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by jll29 2y ago
It's a cool 50% solution - now someone figure out how to bottle the light for the night, to solve the other 50%...
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by jll29 2y ago
Neat. Such services ("delta filters" in information filtering, a sub-part of information retrieval, "diff alerts" in Web mining, another sub-part of information retrieval) are useful to implement anything from price comp
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by jll29 2y ago
Earlier than or in 1993: - C++: 1979- - Objective C: 1984 - Split-C: 1993 Later than 1993: - C--: 1997 - C#: 2000 - D: 2001 See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_C-family_programming_l... (but this list goes
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by jll29 2y ago
The question is what is "open source" in the case of a matrix of numbers, as opposed to code. Also, are there any "IP" rights attached at all to a bunch numbers coming out of a formula that someone else calculated for yo
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by jll29 2y ago
"disapparing" = people getting aware that their data has value, and setting their robots.txt permissions acordingly?
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by jll29 2y ago
The project's GitHub page has a few more details about GLisp: https://github.com/baku89/glisp
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by jll29 2y ago
You cannot trust corporate "end-to-end" encryption, it often is marketing language without any basis in software. So GPG (PGP) is the only current choice to be "reasonably secure". That means if you make no mistake and y
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by jll29 2y ago
i and j are both post-Roman time glyphs for the Roman numeral I (=1).
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by jll29 2y ago
Bach is timeless, some of his music was sent into outer space, and the old astronomy joke goes one day, they would detect a message using a radio telescope that said "Send more Bach!". If there is life outside of Earth, no doubt t
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by jll29 2y ago
This was a good read, thanks. Instead of using unsafe Rust to optimize the interpreter loop, I would prefer to write a transpiler that compiles the source UXN binaries to local CPU binaries, which would not require making code unsafe/l
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by jll29 2y ago
I got to re-appreciate BASIC when evaluating options for teaching 11-year-old kids a bit how to program (in a single session). People recommended Scratch etc. but I felt talking about programs was important also, which is easier when you wr
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by jll29 2y ago
To ensure any piece of text is "far center" (= unbiased), check out https://biasscanner.org - if text you paste in does not change after pressing the green button, it's unbiased, otherwise biased sentenced are hig
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by jll29 2y ago
I second that wholeheartedly, and I also run two 19" Synology NAS units, one at home and one at the office. All smooth sailing so far. A colleague uses a QNAP instead, which he claims is better price/storage ratio at the expense o
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by jll29 2y ago
"Investigate Europe can reveal that the 15 largest European and US drugmakers, including BMS, publicly disclose over 1,300 subsidiaries in tax havens and low-tax territories. These jurisdictions offer corporations low taxes or ways to
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by jll29 2y ago
This is a good post, and I agree with the "paranoid porgrammer" attitude being useful. The post could also talk about yet another desirable paranoia, namely "Am I building the right thing?" - so talking to customers&#x2F
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by jll29 2y ago
The amount of bloat everywhere today is simply disgusting; just because my group server has 1 TB of RAM isn't a justification for letting a "hello world" app grow to more than 50 kB, GUI or not. Yes, productivity is more impo
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by jll29 2y ago
Yes, the same Hans Peter Luhn (German-born U.S.-American researcher mostly with IBM R&D - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn ). He also single-handedly invented automatic document summarization and knowle
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by jll29 2y ago
There are those people that did great things that you just never heard about in school history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
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by jll29 2y ago
The Atari ST (for me, a 520 ST+) filled the gap between entertainment-centric home computers (Commodore C64) and PCs that could run Linux (some no-name with Intel i486DX-33), you could program it in so many languages (ST Basic, GFA Basic, P
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by jll29 2y ago
Thanks for the story and for putting the employees first. M&A of your sort should always select suitors based on chemistry fit - so when I read your list of candidates, it was already clear to me you would sell to the one listed last, a
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by jll29 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this experience - implementing a VM with GC is a core example of where a systems programming should shine. The result shows that a direct solution (in less time than the C solution might have taken?) was not achieved, whi
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by jll29 2y ago
Good idea: I was wondering if the AirBnB license prices in Barcelona could be made more expensive to fund social housing projects from it (no idea how much they are right now in €/year/m²).
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by jll29 2y ago
I only hope this does not replace one problem with another: Because Spain's high unemployment, in particular youth unemployment and the construction sector, actions that reduce tourism lead to fewer jobs and less income flowing into th
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by jll29 2y ago
For years, I had seen X11 desktops in magazines before Linux and the Intel 80486DX-33 permitted me to first boot X11 on my own machine in 1992 (after installing it from fifty 3.5" floppy disks, which required two trips to the nearest u
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by jll29 2y ago
Edinburgh is such a walkable city, I had a fantastic half a decade living there (without a car, apart from the rental one when moving there). This sounds like the right move to maintain the pedestrian-friendliness and to keep the air cleane
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by jll29 2y ago
"The latest units are protected against dust and splash water, according to protection class IP54, and most error codes caused by magnetic interference disappear on restart." This used of "latest" implies Bosch's en
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+1 for ecclesiastical humor in an ITSEC post
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My recommendation is: start with an image (no text) on the first slide. It is important that the image has seemingly nothing to do with the topic of the talk that was on the (unnumbered) title slide. Now people are curious what explanation
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by jll29 2y ago
The comment about context is spot on; linguists call the mentioned phenomenon "associative meaning" after Leech (1981: 18). The OP uses the Italian fascism symbol. Hitler's appropriation of the symbol for the sun - taken from
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by jll29 2y ago
I hope people get that the above triple indirection was actually tongue in cheek - a self-referential and self-satirical pun of how to shoot yourself in the foot. If HN had HTML I could have demonstrated the hover-over idea that I desribed,

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