mordae

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by mordae 6y ago
So the beaches of Iraklion won't smell like diesel anymore?
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by mordae 6y ago
In Czechia, you can ask the court to erase your criminal record. They usually comply after the same amount of years that was your original sentence. Meaning that after spending 3 years in prison, the criminal record stays with you further 3
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by mordae 6y ago
It doesn't have to be a humble brag. Some language ecosystems tend to have a lot of DSLs in them. I consider myself intermediate in Haskell because I don't grok Lens. I also consider myself intermediate, because I often can't
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by mordae 6y ago
What you see is the result of the fact Haskell gives you expressiveness to build anything from a shed to a bridge or a sky scraper and people who adopt Haskell are curious by nature and thus go as deep as possible and try to build a small h
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by mordae 6y ago
Lem has also written about the trouble with black boxes in charge of policy (similar to the paperclip factory problem). His advice seemed to always be for the human civilization to better engineer our future and stop playing it fast and loo
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by mordae 6y ago
> 1. The inventor would pay the R&D costs with no good way to recoup them, because he'd be competing against knockoffs who didn't have to make that investment, and can price accordingly. You'd be putting the actual inv
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by mordae 6y ago
In EU, this would probably still violate GDPR. They need your consent to use any personal data (data about a person) for anything else than the core service they provide. Can the car license be tracked back to you? If yes, then anything att
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by mordae 6y ago
You are probably privileged enough so that you don't have a camera looking at you your whole workday. Some of the people who processed your food or sewn your garments might not have been that lucky. Also, their breaks are timed and the
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by mordae 6y ago
Except it was not about HDD priorities. > To allow for two drives on the same cable, IDE uses a special configuration called master and slave. This configuration allows one drive's controller to tell the other drive when it can tran
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by mordae 6y ago
Go ask Twitch users.
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by mordae 6y ago
Yesss, battle about who gets to mold little pieces of plastic for kids to play with.
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by mordae 6y ago
Nope. In some countries, you'd be held liable if someone misunderstood you and acted as if they were given a real legal advice. Sometimes this also applies to other professions.
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by mordae 6y ago
Couch GnuCash Cough
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by mordae 6y ago
This.
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by mordae 6y ago
OMG, this is golden. It's a race to the bottom. It ends up completely destroying states and replacing them with corporations.
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by mordae 6y ago
Joint NATO fund to pay ransomware fees.
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by mordae 6y ago
Digital equipment was never designed with teaching in mind. Take a typical Android installation for an example. - There is no tutorial mode for a true newcomer. - There is no central naming scheme - every application is an island. - Most of
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by mordae 7y ago
If we did not have patents, we wouldn't have to build in the current cities, would we? I mean to earn our living. But since we do have patents, we cannot escape the extractive system that corrupts public sector in order to secure rent
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by mordae 7y ago
For me the miniseries nicely illustrated the fact that motivated reasoning will eventually clash with the physical reality and the costs may be pretty high. The risk is especially high when the system enables coercion or manipulation to tak
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by mordae 7y ago
It's even worse. They have raised funding to build a batch of these saying the project is open source. That's an actual fraud. https://www.donio.cz/CoroVent#obsah
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by mordae 7y ago
Oh my god, Stanisław Lem. I have read Summa Technologiae and everything is in there. And I mean everything. I have yet to see any new horizons for humanity he hasn't covered back in the sixties. For me the single most distressing idea
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by mordae 7y ago
I found this particular work to be quite balanced. You need to read Ender's Game as a prequel to the Speaker for the Dead where Ender actually grows up.
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by mordae 7y ago
For how long?
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by mordae 7y ago
How does he have a Japanese and other passports? I thought Japan does not recognize multiple citizenships...
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by mordae 7y ago
TL;DR Can you give me a summary. :-)
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by mordae 7y ago
This sucks. We run steam on some public PCs with unprivileged accounts and we wouldn't be very happy to find that users were able to gain admin access and steal other people's passwords through a keylogger. Sigh.
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by mordae 7y ago
This. It solves nothing, since the crooks will just continue to cook the books. This is already "mandatory" in Czechia and I have yet to hear about anyone being sued for not upholding the Labor Code. On the other hand, the tech em
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by mordae 7y ago
Libraries appear to be pretty durable - as an idea.
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by mordae 8y ago
Not as long as you are represented. You do vote, right?
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by mordae 8y ago
I'd still wager a great sum on the possibility that the book is an elaborate hoax designed to coax some cash out of some stupid aristocrat. There were a lot of charlatans at the court of that particular period and the Czechs just love

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