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by jll29 1y ago
I love SQLite. As a document _exchange_/_interchange_ format, what I prefer for durability is a non-binary format (e.g. XML based). For local use, I agree SQLite might be much faster than ZIP, and of course the ability to query based o
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Maybe it is exactly because books are so cheap nowadays that nobody aspires to own them. Maybe it is exactly because education is free [at least in part of Europe] that people do not value it anymore [there]. On reflection: no, it's th
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Not as sophisticated as your solution, but works with all hardware for the "backup use case": use a mechanical timer set to 10 minutes before backup starts (and power off 30 minutes after backup normally ends): https://
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Thanks for sharing. Not knowing Odin's syntax yet, having had a quick look at the code, a few things are strange: Are there two types of assignment? p1[0] = 0 ... n := 0 What should this mean? The comma notation usually indi
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Society needs to kill apps (by refusal to install/use) before apps kill the open Web. Another conversation to be had is the effect of messenger apps to exclude those that do not use them (socially, commercially, and soon politically if
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by jll29 1y ago
10 GBP/book, perpetual storage space included. Sounds a good price, no? His worst fear resonates with me: if the collection is separated, all his collecting was basically a waste of time and effort. I share similar thoughts: how to avo
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yes, people re-discover stuff, mostly beacause no-one reads older papers. I also thought of Erlang and OAA. In the early 2000s, we used Open Agent Architecture (OAA) [1], which had a beautiful (declarative) Prolog-like notation for writing
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There is a great documentary film about the origins of Python, which also talks about the ABC license, which influenced Python syntax (and the ABC project gave G. v. Rossum the job during which he created Python): https://www.you
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I never met Winston when he was still alive, sadly, but I first encountered his work when I was still in high school, learning CommonLISP from his AI book. Every time I am sitting in the audience of a talk where someone uses overcrowded Pow
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The "algorithm in the full proposal here" pointing to: https://github.com/Amethyst-Cat/ChessComplexity/blob/master/A%20Metric%20of%20Chess%20Complexity.pdf seems gone.
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>the complexity of chess is not as high as we think, and that there exist a neural network of less than 10B float32 weights which can encode perfect play. That is certainly not the mainstream view, so you will have to support your conjec
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by jll29 1y ago
This is a useful debate. UB dislikes comments because they may differ from what the code actually does, and JO likes comments because they say some things not explicitly written in the code. Their two ways can be reconciled as follows: I&#x
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This is good advice; sadly, people didn't even manage to rescue DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), which are supposed to work "forever", but according to recent studies and personal experience, many have already expired, ofte
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When ES leaked his info to the Guardian people, they could still (2013) use the Guardian's US base to publish, protected by the US' stronger freedom of speech laws. Now, in 2025, if the same were to happen again, I'm not sure
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Management requires a birds-eye view of the project in all its breadth, and quickly responding to issues, as well as reporting up (proactive stakeholder management). The job of the manager is to keep the CXOs happy (inform/manage expec
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One of the problems is that large corporations have such complicated role structures, and another problem is that they are also different from all other large corporations. A third problem is that the compensation models are again vastly di
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by jll29 1y ago
> The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links. That is annoying indeed - it would be nice if the Web had some way to keep links eternally valid. But people didn't even manage Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to
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by jll29 1y ago
It's great how you attempt to hunt down the source, and document your chase. I often scold my students for doing poor research on sources, not reading them, not going back to the originals, because quite often, someone never said what
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by jll29 1y ago
Might have to do with the social pressure to (mutually) focus on the peer that speeds up getting back on the original focus.
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The " (UK)" appendix roughly indicates who would come to protect them in case somebody else tried to invade. The channel island Jersey, for instance, more correctly "The Bailiwick of Jersey", is an autonomous and self-go
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by jll29 1y ago
Indeed. To prove: Google was once called BackRub, a search engine developed as part of a Stanford University research project on digital libraries.
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by jll29 1y ago
It would have been a good idea to add a note saying "republished here by permission of all copyright holders".
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by jll29 1y ago
The file you got sounds neither valid nor well-formed. It might not even be XML. I know you describe a real-life situation, but if XML gets abused it's not XML's fault - like it's not JSON's fault if JSON gets abused
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That's why I hate (and never use in exams) multiple choice questions.
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It's been a while since I used UCSD Pascal (in high school, on Apple II boxes with an extra hardware card), so I don't recall the details of the module system there but I'm pretty sure it did not back then permit separate com
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I'd say the Modula-2 inspired module system is a very valuable asset compared to today's Rust. The only contact with OCaml I had was that I wrote a bug report to a university professor because I wanted his tool to process one of m
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by jll29 1y ago
Not sure where you are based, but if you were in the EU and had no commercial intentions, you might want to consider adding the crawls from OpenWebSearch.eu, an EU-funded research project to provide an open crawl of a substantial part of th
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by jll29 1y ago
A simple plain text file ˜/todo.txt and either Emacs or Sublime are hard to beat. I've been following the same system, also after experimenting with multiple systems. My system has a few minor differences: - I don't us
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I'm interested in this from a research point of view. How do you define a community? I'm guessing you just use the technical "meeting place" in cyberspace as defining the boundaries plus a topic, say people who like fish
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QNX was well-liked in the embedded world. A friend of mine wrote some river lock control software in Pascal under QNX in the early 1990s.

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