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by grondilu 9y ago
Continuing with my analogy that would be like shouting my name and address in the street. Why would I do that? My point is that I tend to consider myself as anonymous on the internet because I believe nobody is interested enough in me to b
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by grondilu 9y ago
Chromebooks are going to be awesome whenever Webassembly comes to maturity.
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by grondilu 9y ago
Can someone explain to me why this so-called "privacy" is such a big deal on internet? Can't internet, or at least a major part of it, be considered a public place? I mean, when I walk in the street, I do not wear a mask (I
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by grondilu 9y ago
If we leave them enough habitat. But why would we if we don't need them?
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by grondilu 9y ago
It's great but if it really works, isn't there a concern about the existence of our beloved domestic animals? All domestic cattle nowadays descends from the Auroch, which is extinct. The Auroch disappeared because we did not need
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by grondilu 9y ago
What do you use to mount the monitor?
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by grondilu 9y ago
Nope, I use the same bed. I do have difficulty to fall asleep though.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I once joked that ever since I've heard about how bad it is to sit down during hours, I've decided to lay down instead. But is that really so silly? I used to work in front of a computer. I was sited all day and I can tell it go
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by grondilu 9y ago
The ancients thought a lot about what makes a human "good", and they came up with the notion of virtues[1]. If I'm not mistaken, none of them was particularly oriented towards altruism. It seems to me altruism was very much
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by grondilu 9y ago
Quite off-topic, but sometimes I even wonder if we should not "de-colonize" Earth. I first thought of that when I learnt that if all human population was living in one place with the same population density as in Tokyo, this mega
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by grondilu 9y ago
> As the years go on, loneliness and despair will set in. Those first colonists will likely spend the rest of their lives pretty much with who they landed with. Their lives won't change much at all over the decades they're ther
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by grondilu 9y ago
Or try an other biosphere experiment[1]. The problem is, it would cost almost as much as a real mars mission. So it's not sure it'd be worth it. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
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Now you do.
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So basically it's a student loan with a friendly debt collection policy?
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I had tried replacing 'rule' by 'token' and it did not change much.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I didn't say recursion never works. I say most of the times, it doesn't. There is no alternation in the example you provide, for instance. Had you written it like this: grammar { rule TOP { <string> }
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by grondilu 9y ago
Fine, but then how do you suggest one should write floating point literal values? PS. I guess there is the "f" suffix as in C++. Well, for some reason that's not what Perl 6 decided. I, for one, think it's simple enou
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm a bit disappointed about grammars. Usually, when I try to use them, it gets difficult. Especially when recursion is involved. Lately, for instance, I was reading the ECMAScript 2016 reference, and in it they define a repetition
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by grondilu 9y ago
The "e" notation is an explicit reference to the floating point representation, so it should obviously use it. But decimal literal numbers (that is, not using the "e" notation) are best represented with rational values,
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by grondilu 9y ago
The algorithms generates very obvious and non-aesthetics artefacts: http://imgur.com/a/hxBop
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by grondilu 9y ago
> I’ve idealized the four steps as separate functions. Does the author know he can write functions in bash? I mean, if he wants to compare programming languages, he should at least compare similar programming styles. Bash is great for OS
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It looks better than some of the stuff in my fridge.
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Why do robots rely so much on gears? There is no gear in the animal kingdom, and yet their limbs are vastly more energy efficient and agile, aren't they?
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by grondilu 9y ago
> I mean, yeah, everything lives in a sandbox and there's potentially less security issues. Precisely. It's sandboxed. I very much like the idea that I could run any proprietary software inside a sandbox, and reserve "ha
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by grondilu 9y ago
> I haven't bought an IPhone but it hasn't forced Apple to make a device I want to buy. "Punish them" was not quite appropriate an expression indeed. Anyway, why should it bother you that Apple exists and continues
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by grondilu 9y ago
WASM is designed to implement stuff that are computationally expensive. The typical junk you want to remove is not. If somehow WASM is used to protect this junk from you filtering it, this is probably done deliberately. WebDesigners can
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by grondilu 9y ago
There are, and will always be, websites that are ugly, fat, obtrusive and whatnot. Thing is: you don't have to visit them. WebAssembly has the potential to say play video games, including AAA titles, without having to install anythin
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'd rather say it's a good idea but it also is a technical problem that is not yet convincingly solved. It is clear though that open source by itself is not a solution, for the very reason you mention (how can one be sure about
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A nice YouTube video about what this is about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVWZFdb_AGc
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Well actually for a large number of people it is getting worse. Maybe, but that's not what was complained about in the original article. So OP's point stands.

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