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by jkldotio 13y ago
I was using Gnome-Do and later Synapse before Unity arrived and it is much slower which is one of the top UI felonies for new software.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
"I really cannot see this being adopted. how are you going to slip this thing past the cervix and pubic bone?" This is a typical HN top comment dismissal. It works with corks, it works with his basic prototype, it works with medic
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by jkldotio 13y ago
That was not a deliberate choice it was just the first hit on Google for AF#75, there is an edited compilation in print but you can't link to it.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Executives using treaties to alter domestic law is going to be one of the defining issues of the 21st century. One take on the problem was starkly put in antifederalist #75 in 1788 by a person using the name Hampden (who had been a figure i
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by jkldotio 13y ago
The first 3D printer I saw in person was a couple of years ago in Vienna and they were printing a new battery cover for an old gaming device. I was seriously impressed with the technology then, but this really reveals the potential. While o
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Years ago here in Austria I bought an iPhone 3G that from the beginning frequently didn't have reception where all other phones did, including a situation where I needed to call an ambulance because someone was in urgent need of medica
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by jkldotio 13y ago
It's probably best not to cite Johann Hari* given there are probably other sources able to establish the same point. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#Journalistic_contr...
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Most reveal.js based presentations you can press "esc" and get a slide overview, although that's of limited use. Slides in general are simply not as useful as a reasonable web page if they don't have the presentation alo
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Yes the Lisp > Blub argument is usually presented with the assumption that the opposing argument is that Blub > Lisp or at least that Blub = Lisp. In fact the argument is actually that Blub provides access to a vast ecosystem of algor
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by jkldotio 13y ago
I think the main threat to the advancement of self-driving cars was always going to be big companies without a product using lobbyists and regulatory capture to hamstring those with a product. So an announcement like this from a big player
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by jkldotio 13y ago
hawkharris, start your photocopiers.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
>it's confusing to conflate probabilistic programming and libraries that support Bayesian inference But it's a generic term so you could say the same about functional programming or logic programming, both of which can be done
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by jkldotio 13y ago
I don't see any confusion at all. The first few paragraphs of the link say it's based on PyMC, which itself appears in your link under "Existing probabilistic programming systems". So it's a book that's a pract
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by jkldotio 13y ago
While language is powerful I am not sure it will help, as in Australia calling it a registration fee, leads to "but you don't pay rego" arguments. It's particularly silly in Australia as a huge number cyclists are car ow
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by jkldotio 13y ago
"Honestly, the majority of the population doesn't care about the government email tracking or what-have-you. A very vocal minority seems to care" I keep hearing it's supposedly a minority, but everyone I speak
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by jkldotio 13y ago
I think it's a new name for an old thing, lots of jobs through the last century had things like "analyst" attached to them. Business has been about measuring things for a long time, look at Taylorism or Gosset at Guinness in
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Yes it's amazingly patronizing to assume that the people were wrong given I rarely see any statistical evidence or usability studies behind GNOME changes. It's quite possible they were right and the GNOME devs were wrong. Or, even
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by jkldotio 13y ago
"Western Europe" is an odd and outdated term as it is the EU that is acquiring political and economic powers and which some seek to federate. Leaving out the most religious EU countries like Malta, Cyprus, Romania, Poland and Ital
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Why does Google add visitor regional information to the domains on blogspot, in this case .com.es for no apparent reason? It's intensely annoying to crawl political blogs for Australia, UK, New Zealand and US from my server in Germany
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Isn't Google's viewer really the default PDF viewer in Chrome? The one which doesn't add a toolbar or any tooltips that are popping up despite my mouse not hovering over them. Scribd is for people who want to share a PDF but
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by jkldotio 13y ago
Note that the previous Nexus 7 with mobile doesn't allow tethering, and/or obeys carrier requests to not tether, something they didn't advertise at all last time. The Nexus devices are advertised as open but they simply are n
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by jkldotio 13y ago
If the hardware is open I expect you would be able to put the Firefox mobile OS on there as well.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
It seems they raise tens of millions from donations each year.[1] Given the calibre, and number, of speakers at Aaron Swartz's public eulogy who made some very pointed comments about the political dimensions of the case beyond their pr
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by jkldotio 13y ago
I can't see how anyone who read the article could possibly make the comment you just made.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise wh
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by jkldotio 13y ago
This seems to me to be a prime example of HN comment pedantry. The "right to privacy" and "privacy" are not even mentioned on the linked page. They are seeking to restore the fourth amendment against "unreasonable s
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by jkldotio 13y ago
I think the licence would make a lot of people skip over it; it seems to have far fewer features than Linux as well. I'm not saying it isn't cool, but reading their site and Wikipedia nothing is jumping out at me.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
News studies show people go for junk gossip/celebrity/sex/emotional type news far more than anything economic or political. Which makes it difficult for things like my project ( http://jkl.io ) which specifically se
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by jkldotio 13y ago
I'd rather they spent some effort on installation, documentation and package management as it's a nightmare that needs to be fixed.
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by jkldotio 13y ago
They'd end up on a no fly list and be deprived of basic liberties to travel with no right to appeal secret courts and determinations. Or they'd get invasive checks even though they are a kid, or in a collapsible wheelchair and obv

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