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Thin Film Patterns(john.maloney.org)
57 points by nsajko 3y ago|4 comments
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by nsajko 3y ago
Rust tries to be foolproof.
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by nsajko 3y ago
Golang, too: https://go.dev/doc/install/source
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by nsajko 3y ago
Some rando's Wikipedia edit is not relevant.
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by nsajko 3y ago
FFII comes to mind, apart from the other answers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_a_Free_Informat...
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by nsajko 3y ago
> The objection of the students here seems to be that... They are being required to use a Microsoft product in order to access a Microsoft product? The objection is that they're being required to compromise their security, either by
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by nsajko 3y ago
Inequalities can be transformed into equations quite easily, by adding variables: Consider a strict inequality with real variables x_i : f(x_1,...,x_n) > 0 By adding the variable y we obtain an equivalent equation: f(x_
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by nsajko 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_polynomial_equations... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_algebraic_geometry
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by nsajko 3y ago
Completely off base. If you want to distribute your application to users yourself (instead of letting the distro take care of that), then distribute all dependencies together with it.
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by nsajko 3y ago
> civil war in former Yugoslavia (instigated further by supporting the separatist forces) I don't think you understand this topic at all (also seeing your other, flagged, comment). Two major things I'd say you get wrong: 1. The
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by nsajko 3y ago
> senior civil servants were eunuchs and how the next best thing was celibate people Ralph Nader comes to mind.
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Bouncing Bomb(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nsajko 3y ago|0 comments
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by nsajko 3y ago
The site you refer to, ancient-origins.net, is not at all a reliable source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/bz0t7n/how...
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by nsajko 3y ago
If this is theft, who's the thief? The explorers who bought the documents, or the monks who sold them? Relevant Wiki pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunhuang_manuscripts https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by nsajko 3y ago
This is awesome! A long time ago I used to browse Deviantart looking for similar stuff. Here's a nice example: https://www.deviantart.com/albertonykus/art/The-Cartoon-Guid...
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by nsajko 3y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cadres
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by nsajko 3y ago
> not sure who were the nationalists See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikorps > soviets were killing people by millions, making nazis jealous how effective were they with killing You're confusi
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by nsajko 4y ago
> How many questions they’re asking on StackOverflow Apart from already mentioned issues, another reason why this doesn't make sense as a metric is that not all language communities gravitate towards Stack Overflow. Julia, for examp
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by nsajko 4y ago
No, many others are fine too. But it does seem like a good signal.
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by nsajko 4y ago
The opposite of "free the nipple"!
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by nsajko 4y ago
This is similar to the classic might vs right debate. Just because you're legally allowed to do something, doesn't mean that you can pretend it's ethical. The law is not meant to regulate the entirety of human society and b
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by nsajko 4y ago
Could be some April Fools leftovers.
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by nsajko 4y ago
From the theconversation.com article linked in a sibling comment: > Our team generated data from more than 80 people, mostly elite individuals buried in the rich centers of the stone towns. We will need to wait for future work to underst
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by nsajko 4y ago
You may be confusing floating-point with fixed-point? Hardware with decimal floating-point only appeared in 2007, and still doesn't seem to be easily available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_floating_point
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by nsajko 4y ago
> along with decimal floating point Source? I'd find this a bit strange because: 1. I suspect decimal floating point is quite expensive to implement computationally. 2. Not an expert, but I think the floating-point algorithms and pr
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by nsajko 4y ago
> We desperately want oracles and will quickly latch on to highly unreliable sources at the drop of a hat, to judge by various religious, political and economic trends. It's inevitable that many will turn AIs into authorities rather
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by nsajko 4y ago
I'm talking about vector graphics as an integral part of the document, not mere inclusion of external graphics.
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by nsajko 4y ago
Sadly it still doesn't support vector graphics. A TeX-killer must also include a replacement for something like PGF, Tikz, Metapost, etc.
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by nsajko 4y ago
> I find it quite disappointing that we do not have 100% compatible LaTeX with a modern codebase That would be a huge effort. Your time would be better spent designing and creating a new typesetting system.
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by nsajko 4y ago
It's a TeX distro that only supports the XeTeX engine. A far cry from "modern", as XeTeX is an abandoned engine that always had quirky compatibility problems. And it's not "self-contained" either if it download

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