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541.
by olau 9y ago
Work started on that last year based on the RFC XML format. Or was it the year before that? It will get here eventually. I think it's likely someone will go through old RFCs and convert them too.
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by olau 9y ago
FYI, to the best of my knowledge: - ietf.org/rfc/ <- this is a static version that IETF has - rfc-editor.org <- this is the RFC Editor's official site - I think you used to be able to download stuff through FTP, and the
543.
by olau 9y ago
There are decades of research. It's not unreasonable to adjust expectations based on that. Honestly, I feel part of the problem is that this seems to attract people who think that text is bad and more visual = better, while the truth p
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by olau 9y ago
I seen a similar problem in another context where a browser engine is used to render some simple HTML in an app for convenience, but then suddenly turns into something exploitable because nobody is thinking about updating the engine when a
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by olau 9y ago
If you're into historical fiction, I can recommend the Saxon Stories by Bernard Cornwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories I don't know how historically accurate they are, but they're rela
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by olau 9y ago
On the power plants side, it's about costs. I don't think it makes sense to compare different plant types. But you could take solar as an example - is it better to use up twice as much roof space/desert if the overall design
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by olau 9y ago
Yes, all else being equal, cost is the only thing that matters. But often all else is not entirely equal, and then an analysis like this may be helpful. For instance, if you look at the transportation sector, you don't actually need to
548.
by olau 10y ago
Except that if it comes to a lawsuit, almost everyone loses one way or another. Sensible people and companies build up trust gradually.
549.
by olau 10y ago
A dude on the Danish engineering society worked through the math, and indeed, rail cars don't seem feasible. Just too expensive. I don't have too high hopes for the sphere idea either - operating turbines in seawater 700 m down se
550.
by olau 10y ago
Thank you for your well-written comment. I just want to that I think it's unlikely new big reactors will have a place in a grid with plenty of renewables. You're going to have a hard time making the ends meet up if you can't
551.
by olau 10y ago
Sounds like you might have tried this already, but GNOME has had a history of working on accessibility, and I think they're quite open to bugs in case something is broken. How well it works in practice, I don't know, though: http
552.
by olau 10y ago
I think the point was to keep your changes minimal, not to break the patches up arbitrarily. So if a new feature consists of X and Y, you try to release first X, then Y, not both at the same time, even if they are related.
553.
by olau 10y ago
Do you have a citation for the "more creative in groups"? Some years ago I participated in a creativity/innovation course, and one of the things we were taught was the brainstorming in groups had been found to be ineffective
554.
by olau 10y ago
"No. Python 3 arrived quickly after many warnings. Then tools, tutorials and a looooooooooooot of time have been provided. This is nowhere Python's fault. It's the best damn migration story I've ever witnessed in my life
555.
by olau 10y ago
Well, there are some new nifty things, e.g. not having to write u in front of every string or a more pleasant subprocess API or the fact that dicts in 3.6 keep their insertion order which makes debugging a bit easier. It adds up. But the bi
556.
by olau 10y ago
The template system is sometimes a pain, but sometimes the fact that it pushes you to move complexity out of the HTML and into Python code can make for more maintainable code in the long run. That's at least been my experience over the
557.
by olau 10y ago
If you read that and like it, try The Design of Design by Fred Brooks, in which he talks about on a high level how the design process works; good teachings about the flaws of the waterfall model.
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by olau 10y ago
"... and, as evidenced by the huge amount of work the debian folk are putting into repeatable builds, not a trivial one; certainly not one that dpkg has already solved." The reproducible builds project in Debian is about reproduci
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by olau 10y ago
Problems arise because the world is inhabited by many humans. One man's freedom may be another man's prison.
560.
by olau 10y ago
Or issue marriage licenses, but take away any economic benefits and let the money follow the children instead.
561.
by olau 10y ago
Okay, this whole theme is getting a bit annoying: Only if you expect the peace prize to be awarded in the same way as physics prize. The people awarding the physics prize seem to be waiting until they are absolutely certain the discoveries
562.
by olau 10y ago
I followed your link, but it does not support your summary. It is arguing about one specific point (the 60% point) with no discussion on where people actually are. For instance, the 1/3 "poor" in the US could earn 1$/yea
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by olau 10y ago
I don't think you quoted the wages correctly? The Wikipedia OECD stats are in PPP, not gross. Also, while you sort of mention it, I think using averages when the distribution is clearly skewed is a really bad practice. It doesn't
564.
by olau 10y ago
In Denmark it's 25% VAT on everything.
565.
by olau 10y ago
It makes sense to me that prepared meals at restaurants are more expensive. Wages for low-paid jobs are generally higher in Denmark I think. Less inequality. It probably has the side-effect that more Danes cook their meals themselves.
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by olau 10y ago
While I think it's true that organic is big in Denmark, e.g. common kindergartens in my area generally seem to be using mostly organic food in their kitchens, I don't think the summary is accurate in the sense that there's a
567.
by olau 10y ago
A little anecdote: there was a case of O(N^2) in readline with long lines. Essentially a bug in the redisplay logic. It affected Bash, mysql/psql, Python, etc. After having suffered from this for some years, last year that annoyed me e
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by olau 10y ago
I don't think your theory is right (I simply don't think it has been given enough polish), but even so, the other side of the coin is that you can relatively easily hack in temporary migration paths. For instance, a function can e
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by olau 10y ago
Think that's a sensible approach (to looking at things) but there's a difference between how you work together with someone that you and your coworkers have decided are good at coordinating work, and a traditional boss. The coordi
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by olau 10y ago
I can see what you are trying to say, but I really don't think you're right. Yes, fractions are sometimes nicer with other subdivisions than decimal, but e.g. angles of a triangle: right-angled with 90 deg + 2 x 45 deg would be 50

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