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One of my most fun projects of the 2010s was an event extraction system my team and I developed that could extract events like floodings, fires, terrorist attacks and several others, determine their properties (when, where, how many fatalit
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=> Third-party sites can never be trusted.
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The more people use free software, the more it will become cost effective to improve it using government funding. There can be enormous net savings (zero license fees), which is fantastic for the taxpayer.
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Munich reportedly chickened out of Linux a few years later - due to lobbying.
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Surveillance may contribute to destroying "community" and "neighborhood" but another factors is architecture, in particular in the U.S., as pointed out by this famous TED talk by James Kunstler: https://www.yo
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> They make post-its for chrissake Wikipedia to the rescue: "3M Company (originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is an American multinational conglomerate operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, health
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I watched other people smoke cannabis, and after producing some foul fumes, they were just passively lying on the floor with a stare of apathy. I decided to NEVER try this, and to this day I have no regrets; I enjoy being in full control of
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Suzanne Vega telling the history of her "Tom's Diner" song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99PhzEIWuA Suzanne Vega - Luka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZt7J0iaUD0 Suzanne Vega - Tom&#x27
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Gmail or not - e-mail will continue to provide the backbone of digital conversation for personal life and business. Because it is not a proprietary protocol but an open standard protocol with free, open-source implementations independent of
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Ross Anderson Has Died(therecord.media)
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Professor Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge/University of Edinburgh), head of the Cambridge Security Research Group, passed away on 28 March at his home in Cambridge.
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So now we have covered PostgreSQL and food waste, how about the topic of avoiding small aircraft for transportation (because they are so much more risky compared to larger commercial aircraft)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Stoll found a microscopic discrepancy in the accounting of a computer he was in charge of, and he got curious what might be the root cause. He (a FORTH-programming raido astronomer) than discovered that a hacker was in "his" compu
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Back in the 1980s you had plenty of human contact. You would hang out at the newsagent of your town and wait to find out who bought the other two copies of your favorite computing magazine. And teenagers would swap floppy disks and try them
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Whether or not you use Parquet is one thing, but CSV will stay because any achival/data exchange format should be human readable.
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I like the poster's "open standards" view on the topic. Of course closed platforms try to destroy this - try downloading your contacts from LinkedIn in vCard format and email one of them. You can do exports, but there won&#x2
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This is a cool idea, I'm glad someone poasted it here. However, SQLite3 on the Mac gave me: Error: near line 2: no such table: pragma_table_list Somewhere it is written that pragma_table_list was only made available as of 3.16,
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What you say is indeed one possible way to deal with it. Treat it as a public postcard signed with your name, and never for a minute assume that someone doesn't link what you say to your identity. This mode of operating means you will
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That's right even if the sample size N=30,000, it is still a one-time point event controlled/approved by the proper legal authority. There will be an audit trail of said approval and the process will be documented. In contrast mas
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> The setup was to treat the government as an adversary. Needing to understand positive rights vs negative rights +1 on citing the constitution's wisdom of treating the government itself as adversarial, due to the enormous power it
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Thanks for this excellent summary. With regards to the "super apps", Apple can just as well argue that it aspires to retain access for multiple players ("avoiding monopoles", ironically), so naturally it does not want on
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No binary format will ever kill CSV: plain-text based formats embody the UNIX philosophy of text files and text processing tool pipes to go with them, and nothing is more durable than keeping your data in text based exchange formats. You wo
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Curiously, the upcoming third edition of Jurafsky and Martin [1], one of the two standard text books for NLP, places Context-Free Grammars, Combinatory Categorial Grammars, and logical meaning representations in its appendices on the compan
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Typo: MIT Liscense => MIT License
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What's proposed as the "modular" approach is close to what I use, perhaps with the following modifications: 1. instead of folders for sub-systems at the top level, put them all into src/. 2. I use the name ext/ inst
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I had not heard about that movement, but here is their own introduction: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-e... At first glance, terms like "long-term" and "altruism" resona
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Nobody is held back from adding further components to the GNU GCC or Clang/LLVM compiler suites. Conan, gdb/DDD, Rational Purify etc. exist and can be replaced/improved by better tools.
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It's a server, so the goal is to have it run something you care about (whatever that may be) 24/7, not because you cannot live without it, but to get experience with administrating a server. In contrast, your dev machine may need
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At 1719 CET yesterday, the NINA citizen warning app ( https://www.bbk.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html ) triggered a German wide alert. Usually, small regions are marked to indicate bad weather situations like stor
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In 2000 years, your books may be the only thing left to study how we lived in the 21st century, because all ephemeral information (tweets, chat, SMS, emails, digital photos on people's devices) may have vanished.

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