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by jkldotio 11y ago
The video on the landing page doesn't play properly and surprise surprise it's Vimeo. People need to stop using Vimeo, they have incredibly bad service. I have had problems with Vimeo for years now across multiple desktops, multip
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by jkldotio 11y ago
"the researchers produce a ratio for microbial to human cells for the average man of 1.3:1, with a wide uncertainty" Even given a "wide uncertainty" their estimate is still on the side of the microbial cells. That hardly
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I heard a while back - not sure where, it could have been on Slashdot but it escapes me - that FreeBSD was dying. Looking into the statistics just now it seems that's the case. FreeBSD is basically dead on the desktop[0] and is dying,
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I cited reasons I deal with every week that are reasons why I won't take the word of Microsoft at face value and you cite a blog that basically says some people inherited the MS hate without reference or personal experience. The HN res
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Well you said "more details on roadmap to come", that coming from the company that coined "embrace, extend and extinguish"[0] doesn't really mean all that much. People say your company has changed, I hope it has, bu
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by jkldotio 11y ago
So given your goal is "not to compete/replace but rather help Node" and you don't even have a clear crossplatform roadmap, although you have good intentions in that direction, would you say the author's claim that &
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Nonsense on stilts, how did this even get on HN? "In order to use Microsoft's fork, you need a Windows 10 machine with the November update", really. In response to the downvotes. The author is suggesting that "the Future
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Are Rat Things[0] really viable? "MMRTG contains a total of 10.6 pounds (4.8 kilograms) of plutonium dioxide (including Pu-238) that initially provides approximately 2,000 watts of thermal power and 110 watts of electrical power when e
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by jkldotio 11y ago
>Microsoft and Apple both have many employees and lots of money invested compared to Linux There are a lot of people who are paid to work on the kernel full time from Red Hat, Google, IBM and many others. If I had to guess I'd say t
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Many of the newer Javascript libraries seem massively over-engineered compared to what you actually gain over using jQuery, or even just plain Javascript. I don't want to detract from the complexity of what some of these frameworks can
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Yes, both tSNE and force-directed layouts can do 3D as well as 2D. The following link goes to a "spaceship" force-directed visualisation of Python Github projects, the same author has used his engine for other visualisations too.
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Words in English are frequently polysemic. There are well established philosophical, "left" and "right" meanings to "libertarian" which seem to have evolved in that order. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by jkldotio 11y ago
It's only really the first paragraph directed at you and your point, I suppose I should have made that more clear. The rest is more generally blasting out at an extremely annoying trend I've seen online which is more to do with si
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Thanks to whoever downvoted me. Seems I am arguing against people who downvote against the spirit of the rules and who can't even spell the thing they are talking about.. Regarding your point siliconc0w as I say in my other comment die
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I know a Coeliac who is diagnosed properly - with the genetic test showing the relevant genes, then a blood test showing the antibodies and then finally a biopsy showing damage to the gut - and they are older and travel quite a lot. The cha
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Can people please stop calling gluten free a fad or "bullshit". The reactions to gluten are autoimmune not some simple thing only to do with the walls of the intestines. Classic intestinal Coeliac reactions while the most common a
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by jkldotio 11y ago
While it's good to correct the Hollywood version of WWII this idea has to put it into the perspective of the resources the USA gave to both the USSR and the UK.[0] The USSR was very nearly defeated by the Germans, if you look at the nu
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by jkldotio 11y ago
You have to account for trolls though. There is also often a naysaying or nitpicking thread on HN which explodes in reply count as people quibble back and forth over definitions.
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Seeing "Legos" on the Internet has always annoyed me, even though it must be a decade and a half since I last even touched any LEGO bricks. Apparently the company doesn't want them called "Legos" either.[0] [0] http
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Didn't notice that in my search, thanks!
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Working with different character sets and character encodings is one of the most frustrating areas of programming so congratulations to the VLC team.
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I am not sure of the source of the confusion. I meant TTS in the first part of my comment ("voice generation" isn't far from "speech synthesis", which is the title of the Wikipedia article for it in English) and bot
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Some extra links. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grail_%28web_browser%29 Code on Github: https://github.com/mdoege/grailbrowser CNRI on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Grail, a web browser written in Python (1996)(grail.sourceforge.net)
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Doesn't support Firefox for those wondering.
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by jkldotio 11y ago
I was recently looking at voice generation. The newer Festival is better than the one that's probably in your package manager. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/morevoices.html I wonder if we will se
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by jkldotio 11y ago
Gmail is good, but it's not the features so much as the complexity of running my own mail server that's stopping me moving off it (to say nothing of the fact I am not a "Unicorn"). The current DIY offerings are far too h
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by jkldotio 11y ago
He finishes up with A Modest Proposal. Edit: Oh no! I am getting downvoted by HN users who didn't get the reference and/or have completely no idea what I believe with regard to the issues at hand in the article.
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by jkldotio 11y ago
First paragraph of the article. "The King James Bible is the most widely read work in English literature, a masterpiece of translation whose stately cadences and transcendent phrases have long been seen, even by secular readers, as hav
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by jkldotio 11y ago
One of the strangest things I've run across on Reddit is a group of people with a kind of thalassophobia (fear of the sea) that is focused on man-made things under or partially submerged in water. They call it submechanophobia and shar

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