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by maze-le 9y ago
For me at least, when it comes to laptops, a Broadcom-WiFi-Chipset is a critical factor in the purchase decision (as a 'DONT BUY!'). In the past Open Source drivers for 'Broadcom' were totally lacking. By now there are t
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by maze-le 9y ago
Interesting bit: The Idea of the name came from the Greek word τέχνη (/ˈtɛxnɛ/), wich can be translated as art, skill and craft. A combination that captures the purpose of the program very well.
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by maze-le 9y ago
Well, yes I did think that GP meant distinctly greek peoples. The demigod-like figures in the Illias are Achilles, Ajax, Hector and others wich are exceptionally strong compared to other humans. These characters fought alongside the Achaean
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by maze-le 9y ago
These "golden age" men of the Greek myths also lived in palaces (palace of agamemnon) and practiced agriculture. In these myths some typical topoi are also cattle raids, palace intrigues and territorial disputes. These are not the
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by maze-le 9y ago
They didn't even mention haxor-news. This is basically a command-line interface with a lot of features. Maybe there is justifieble objection to the "read Hacker News without the eyestrain"-bit in this case. [0]: https:/
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by maze-le 9y ago
Drug use might be more prevalent than the official statistics suggest. [0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSIN135004
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by maze-le 9y ago
>> Being rich is considering having children at all. This is it. I lost track on how many of my friends/peers/colleagues don't have children, because they live from paycheck to paycheck and simply cannot afford it, even
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by maze-le 9y ago
Dwarf Fortress seems to do a really good job at creating plausible fantasy maps. Mountains are created as blobs near the edges of a continent, without 90° directional changes. Rivers flow from mountain ranges to basins. Vegetation is depend
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by maze-le 9y ago
a) to be sure. But I am not advocating for a world without military, this would be an utopia, but not realistic (sadly). I just wanted to point out, that the word 'defense' can also be used to justify a war of aggression.
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by maze-le 9y ago
Well, the wars in this time may be fewer by number, but not by impact. In this time period, the first truly global conflict was fought. The "Seven Years' War" (1756–1763) was a war between european colonial powers over mariti
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by maze-le 9y ago
Would you be willing to defend your country in the Hindukush mountains? The definition of 'Defence' can be streched and bend in various ways. You can be sure, that in the end almost every casus belli is in 'defense' of &
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by maze-le 9y ago
Not accumulating any debt (as a state) results in missed investments in infrastructure and other state expenses, wich may be cruicial for the economy. Investment in the energy infrastructure, payed by debt, for example benefits the whole so
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by maze-le 9y ago
I doubt you could even define "Norman genes" properly. How would they be different to say "Danish genes", wich migrated to Britain between the 8th and 10th century. After all Normans were also just Scandinavian people wh
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by maze-le 9y ago
>> To have reason to seriously consider them in your threat model, need to do something that encroaches on the interests of particular power centers. Like building wind turbines? [0]: https://fas.org/irp/program&#
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by maze-le 9y ago
The SO-traffic on Elixir is still very low, compared to ruby-on-rails or django. [0]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=django%2Celix...
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by maze-le 9y ago
A civil war in a nuclear armed country could be considerable worse than that. Just consider what would happen if a faction of the army with control over nuclear weaponry took a non-neutral stance...
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by maze-le 9y ago
I can think of a badly designed database interface. All SQL databases handle NULL as a special value, that cannot be compared by equality. But if you want compare the return value of a sql prompt in some language you can make a fallacy like
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by maze-le 9y ago
I just have to drop the obvious XKCD reference here: https://xkcd.com/327/
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by maze-le 9y ago
> I am unsure why anyone would use Erlang for number crunching. Good point, I wouldn't use it in production. But I think it can be a great educational tool to learn about implementation of NNs and overall topology.
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by maze-le 9y ago
Good, that no such intersection exists, or it would immediatly collapse into a black hole: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/Chandrasekhar/Schwarzs... It does not exist, or maybe it exists, but only in superpo
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by maze-le 9y ago
Inline conditionals can be a blessing and a curse. In this case, it is absoluteley alright to use them (I find it also more elegant). But I have also seen things like: my_fancy_named_variable = my_array.map{|x| do_processing(x)}.sort_
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by maze-le 9y ago
I wonder how much Lovecraft was influenced by writings like this one. Creatures like 'Tsatoghua' and 'Azathoth' might be inspired by the depiction of 'Bael', 'Adramelech' and the likes. Oh and by the
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by maze-le 9y ago
To get an idea of whan a mind-bogling number that is: Its about the amount of the GDP of the Netherlands. The whole economic output of a 1. World country with 17M inhabitants is slightly smaller than this budget. [0]: http://data
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by maze-le 9y ago
Martian soil contains non-neglible amounts of phosphates[0]. Phosphorus is highly important for the production of fertilizers and gets increasingly rare here on earth[1]. It wouldn't suprise me if 150 years from now, phosphates are imp
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by maze-le 9y ago
You should read about the difference between comoving distance and proper distance.
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PropEr Testing (Property Based Testing with Erlang)(propertesting.com)
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by maze-le 9y ago
I stumbled upon this one too. I suppose the author consulted various sources and forgot to normalize units afterwards.
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by maze-le 9y ago
It should have been formatted like a footnote. But editing time is over...
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by maze-le 9y ago
>> Motor vehicles are a big cause of death in many countries. Yep, that is true. On the other hand there are also many laws that try to mitigate the risk of accidents.[ ] I think the mobility of motor vehicles is a benefit, that outwe
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by maze-le 9y ago
I bet people had the same thing to say about cars in the early 20th century (not without some justification though).

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