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by jlg23 9y ago
I don't know Elon Musk personally, but I'm pretty sure he'd refer to Alan Kay as one of the giants on whose shoulders he and quite a few industries stand on.
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I have a couple of friends on methadone, they are cordial, relatively together and in a totally safer place than prior. From my work with injecting drug users about a decade ago: None prefers methadone, they only take it because, when
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by jlg23 9y ago
> It looks like they only looked at abstracts. From the text: "We then validated abstract readability against full text readability, demonstrating that it is a suitable approximation for comparing main texts."
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by jlg23 9y ago
In January 1992[1], long after the Cuba Crisis, Robert S. McNamara attended a meeting with Castro. He asked Castro: 1) Did you know the warheads were there? 2) Would you have recommended to Chruschtschow to use the in the face of an US Amer
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by jlg23 9y ago
I've always used the term "black book" when referring to a "compendium of nasty details", though this use might not be en vogue anymore (in English, in German it still is). In this case, I think the title is well-ch
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by jlg23 9y ago
I asked for a point, not for a pointer to source code. I can RTFS myself, but after 20+ years of reading and writing code relevant to the question: again, do you have an actual point?
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by jlg23 9y ago
But people understand what is meant. I guess I'll spend another 20 years saying "hjkl" instead of "right hand in base row position", trading "being right" for "being understood". What exactly is
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by jlg23 9y ago
"Frankly", I'm always willing to learn: Any facts to back up your claims?
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The smaller attack surface and the possibility to implement optimizations across boundaries (userspace vs kernelspace, for example) are the selling points. I'm not buying into this myself as of yet but at least in theory this could lea
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> I live in England Then you should be used to British humor.. err humour ;) - and don't forget, don't mention the war![1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Germans
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> As someone whoms business largely relies on ad-revenue It does not, it relies on selling user data to ad agencies that resell them via data brokers to .. well, not even you know, do you? > please don't go out of your way to rui
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by jlg23 9y ago
> First things first, if you’re running a script blocker like NoScript or ScriptSafe none of these things are going to work without whitelisting the underlying scripts. Well, looks like I actually can hide, then?
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It depends.. case a) I already know the basic concepts (say "imperative" or "object oriented"). Then I skim over a few tutorials, the documentation of the standard library and some style guides. Then I build something I
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It does affect the users' abilities to hack on the software. Since BSDs are used a lot in commercial environments this is a real concern for BSD-hackers.
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by jlg23 9y ago
Intentionally not linking to any of the companies I found with just a quick search at google (mislaid the PDF for carrier 2 carrier pricing of a major provider): 40E/month for 30TB traffic, 1G uplink (1G/s guaranteed), 2x500G SSD
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by jlg23 9y ago
> I imagine it might be quite dangerous to transfer people from one ship to the other in heavy seas The article states that daily transfers of people was the M.O. initially and that they only installed sleeping quarters so experiments co
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Do you allow remote work instead?
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Friends involved in prostitutes' rights groups in NL told me that the attempt to close the window brothels is not only motivated by humanitarian reasons but also because it's prime property. The same thing happened in Antwerp (BE)
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by jlg23 9y ago
The efficient guy in me agrees with the overall sentiment, though not with the tone. My inner nerd had a big, fat smile on his face when reading the story and, if I was the person to receive the letter, I'd probably have "wasted&q
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by jlg23 9y ago
Math: Skat[1] is an awesome card game with rules that fit on the back of a single card (basic version) and that trains addition and multiplication. AFAIK it is/was accepted as a teaching tool in Thuringia's schools. (usually for 3
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by jlg23 9y ago
> Notice that only the last sentence attempted to actually critique the current design. Every single word before that was absolutely useless. [... ] the excerpt doesn't even present a weak argument for why boarding passes should be
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by jlg23 9y ago
Suburbs are one thing. Cities or regular roads between settlements are a completely different thing. In suburbs you have to watch out for kids playing on the street anyway, most drivers live in those suburbs and they know their neighbors. I
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> People, however, tend to forget the old but gold adage: "Form follows Functionality". I mean, this talented designer ventured into poking fun of the work of other people without even taking the time to understand the problem,
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You did not "totally misunderstand something": Immutability is a virtue in FP, you should write in this style. But it is only a "fundamental principle" and "core concept" in highly pure languages - and even
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> immutability is a core concept of functional programming. That depends very much on your definition of FP (or how "pure" the FP is, depending on your definition of "purity").
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The difference is that in pure RESTful APIs you don't have that ability anymore. So, when all you know is RESTful design, GraphQL is solving a problem. But in the end you'll still implement a "plain old http" API when in
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by jlg23 9y ago
The decal might be a bad idea, but having trucks display a video on their rear of what a camera sees from the front is actually incredibly useful. Who are we optimizing for now: The driver who wants to get from A to B or the autonomous vehi
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> the West's obsession with malaria is patronising It is and it is also a consequence of history: Malaria was the unexpected enemy western cultures had to fight in their colonies. The one thing a bullet to the head or chopping off s
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Everything you can play on a chessboard[1]; you can buy cheap, lightweight plastic/rubber travel boards all around the world for about $1. Or you use a sheet of paper, draw your own board and play with crown corks. Or in sand with coco
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by jlg23 9y ago
Self-cleaning public restrooms and sanitary units for hotel rooms have been around for decades . Why shouldn't the same technology be applicable to cars or why shouldn't a self-driving car be able to drive itself to the next car

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