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The Mexican Runner(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
There can be no compromise: we are small, independent and have very little income. You are part of a large company with hundreds of employees and millions of revenue. All we have is software freedom; if we compromise on that, we have nothin
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by jordigh 8y ago
I believe your job depends on you defending black boxes, but black boxes have no place in science or mathematics, at least not any black boxes that we create ourselves. That's my point. I shouldn't just tell you "minimise, th
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by jordigh 8y ago
Prepare to have your mind blown, friend, try `type trapz` or `type cumtrapz` in Matlab and read Mathworks-written m-file code to your heart's content (but if you do, you're disqualified from ever contributing to Octave). Or even t
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by jordigh 8y ago
Most of Matlab's source code is visible too and its license allows you to modify its visible source code and share it with other license holders too. But that's still not enough and that's why I still sometimes work on Octave
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by jordigh 8y ago
Maple got really close to being freed a long time ago, before they were bought by that Taiwanese Terminator company (Cyberdyne systems, or whatever they're called). I can't find a reference for it now, but one of the Maple admins
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Announcing first-class Mercurial support on Sourcehut(drewdevault.com)
2 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
I have kind of enjoyed Roku, but I've wished to install adblock on it, and perhaps an alternative Netflix interface that doesn't have any kind of autoplay. Is this currently possible? Someone must have already figured out how to t
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Modifying Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts(jordi.inversethought.com)
2 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
I actually wonder how well-known the little theorem is outside of math departments. Or Wilson's theorem, product of all nonzero elements mod p is negative one iff p is prime.
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by jordigh 8y ago
Users care very little about security, actually.
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by jordigh 8y ago
Well, they weren't torrent sites in the late 90s and probably not the early 2000s either. The Bittorrent protocol wasn't released until July 2001 and it took a few years to get popular. Back then, they were just servers you down
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by jordigh 8y ago
Trying to move, but it's tough. Old codebase, lots of deps, and no real benefit to upgrading to 3.6, nothing our end users will care about or notice (or pay for). Upgrading to Python 3 is a chore. We have to do it, but it's not fu
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by jordigh 8y ago
This isn't the first time someone has claimed to have deciphered it. What's different this time?
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by jordigh 8y ago
If it's any consolation about how we underrepresented but unqualified idiots are getting hired everywhere, I've interviewed with Mozilla a couple of times now, selecting the "yep, I'm Mexican" tickbox, and this hasn
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by jordigh 8y ago
The question was just about the legality of it. It's not a mystery why it's legal and people should be aware of what the laws actually are.
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by jordigh 8y ago
> I honestly don’t see how any of this is legal Let me help you, fellow Mexican: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2017-title29-vol4/xm... The reason it's legal is because there are laws that ex
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by jordigh 8y ago
Yes, of course I mean mathematics. If the prof was following a text (which as you say, is seldom the case in graduate courses), I find it a lot easier to not take notes at all so I can get a rough understanding of what's going on, and
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by jordigh 8y ago
I actually find all note-taking to be hugely distracting. If I really want to understand a lecture, I'd rather not be taking nay notes at all. Otherwise, when I'm taking notes, I'm just scrambling to get into paper what'
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by jordigh 8y ago
I think it was designed to make money: sell the actual software. RMS used to sell free copies of Emacs: for 100 bucks, you'd get Emacs, the source code, the documentation, and the necessary scripts to compile it. This was always part o
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by jordigh 8y ago
While this is nice, I think it should be emphasised that the blob-tree-commit-ref data structure of git is not essential to a DVCS. One of the disadvantages of everything being git is that everyone can only think in terms of git. This makes
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by jordigh 8y ago
Choice quote: "When it comes to misogyny, men are apparently more tolerant than women." Take a good look at ourselves, not-all-mens.
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by jordigh 8y ago
I always read that "we really need your personal data for no good reason but the EU won't let us, god bless America!" It really should be a 500 error, not a 400. Edit: Listen, USA, it's not so difficult, and we all reall
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by jordigh 8y ago
That's not it. Offering people 10 bucks won't change that most say "no" when you ask them to borrow their phone and snoop through everything. Instead, it's that the whole loss of privacy is impersonalised. When you
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by jordigh 8y ago
Everyone cares about privacy. They just aren't keenly aware that they're losing it. If you meet someone who doesn't care about privacy, ask them, can I borrow your phone and browse through your contacts, your conversations, a
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by jordigh 8y ago
Who else was reminded of that pinball essay in Foucault's Pendulum in Chapter 34 in relation to Lorenza Pellegrini? You don’t play pinball with just your hands, you play it with the groin too. The pinball problem is not to stop
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Configuring Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts(jordi.inversethought.com)
1 points by jordigh 8y ago|0 comments
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Smooth Video Game Emulation in Emacs(emacsninja.com)
105 points by jordigh 8y ago|6 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
And many of us do have a problem with advertising in general. Most people don't want to see ads. At best we put up with them or manage to ignore them. Very rarely, do we actively seek out ads. Usually we only do that when we get lots o
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by jordigh 8y ago
That's not the way it is being used elsewhere in this thread. They're calling what Ad Nauseam does "ad fraud" and are saying how easy it is to spot and fight against.

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