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by gioele 7y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect#History «The existence of the greenhouse effect was argued for by Joseph Fourier in 1824. The argument and the evidence were further strengthened by Claude Pouillet
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by gioele 7y ago
For those afraid of the complexity of GNU Parallel, there is the tiny moreutils `parallel` (or Tollef's parallel) that covers 90% of the common use cases with a single-page manual. https://manpages.debian.org/testing&#x
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by gioele 7y ago
> It's the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). Username+PW is obsolete and insecure at least 20 years now. That does not imply that banks must implement 2FA with their proprietary applications. Banks could just implement TOTP (Time-b
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by gioele 7y ago
> AMD software ecosystem is pretty bad. Sadly also the third-party hardware ecosystem is (at the moment) pretty bad. For example you can choose among almost 300 different motherboards with an Intel 1151v2 Socket [1]. They come in all pos
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by gioele 7y ago
In the early 2000s there was an Italian company in Emilia Romagna doing these combustion → electric makeovers on an industrial scale. Their average customers where municipalities and large businesses (airports, for example) converting their
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by gioele 7y ago
> Fast inverse square root is genius but it would just be way-too-clever technical debt if Carmack hadn’t written it and others didn’t learn from him. FISR is a beautiful hack, but it hardly technical debt. This is the original code. Not
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by gioele 7y ago
> One is that the general public actually doesn’t care about privacy at all. It’s a niche concern. There is an established term for this innate human trait: "dancing pigs". > In computer security, the "dancing pigs&quot
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by gioele 7y ago
We already had "instant (no install) apps that are inherently sandboxed": Java and its net-top boxes. Why didn't it work?
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by gioele 7y ago
> - Edit with Vim: `vim foo.c` gives permission to `foo.c`. (Vim also supports opening new files within the editor; in theory that could be redirected to some sort of powerbox, though it's harder than with GUIs.) Will Vim be allowed
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by gioele 7y ago
> Firefox (and chrome) has had this for ages (opt-in till now), and it breaks a lot of services. My data-point: Every couple of years I try to enable it, but every time there is _that website_ that breaks because it really needs third-pa
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by gioele 7y ago
> No line of JavaScript may execute more than 200 milliseconds after the last user touch/tap. This is how Opera Mini "implements" JavaScript. The Opera Mini server will run whatever JavaScript code there is in the page for
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by gioele 7y ago
For clay tablets 3D scanning is too imprecise and too expensive (in terms of labor, equipment and time). RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) [1,2] is a much better alternative to these "flattish" artifacts. All you need is a
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by gioele 7y ago
Let's all remember that the first client-side scripting language was Tcl (inside ViolaWWW). http://www.viola.org/viola/vw/brief.html > (If this were rendering on ViolaWWW, the button could actually be live
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by gioele 7y ago
For reference, a classic study from Jakob Nielsen: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ok-cancel-or-cancel-ok/
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by gioele 7y ago
Let us not forget GoneME: A fork of GNOME that started with the "Buttonorder" patch, a patch to revert the then recently committed change from "OK"/"Cancel" to "Cancel/OK". > Reverting th
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by gioele 7y ago
If anybody is planning anything that combines laws, versioning/revision control and public access to legal resources, please get in touch with me. I have quite a bit of experience in that field that I'll be happy to share thoughts
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by gioele 7y ago
« I love this paper because it is ruthless. The authors know exactly what they are doing, and they are clearly enjoying every second of it. They explain that given what we now know about polygenicity, the highest-effect-size genes require
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by gioele 8y ago
> > Battery life is a little over 4 hours with the flush battery (55Wh) and 6-7 hours with the extended battery (80Wh). > Not going to lie, that’s pretty horrible. On the next line he says that with a newish kernel he can get 6
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by gioele 8y ago
> https://web.hypothes.is/ is the URL parent was referring to, but there was a typo. > This looks similar to Genius.com's annotations » At least one member of the Hypothesis team came from Genius (formerly Rap Ge
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by gioele 8y ago
Why aren't XPointer/XPath fragments used instead of yet another half-backed reimplementation of the same concept? XPointer and XPath have been ratified by the W3C in (...checks...) 2003. They have since been revised, slimmed down
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by gioele 8y ago
> For instance, the .it domain is intended for Italian residents This used to be the case decades ago. Now every resident or business of the EU can register a .IT domain: https://www.nic.it/en/faq#t127n81932
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by gioele 8y ago
Why does a "developer edition" notebook come with a glossy screen? I sort of understand why computer makers like glossy screens: because they just look better to the causal shopper. OK. But in a laptop that is aimed at professiona
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by gioele 8y ago
BTW, the vegetarian products manufactured by Rügenwalder Mühle (available in most of EU) taste incredibly like their meat-based counterparts. This vegetarian salami fooled many friends of mine in various double blind experiments: https:&#x
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by gioele 8y ago
I suppose that organizing or participating in a public assembly without a police permit is illegal more or less everywhere in the world. The question is whether "the Internet" is a public place or not. Case in point: Italy. A) Acc
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by gioele 8y ago
Italian has plenty of "soft versions" of expletives: your examples would translate to "cavolo" and "caspita". Here is a list of euphemisms that can be used in place of swearwords: https://www.parolac
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by gioele 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10165395 The language Madoko has been written in is even more interesting: Koka. https://www.rise4fun.com/koka/tutorial https://www.
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by gioele 8y ago
> CC got rid of their non-attribution v1.0 licences in 2004, so since then there has been three options for people wanting to release art without requiring attribution: But MIT requires attribution as well: > The above copyright notic
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by gioele 8y ago
> Java's intent was "write Java code once, run anywhere". The JVM exposes a strict Java-centric view of what it can run, and it can be difficult to run other language environments on top of the JVM reasonably. > Webasm
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by gioele 8y ago
> Currently each high level language compiles to its own thing creating huge islands of code. C#, Java, Go, Rust, C etc will all compile their frameworks into the wasm files with very simple facade interfaces. This is more or less what S

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