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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
I can not make out how those things were chosen. A lot of Ikea furniture, a random selection of bollards, Dolly Parton, and a Yellow-Spotted Millipede.
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
The philosophy of nonexisting things can be confusing. Most people agree things like zombies, ghosts, and vampires do not actually exist in the physical world. But they do exist as concepts, and we have a fair understanding of what the word
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
I hate the way the web site wobbles up and down for no reason. And even after scrolling down to the end of the front page, I don't have any idea why this should be a good idea, or what kind of problems it might solve. Meh!
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Glad I never had an account on LinkedIn
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
That was one very good reason for me to choose a FairPhone. (Almost?) everything is user replaceable. It has been in my pocket for a could of years and I have not needed to replace anything yet. But I do like having the option.
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Wonderful idea. All I need to is to create an encrypted file with pedo pictures or terrorist plans or just white noise, send a copy to all my enemies, and tip off the authorities.
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Good arguments. I got an overdosis of PHP in my early career, but I have quite the same feeling for perl, both command line, and cgi
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Possibly because carrying and managing multiple smaller clay tablets was so much easier
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Interesting idea. Well put it on the list of things I should try some day. After a quick look at the site, I like the idea. But I wonder where it's limitations start to get in the way. How about security, if I can modify the page, who
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Looks like wonderful material to feed any AI crawler that accesses the forbidden part of my site.
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
I have been speculating on adding a tar pit on my personal web site. A script that produces a page of random nonsense and random looking links to the same script. The thing not linked to anywhere, but explicitly forbidden on robots.txt. If
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Citation needed. I honestly do not know what you are referring to. Even if I had to take your "sexual predator" at face value, I would still have to balance that against the good stable reliable distro they have been done for so m
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
I was doing that for a few decades. Had to wear contacts for my astigmatism. Had my right dominant eye optimized for long distance, and the left with +1 or so for reading. I started to use cheap reading glasses on top when reading a lot. Ha
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
When people complained about the time scale, Gaudi famously replied that his client was in no hurry.
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Not true in all of Europe. Here in Denmark you need to have the state-issued identification app MitId ("My Id"), and most (all?) banks use it for authentication. Both for websites, and even when making a (larger?) transfer in thei
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Impressive that the thing is less than 500 lines of pretty readable C
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Nice. My only gripe is that the map is not very easy to read, especially on the smaller sizes. There are too many coast lines and borders, so it can be hard to locate countries, especially in the Mediterranean. Would it be possible to draw
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
The Copenhagen metro runs perfectly well with no staff on board and feels quite safe and reliable
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
They are not extinct. There are a few making noises in the trees in my backyard now, and I dined on some dino-meat today!
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Reminds me of the anecdote of an early fisherman who cast his net, looked at that catch, and concluded that fishes have scales and fins, and are always at least 5cm long.
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
There are many successful ambush hunters in nature. It is not such a bad strategy
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Adding "invisible" text in a paper seems clearly fraudulent. I don't buy the argument that it is just to catch reviewers using AI, not when the text tells the AI to give positive reviews. In my opinion we should invoke the us
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Caching is simple, yes. The hard part is in the last word, invalidation. Even that is manageable for a single process. But as soon as you have multiple (threads / processes / nodes / data centers) updating the data, it does g
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
The first example in the article, a regex engine, clicked for me. I had read the book on beautiful code #, and the first short story was about a regex thing by none other than Dennis Ritchie. As Fate would have it, my job required me to mak
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Why is such a rare thing called common sense? - myself
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
That looks interesting. I have been dreaming of a travel workstation: A powerful phone for the computer, one handed chorded keyboard for input and smart glasses for display. Should fit in a pocket or at most a small bag. Wonder if I could b
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
No, at some point they want to analyze the impurities in the gold, or the isotopes, or something else we don't know yet...
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
I have been using Linux both home and at work for the last couple of decades. I am thinking of degoogling my life, it is a bit harder, but I think I will get it done some day soon. And meanwhile, at least one Danish ministry has decided to
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by heikkilevanto 1y ago
Running it now. On my phone (FairPhone 4) it took about 20 seconds for a round. On my desktop (Debian Liunux, KDE, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz), Firefox runs a round in about 12 seconds, and Chrome in 14. I tried running in on 4
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by heikkilevanto 2y ago
I agree. I tried the first chapter with the Reader Mode in FireFox, and the whole long scroll hell collapsed to about one screenful of text. I have a feeling it skipped some text, but the result was a quick read that got the main points thr

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