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by laingc 5y ago
The Bernoullis were Swiss (and Dutch and Belgian, depending on how you want to count it.)
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by laingc 6y ago
I used to live in Europe, and a bicycle was my primary mode of transport. That was when I was a single man with no children. However, I can't see how I could possibly use a bicycle for really any transport at all today. Advocates of cy
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by laingc 6y ago
Yes, that should be our default assumption.
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by laingc 6y ago
Excellent to see the continual progress of my favourite text editor. So long as the quality bar stays high and the price doesn’t become unreasonable, Sublime Text has a customer in me.
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by laingc 6y ago
There’s a certain section of HN that has apparently decided that everything was better when C was considered a high level language, production was a single physical machine that you personally managed the cabling for, and 640Kb of memory wa
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by laingc 6y ago
> There are people who happily pay $2,000 for an Apple laptop. There are people who are happy with Linux on a $100 machine from Goodwill. This is the weirdest sentiment that I see all the time on HN, but enough people express it that I h
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by laingc 6y ago
Well, China quite clearly is.
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by laingc 6y ago
They most certainly paid for it, as well as financing many of the key contributors to related open source projects.
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by laingc 6y ago
During the works on the Milford Sound tunnel, the workers kept coming back to site to find their road cones in the middle of the road. They didn't know how this kept happening, so they set up a camera on site. Kea were pulling the cone
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by laingc 6y ago
To build on that, most scientists* are also terrible at statistics. Perhaps more controversially, I also don't think statistics in general is a particularly rigorous or well-founded field. Where there is any analysis at all in the fiel
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by laingc 6y ago
* for a very specific, nonstandard definition of a kernel machine...
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by laingc 6y ago
Do you by any chance often have cause to compile and use tools or libraries written by academics? Or regularly use projects that aren’t as big and well-developed as Postgres and Nginx?
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by laingc 6y ago
This is a pretty common sentiment on HN and I’m sure you have your reasons for it, but to me personally it just seems bonkers. Docker is an absolutely game-changing tool for me. I can’t count the number of times it’s saved me from completel
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by laingc 6y ago
We are a Gitlab client, and very happy with their service. I hope that their business model succeeds, and am happy to be supporting them. The Bronze --> Premium transition seems to me to be a valid price restructuring, and this will prom
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by laingc 6y ago
Did you reply to the correct comment? I can't understand what you're referencing here.
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by laingc 6y ago
We use a Slack plugin called Geekbot [0], which asks "What did you do yesterday? What are you doing today? Anything blocking you?" by default, but can also have a range of other questions. It posts the responses in our "stand
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by laingc 6y ago
I’ve never really figured out whether ZeroTier can be trusted. WireGuard has an excellent reputation among people I respect. What is it about ZT that made you trust it with your traffic?
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by laingc 6y ago
It absolutely is.
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by laingc 6y ago
Yes.
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by laingc 6y ago
You can vote with a resident visa in NZ.
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by laingc 6y ago
That’s a surprising comment. We are one of the easiest countries in the world to immigrate to, and have an extremely immigrant-friendly culture.
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by laingc 6y ago
I don’t know about “non-corrupt”, but we in New Zealand do a fairly good impression of it.
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by laingc 6y ago
I completely agree with this. I have a constant battle with some (not all) of my team to get them to think through a problem from its fundamentals, and try to find the best one or two or three ways to pose the problem. Conveniently-posed pr
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by laingc 6y ago
Yes, but right now there is no technique not making use of Deep Learning that is remotely competitive. It really is that clear a distinction.
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by laingc 6y ago
Ok, interesting. I would usually be willing to give much more benefit of the doubt, but given how unnecessary the comment seemed to the rest of the post, I guess the obvious conclusion is a dog whistle.
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by laingc 6y ago
Not doubting you for a second[0], but I didn’t see anything anti-Semitic in that post, so am I missing some internet meme or American cultural reference? [0] Footnote in case it is necessary: antisemitism must be stamped out wherever it is
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by laingc 6y ago
Oh really? I use Jellyfin also, but I never knew it supported audiobooks!
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by laingc 6y ago
This looks great, nice job! As an aside: does anyone know of an audiobook organiser ? Essentially Calibra for audiobooks. Preferably with a web interface for running in my home server. I’ve tried booksonic, and found it very clunky and lac
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by laingc 6y ago
Absolutely agree. I'd go so far as to say this is one of the real strengths of mathematical naming conventions. You are absolutely on point with the contrast to Law; I have degrees in both subjects, and this has also been my experience
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by laingc 6y ago
This thread thus far has a ton of comments from people who haven't bothered to actually read anything about how WhatsApp works, or how the Signal protocol works. It would make for a better comment thread if everyone did that prior to e

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