
Lazarus is, in a nutshell, the FreePascal compiler + a lot of libraries for GUI (among other things) + a nice RAD. So “written in Lazarus” is a shortcut for “written in Pascal with the Lazarus runtime”.
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by ethelward 8y ago
Is $80 that much for something that you use oh so often? It's roughly one week of food where I live; so not free, but something I would afford if it brought a net improvement to my work.
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by ethelward 8y ago
> And most of the games won't behave the same way running on AMD than on NVIDIA. I see you must not have played a lot of games recently – granted, you will notice some problems form time to time, but they are rather the exception (a
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by ethelward 8y ago
> It's literally the same thing as asking application-oriented developers to code and test their apps for every major compiler out there. Not at all, the build step is not supposed to be done by the user in the native world. A more
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by ethelward 8y ago
I don't know where you live, but is it not the same (i.e. you need official approbation to plan a protest) in most countries?
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by ethelward 8y ago
You're welcome! I found it interesting enough that this reform survives three widely different governments to mention it.
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by ethelward 8y ago
What you are saying is just senseless. The USSR had less population than the Axis, especially when 30% of it was under occupation. You're just spouting bullshit written by the Germans after the war to justify their defeat.
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by ethelward 8y ago
No offense meant, but if you are going to dispute a book written by one of the internationally recognized experts of the subject who has access to far more archive material that you or I will ever have, something more substantial that “sure
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by ethelward 8y ago
> but during the Soviet Union, authorities decided that some letters had to be purged because they were naughty Just for reference, the grammatical reform had been designed during the tsarist times, started by the ephemeral Provisional G
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by ethelward 8y ago
Oh, I missed that. What is the officially sanctioned way to build GUI in Java 11 then? Swing?
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by ethelward 8y ago
In astrophysics yes (although I only follow the fields through friends), quite a lot of linear algebra/physics reference libraries are in Fortran, and new programs are still being developed in the more modern versions of it. In Bioinfo
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by ethelward 8y ago
> The fact that you're emphasizing ads over the very real performance advantages just means you've got an axe to grind. No, it means I have a mother, siblings, friends, colleagues, ... that understand next to nothing to compute
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by ethelward 8y ago
I'm not pretending it was not well thought; I'm merely saying its technical advantages were not the main drive behind its huge adoption rate. With all due respect, none of the pluses you mentioned would be a reason for a random, t
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by ethelward 8y ago
> Chrome's appeal was primarily technical Among the tech crowd, probably. For the remaining 99.99% of users, absolutely not. Chrome's appeal came from the pervasive advertisement campaigns, from the bundling strategy with other
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by ethelward 8y ago
What does GNU find provides that I can't get from a wrapper around Perl?
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by ethelward 8y ago
Are you really complaining that the people writing about the tool are the ones developing it? Whose opinion do you want, the Pope? Would a divine sanction be enough for you?
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by ethelward 8y ago
And these were not published on their website: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.10277.pdf http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/regier15.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00113.pdf I had t
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by ethelward 8y ago
> In a nutshell: Julia is great when you're a grad student working mostly by yourself on small scale projects! But not so great in prod. Some people would disagree with that https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies&#x
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by ethelward 8y ago
As you said yourself, you have no performances problem with R and Python, so I do not think you need to learn Julia. However, in fields dealing with larger datasets ( e.g. genetics, astrophysics, ...), Python and R are real bottlenecks in
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by ethelward 8y ago
Getting started to modify the software; {app,play}store links are given.
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by ethelward 8y ago
Some programs (I can think of Termite and Kitty) use the USR1 signal to this end.
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by ethelward 8y ago
I am not sure one would count it as “production”. But I am pretty fond of Racket whenever I want to develop a quick-and-dirty tool for one of the persons in my lab. The performances are meh (correct for a script language, but not much), the
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Racket v7.2(blog.racket-lang.org)
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by ethelward 8y ago
The most advanced one is Redox https://www.redox-os.org/
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by ethelward 8y ago
To give a personal, subjective point of view of why I switched from hg to git: - hg was horribly slow compared to git; - I love the branchs model used in git to let several persons work on different parts of the same project, and I co

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