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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Then have another checkbox, something like " enable advanced settings (warning: if you don't know anything about cars, would you really mess with your car's breaks?) ", that toggles the availability of these kinds of set
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Anecdotally, Yr.no's data [1] is good for most of northern Europe. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute's simulation domain [2] seems to cover most of Germany. [1] http://om.yr.no/verdata/free-weather-data&#
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Interestingly, national meteorological services seem to be among the few public institution that do "free data for the public good" right in general. Well done! I'm throwing in the Norwegian Meteorological Institute's
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
> Funny that you call the packaging scheme the "classical model" - to me that's the "[relatively] new and weird" scheme. I'd say that "everybody builds their own binaries" is the classical model. I
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
This has probably been said in the SO thread already, but what is the negation operator supposed to mean for the one int32_t (typically the number -2^31) whose additive inverse (the number 2^31) is not a member of int32_t?
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Why is this insane? Seriously, what problems does it cause, hypothetical or otherwise?
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
I think this is a key point that many people overlook the importance of when pressuring, say, Debian or Ubuntu maintainers for new package versions inside of a single release.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Say there's a vulnerability or something in zlib's decompression, as GP suggested. That's gonna affect pretty much all software using zlib (i.e. a LOT). On a system where the package maintainers took care of having all packag
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
We "packaging partisans" are just saying we find classical packaging superior to the every-piece-of-software-on-its-own model, not that the latter isn't an OK fallback if there is no package.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
It's powered by the APU, a small jet fuel burning generator that already supplies the plane with electrical power when the engines are off, so there's no need for extra batteries.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Ugh, I did not enjoy seeing Sam Harris on there.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Oh, no, of course I can. Charities/businesses publish account numbers and I push the money.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
> Responses like these just legitimize the idea that privacy is about hiding things. It isn't. Privacy is a way of restricting the government's power over you. I wholeheartedly agree with you. But I'd also point out that m
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Nice! Do you know how much of a cut Flattr takes? Wikipedia suggests 10%, which is just too much. Hey, EFF, if you ever read this: An option for being sent an email monthly with a link to a one-click payment of the same amount as last month
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
Haha, sometimes the US-European disconnect is very cute. I mean no offense, but checks went out of use in my country like 20 years ago. (Anectodally, they can still be cashed, for a service fee of $30 or so). Oh, and mailing something to th
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
I'd love to begin making small monthly payments to the EFF, but here's my hurdle: I don't like authorizing anybody (not even the EFF) to charge my VISA more than once. And I don't like having PayPal take a cut when the m
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
I'm a European who for a long time had a hard time understanding liberal American gun laws. Then one day by chance I constructed something similar to the argument you sketch. I've looked at the (gun) issue differently ever since. It also op
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
...and a third party to your conversation with a friend.
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by homeomorphic 13y ago
A minor nitpick: I think the author means simply the airline known as "Norwegian", formally "Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA". "Norwegian Airlines" makes them sound like our main carrier, while they are in fact a (very popular and vastly successf
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
It's been like this all my life, or as long as I can remember. The waking thing doesn't happen too often - once a month or so - so it's not a big problem. Thanks for your concern, though.
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
That often happens to me also, except I feel absolutely shit while awake. I'm very awake, and not tired, but my mind races so uncontrollably it's almost painful. My brain also decides to consider every problem in life from the worst possibl
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
But doesn't IEEE-754 consider -0 and 0 equal? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point#Total-orde... : "The normal comparison operations however treat NaNs as unordered and compare −0 and +0 as equal."
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
Probably not minus 100% :-)
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
> Also I've never seen Haskell's FFI work - it's just too much of a pain. For what it's worth, I've found Haskell's FFI very pleasant for interfacing with C (and the reverse looks just the same, but I haven't tried). You then interface
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
> There needs to be a better technology to harvest the massive amounts of energy wasted when decelerating from 30k mph to 1 thousand mph during re-entry. Or, in the case of of Mars, we can focus on in-situ resource utilization [1]. Zubr
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
I'm sorry I made you angry. But leaving out versioning schemes in which 0.1 and 0.10 are in fact considered the same, and leaving out letters and stuff (which are trivially encoded in scheme you quote anyway), this is what a version numbe
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
That's not the role of the dot in ordinary decimal expansions either. There its role is to mark where the sequence transitions from positive powers of ten (to its left) to negative powers of ten (to its right).
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
The claim that version numbers aren't the same as decimal expansions of real numbers? Yes, well, the link you just provided gives evidence for that. I'm not familiar with semantic versioning, but as far as I can tell, one element of it is v
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
I think you're thinking about decimal expansions , not IEEE 754 floats. Most (almost all) prospective TeX version numbers cannot be stored accurately as floats, but they can as decimal expansions.
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by homeomorphic 14y ago
Version 0.8 isn't version 0.80. A version number is a sequence of natural numbers, ordered lexicographically and written with periods separating elements. The version (x1, x2, ...) compares to the version (y1, y2, ...) as follows: If x1 =/=

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