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   by freddref 6y ago

   You could potentially remove more? I would maybe use this if it was Django and React only, there are many things in the tech stack which I just don't want to get into. For example, I would be happy with sqlite instead of postgres. I&#x
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   by freddref 6y ago

   Ya I use cygwin where I can, many of the reinventions don't improve usability.
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   by freddref 6y ago

   powershell is ok, I guess, but the core issue is it's over-engineered. Bash is weird, but it is everywhere and it's simple, and that simplicity is going the be very difficult to replace. How do replace nothing? I love Python, do s
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   by freddref 6y ago

   Right, I think the key is learning something new in an area where you know the least. Even getting to know the simplest concepts can go a long way. My favorite example: cropping a photo to improve composition. It's simple and easy to
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   by freddref 6y ago

   I edited my first video this weekend after installing kdenlive and watching a couple of tutorials on youtube. Learning even the simplest things in another area can be very empowering and rewarding. https://kdenlive.org Super slo
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   by freddref 7y ago

   Large corps can afford to figure out ways around the tax law internationally, while countries take a long time to legislate internationally. Easier for states to retaliate by suing, or otherwise fining, like google in the EU https:/&#
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   by freddref 7y ago

   Stripe was valued at roughly 1B after 5 years. Realex payments, an Irish payments processor formed around 2000, was sold for 115M after 15 years.
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   by freddref 7y ago

   Anyone have a link to the leaked documents?
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   by freddref 7y ago

   I wonder how these pages change in content and tone across languages..
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    by freddref 7y ago

    How did you find this?
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    by freddref 7y ago

    I get at least 8 hours with Debian/Openbox on a Samsung Notebook 9 Pro 13.3" - NP940X3N
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    by freddref 7y ago

    What alternatives exist and how do they compare? ( For example, jsinspect finds structurally similar code )
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    by freddref 7y ago

    "US lobby groups for agriculture and pharmaceutical firms want UK standards changed to be closer to those of the US in a post-Brexit trade deal." https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47036119
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    by freddref 7y ago

    Abstract: We present a PaperRobot who performs as an automatic research assistant by (1) conducting deep understanding of a large collection of human-written papers in a target domain and constructing comprehensive background knowledge gra
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    by freddref 7y ago

    How many Teslas are on the road, how many have been involved in fatal crashes, and for how many of those crashes was autopilot turned on?
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    by freddref 7y ago

    The last paragraph includes this about Y Combinator: "in my opinion it’s also incubated a lot of nonsense." and "tends to produce great innovation with a generous pinch of bullshit." Is there some backstory missing here?
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    by freddref 7y ago

    Toyota has solved enough EV for practical requirements, in the form of hybrids. They've over a decade experience in deploying for practical purposes. Toyota's "basic" software can be an advantage, it works. Autopilot is
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    by freddref 8y ago

    I've started using Ammonite for scripting, which certainly feels more solid than bash. https://github.com/lihaoyi/Ammonite Many times previously I've starting really quickly testing/prototyping an idea i
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    by freddref 8y ago

    This looks like a chuwi, same body?
20. 80.▲
    by freddref 9y ago

    Chuwi 12.3 ?
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    by freddref 9y ago

    Open and quick is nice.. I guess. How is the code interesting? What features of this OS differentiate it from others?
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    by freddref 9y ago

    Time to upgrade my laptop
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    by freddref 9y ago

    "the underlying technologies are not yet scalable" - What does this mean?
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    by freddref 9y ago

    Could someone comment on solid state solutions to harnessing wind energy?
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    by freddref 9y ago

    If you've already learned to install and use Emacs, one more package aint gonna kill ya.
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    by freddref 9y ago

    We might not be able to avoid proof of work, but we could make the work useful in some other way. Primecoin is an example of this, where the mining process produces prime numbers which can be useful for.. something?
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    by freddref 9y ago

    I wish more companies could just work on refining their products. It seems that many new products are no better than their predecessors, and in some cases they seem worse as companies strive to differentiate themselves at the cost of functi
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    by freddref 9y ago

    It might have been hubris at the time he got the prize, but later he felt different about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEUcmKDaklY
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    by freddref 9y ago

    Feynman also said: "Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize." [1] Showing a limitation of the maxim or Feynman's hubris? [1] https://en.wikiquote.org&#x2F
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    by freddref 9y ago

    Agreed, we may be doing interesting work horizontally, reimplementing things that have already been solved. (Maybe this is natural in the evolution of things, searching for a breakthrough.)