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by ljosifov 3y ago
To the rescue: Firefox reader mode, or NoScript block (default) JS for domain www.sciphijournal.org - makes it readable for me again. What were the site creators thinking??
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Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (2017)(sciphijournal.org)
200 points by ljosifov 3y ago|262 comments
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by ljosifov 3y ago
You are spot on. Random once a year BP measurement is not good enough. Doctors are being asked to provide life altering advice while being effectively blind in this case. I have no idea why we don't try harder to make their (tough) job
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by ljosifov 3y ago
For many years the best language(s) experts have been trying to have compile time and run time strings live together happily ever. They come tantalizingly close but don't quite succeeded. Maybe it is time to entertain the idea that eve
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Yeah, looks like it works that way mostly - based on the examples written up in "How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time" by M Ridley ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Innovation-Works-Matt-Rid
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by ljosifov 3y ago
True that - and we are back to the CP Snow "Two Cultures" pamphlet ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures ). Looks to me that still STEM people learn much more of humanities, then humanities learn of
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Ah - so not a one off. Socially - person A pushes for change through various stages, spending time, effort and own personal social credit, persuading very opinionated people along the way to support the change. If successful, then person B,
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Indeed, you don't understand. Your proposal is excellent and it would in time heal a major C pain point. However - and I'm sorry to say - your politics game is non-existent, I'm afraid. Not to be super cynical, but: the polit
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by ljosifov 3y ago
I update/upgrade/switch over to zstd (from older compressors) wherever I'm updating or revamping any of my data pipelines. Looks like a win^3 for me: 1) It's probably either in the top-X or #1 in any of the usual compres
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Hello Deep Learning(berthub.eu)
2 points by ljosifov 4y ago|2 comments
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by ljosifov 4y ago
A from scratch GPU-free introduction to modern machine learning. Many tutorials exist already of course, but this one aims to really explain what is going on, from the ground up. Also, we’ll develop the demo until it is actually useful on r
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Great read, and lead me to "When VLA in C doesn't smell of rotten eggs" https://blog.joren.ga/vla-usecases and this: int n = 3, m = 4; int (*matrix_NxM)[n][m] = malloc(sizeof *matrix_NxM); //
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by ljosifov 4y ago
I too got myself 2nd hand T480 + upgrade (for a 2nd work laptop). Mostly b/c I need the 64GB RAM. Other than that put 4TB SATA SSD + 512GB NVME in the WLAN M.2 slot, new batteries to 72Wh. May change the screen now I read this - the or
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What the Fediverse (does/n't) solve(pluralistic.net)
7 points by ljosifov 4y ago|0 comments
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by ljosifov 4y ago
+1. Been using Xubuntu LTS for my desktops and laptops since 10.04 (I now see that's after 2010). My experience concours with yours. Xfce is excellent for me, hope it stays this way. I see my kids use Windows. Some things in modern Win
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by ljosifov 4y ago
On the web interface: I paste the handle in the Search box under my Home page, click the search button. The user is found, I click on the hit, user's page appears in the right-most pane, I click on Follow. In the Tusky App: top right c
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Looks great as an experimental platform. Unlike big social networks, it's a niche where things can still be tried, different choices made, both on the technology and organisation side. Technology - having the server instance moved to t
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Hm - following someone on another server is incredibly easy for me? I look at the Fediverse feed now, see a message that looks interesting to me, click on the author's username, and then click "Follow". What am I missing?
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by ljosifov 4y ago
I find Twitter good. Many interesting people and ideas, that I'd never would've come upon on my own probably. I find the short message format forces people to really distill their idea. The SNR on my TL seems fairly high imho. It
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by ljosifov 4y ago
I had never seen any of his videos, nor followed SerenityOS. Regardless, I found this one "Browser hacking: A most satisfying refactor to hide constructors" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5799GySdWqY interesting
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Same here. And it's insignificant cost to have a terminal attached to the process. So instead a mere stack trace and local vars on the stack in the core dump, I actually have the entire process, the heap with all the objects, all file
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Now Thinkpad T470, T480 for the 64GB RAM (2x32GB slots). Previously Asus starting with one of the 1st netbooks Eeepc 701 with 7" screen. Loved that little netbook, perfect for the backpack
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Of course - crash, hang, core dump, whatever, just do NOT continue as if nothing happened. My programs are in control of much $$$, I would be horrified if a program was to continue running in undefined state. Errors and warnings are issued
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by ljosifov 4y ago
+1. I have had my ASSERT defined to 1) signal the program to pause it, 2) start gdb (or ddd), 3) attach to the pid, 4) tell gdb what the binary is, 5) wait on me most of my programming life. No idea why this is not the default.
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Mentioned by most, still another vote for K&R "The C Programming Language" - for the sheer joy of it! It still puts a smile on my face recalling how much fun it made learning C. :-) Don't think I've read as measured
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Afaik US can always pay its debt. It is counterintuitive but: USG (or its agents) are the sole creators of USD. Fed can always create usd to exchange for bonds as they mature. Other bad things may happen - but not exchanging a bond due for
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by ljosifov 4y ago
Yes, true - thanks. Love that in K in particular, and I like K and array languages in general. Another thing they get right. :-)
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by ljosifov 4y ago
+1. Would be great to have integer NAN, INF and -INF supported in h/w.
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by ljosifov 4y ago
+1. I do that sometimes, have INT_NAN map to INT_MIN. It is of limited practical use without hardware support such that as in FLOAT_NAN, any operation involving it, results in NAN. Still - I find that improves my code readability, so small
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by ljosifov 4y ago
People whose opinions I rate post write ideas that I find interesting. I use "Latest Tweets" timeline mostly - only sometimes check "Home" TL. Never follow any Topics or similar - strictly individual accounts. Block or m

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