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by fhennig 6y ago
I haven't heard of the decline or rise of the popularity of emacs, but from personal experience it is holding up quite well! I think par-edit is superb for anyone building stuff in some lisp dialect. org-mode is unbeatable and I saw qu
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by fhennig 6y ago
It says: "We have disabled public access to the repository." So I guess private access is still possible.
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by fhennig 6y ago
So just because sometimes you forget to put a single character in front of your strings, you'd like to make a breaking change in the language that affects one of the must fundamental data structures in the language? I don't thin
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by fhennig 6y ago
Okay. I usually don't comment on this stuff, but this time I would actually enjoy a tool like that, because I'm currently struggling with building a landing page for one of my project, because I have no experience building website
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by fhennig 6y ago
Interesting! Although there aren't any metrics on how much load is actually balanced this way. The only plot doesn't have y-axis labels.
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by fhennig 7y ago
I think most statically typed languages should be good for this.
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by fhennig 7y ago
Yes, the article mentions users copy pasting snippets from their personal "library". Well, that could just be made into an actual library of functions to call. I'm currently at uni enrolled in an AI/ML degree, and there
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by fhennig 7y ago
Yes, put both things in the man page! Looking at some examples of tldrs, it mostly boils down to the most common use cases as examples. So well written man pages already have an "examples" section, and that really helps!
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by fhennig 7y ago
If there is a set of standard libraries, wouldn't they be cached in the browser anyways?
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by fhennig 7y ago
> because despite being less accurate, they can have designers who can be held legally accountable and liable Are you implying you cannot be held accountable for black box models?
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by fhennig 7y ago
Oh what a nice concept, "malicious compliance". It's nice that it takes into account the intent as well. I'd say the way google et al manage taxes is also malicious compliance. Technically everything is fine, but this l
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by fhennig 7y ago
A while back i was happily writing clojure, but after a while its dynamic typing got problematic and that's when I learned scala. I really liked it, I think functional but statically typed is the way to go. Although I still think that
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by fhennig 7y ago
I was playing devils advocate here. Facebook has shown that they are not very trustworthy. But in theory it is easier to contain the data if it is only held in a single central location vs. distributed over many federated servers.
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by fhennig 7y ago
The point is not the content but the connection graph as you mentioned > Deriving the connection graph is not an issue exclusive to federated systems. No it is not, but with a single large entity there is only a single entity that you ha
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by fhennig 7y ago
If facebook and twitter would support ActivityPub that would be great!
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by fhennig 7y ago
Being able to migrate away from a service requires a common protocol (as it is the case for email) or it would require a lot of individual migration processes for all the intricacies of the different providers.
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by fhennig 7y ago
I see that the author has a point, there are more people I have to trust with federated protocols. But what's the state of instant messaging now? I have to trust Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal. That's still three entities that requi
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by fhennig 7y ago
What is meant by "Subject–object–verb order" as a tag here?
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by fhennig 7y ago
I think that's not a bad thing. For big companies like that it is impossible to drive them out of the market with a competing company, so if you want to change it makes sense to do so from within. Especially since its such a powerful
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by fhennig 7y ago
Yes, kind of like that. Except that it doesn't use requirements.txt but rather a file called Pipfile. In there you can also pin version, or leave them unspecified or only partially specified and you can also divide them in dev-packag
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by fhennig 7y ago
But stuff like that is incredibly difficult to measure. I think the current approach would be that you get qualities like that verified by others and through a web of trust these verifications might mean something to a potential employer.
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by fhennig 7y ago
Yes, paying so much money is absurd. At least in many European countries higher level education is free.
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by fhennig 7y ago
I think we should just drop book work questions altogether and allow students to take notes into the exam. Just make the tests about analysis and synthesis, which is the stuff you should be able to do if you truly understood something and
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by fhennig 7y ago
> Tests may have an important role in motivating students to delve more deeply in subjects but they don't go beyond that. I feel like the university doesn't allow for time to stroll from the beaten path and explore topics that
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by fhennig 7y ago
So in the greater economy, how was funding allocated before that?
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by fhennig 7y ago
This is a very interesting thing to think about, I thought about it a bunch of times already, and have a couple of thoughts about it too. First of all, once you're 55, it's easy to say stuff like that, because you won't be te
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by fhennig 7y ago
I like the idea, but I often find search results on the sites themselves crude and lacking. For example the wikipedia or reddit search, both are not so great. And what about if I want to search for a band, and I don't know if they hav
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by fhennig 7y ago
They even say that it has served many people very well, why shut it down then? The only reason I can think of is that microsoft wants to provide these features themselves, maybe as a payed option?
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by fhennig 7y ago
I found that a very nice observation! I've been struggling with stress lately and I feel like I'm surrounded by a culture where being busy is valued a lot, and people boast about how they stayed up very long to finish something,
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by fhennig 7y ago
Yes, I think that's the sanest choice. Also doesn't require a lot of theming (and some applications don't have themes) or other weird stuff (inverting colors on pdfs?). Also reducing the backlight saves battery. But I still

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