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by kirillkh 9y ago
Dear Mozilla developers! I've been using Firefox since v1.0. And I want you to know that by ditching the old plugin architecture you are alienating your faithful users, myself included. I'm sorry, but I decided to stick with Firef
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by kirillkh 9y ago
It's true: "The base layer source code is usually proprietary, and thus is generally not available for public access". https://sailfishos.org/wiki/SailfishOS_Source
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by kirillkh 9y ago
Then you were right, I should've checked before answering.
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by kirillkh 9y ago
It's been a while since I played with OCaml, but I'm pretty sure that modules are stateless. A quick googling shows that you can use global state, but it's not the same as one instance of state per one instance of struct as i
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by kirillkh 9y ago
Google should really get a grip on itself. Advocating the freedom of expression is one thing https://www.google.com/intl/en/takeaction/free-expression/ ... but actually allowing a random guy freely expre
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by kirillkh 9y ago
A key difference from OCaml's modules (besides the lack of type parameterization) is Liskov's data types have associated data. So it's more like Rust's structs. Also, like in Rust, there is no support for multiple implem
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by kirillkh 9y ago
Seeing how gradient descent is such a pinnacle of deep learning, I can't help wondering: is this how our brain learns? If not, then what prevents us from implementing deep learning the same way?
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by kirillkh 9y ago
You're right, that's the difficult part about Rust. Every novice has to go through these hoops to acquire the intuition. I'm midway through and feel comfortable working with Rusty libraries, but interfacing with C libraries t
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by kirillkh 9y ago
You can fix those problems by writing a post that would contain said interactions, resolution and update.
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by kirillkh 9y ago
Let me tell you a story about a particular generation of terrorists. Namely the ones born in the 1950's. First and foremost, Osama bin Laden (1957). We all know what he did. Second, Khaled Mashal, the current Hamas leader (1956). Final
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by kirillkh 9y ago
> I can recall several excellent children books that were published in Russian that were my inspiration when I was young This made me curious - am I understanding correctly that you read those books in Russian? How did you pick up enough
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by kirillkh 9y ago
To be fair, I don't recall any propaganda in the first 5 of books in the Wizard of Oz series (which, admittedly, could be explained by its subtlety), and the later ones were much less popular than the first. Personally, I didn't r
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by kirillkh 9y ago
Soviet literature of the period was definitely encouraged and even required to have ideological subtext, there's no arguing with that. However, that doesn't tell us much about how successful that policy was. The article is evident
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by kirillkh 9y ago
I take it Rust is not supported on ESP8266 yet?
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by kirillkh 9y ago
Then why do you think will the current technology still be useful, given an order of magnitude higher price?
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by kirillkh 9y ago
The article mentions the angles (120 horizontal, 35 vertical), but not the distance covered. This might explain why the interviewee does not believe the solid-state lidar will replace the current tech.
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by kirillkh 10y ago
The thing is we never know whether approving X is a type 1 error or not approving it is a type 2 error. So right now we cautiously make, say, 99.9% of type 2 errors and only 0.1% of type 1 errors. We need to relax the requirements a bit, so
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by kirillkh 10y ago
This makes me wish some of my colleagues were issued an airplane ticket to the US. Possibly one-way.
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by kirillkh 10y ago
You might be correct, my figures were a guess.
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by kirillkh 10y ago
I emigrated from Kiev at the age of 16, back in 1997. I jumped at the first opportunity to get out of there, even though I knew it would be tough for some years to come at the new place. As you can imagine, I hated everything about that cou
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by kirillkh 10y ago
Like I said, Kotlin is chasing after a moving target. The issues might be kinda-solvable (even if it requires significantly diverging from Java's APIs), but things inevitably get messier both for the language internals and for users.
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by kirillkh 10y ago
The ecosystem is great, but it has its own limitations. For example, to my knowledge Scala has not been able to implement tail recursion optimization, citing JVM limitations.
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by kirillkh 10y ago
Kotlin has an extensive Collections library, which started largely as an extension of Java's, but now it offers much more. In any case, I was referering to Kotlin's APIs , not Collections per se, and it certainly has its own APIs
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by kirillkh 10y ago
> The new Collections API wasn't incompatible with kotlin There definitely is a problem, as can be seen e.g. here: https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/jdk-8-compatibility-of-kotl... Quoting: "Sometime ago
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by kirillkh 10y ago
Kotlin is one fine piece of engineering. It's only too unfortunate that the same Achilles' heel is holding it back as Scala: there is only so much you can do while remaining compatible with JVM and the Java standard library. Actua
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by kirillkh 10y ago
I never said X GUI apps could not be used, just that the more Windows tools you use, the more you gain more from WSL.
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by kirillkh 10y ago
Depends on your use case/tools/habits. WSL gives you the advantage of being able to access the same files with native Windows tools and from the GNU[1] command line. If you plan on using the X GUI tools, it will be much less usefu
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by kirillkh 10y ago
Too bad the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is not open source. It is already an impressive piece of software, but many features are still lacking (e.g., neither Valgrind nor gperftools work right now), and it could benefit greatly from c
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by kirillkh 10y ago
What makes you think bombing in that video was indiscriminate? On the opposite, I see single buildings being destroyed, while the neighbouring buildings stay intact. That's a very precise strike by any standard. Furthermore, there is n
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by kirillkh 10y ago
In other news: git just announced a cheap generic alternative to ObamaCare.

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