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by nequo 4y ago
Do you know what makes MIT and BSD more complicated for internal tools for these companies? What about MIT or (two-clause) BSD makes it harder to comply with? Would attribution be an excessive burden for them in case such code ended up in t
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by nequo 4y ago
What is the problem with GPL if you’re a user and not trying to reuse the code in a closed-source product for sale?
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by nequo 4y ago
Is a better alternative to store passwords in an encrypted SQLite database? That would address the problems with the directory structure and Git.
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Neuroscience of Free Will(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nequo 4y ago|0 comments
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by nequo 4y ago
And also neuroscience examining whether what we think we did out of choice was really done out of our choice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
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by nequo 4y ago
> when you already have bad r code, it’s a massive pain in the ass. Do you think it’s because R code tends to be written by statisticians and stats-adjacent domain experts who don’t necessarily know how to write clean code while Python c
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by nequo 4y ago
He pronounces JavaScript as YavaScript. Is this a reference to another old language whose name we mispronounce today? Or just a joke to say that by 2035 JavaScript will be so irrelevant that we won't even know how its name was pronounc
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by nequo 4y ago
I am not.
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by nequo 4y ago
I thought it was bottom as in "⊥". But that is orthogonal too.
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by nequo 4y ago
Not (directly) a murder case, but Mark Duggan and Steven Levitt's 2002 paper on match fixing in Japanese sumo is also interesting.[1] While the suspicion had lingered for a decade or two that sumo matches were rigged, the analysis of t
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by nequo 4y ago
What specifically is crazy about Lean's syntax?
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by nequo 4y ago
The Type Theory Forall podcast published an interview this week with Kevin Buzzard who has been coordinating the mathlib efforts[1] for Lean. If you're interested in math, theorem provers, or Lean, then it is worth listening to: htt
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by nequo 4y ago
This project is a good initiative. But I was also expecting Markdown to make a cameo appearance somewhere. "Compilable Markup for Linear Algebra" would be pretty clear to me.
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by nequo 4y ago
GoAWK's CSV mode is a great addition to AWK. Have you thought about adding a JSON mode, too, to get an AWK-flavored alternative to jq? Edit: I see that you have: https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk/issues/15
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by nequo 4y ago
> my self talk is usually some expletive ridden tirade Dan Harris gave a short talk about how alien self-love practices felt to him, having lived with similarly harsh self-talk. It’s entertaining and it might resonate with you too: http
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by nequo 4y ago
Ubuntu shipped the patch three days ago. The output of `apt changelog sudo` on 22.04 LTS: sudo (1.9.9-1ubuntu2.2) jammy-security; urgency=medium * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary file overwrite via sudoedit - debian/patches&#
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A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (2016)(github.com)
514 points by nequo 4y ago|106 comments
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by nequo 4y ago
Your mind is not infallible. It’s like when you’re searching for your glasses and you realize that you’re wearing them, or when you’re looking for your car keys and realize that you’re holding them.
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by nequo 4y ago
Hi Jarred, I am curious about your insight into the source of Bun's performance advantage over Node.js. The Bun website[1] writes this: Why is Bun fast? ... Zig's low-level control over memory and lack of hidden control flo
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by nequo 4y ago
Increasing zoom to reduce words per line is a hack though. Why would I want to read Wikipedia in a larger font than I read other websites?
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by nequo 4y ago
What is your monetization strategy? What additional features are you planning that will generate revenue?
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by nequo 4y ago
> we have been pretty open about the fact that we want to keep this product free for users going forward as well I think that parent’s tone is way too combative. But the “Pricing” page on your website[1] only says that the service is fre
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Sudoedit can edit arbitrary files (CVE-2023-22809)(cve.mitre.org)
2 points by nequo 4y ago|0 comments
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by nequo 4y ago
Good to know that hmatrix-gsl works too. In this case, I went down the Rust route instead of the Haskell one. I use Haskell too, just not for simulated annealing. My main domain is scientific computing and I get nervous about the prospect o
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by nequo 4y ago
Two things that might help Rust a lot despite the complexity are the tooling and the ecosystem. Cargo is good, the compiler is extremely helpful, and there are a lot of crates to build on for all sorts of tasks. For example, if I need to us
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by nequo 4y ago
Yeah. Speed and memory efficiency don’t come for free. Use Rust when you benefit enough to compensate for the cost of grokking the plumbing.
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by nequo 4y ago
People have mentioned the ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II[1] and the TEX Shinobi[2] as external keyboards that have trackpoints. [1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb... [2] h
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by nequo 4y ago
Do you have a sense of how they helped you with eyestrain headaches? How did they affect your vision?
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Rune: An experimental Emacs Lisp interpreter written in Rust(github.com)
3 points by nequo 4y ago|1 comments
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The ThinkPad TrackPoint tried to build a better mouse (2020)(theverge.com)
163 points by nequo 4y ago|248 comments

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