mkettn

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by mkettn 7y ago
10 years ago, I'd said "at least third normal form"... but today: Whatever gets the job done. When the application is not really dependent on weird queries (e.g. just a blog), screw the normal forms and design your schema to
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by mkettn 7y ago
No, its not. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_surfing
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by mkettn 7y ago
No it doesn't. Surfing had it's boom and bust and now is a normal sport/hobby like skiing or everything else. In the future one could also argue: tech industry contradicts basic capitalism: nowadays anybody has a smartphone,
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by mkettn 7y ago
on my reading list so far: D. Huff et al - How to Lie with Statistics J. Ellenberg - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking IIRC Bill Gates recommended them.
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by mkettn 7y ago
I see a lot phrases like "studies show that" these days. Somehow in our science-based, sophisticated society everybody likes to throw studies at each other to prove their own narrative. But I don't understand them. I am not t
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by mkettn 7y ago
Understanding statistics (and how to cheat with them).
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by mkettn 7y ago
That is a nice take on digital minimalism, but in my opinion you could also just delete most of the attention-sink-apps and enable black-and-white-screen on the smart phone you're currently using, instead of buying yet another device.
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by mkettn 7y ago
So he's $200M in debt now?
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by mkettn 7y ago
Whats the advantage over just writing vanilla html5? Regarding your mental model: This looks quite similar to IEC 61499
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by mkettn 7y ago
I've never understood all this excitement about REST. If you need a special service, just code a small shell program and register it at /etc/inetd.conf. if you need security, pipe your text file thru OpenSSL/pgp or use s
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by mkettn 7y ago
>You need the right inventives to tackle these challenges. And frankly governments need to reduce the friction in terms of money allocation and regulations to get things done. Churches did this in the past (with all the bad side effects)
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by mkettn 7y ago
What about the software side? Fairphone 3 supports Android 9, Fairphone 2 supports Android 7. I see no use in a smartphone with replaceble hardware parts if I cannot install at least security patches for my phones OS on the long run.
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by mkettn 7y ago
These packages are already implemented in emacs.
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by mkettn 7y ago
As far as I read https://posithub.org/docs/Posits4.pdf there are FPGA implementations. Also in systems where floating point arithmetic isn't supported in hardware (i.e. Arduino Uno) you rely on soft fp.
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by mkettn 7y ago
whats the advantage over declaring register_device as a functor object from an anon class? for example: class Device; class VFS { public: class { friend Device; void operator()(int y) {/* do stuff with y here*/}}
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by mkettn 7y ago
If Youtube blocks their content, they can move to another video hosting site or start their own. No big deal nowadays.
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by mkettn 8y ago
At least Google and Apple are big contributors to open source software (e.g. Chromium, CUPS). Instead of roasting big companies (because... privacy?) we should work together. This picture does more harm, because it view companies purely as
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by mkettn 8y ago
tramp supports a great amount of protocols, but only ssh is on active support. I worked in a greater company for a while and used it to access remote files shared via windows file sharing (smb). It worked a long time but then server update
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by mkettn 8y ago
Figure 1 looks weird. At day 0 the ranges for the bacterias in the evaluated groups (C, G-5, G-10) differ a lot - Is this noise? Why? If i interpret this graphic right the study did find bacteria changes at lower levels of glyphosate(G-5),