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by lou1306 1y ago
Uh, I know n=1, but I used to work in a public research lab in France for almost a couple years, and already back then (4-5 years ago) they used tons of FOSS. Zimbra, Mattermost, Gitlab, the works. So I don't think it's all just t
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by lou1306 1y ago
> it tries too hard to seem "hip" for lack of a better word. Reminds me of someone.
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by lou1306 1y ago
Adding to the frustration, (the lack of) these shibboleths partially undermine double-blind reviewing, which is on the rise in prestigious conferences. A reviewer from the in-group may immediately spot that a submission comes from the out-g
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by lou1306 1y ago
This requires arithmetics and constraint solving skills that are wildly out of reach to any pure-LLM platform. At the very least you would need interfacing with a real SMT or LP solver to get something that fits the bill.
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by lou1306 2y ago
T-strings should also help localizability, you can now just retrieve them from a locale -> t-string mapping and they should Just Work. Or am I missing something?
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by lou1306 2y ago
More likely they will seek funding from companies and other organizations, as every other foundation/consortium of this kind does.
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by lou1306 2y ago
> take the basic tenets of neoliberal, capitalistic society to be assumed Well, then any discussion about an illiberal oclocratic executive (such as 47's) should be fair game...
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by lou1306 2y ago
No matter whether you are using C for "freedom" or "flexibility" of "power", 95% of the time you only need that in a very small portion of your codebase. You almost definitely do _not_ need any of that in, say,
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by lou1306 2y ago
> Using a stricter language helps with reducing some classes of bugs, at the cost of reduced flexibility in expressing a solution and increased effort creating the software. First of all, those languages do not "help" "red
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by lou1306 2y ago
Putting my Wittgenstein hat on: How can I ever be sure that the machine is not generating an incredibly tiny elephant, maybe hidden under the sofa?
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by lou1306 2y ago
I literally just bought a 2nd hand laptop, made by $huge_tech_conglomerate_from_pacific_northwest, with an 11-th gen i7, for less than EUR 250. The reason it was so cheap? It has a defective charging port so it only charges via USB-C. So it
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by lou1306 2y ago
> Was Gates especially proficient with code? Well the article is obviously a biased source, but surely developing a) an ALTAIR emulator for PDP-10s (Allen) and b) a pretty much full-fledged BASIC interpreter that was exclusively tested o
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by lou1306 2y ago
Starting with TUOT is definitely an interesting suggestion! I think most people would recommend The Library of Babel or The Garden of Forking Paths as a first read. But TUOT is probably my favourite, and a very apt recommendation for a post
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by lou1306 2y ago
> * Don't bind yourself to some fancy new VC-financed thing that will solve CI once and for all but needs to get monetized eventually (see: earthly, dagger, etc.) Literally from comment at the root of this thread.
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by lou1306 2y ago
I would definitely get the color Pebble over many competing devices. I do not need fancy sport features, steps+sleep+heart rate covers all my needs, and 30-day battery life honestly sounds like a dream.
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by lou1306 2y ago
Good to point out the anti-competitive practices by Apple, but some of the complaints are a bit far-fetched and do not really help the point the author is making, and/or they do not seem to match my experience with wearables. For insta
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by lou1306 2y ago
Least pipe-dreamy AI comment on HN
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by lou1306 2y ago
You may want to check Memoirs Found in a Bathtub by Stanisław Lem :)
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by lou1306 2y ago
It's static typing with inference. Essentially what you have in Haskell/OCaml/F# where you declare a variable `x` through a let-binding witout specifying its type (`let x = something`), and the compiler analyses `something` a
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by lou1306 2y ago
Any warplane that _works_ has comparable, nay even better capabilities than a brick.
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by lou1306 2y ago
a) You can set up your own advertisement/sponsorship system and, unless some bloke took the time to specifically write rules targeting your website, the ads would not be blocked. Bonus points: this prevents most malicious ads, which ar
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by lou1306 2y ago
A bit of Kerbal Space Program really makes you appreciate what an ordeal a satellite landing is. And that is a much simplified setting with e.g., no control lag (even on unmanned crafts), a much closer satellite, etc. Even just designing a
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by lou1306 2y ago
This is a high-tech vault located in the Arctic. Compare this with manuscripts that survived centuries by virtue of simply being on a library shelf in some random monastery. Furthermore, the vault contents are stored on piqlFilm, which in t
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by lou1306 2y ago
Nice initiative, but it is a bit naive to list Ray-Ban as an alternative to Oakley when they are both owned by (Italy-based) Luxottica.
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by lou1306 2y ago
Couldn't at least part of the reviewing be done by foreign experts? Having said that, this smells witch-hunty to me. The US can boast decades of excellence in medical and biological sciences, which in turn generates a massive windfall.
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by lou1306 2y ago
> Cannot read it through SSH. Need something else than your terminal. Well, for reading you can always use pandoc with stdout output and pipe it to a pager. There are also fancier options like https://github.com/Orange-Op
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by lou1306 2y ago
> They either degrade Much more slowly and gracefully than any digital medium we have concocted so far (save for core rope memory, maybe). > even if preserved can become unreadable (e.g. Linear B) without a surviving linguistic commun
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by lou1306 2y ago
You cannot really evaluate/rank the Bible with the same criteria you apply to works created by a single author with clear intent in a limited timespan. Having said that, ecclesiastes and Song of Songs alone make it top-ten worthy.
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by lou1306 2y ago
> it only found 1GB of savings on a 8.1GB folder. You "only" found that 12% of the space you are using is wasted? Am I reading this right?
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by lou1306 2y ago
You do have power onto your own feed (well, limited power). I snooze suggestions every month and follow basically zero content creators: I'd say 90% of my followees are people I've met irl. If I want to doomscroll and feel awful,

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