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by mlinksva 6y ago
For the counter-point to be meaningful, people would have to individually kill a lot of mosquitoes. Made me wonder, what fraction of mosquitoes are killed by humans in a city setting? I'd guess it's very small. 1/1000? Has an
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by mlinksva 6y ago
We also have select-contextmenu-search on both desktop and mobile, for any word or acronym. Links are nice for disambiguation or to point to a recommended resource, but they're hardly essential, nor are in-line expansions or definition
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by mlinksva 6y ago
Mosquitoes also feature strongly in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Ta... (2010)
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by mlinksva 6y ago
Unfortunately they haven't, but it looks like they may have been limited to 1 year starting in 2016, see https://www.faircompetitionlaw.com/changing-landscape-of-tra...
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by mlinksva 6y ago
Opposite of current, but long ago SmartList for procmail was simple to set up and run. Curious what the closest maintained list manager might be.
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by mlinksva 6y ago
There also is a NixOS derivative OS project "aimed squarely at security" https://spectrum-os.org/
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by mlinksva 6y ago
> Core i7 8086k TIL of this commemorative naming. Sole comment I could find on HN 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17409849
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by mlinksva 7y ago
One difference: Tampermonkey is closed source while ViolentMonkey and Greasemonkey are MIT licensed.
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Haven't tried but https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy#calling-python-from-nim
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by mlinksva 7y ago
On the second part, it's a negotiated transition to open access, with a period allowing for open access articles in not fully open access ("hybrid") journals. The second half of the article is fairly clear. More at https:&#x
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by mlinksva 7y ago
I wonder if there is anything published about meet.jit.si's use, traffic and costs (as well as scaling issues, solutions)? I imagine that it all of these have increased a lot over the last weeks, and it's pretty impressive that th
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Repost (to their credit, with a direct link to) of https://theleaflet.in/content-takedown-and-users-rights/ ... might be better to link to the original.
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by mlinksva 7y ago
https://hbr.org/2002/07/make-your-values-mean-something is the classic article/opinion piece expounding approximately the above.
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Some conventional wisdom candidates for most importance piece of technical debt across software engineering: complexity, memory unsafety, excess authority, formal methods underutilized Probably not a candidate for "most" but maybe
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by mlinksva 7y ago
What people/projects/labs/companies are doing the best work on efficiency? I'm aware of https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/
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by mlinksva 7y ago
> The fourth was a decision at the National Security Agency to focus not on making computer networks more secure through defensive strategies, but to focus on offensive capabilities. The NSA wanted to be able to hack our enemies when the
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Strong Towns' Hiring Process
3 points by mlinksva 7y ago|1 comments
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Do any phones have a tether like this? Or use some other mechanism to guess that possession may have changed and autolock?
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by mlinksva 7y ago
> Until now, Nexedi has been maintaining a derivative of ChromiumOS with some extra features: NayuOS. However, the gap between ChromiumOS and its proprietary counterpart ChromeOS has increased so much that we see no possibility to mainta
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by mlinksva 7y ago
I personally prefer to tax rather than ban, but good on them. What's different about the internet that has some countries trying digital services taxes rather than digital ad bans?
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by mlinksva 7y ago
The study itself is at https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Full-Re...
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by mlinksva 7y ago
I initially misread as "How much a baby is touched _by_ leaves [leaves] measurable effects on DNA." Leaving me with an idle question: has the effect of interaction with plants on child development been studied?
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by mlinksva 7y ago
I did not know about this, thanks for the pointer. Tons more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_copper-alloy_tou... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_co...
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by mlinksva 7y ago
No idea whether you're right about eg aircraft carriers and drones but on what I think is your core point... > The biggest one is the top down ossification in the US military where aged milpols (military politicians) with old ideas
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by mlinksva 7y ago
Looks like HN traffic is making the service unavailable... In the meantime, see https://github.com/dissemin/dissemin and https://twitter.com/disseminOA Added: Seems to be back up.
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DisseminOA(dissem.in)
32 points by mlinksva 7y ago|7 comments
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by mlinksva 7y ago
> There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business mo
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by mlinksva 7y ago
This analysis seems correct if OSS = OSS ISVs.
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Genode OS Framework Release 19.11(genode.org)
2 points by mlinksva 7y ago|0 comments
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by mlinksva 7y ago
> The app is even better! What does that mean? I guess https://duckduckgo.com/app is a browser, and a browser extension? The app is a relatively better browser than DDG search is a search engine?

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