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by pantulis 3y ago
> You can observe something like this in macroscale with lemon pips in tonic water. Why, that's interesting, I have never observed this. Do you think having previously added gin to the tonic water solution may have had something to
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by pantulis 3y ago
Not only GDPR, but also a payments directive (PSD2).
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by pantulis 3y ago
What you are going to notice is the jump from Intel to Apple Silicon. It's like living in another world.
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by pantulis 3y ago
Elixir is like an alien shiny flying soucer. It can do all types of technical marvels with a simplicity that is not possible without disfiguring more traditional frameworks. So I'd say having a cursory glance at it is a must. In terms
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by pantulis 3y ago
It's easier to try and become friend with the people who live near you.
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by pantulis 3y ago
I tried Firefox with Google Meet today and found the performance to be, ehm, not to write mom about. Still, it's nice to have it and my computer is not really the latest and greatest these days (although Chrome works fine).
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by pantulis 3y ago
Absolutely valid point, thanks for your comment!
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by pantulis 3y ago
It's better -because it's easier to scale- to sell a single 1M$ license than selling a thousand 1000$ licenses.
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by pantulis 3y ago
Billing is one of those problems that seem deceivingly easy. Just talk to someone who has worked in telco billing and learn about the 4 horsemen of billpocalypse: metering, mediation, accounting, billing.
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by pantulis 3y ago
Exactly!
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by pantulis 3y ago
What would Mother Nature think of all this?
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by pantulis 3y ago
> "As much as we like to delude ourselves into thinking that unstructured orgmode text, or even s-expressions, represent the pinnacle of text editing and the acme of scrappy hackerdom, that mantra does come with a significant penalt
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by pantulis 3y ago
I think Turbo Pascal had the capability of generating code directly to memory without generating disk files.
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by pantulis 3y ago
I know this isn't the topic of this thread, but regarding virtual pianos I find my favorite is Universal Audio's Ravel.
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by pantulis 3y ago
Are notes stored in the filesystem, like plain filles following a hierarchy based on folders (like Obsidian) or is it using some kind of indexed storage?
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by pantulis 3y ago
That's so correct, this was Conway's Law in action!
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by pantulis 3y ago
I have a pretty similar story. I spent 7 years working as a subcontractor for a big telco with CORBA, pthreads and the ACE reactor library. First week, I halted a whole contact center service by adding a sleep call to the codebase (it was
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by pantulis 3y ago
I'm sorry to read that you're going through this. I truly wish you the best of luck, fellow hacker.
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by pantulis 3y ago
That's why you never ran 'xhost +', kids.
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by pantulis 3y ago
> Self-hosting this solution (or using PGP) won't magically make you a certified QSCD trust provider. You need to convince some certifying body that everything is nice and safe, which will mostly involve a lot of paper work and (evi
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by pantulis 3y ago
Does Sideberry sync its groups and configurations between Firefox instances running on different computers?
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by pantulis 3y ago
My issue with Arc is the non-macness of the UI. I find it a great design exercise but is not exactly what I expect from a Mac app. Orion is much more interesting in terms of UI and also in performance, but I have to say that tab management
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by pantulis 3y ago
Let me guess: your first CTO was a Emacs power user.
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by pantulis 3y ago
What I find most interesting is not the use case of a standalone, small, cheap desktop computer: it's what this enables other industries to achieve. See for example, what Korg is doing in the electronic music industry with a Raspberry-
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by pantulis 3y ago
To take into cosideration: midlife crisis sometimes happens at 40, mine happened at 50. Don't ever think you are going to get away. The realization that there are more years behind your back than in front of you is huge and it will co
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by pantulis 3y ago
Or the casual colleague asking to take control of my computer to quickly help me finish a slide deck. "What is happening to this keyboard?"
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by pantulis 3y ago
Impressive! Is that a C64 any more???
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by pantulis 3y ago
If that was the case, given the abundance of DM, wouldn't we be detecting lots of energy due to their own annihilation?
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by pantulis 3y ago
>That is like 819900000000000000 seconds. This should fit in a modern 64bit CPU register right? I find it amazing that our CPUs can model the estimated age of the universe in such a simple way.
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by pantulis 3y ago
> The current ΛCDM model took years of data collection by multiple teams to even be formulated at all and eventually had multiple lines of evidence from many different areas of research all corroborate it. I guess this is why it's a

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