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by kimi 6y ago
Not only there is an established framework named Play, but googling anything on Play-the-framework is a PITA because Play, as you can imagine, has a gazillion hits with any word you may imagine.
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by kimi 6y ago
Apart from number of digits (obvious big difference here if it was 40.41 vs 40.42?) I think that the numbers hide the fact that it's more like "I'd bet 5 bucks it's somehow positive" than a definite result you can p
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Slave lives: on building pyramids and the International Space Station(fourmilab.ch)
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by kimi 6y ago
While we are ex-users too, I must say that after the card was charged, I told them it was a mistake and I wanted to cancel, and they rolled back the transaction.
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by kimi 6y ago
This study is exactly Ramadan, by design (but it does not say so in the title). In fact one of the recruiting rules was "2) Subjects who plan to fast during the religious month of Ramadan" and therefore "All subjects fasted
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by kimi 6y ago
Clojure had STM from the start, and it was one of its selling points, but the real world experience with it is that nobody uses it - atoms (i.e. global serialized write access, with non-locked reading) are 99.9% good enough.
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by kimi 6y ago
I'd say this - while interesting - does not show a thing. It happens that a billion or so people do this every year, so any actual public health effect should be quite noticeable. Instead, "the highest percentage change in age-sta
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The man who destroyed skepticism(boingboing.net)
27 points by kimi 6y ago|18 comments
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VoIP Firm Broadvoice Leaks 350M Customer Records on Unsecured Elasticsearch(infosecurity-magazine.com)
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by kimi 6y ago
If you don't want to go for the real thing, you could do way worse than reading "A confederacy of dunces" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces that is one of the funniest books I ever ca
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Process accountsd making macOS Catalina 10.15.7 unusable(gist.github.com)
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Fixed: Accountsd making Mac unusable after upgrade to Catalina 10.15.7(gist.github.com)
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by kimi 6y ago
Definitely agree. I tried multiple times to "get" Pet sounds, it's not bad, but the Beatles did run circles around it.
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Corvid Research: the science behind those charismatic and influential birds(corvidresearch.blog)
1 points by kimi 6y ago|0 comments
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by kimi 6y ago
Corvids are an issue for agriculture, because they eat seed and small plants. The Swiss agriculture bureau has a file for them, explaining how to handle them, and it basically boils down to "you can use a number of different measures,
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by kimi 6y ago
If you have an interest in these truly fascinating animals, there is an interesting and well-written blog at https://corvidresearch.blog/#content
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by kimi 6y ago
My experience with FB ads stopped when they were estimating our target of interest as being 50% male and 50% female, with a large interested population living in Libya.
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by kimi 6y ago
I think Linkedin is quite useless as a social network - their business model selling your contacts to "digital strategists" who try to contact you. Most of the content is marketing spam, and nobody uses it. Still, when we happen t
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by kimi 6y ago
Clojure does not look like C and requires some pretty tough mind-bending, especially if you have been programming for 30+ years like I did when I started. Still, more people use it than Haskell. But it has an enterprise-friendly environment
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by kimi 6y ago
Adding a bit of context - as Clj data structures are immutable, changing something that is deeply nested cannot be done in-place (like in a Java set of nested objects - navigate until you find the one you need, call setFoo() on it, you&#x2
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by kimi 6y ago
Clojure has something like this in clojure.core.match - with a good bibliography by the end of the page. https://github.com/clojure/core.match/wiki/Overview
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The problem with Legal Intercept and backdoors (2016)(babyis60.wordpress.com)
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An Environmental Appraisal of “Haunted Houses”: An Overview of the Last 20 Years(frontiersin.org)
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by kimi 6y ago
COBOL is really, really bad from the point of view of a developer. It's frustrating, verbose, and tends to produce huge spaghetti code. Good developers - those who like what they do - won't touch it with a stick. People do OCaml,
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Past issues of bullettin of the American Parapsychological Association(mailchi.mp)
2 points by kimi 6y ago|1 comments
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by kimi 6y ago
I have been reading a bit of local history, and I came across an interesting mail exchange in 1500-1600 between the church of Como (far north, large mountain territory, witch trials) and the central authorities of Rome. Basically Como was
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by kimi 6y ago
Frankly, seems rather far off. This is looking at the past through modern (or better, current news) eyes. The peaks of witch-hunting and capitalism are rather well spaced. And there was no need for patriarchy to do anything - they were fi
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by kimi 6y ago
We use Dockbooker for technical documentation: https://github.com/l3nz/dockbooker and has been working well for a number of years. Builds PDF, EPUB and chunked-html very easily.
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by kimi 6y ago
What often is not clear is that GrralVM in "native" mode is NOT faster than JVM mode, because the JVM has a number of tricks up its sleeve for dynamic optimization based on actual usage patterns. It definitely has faster startup t
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by kimi 6y ago
Agreed. And I'd happily do without. I'm not a luddite; I have been a subscriber of The Economist for like 20 years and I appreciate what they do. Still, I think that it is not appropriate for HN posts to point to paywalled content

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