jnurmine

37 ms·

301.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Interesting to think about whether state actors already have such technology. If they did, I bet it would be used for automated "troll farms". Like weaponized malicious ELIZA, it would have fake user profiles reacting to keywords,
302.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Doesn't this same problem apply to the like button as well, not only the dislike button?
303.
by jnurmine 8y ago
I don't know about downvoting, but want to point out that the US presidential election is actually indirect. The President of the USA is elected by the members of the Electoral College. The voting population votes electors into that El
304.
by jnurmine 8y ago
No. The closest was in 1999, when the Commission lead by Jacques Santer dropped out voluntarily before the Parliament forced them to go.
305.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Well, again, the directly voted European Parliament 1. elects the President of the Commission, 2. acks/nacks the contents of the Commission and 3. can force the Commission to resign. I mean, it's not like a wink, wink, handshake a
306.
by jnurmine 8y ago
One of the problems is, to my understanding, that many people do not really understand how the EU Commission and Parliament relate to each other. As a result, they come up with theories about how things work with "undemocratic ways&quo
307.
by jnurmine 8y ago
China already outputs more than the EU in per capita CO2 output. EU plans to be carbon emissions neutral by 2050. (Reduction of emissions, planting forests, increasing use of renewables, and so on) That is quite aggressive for the EU and we
308.
by jnurmine 8y ago
If monetizing with ads is obviously not working, why do it at all then? Shut off all deeper articles behind a paywall, have just a few free articles of the full content to show people what they would get if they pay, and don't bother w
309.
by jnurmine 8y ago
They do happen in Europe too. I actually expect something like at most one blackout per year. I remember few years back an insane thunderstorm caused an "equipment failure" in the electrical infrastructure, and it manifested as a
310.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Look at projects with high discipline and experience, such as the Linux kernel. You will find plenty of "why" examples. It seems to be easy to find plenty of projects with bad Git commits though. IMO the big architectural guidelin
311.
by jnurmine 8y ago
No, I did not infer that he/she got upvoted by an army of bots or some such. I just thought, like I wrote, that the mass of karma per time unit was (for lack of a better word, in all friendliness) impressive. The posts are certainly in
312.
by jnurmine 8y ago
I thought it was a real adventure, an extreme form of hiking in a very extreme and cold environment, as well as an exercise in managing risks. I have the impression that he did it just to see if it can be done, as a kind of personal adventu
313.
by jnurmine 8y ago
A power vacuum was certainly created as a result of the Gaddaffi regime collapse, yes. But Boko Haram started its big rise already ca.1-2 years before the protests in Libya even begun, therefore the Libya situation did not directly create t
314.
by jnurmine 8y ago
I would love to have one that talks and behaves like TARS from Interstellar. Suitably robotic, yet not completely artificial.
315.
by jnurmine 8y ago
The NYT paywall is bypassable using Pocket: save the article and read it.
316.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Are you seriously claiming that the French (and/or EU) somehow orchestrated the Libyan civil war? Offtopic: You joined yesterday and have gained 160+ points already with only 7 comments. That is very impressive!
317.
by jnurmine 8y ago
If you have not committed the changes, then Git is simply not aware that you want to keep those changes in the first place. It is like editing a file, and not saving it. Is the editor at fault? Should it autosave the file? Under what name?
318.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Coming from a culture less heavy on credit card use than the USA, I find the cashback concept a bit strange. I understand this: the merchants pay interchange fees to the issuer, the fees are higher than the cashback. Then the credit card is
319.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Of course it does. So does rm -rf. The dd command can ruin your entire disk with a typo.
320.
by jnurmine 8y ago
I was texting with my phone while waiting next to a busy looking entry point at an airport in Canada; I was not going to the US, I was heading back to Europe. An airport person asked me if I have a Nexus. Somewhat absentminded while texting
321.
by jnurmine 8y ago
My point is: people who actually need software version control to get something done are perfectly capable of learning to use Git, warts and all, in 2-4 days which includes reading some of the documentation and playing around with it. Sure,
322.
by jnurmine 8y ago
They are different commands because they are different things conceptually. Rebase is when you transplant another branch on top of another. Merge joins two branches together. Squash combines two or more commits into a single one They are by
323.
by jnurmine 8y ago
With git reset --hard protection do you mean accidentally resetting a branch which has uncommitted changes? If you do that a lot, why not commit your changes more often to your topic branch? You can always squash it later to make it look ni
324.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Why would they use Git at all, then?
325.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Git has a learning curve, yes. Everything has a learning curve. It helps to actually read the documentation, to go through a few tutorials and to generally play around with Git. Is it intuitive without prior experience? No. Nothing nontrivi
326.
by jnurmine 8y ago
I typed this into a Commodore C64 with a kid next door. It felt like an eternity to type those rows. The first time something was bad and we had to debug. The disappointment was tremendous. The next time it worked, and felt magical how all
327.
by jnurmine 8y ago
How does one go about creating this kind of crazy pressure...?
328.
by jnurmine 8y ago
No. It is not a holistic view or a broader perspective or things like that. It is about viewing from a narrow angle and calling it the whole truth. France24 reported that the number of protesters is slightly down and that the Netherlands ha
329.
by jnurmine 8y ago
It is not good to confuse what RT and Ruptly etc. are meant to be. Their purpose is to pretend to be serious news outlets to amplify various social media phenomena by selectively reporting about them and repeating this over and over again,
330.
by jnurmine 8y ago
Perhaps consciousness is not a crisp yes/no choice but a gradient... Dolphins are conscious but to a degree less than humans, likewise mice less than dolphins and so on.

More ›