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by jmusall 7mo ago
The fact is that there were so many character sets in use before Unicode because all these things were needed or at least wanted by a lot of people. Here's a great blog post by Nikita Prokopov about it: https://tonsky.me&#
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by jmusall 7mo ago
Very cool! Do they accept external contributions, e.g. from Norwegian citizens? Also, was there any thought given to "digital souvereignty" (wondering because the repos are hosted on a US service)? I'm also surprised that you
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by jmusall 7mo ago
I think you could only get around this by forcing your whole dependency chain to only add non-breaking security fixes (or backport them for all versions in existence). Otherwise small changes will propagate upwards and snowball into major u
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by jmusall 7mo ago
Then, when the stock market crashes due to software failures and timing inconsistencies, he'll want to undo it and thereby cause even more chaos ;)
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by jmusall 7mo ago
I guess the author's perspective is one of someone who has little experience with current tools/frameworks, so "ergonomics" become somewhat more important. Most of the complaints are actually about lack of documentation,
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So you want to write an “app” (2025)(arcanenibble.github.io)
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by jmusall 7mo ago
Then nobody would admit it, so the problem persists. Except maybe for fully automated accounts. Those should of course be banned anyways.
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by jmusall 7mo ago
My comment wasn't supposed to be whataboutism, but I can see why it comes across like that. What I was trying to say is that I think we shouldn't judge all of these things independently of each other. So if you really want to be c
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by jmusall 7mo ago
Playing the devil's advocate: Why not use human neurons? Are they different to animal neurons and if they are, wouldn't that make it even more interesting?
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by jmusall 7mo ago
It is horrifying. OTOH, we force-breed, torture and kill animals and their children in the millions every day just for the pleasure of consuming meat, eggs and dairy products. I'm not saying this makes it okay to create a conscious bra
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by jmusall 7mo ago
May be related: Explanation of motion and color amplification in video by Steve Mould https://youtube.com/watch?v=rEoc0YoALt0 He even shows pulse detection (around 8:30).
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by jmusall 8mo ago
But what if most of your users aren't "experts"? I think it's a good thing that computers are usable by a majority of the population today.
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by jmusall 8mo ago
I think the possibility of banning certain sites at least for minors is being discussed, after Australia set the precedent. But this of course has downsides, too, as some form of verification has to be implemented, that would almost certain
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by jmusall 9mo ago
BattlEye works on linux nowadays, so there definitely is progress in this direction!
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by jmusall 2y ago
Makes sense. Good to know that API has some serious (undocumented?) drawbacks :)
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by jmusall 2y ago
That's a nice idea. I wish stuff like this was builtin. Small suggestion: API level 29 (Android 10) introduced WifiNetworkSuggestion[1], which allows an app to prompt the user to add WiFi credentials to the system. The suggestion has t
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by jmusall 2y ago
You usually mount mirrors vertically so dust does not settle on them that much (also it is safer to keep laser light propagating horizontally at only one height). Additionally, overhead ventilation is often installed which provides a vertic