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That's encouraging, and it's fantastic that MS is moving in that direction and that new stuff like VS Code runs Linux. But outside of Silicon Valley, a lot of the world still depends on old stuff like MS Office and SharePoint. O
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by loudmax 10y ago
Newer model Subaru Outback is a good example. It looks something like an SUV, but the shape shows that it descended from a station wagon, not a pickup truck.
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> It would be interesting if they offered "voice packages" either online or offline so you could just pass text through it and the output would be a Morgan Freeman narration. On that note, should Morgan Freeman be allowed to co
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by loudmax 10y ago
You can see this in action for yourself on a unix cli: $ curl -o squirrel.html http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/squirrel/ $ file squirrel.html squirrel.html: JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, comment: "<html
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by loudmax 10y ago
That isn't a programming language's potential. Those job posts reflect current market demand, not potential. How much demand will there be for Rust programmers three or four or ten years from now, not just today. Anyway, if you&
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Proto Indo-Europeans. The language they're believed to have spoken is the common ancestor of most European languages (eg. Latin, German) and Hindi. This invasion may have been more of a linguistic and cultural spread by imitation tha
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by loudmax 10y ago
If anyone else is wondering what the heck "word embedding" means, it's a natural language processing technique. Here's a nice blog post about it: http://sebastianruder.com/word-embeddings-1/ It can
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by loudmax 10y ago
I've encoded audio books with Opus at 32 kbps and they sound good. I wouldn't vouch for music at such a low bitrate, but it's nice to have a set of 14 CDs only take up a quarter gigabyte on an SD card.
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by loudmax 10y ago
Of course it's possible to write secure code in C, just as it's possible to write non-secure code in Rust. You can also drive a car at high speed with no seatbelts or airbags. If your code absolutely needs to be written in C, th
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by loudmax 10y ago
Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories, one of which is 'The Dead'. It's quite accessible, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to read something by James Joyce. I also read 'A Portrait of the
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by loudmax 10y ago
John Carmack had an interesting take on AR. His feeling is that AR is a more difficult problem to solve, and for artificial objects to blend nicely with reality you'll probably need to redraw the entire field of vision anyway. By thi
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An even more impressive demonstration is the existence of ring species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species Here, you have a population whose geographic range is in the shape of a ring. Say, around the base of
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Using zsh instead of bash is a choice. The same more or less goes for a compiler or database. At least, we aren't seeing a situation where large numbers of major beloved projects are forcing their users to switch compiler or databas
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by loudmax 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. As a grey haired sysadmin it's disconcerting to see this blasé attitude toward executing local commands from a remote host. In a practical sense, I'm not sure it's as bad as it looks. It is ht
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by loudmax 11y ago
Modern Europeans share about 2% of their alleles with Neanderthals might be a more correct way to put it. But to understand that sentence, you have to understand what's an allele (and I'm not completely sure I'm using the te
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by loudmax 11y ago
I work with Terra's ground based flight crew. I don't know much about ASTER specifically, but most of the instruments on Terra have a very wide field of cover and gather light in bands beyond of our spectrum of vision. The data p
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by loudmax 11y ago
Is the "narrative" qualifier there to exclude documentaries? I paid to stream the Minecraft documentary ( http://www.2playerproductions.com/projects/minecraft ). I think that is the only documentary my kids ev
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by loudmax 11y ago
Kudos to the developers for listing non goals. Too many software projects lose focus and become bloated because they take on features that are secondary to the main purpose. Projects may refrain from listing non goals for fear of excludin
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by loudmax 11y ago
I think the lesson here isn't so much about April Fools as it is about user interface design. Google put an orange warning on the button to let users know that the button would do something different, and people still clicked it out
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by loudmax 11y ago
It would look like that's the direction they're moving in if this product were a Windows environment on Linux. Something like a Microsoft supported version of Wine. As it is, it looks more like a Linux environment on Windows. An
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by loudmax 11y ago
In 2010, I was considering getting into Android development, so I paid full price for an unlocked Nexus S when it came out (I think it was about $500). At about the same time, I bought an iPhone 4 for my wife. That Nexus S became slower a
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by loudmax 11y ago
I support the collision risk management system for a few of the Earth observation satellites at NASA. Pollution of low Earth orbit is a big deal. There are thousands of individual objects being tracked up there. Some of them are satellit
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by loudmax 11y ago
> With Go, you've only got one runtime to choose from. Since Go compiles to a binary, the concept of a runtime doesn't apply the same way it does for Java. You can compile a Go program with the Go project's compiler or wi
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by loudmax 11y ago
Good point about static linking. Though Go's big fat binaries count against it as a busybox replacement in areas where storage space is a premium.
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by loudmax 11y ago
That is a pity. We had to wait a few years for Braid to come out on Linux, but now that it's here it works well. Presumably the graphics requirements for The Witness are a lot higher. I'll keep an eye out for The Witness to mak
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by loudmax 11y ago
Hidden from whom? Regular users? Very few regular people are using Linux or any variant of Unix other than OS X on a desktop. Those of us who install Linux are the kinds of people who are most likely to mess with deep system settings any
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by loudmax 11y ago
Go is a lot easier to learn than Rust, and there are jobs programming Go available now. This means that you could be working professionally with Go quite soon. Rust is more challenging, and there aren't many jobs available yet. But t
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In my case, a Lenovo ThinkPad, but there are other lines of laptops that are well supported. If you're buying a laptop to use with Linux, you really ought to do some research first because not all vendors make provide enough documenta
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by loudmax 11y ago
You're right. In the blog post, the author refers to problems on the x86 platform and I didn't realize she was talking about firmware. It's clear in the paper.
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by loudmax 11y ago
You're right. I read the blog post, then skimmed the actual paper. You can already do what she proposes at the OS level, but her concerns go much deeper.

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