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by gkya 9y ago
How much are cryptocurrencies are used for actual exchange of goods? I.e. for actual shopping and commerce? Because it seems to me that the most prominent group of users are investors and miners; i.e. those who only buy, stack and sell cr
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by gkya 9y ago
Esperanto is really better-is-better: most of the world today either knows some English or speaks a romance language. Also, the language has a very natural structure to it, an a lexicon that seemingly (I'm not a speaker, but I have so
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by gkya 9y ago
> Ludwig Wittgenstein once observed, “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” But Ludo, mind if I ask how much time you’ve actually spent with lions? Thought not. Because that’s rubbish, at least in the sense that humans and
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by gkya 9y ago
I didn't know Y2K was that big of a deal! I guess I'll have to read a bit more about it, as it seems to be an interesting topic. Thanks!
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Some AI Koans(catb.org)
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm guessing that updates for LTS kernel will come later. I don't know if I can update to 4.13.
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by gkya 9y ago
Yeah ME is a scary thing also. WRT Linux, well my Xubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) is on 4.10 and no new kernels are available to ma ATM. So if they're going to patch my OS, that's probably going to be a backport to that version, not the
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by gkya 9y ago
Would this entire Meltdown/Spectre thing count as the biggest mess-up of computing history? When yesterday the PoC repo was posted here, the spy.mp4 demo video gave me some chills. And now I can't update my OS before making an i
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by gkya 9y ago
Around Istanbul cats everywhere are a common sight. There's the Kedi documentary that was recently showing internationally that talks about them at lenght. I can't read the article because of the paywall (and no I won't sub
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by gkya 9y ago
Well we keep humans around too and they are at least as wicked :)
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by gkya 9y ago
I like how smart, cool and autonomous a cat is. It's an adventure to teach a dog where to poop, but put the kitten in the sandbox, maybe dip your hand in it for a second, and they just learn it straight away. I had three kittens abou
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by gkya 9y ago
All the current BSD systems, and some GNU/Linux distributions. I'd guess that illumos does not have bash installed by default, too.
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by gkya 9y ago
I kind of doubt it in this case. If a person darted on to the road from behind an object that obstructs the sensors of an autonomous vehicle, in a distance of about a couple meters, slowing down quickly enough is probably not possible (tho
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by gkya 9y ago
Is this a question that has a legal answer, at least in the US where autonomous vehicles seem to be most in vogue, that what party is guilty in an autonomous vehicle accident? Because in an autonomous vehicle every person is a passenger.
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by gkya 9y ago
While I upvoted you for the initial part of your comment, I do not support the autonomous car argument, as I can't see how an autonomous car can avoid an accident of the sort cited in the article, namely an object or a person darting i
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by gkya 9y ago
AFAIK closed em-dashes are the more widespreadly used version, and the fact that they are em-dashes gives away that they indicate no relations among the words they separate. Though this is kind of a bikeshedding problem where people don&#x
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by gkya 9y ago
When it's invalid, maybe. The article you link says in the first three paragraphs: ---8<--- Whether you like PHP or not, go and read the article PHP: a fractal of bad design. It's well written by someone who really knows the l
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by gkya 9y ago
There was a post to OpenBSD- tech list telling no BSDs were told anything. And a blog post from Canonical says that the patch will be available 9th January (IIRC).
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by gkya 9y ago
Well, kind of. Node was not a general purpose tool as conceived initially. You would write some I/O bound servers in it. And PHP too is not a general purpose tool, it is for writing interactive web pages (in its pre-Web2.0 sense) ea
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by gkya 9y ago
Node was a very interesting thing back when it started. It was a hack, but a nice kind of hack. You could write some efficient servers with it. But then the community that formed around it, with it the project went berserk.
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by gkya 9y ago
> Yet this is all very English-centric. I've often wondered whether foreign users ever get annoyed with some of our names that happen to acronym to something unfortunate in their native language. Do they just have to live with it, o
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by gkya 9y ago
Does the second only work with bash? Because IIRC it didn't work with FreeBSD's /bin/sh, you needed the initial x too.
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by gkya 9y ago
> old proprietary OS or very limited embedded OS i.e. all the *BSDs? Many Linux distros that ship with BusyBox only or FreeBSD/Linux type systems (AFAIK Debian and also maybe Gentoo allowed FreeBSD userlands)? POSIX Sh is quite cap
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by gkya 9y ago
Targeting POSIX as much as possible is really important if you don't want to force Bash on people, especially with open-source public code. Many OSes don't have Bash in the default install, but many just assume that bash is avail
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by gkya 9y ago
Certainly something like linguistic relativity is not very popular today (I can't speak of it's scientific soundness as I'm not a linguist), but that does not change the fact that the truth of a linguist's research is no
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by gkya 9y ago
I'd guess most researchers use libraries' copies of these pricy papers. So it's mostly about tax money Elsevier forces university libraries to pay all around the world. And also independent researchers.
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by gkya 9y ago
That's not a measure of the veracity of linguistics research.
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by gkya 9y ago
Wrong decade my friend.
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by gkya 9y ago
With Fedora the boot process has always been a pain for me. Every time I installed it after a couple reboots it begins to hang at the Plymouth screen indefinitely. I've tried up until Fedora 26.
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Ask HN: Digital Humanists here? Your current research/favourite papers?
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