jhoechtl

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by jhoechtl 6y ago
WP6.2, fond memories. How is this mode called where you can see and edit every control sequence you entered like bold and italics formatting?
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
You are right. But the initial spark often comes from one person, think of Westinghouse and Tesla. Tesla was the technical genius yet he needed Westingshouse economical/financial power-networks to get parts of his ideas through. Theref
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
I dislike the stuff called music so much these days that I have started to listen to classical music. As a hardcore grunge and heavy metal addict I ever thought that hell would freeze before. But the nth remix of a 90 hit doesn't move
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
I think inovation is stagnant because of team work. No tongue in cheek. But when you take a look at the sea changinf inventions it has been the work of a nerd who was passionate for a prlonged period of time. Not a team which has to publish
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
Another issue is that today discovering new music becomes hard. An algorith will tell you what you like based on your past hearing habits. New music will come to you as a surprise by the one who is paying most to feature it to you. Passive
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
Fascinating programmer. He wrote a versuon of troff using the Knuth-... pragraph text processing algorithm.
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Is Fortran still a thing these days in a mathematics curriculum?
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
That sounds amazing and seems like a huge set-back to certain envisioned application areas of carbon nanotubes. Do you have a link to a study?
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
You are being downvoted because of ill-received irony, not because it is factually wrong.
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Works for FF 79, Manjaro Linux Maybe it was removed for the Windows build? If so, what a bad decision, maybe for security reasons?
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I do not think that Mozilla will prevent Google from being legally perceived a monopoly, rather Yandex and Alibaba will prevent the US administration from braking up Google. Imagine Google be broken up to be effectively less influential co
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
Bitcoin inherently is unsuitable to ve used as a currency. Transaction fees are to high and the hash rate means waiting for to long for a transactiom to be approved. Imagine standing in the queue at your supermarket waiting for a bitcoin tr
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
The use case of gold is niche too. Still a worthwhile investment. It's all about trust.
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After British dehousing people wanted to have a roof over their head, beauty was not the first priority.
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The internet economy is a winner takes it all economy. With the US being so weak in market regulations, the development of natural monopolies is just a natural effect of that.
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Isn't Google much bigger than Bell ever was before it got broken up into North and South? I think Yandex and Alibaba are the international safeguards of Google preventing the split.
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
It's about time for true change and the open interweb as Tim Berners Lee et al. conceived it. I currently only see ipfs as a viable alternative, but with another markdown format so we need no chrome browser.
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I thought hell will freeze first but ... can we please have Safari on Windows? Just to have one real alternative?
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
Inventing an entirely knew programming language with new concepts that is aiming at smart people and basing critical components of the web browser on it. It is this kind of decision which freaks out the ordinary HN reader but is otherwise a
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Yeah for some time I had high hopes for FiWare but it turned out it was just subsidies for the tendering companies without ANY real incentive for a sustainable business model past the funding period.
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> - in public tenders, demand that web sites for public information don't become apps: announce sites requiring JavaScript as application/html That would be bold. Unfortunately I dont see any lobbyist being motivated to inform
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Now that would make a cool review, interested in that setup!
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> We landed in 2020 and we don't have any complete, native-like, cross-platform GUI toolkit (if we skip Qt and GTK). So we have QT and GTK ...
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
> I think that instead we will see cleaner air in cities since the economics of electric/hybrid cars will win Citation needed. The whole economic and environment footprint of electric vehicles in relation to their efficieny is rathe
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
While most coments seem to agree that it is a futile endeavor, my experience was and is the contrary. I learned that the meme 'let the professionals do their job' actually is an excuse for being lazy and unlearn even basic hand cr
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by jhoechtl 6y ago
Btw imgur doesn't allow me to Display Pictures in full size, are they doing the same abominable game to trick me into their App?
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A curve of constant width – The Reuleaux Triangle(en.wikipedia.org)
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Now project that five years into the future?
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Just saying deep learning still is mostly a marketing fad...
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But there is nothing to be set out. Either you play and win or you have already lost by not playing. The only chance to sit it out would be a giant technological leap as in quantum computing, I just don't see that leap.

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