mlinksva

34 ms·

391.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Interesting read! When/how were Oberon systems phased out and replaced (I assume they have been) at the Institute for Computer Systems? It seems to still exist: http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/
392.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Please take the next step https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_Copyright_Viola...
393.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Taxing ads seems like a better intervention than what is proposed.
394.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Thank you for what you do (and do not). My guess is recycling doesn't make much of an additional difference. There's a reason it's third in reduce-reuse-recycle. I separate out recyclables mostly out of habit (and garbage ser
395.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Does anyone use Pi-Hole for larger-than-home networks, e.g., for an office, cafe, school...? Also, it seems like Pi-Hole ought to be a router feature rather than requiring a separate device. Does any router vendor or router OS distro integr
396.
by mlinksva 8y ago
> Large companies should be taxed where the value is created. Tax land.
397.
Advantages and Disadvantages of a Monolithic Codebase(ai.google)
2 points by mlinksva 8y ago|0 comments
398.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Me too. I don't know of a collection, but others can be found at https://ai.google/research/pubs/ https://research.fb.com/publications/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us&#x
399.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Another site http://jarrettwalker.com/ and https://twitter.com/humantransit I'm not sure they've done any work in the SF bay area, but nearby I recently ran across a background analysis they did f
400.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of reading about (I don't recall actually using one) web accelerators, or proxies that would retrieve and strip down content requested by a low powered/bandwidth client. I think these have pretty much disappeared
401.
by mlinksva 8y ago
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld ... Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990, and Eazel in 1999. In 2002, he helped Mitch Kapor promote ope
402.
by mlinksva 8y ago
United hubs.
403.
by mlinksva 8y ago
They already have a billion users?
404.
by mlinksva 8y ago
For better or worse, on way is citations. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&... (in top 30 according to that site)
405.
by mlinksva 8y ago
https://digitopoly.org/2018/06/21/the-paradox-of-technologic... sort of takes that point of view.
406.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Lily looked pretty interesting, discussed here a couple years ago https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015158
407.
by mlinksva 8y ago
The Netscape Server SSJS thing was originally called LiveWire. I used it in 1996 and it was terribly buggy, but the web says it dates from 1995.
408.
by mlinksva 8y ago
One or more of: one might prefer MIT's simplicity (both the text itself, and the what's needed to comply) relative to Apache-2.0, one might not like the specifics of the latter's patent terms, one might consider the former&#x
409.
by mlinksva 8y ago
I wrote the first bulleted link, should have included a gigantic caveat: CC0-1.0 expressly excludes any patent grant. That makes it dangerous for non-trivial software, is why CC eventually withdrew it from consideration for OSI approval, an
410.
by mlinksva 8y ago
It's listed in https://choosealicense.com/appendix/ The point of the home page is to make it easy to choose a license, not to list every possible choice. (I occasionally help maintain https://github.com
411.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Thanks for the perspective. I'm convinced darker streets/plazas is a non-solution (and note isn't really what dark sky protections are about: it's OK to illuminate down, just not up).
412.
by mlinksva 8y ago
My takeaway from the paper (read two months ago) was that core contributors looking to encourage more core contributors should focus on making great software which will have dedicated users some of whom might be motivated to help project ev
413.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Other obvious question given "started growing the crop in diluted sea-water" is what is the ratio? Combining the two, does the ratio increase over time due to salt accumulation?
414.
by mlinksva 8y ago
I've been idly wondering whether there is a comprehensive "quiet community" standard like there is for a "dark sky community"? From my perspective the main noise pollution problem is fast moving cars, which have obv
415.
by mlinksva 8y ago
https://lwn.net/
416.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Make them pay their weight, demand will go down http://cityobservatory.org/the-real-welfare-cadillacs-have-1...
417.
by mlinksva 8y ago
That's awesome, thanks! Were raised crossing with spaces for cart wheels common around the world? Haven't cities everywhere had the sewage in the streets problem to varying extents for most of the time cities have existed?
418.
by mlinksva 8y ago
The inefficiency for cars is a feature. It means drivers will slow down and thus kill less. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/1/25/speed-kills-so...
419.
by mlinksva 8y ago
I just became aware of the possibility of raised crosswalks, which seem like a fantastic idea -- no gradient for pedestrians, and a speed bump to slow cars -- https://sf.streetsblog.org/2018/05/22/walk-sf-camp
420.
by mlinksva 8y ago
Does the social credit system ever charge higher prices to low scorers rather than banning or shaming them? Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System#Involveme... it looks like this might be done to s

More ›