nephanth

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by nephanth 5y ago
The english language doesn't really maintain retrocompatibility though
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Oups
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Well in France, most people just say "un stop", you don't need to precise it is a sign, because it was originally a borrowed word
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Plus the password doesn't transit through the copy buffer, which is probably less secure
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Hum if you're running a casino, I hope you are using at least a bit of [entropy]( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_\(computing\) ) . you wouldn't want your shuffles to be predictable...
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Well on Linux people are used to repos, which work like app stores. Ubuntu users even have an actual app store
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Especially when, since it's Tor, potential attackers cannot be traced
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> anticommunist Since when is China even a communist country anywhere but on paper ?
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As if everyone talking here were from the US. The US currently being in shambles doesn't justify any of China's human rights violations, imperialistic policies or genocides.
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You can have a decentralized datastore without blockchain, if you want a decentralized rating system without central authority, you might just want a web of trust. In this usecase, using blockchain would just put the voting power in the ha
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Well not really because you up the count for the garage band you're listening to. Quick calculation shows this model gives more influence on the repartirion of money to those who listen to the most music, even though they pay the same
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Imho, ocaml is a way better language than Haskell when you are learning FP coming from other paradigms: it doesn't require you to learn mathematical constructs such as monads or monoids when you are beginning, it allows you to use impe
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Spamming them with fake info, is already a good idea, but that kind of spam is alsoa good occasion to check whether scammers know how to sanitize their database inputs
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On android, a lot of APIs that have nothing to do with GPS (such as watching wifi networks, looking for devices on the same network, etc.) actually need the "location data" permission. This is misleading, but it is made so because
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I often find markdown (with a good text editor) to be the right compromise. Not nearly as cumbersome (or full-featured) as latex, but still has latex-like formula support
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On the storage capacity
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I think a lot of this is due to the language barrier. Like most French people, I learnt english at school, so following English and American media makes sense, whereas following for ex German or Chinese media would be way harder. Similarly
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Well discord has fake loading messages too, and I think they're funny. Though it's a bit different since discord is not aimed at professionnals, the geeky jokes match better with the gamer audience
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Note that internal HDDs aren't taxed under this tax, only external ones. (So if you don't want to pay it, you can just buy a SATA HDd and an adaptor). Phones are taxed though (yes this doesn't make any sense technically)
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Yep it actually came from Germany, and was afterward adopted by a lot of european countries
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You can use kiwix ( https://www.kiwix.org/en/ ). It is an open-source software that allows you to keep and read offline static versions of websites in a specialized archive format (zim-files) It was originally designed t
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Seeing your messages, I really think you don't mean the same things as the others when you say "strong type system". Generally what people here mean by strong type system is ADTs, inference, type-checking, pattern-matching...
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It was already well-known that the GPL was a bit problematic under French law, that's whythe CeciLL ( https://cecill.info/index.en.html ) project existed iirc
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I personally don’t think keli is fixing the right problems: I’m personally an ocaml user, and I don’t see what keli adds to ocaml. They cite positional parameters (that they call "prefix notation"… i wonder why ?) but ocaml alrea
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Ocaml has multithreading support now though (it was merged recently iirc)
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The definition of "ancient" is probably not the same for your laptop and for a planned-obsolescence apple mobile device
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It is. But it is abstracting over http/HTML/JavaScript/rpc(ajax) with c++ classes
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Some time ago, for anonymous blogging there was a pretty good solution called freenet. Dunno if it is still around but it was really interesting technologically speaking
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Not about algebra, but one good example of ridiculous problems leading to great discoveris in math is how, according to the legend, Cauchy invented complex analysis (at least the theorems on holomorphic and meromorphic functions) just to so