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by lou1306 5y ago
This article just goes to show that, when people hear about "computer science", they think that it only refers to actual hardware computers. Case in point, the reference about "many [...] innovations around computer architect
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by lou1306 5y ago
* Tax the machines (and/or the increased profits coming from automation) * Some people who receive an UBI that covers their basic needs may do some of these jobs for a lower wage than the current one
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by lou1306 5y ago
If you want to give money to artists, why don't you, er, pay them for doing their thing? Like, enlarge art schools, support exhibitions or festivals, whatever. Of course just raining money on (some of) them requires way less effort, bu
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by lou1306 5y ago
They were always on their own side, not the "good" one. They defended VCRs because they were a major producer of VHS home equipment, and the ability to record TV shows helped selling said equipment. The fact that they also held th
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by lou1306 5y ago
Yes, but it was wrapped in a Netflix-like UI that allowed everyone to do that without knowing about the technical details. It just worked.
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by lou1306 5y ago
> the market for it only exists due to the greed and stupidity of the legal "platforms". From my experience as a 30-something guy in South/West EU, the "market" for the sites you mention is mostly made of high sc
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by lou1306 5y ago
I'd add 4. they either ignore, or are fine with, the fact that they are paying for pirated content, which IMHO is the worst form of piracy. Also, point 3. does not hold up if they pay a monthly fee on top of the cost of the physical de
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by lou1306 5y ago
Accessors come to mind: class Foo { int Bar { get; set } } Allow you to get/set the value of someFoo.Bar as if it were a public member. If you want read- or write-only members, you just remove the "set"
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by lou1306 5y ago
Alfred users can also configure it to look up words in Dictionary.app. I use "define <word>" which IIRC is the default trigger.
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by lou1306 5y ago
Not really. Yugoslavia, another socialist country, was probably the most prominent European country that identified as "third-world". "Second world" was basically the Warsaw Pact, China and their other satellites, not ju
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by lou1306 5y ago
"Modern" TeX processors (LuaTeX or XeTeX) are sadly held back because publishers still cling to PDFLaTex. For instance, ArXiV "fully supports and automatically recognizes PDFLaTeX" and makes no mention of other backends
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by lou1306 5y ago
Since it is not mentioned in the article: Python users may also want to check out pyparsing [0]. It is slightly different from Parsec/FParsec (for instance, it ignores all whitespace by default), but I think it is a really good project
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by lou1306 5y ago
Off the top of my head, there are at least two plausible explanations: * Some user reported his account as "fake" or otherwise "inappropriate" * The algorithm thought he faked his position Neither one requires any intent
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by lou1306 5y ago
Indeed asynchronous digital systems, such as asynchonous CPUs or "wavefront arrays" [1], have been experimented with in the past. Looks like they never picked up steam, though. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by lou1306 5y ago
IMHO everyone interested in computer science should try some Borges, at least Ficciones . Many of his stories are so mind-boggingly close to many topics of interest in CS. Beside The Library of Babel, I can come up with at least two other
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by lou1306 5y ago
> I have only seen it once (or maybe it was a sequel) Just to be nitpicky, it was 100% a sequel (as John Cleese only appears in those).
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by lou1306 5y ago
Indeed, science was simply known as "natural philosophy", as in Newton's "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", i.e, the Principia.
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by lou1306 5y ago
Don't forget F#'s units of measure! Which by the way are pretty cool, as the compiler automatically infers new units of measure for you: > [<Measure>] type km; > [<Measure>] type hour; > let dist
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by lou1306 5y ago
This reminds me of a bit of trivia from Italian politics. A few years after WWII, a senator from the main post-Fascist party greeted a fellow senator from the Socialist party (who had fought for the Resistance), saying: "We fought gall
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by lou1306 5y ago
Personally I have fond memories of MyHDL [0], which may be seen as another "code-to-silicon" converter (or at least as the first step of a code-to-silicon workflow). I used it only briefly, and on a school project that had surpris
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by lou1306 5y ago
Could somebody please let the banks know that "work is being unbundled from traditional employment"? At least in Europe, I am afraid they still expect your employment to be quite traditional (or your collaterals to be quite valuab
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by lou1306 5y ago
A recent article [0] draws an interesting comparison with the aftermath of the Black Death in England. Briefly, peasants just refused working the aristocracy-owned fields. No matter the (harsh) countermeasures, the situation just never went
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by lou1306 5y ago
> What am I missing? Perhaps the fact that Brexit was at least partially driven by xenophobia, and no politician will gain popularity by announcing "We are making it super easy for foreigners to come work here!" (and yes, even
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by lou1306 5y ago
Personally, I find find(1) to be an utter offender against the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing well". It can do a dozen things or so, and not particularly well either. (Execute actions? Delete stuff? Look for a string within
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by lou1306 5y ago
Those that cremate may consider just using a steam engine :)
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Also, the above definition is essentially the original (50s-70s) definition of AI, and I reckon that school of thought didn't end too well. By that definition, current computers are way more intelligent than humans under almost every
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by lou1306 5y ago
Still, it's probably much easier for an USB drive to actually pack malicious hardware in addition to software, like sensors (e.g., microphones) or an USB killer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Killer
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by lou1306 5y ago
Somewhat related: a friend of mine crawled across a ton of publicly available PDFs from several security agencies and found a lot of interesting metadata about their setup (stuff like OS version, word processor of choice, even the author&#x
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by lou1306 5y ago
It's not only the speed of light, but also the time the brain needs to process visual inputs, and It adds up to dozens of milliseconds: https://theconversation.com/what-youre-seeing-right-now-is-t...
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by lou1306 5y ago
Going through the Moby Dick one right now, and I must say it's a great edition. Thank you and the other Standard Ebooks contributors!

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