nicklaf

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by nicklaf 9y ago
As someone who switched from Slackware to Void several months ago, Void boots far faster. Also, though I haven't used Arch, Void really feels like a combination of a slimmed down Slackware + NetBSD (the author of Void is a NetBSD commi
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G.C. Rota, on being assigned to help check the problems of Linear Operators for Dunford and Schwartz as a graduate student at Yale (while it was still a manuscript), but finding himself unable to solve one of the problems: After a few h
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by nicklaf 9y ago
Maybe it was not polite of him to dismiss the blog post (and maybe that wasn't his intention), but I do appreciate that he provided references to prior art, and also took the time to put them in context.
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I seriously doubt that, just reflecting on how smokers so often remain unswayed¹ even by far more brutal prognostications about the habit's effect on their longevity. ¹well, unswayed about actually quitting now
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Python and NodeJS both beat Lua because they were scripting languages involved with web servers and web clients, and the massive influence of the web on the job market meant that everybody was going to want to learn Python (and Javascript)
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Hopefully you'll survive the upvote I just gave you. :P
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There are a number of threads here which seem to have been downvoted because of the perceived quality of the ideas they contain. However, I always thought that downvoting was meant to be reserved for low quality discussion, rather than disa
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Yes, I agree reading back it sounds rather weak. That said, maybe the differences comes down to: are we being drawn in through manipulation to post beyond what we otherwise would have wanted to, for the benefit of others? To an extent, this
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by nicklaf 9y ago
If Hacker News is just as much 'social media' as less literary platforms like Twitter or Facebook, then I don't think that social media is the problem per se. Y-combinator has its own profit motive, but it doesn't take i
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by nicklaf 9y ago
I don't know if this is the case, but the API ought to also let you kill any active video or audio streams playing in a tab. Then you'd be able to go ahead with hiding them. If this is not possible or planned, it feels kind of bro
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by nicklaf 9y ago
For the record: I was logged out / incognito. Actually, for whatever reason, this also often seems to cause reCapcha to essentially hellban me and just keep asking for me to solve an endless series of capchas. :/
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Black Mirror S01E02
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And I can attest that they often presume that I'm a robot. At this point it would be easier for me to write an alternative frontend to Google search (or just use duckduckgo), but it was be amusing to think that I might evade this by wr
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So record actual user input data and generate similar input patterns stochastically. That said if you try to scale this up beyond what a reasonable, normal user world do in one sitting, you are bound to stand out. Although that said, I find
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by nicklaf 9y ago
Thank you, I had not known about about:memory. Interesting.
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Thanks, I should simply start with that. Along with a hard limit set by cgroups so that browser tabs start being killed in order to stop the swap from being overwhelmed when memory is being used well beyond its capacity. (I'd be intere
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by nicklaf 9y ago
I have an older Chromebook (c720), which is really quite memory starved (2GB RAM), and have experienced ChromeOS completely frying the SSD simply through prolonged tab-heavy swapping. Now, I've replaced the SSD and installed a non-Goog
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by nicklaf 9y ago
Probably the most interesting answer I could have imagined to this, and from what I gather from Sapolsky's book that I've thus far read, pretty much in the opposite direction of his thesis in the book. But to my eyes just as convi
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by nicklaf 9y ago
If you guys are interested in going down that rabbit hole, I highly recommend Robert Sapolsky's Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst . Although I confess I have only read the first chapter or so, the book sets out to co
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by nicklaf 9y ago
Say that love and knowledge are linearly independent, forming a basis of ℝ². So then we can think of linear combinations of love and knowledge as points in ℝ². Then, by Carathéodory's Theorem [1], the convex hull [2] of any set of such
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by nicklaf 9y ago
I may have found the post by Michael Nielson I was looking for... on Hacker News! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666615 In particular, this piece of advice he gives still rings true to my ears: Often, when struggling
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I remember reading this exact piece of advice, but have been trying to remember where. Would anybody be able to provide the blog post I believe we both read, which says almost exactly what Iv wrote? I could have sworn Michael Nielson wrote
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Interesting. My interpretation: when writing code for synchronous machines, you are immediately encouraged to construct things that have no notion of spatial locality. But what if programming tools encouraged being mindful of this? Very cru
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Whereas the way these things are taught normally in college and school is a sampler of what this one wrote and that one wrote and you’re asked to be more interested in the date of the publication of Keat’s sonnets than in what’s in them.
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Interesting. Looks like there aren't many drivers, though. I only see stuff about running it through QEMU or Virtualbox. Maybe somebody can try running it from OpenFirmware (see my my sibling post to yours), which has been ported to lo
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by nicklaf 9y ago
Firmworks has a open source implementation of OpenFirmware which is part of the OpenBIOS project, can be used with Coreboot, and implements TCP/IP with various protocols including HTTP, all in Forth. http://www.firmworks.com
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Try covering up the names of these while guessing what each is supposed to symbolize. Personally, I found some of these to be rather unintuitive and sometimes arbitrary.
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I wonder if there is some sort of inverse relationship between having comprehensive features, thereby being self-contained (think Smalltalk), versus having a continuous dialog with the imperfect outside environment (think perl). I'm su
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https://www.scaruffi.com/news/opin0712.html Caveat emptor: Scaruffi doesn't hesitate to let his imagination far surpass his apparent handle on the facts, but hey they are just opinions, so let's not ruin the
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Any reason why new tabs shouldn't create an entirely new, isolated container by default? And then allow the user to close tabs implicitly by performing a merge operation with some existing container (say, dragging with the mouse with a

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