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by jll29 7mo ago
> I do definitely believe that a large number of ‘innocent’ people are criminals (by the letter of the law) without their knowledge. Because of that (or rather, to sort out the mess), I always felt that citizens should have a right to be
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by jll29 7mo ago
The original article doesn't dwell too much on the RAM limitation, but I agee with you that 8 GB is too little for the near future or even today. I agree with most of the post's arguments, and most of the specs and limitations of
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by jll29 7mo ago
For scientific search experiments, you may like to consider using PyTerrier (which facilitates comparing multiple search model types - (sparse) vector space model; Boolean model; Binary Probabilistic Model; Support Vector Learning-to-Rank m
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by jll29 7mo ago
Thanks for opening this up. As was already said in one of the reference videos, it's impressive what one person can do. But the next step is to define an architecture where authors can defined/implement plug-ins with particular mo
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by jll29 7mo ago
It was written in Megamax Modula-2 by Application Systems Heidelberg, a small German software company as far as I recall.
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by jll29 7mo ago
The mmap() call is actually not ISO C, but part of the IEEE/IEC POSIX.1 (2024) Standard (since about 1996?). Check for yourself: mmap does not occur in the C standard document: https://www.dii.uchile.cl/~daespino/f
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by jll29 8mo ago
That's why my .emacs has been printing a status line saying "Welcome to the Emacs editor/operating system" (since 1993).
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by jll29 8mo ago
The original NextStep design's simplicity and colour scheme appeals to me. I hope someone will write a "skin"/theme for Ladybird (whose August alpha release we are keenly awaiting) that looks like that before I'll h
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by jll29 8mo ago
It would be nice if a "What's new?" could be implemented by the Web protocol, a challenging task in a decentralized network. New domain registrations would have to be queryable and the result set merged across all domain regi
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by jll29 8mo ago
Why the Web doesn't have a Scottish Accent I once asked for funding from a Scottish business angel. He confided to me that his biggest mistake in life was saying no on a phone call by a certain Tim Berners-Lee, who was looking for so
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by jll29 8mo ago
I wonder which Robert said that. The problem of viable news business models persists, and micro-payments have been proposed, but I have yet to see a viable implementation. Also, I think paying per news story isn't the right level of gr
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by jll29 8mo ago
In case you're looking for the opposite, not an AI "kill switch", but a propaganda kill switch using AI to fight disinformatiom, try BiasScanner: BiasScanner - Firefox Plug-In https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA&
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by jll29 8mo ago
Bob AKA "Satoshi-san".
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by jll29 8mo ago
The rule for not replying to GDPR requests (e.g. sent by registered letter) holds within a month: the maximum fine for this is 4% of last years total revenue or 20 mio €, whichever is the larger number. For US companies use their (typically
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by jll29 8mo ago
I would prefer to live in a free country, where I can choose my services from among a couple of options. But the government you appeal to should install and execute laws to protect citizens by forcing foreign players to abide by local rulse
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by jll29 8mo ago
Someone needs to reimplement a "clean" version of its functionality: professional networking is too important to be left to the data hoarders/government surveillance cluster of organizations. Besides, its UX has decayed to a
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by jll29 8mo ago
The original version of the LinkedIn mobile app uploaded your personal contacts stored on your smart phone and SIM to their server (to also "invite" them), without requesting user permission. After that, I never installed it again
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by jll29 8mo ago
Converse problem: ISBN re-use: "Officially, ISBNs should never be reused. However, problems can happen if: - A publisher improperly reuses an ISBN - A small or self-publisher mis-registers a book - An ISBN agency error occurred - A boo
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by jll29 8mo ago
It's probably okay to solve one problem at a time: first solve the "free open source browser, developed from the Web standard specs" problem in an established language (C++), and then the "reimplement all of part of it i
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by jll29 8mo ago
Andreas Kling said Rust lacks OO, which he says is useful for GUI coding. He even made an attempt at creating his own language, Jakt, under SerenityOS, but perhaps felt that C++ (earlier with, now without Swift) were the pragmatic choice fo
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by jll29 8mo ago
"HCF": "In computer engineering, Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly language mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction that causes the computer's central processing unit (CPU)
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by jll29 8mo ago
You and others are both right: the first season is better in the "tech authenticity" dimension but worse as a script (literary dimension); with seasons 2+3 it's the other way round.
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by jll29 8mo ago
ChatGPT was a research prototype thrown at end users as a "product". It is not a carefully designed product; ask yourself "What is it FOR?". But the identification of reliable sources isn't as easy as you may think,
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by jll29 8mo ago
Of course Google has a history of copying articles in whole (cf. Google Cache, eventually abandoned).
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by jll29 8mo ago
I felt, like some of the other commenters, that I was close to buying the book, but that the sample on Amazon wasn't helping to support a buying decision. But thankfully the bibliography is given on the book's Web site in full, so
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by jll29 8mo ago
Cool project. You could also use the front-end of GNU chess to save some lines, and implement only a back-end. Bug report: a b c d e f g h 8 r n b q k b n r 8 7 . . p p p p p p 7 6 . p . . . . . . 6 5 p . . . . . . . 5 4 P
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by jll29 8mo ago
As thrilled as I was when seeing the first round window on X11's xeyes, it is not a good use of developers' time and compute resources to deal with rounded corners. The reduction of UX quality that goes along with the lesser space
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by jll29 8mo ago
Lab diaries are also very helpful to track the provenance of ideas/inventions.
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by jll29 8mo ago
This reminds me: when people insist on having a real phone call in an email, it could be something that they don't like to put in writing. So it's a good practice to ask what the topic of the phone call will be so that you can joi
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by jll29 8mo ago
dogs see violet better, so "normally" our sky would be blue to them. But because their eyes have only two types of color receptor, they see violet as blue, and our sky is also blue to them. Same outcome, but for a different reason

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