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by memling 5y ago
> Has anyone experience with Sailfish? Can it run apps like Signal and WhatsApp? Is it stable? I ran Sailfish in the 2.x days on an old Moto G Falcon. They did not support Android apps at the time, but recent versions are supposed to.[1
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by memling 5y ago
There's this scene in Finding Forrester where Sean Connery marks up a manuscript with the phrase "constipated thinking." Mind mapping for me is a way to grease the skids, as it were, since the hardest part in organizing thou
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by memling 5y ago
> It doesn’t matter it was land owners. You said that anything but monarchy was unheard of. It wasn’t. I think you may have assumed someone else was replying to you. The idea of democracy certainly exists in ancient times, but not in th
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by memling 5y ago
> Greece was a democracy and even before it is thought parts of Babylonia and various tribal groups were. If you were a man with land? > The west today is based on the liberal science revolution. How would you set about demonstrating
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by memling 5y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll look over the collections package for sure. It looks like some of the things of interest to me are there already. I knew there were historical reasons behind some of these things (just like the old complaints
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by memling 5y ago
> > Focus more on libraries, frameworks, and applications > I think this is the most important thing. Say I'm writing a web app -- I want a language that can run on both the server and browser and that has a web framework. One
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by memling 5y ago
> The problem is that the toplevel of a module is full of functions at various levels of granularity. Exactly--this is what I was hinting at with "rules of function encapsulation." I took a course on LISP in college (apropos o
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by memling 5y ago
> They are not 100% frozen in a 100% perfect lattice structure. They still move a little around the positions where they "should" be. Something similar happens with atoms in a normal crystal. Thanks for the explanation. In ret
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by memling 5y ago
> Oh, I see what you mean. I discovered Lisp after working in C++ and Java, so I avoided this pitfall in my code, but if I had a dollar for every instance of: [...] This is one of those anti-patterns I sometimes find myself falling into
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by memling 5y ago
Potential dumb question ahead: how, or does, this relate to the Uncertainty Principle? My five-year-old brain says that freezing the electrons in a lattice so that they don't move means that there's no momentum or velocity, and
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by memling 5y ago
vivaldi, the successor to opera, has a client in beta. it's not as good as the old m2 client in my opinion but it's quite usable. my main gripes: keyboard navigation still isn't on par, the default is to top quote, no highli
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by memling 5y ago
anecdotally my 150-person office consumed about $40k in coffee each year. not a huge amount compared to salary and benefits, but not peanuts either.
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by memling 5y ago
> It's a little bit more than that: cryptographic container formats usually need to be stable on traversal/canonicalized so that things like hashes remain consistent. Yeah, this, too: there's got to be a single way of rep
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by memling 5y ago
> I tried OSS NOKALVA's ASN.1 for Java but constraint checking is non-existent or very limited. A quick look at their documentation suggests the use of the -constraints option.[1] Constraints are such a basic part of the ASN.1 spec
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by memling 5y ago
> Some folks are trying to kill ASN.1. It is probably an awkward moment for that, when people are looking at binary encodings more because JSON is boring and doesn't stand out on a CV. It's got all the hallmarks of old tech tha
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by memling 5y ago
There's an interesting series called the Great Ptolemaic Smackdown that charts one of the more prominent examples (i.e., the Copernican/Galilean revolution): https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-grea
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by memling 5y ago
> Unrelated but related: How do we keep stories like this in the "middle" of our minds? I've noticed with myself--and many others--that we read articles and essays like this, contemplate them for a moment or two, think abo
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by memling 5y ago
> Which makes it all the more impressive that it's quoting Tacitus and such like. There's a common trope about "8th-grade" education in the US, and a fairly common response to it, e.g., https://www.grc.nasa
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by memling 5y ago
I'm not sure this addresses the criticisms in his post. it's possible he's salty about the loss of power, but his complaint is that the site is systemically biased. a better rebuttal might be to show how it's not?
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by memling 5y ago
hence the research pass. I could actually see that as valuable for a subset of people if it were searchable. I find the historical value of news generally higher than the current value but of course that's not why people read the pape
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by memling 5y ago
> For $9.99 I month I cant access to a library of thousands of hours of videos (netflix, prime, discovery+, etc) , thousands of hours of music (spofity, prime music, etc) , or thousands of hours of PC Games (Xbox Game Pass) Do you think
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by memling 5y ago
Thanks for the consistent and thoughtful replies. It's been helpful for me as I think about these hot-button topics. I'll certainly leave here but will probably reference the thread for my own sake for some time to come; thanks
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by memling 5y ago
> > Language shapes reality, > Sorry I have disagree on this one. I don't think language shapes reality. It definitely shapes our perception, filters, and biases but shapes reality only in a very Probabilistic graphical model
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by memling 5y ago
> My point, perhaps poorly delivered, was that not every person has a “biological pronoun”. How do you even define it? My understanding is that historically the presence of the Y chromosome was considered determinative. One was male (th
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by memling 5y ago
> It's not cut and dry and it requires the company or state to sue. I have to imagine that it's pretty rare, and I don't think it's appropriate to generalize from what appears to be a pretty sensationalist case. I ex
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by memling 5y ago
> No, children aren't responsible for bills. It can only come from your estate. I think it's worth noting that while this may be true if you're dead, it's not the case when you're still alive.[1] Filial responsib
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by memling 5y ago
> How would you address an intersex person? Their physical characteristics might have been decided by a doctor shortly after birth without any input from themselves. Their chromosomes might be ambiguous or just don’t match their physical
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by memling 5y ago
> 1. is pretty close for ex: most brain functions can be called subjective, and therefore not that relevant. Sorry for the delay. HN is not a great forum for long discussions (on purpose, I guess). I've been noodling on this for a
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by memling 5y ago
> Adding a third option, proposing sex being the superior categorisation completely ignores the existence of intersex people. This is another assertion that I also don't quite understand. (I want to emphasize I'm not trolling
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by memling 5y ago
> We have pressing needs now--for example, reducing the influence of money in American politics. Is this a higher priority than reducing political tension/violence? Or is it worth increasing the likelihood of political tension/

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