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by perlgeek 2y ago
> I’m wondering, what keeps Windows afloat? Businesses with specialized software that doesn't run (or isn't supported) anywhere except on Windows. It's declining, because lots of business applications are moving to the web
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Search can still serve ads on their own pages (which Google calls "AdWords"), and (iirc) makes the most revenue for Google. AdSense is serving ads on third-party websites, which is very different.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> How might you see solving this problem? Break up google, disentangle AdSense from Search. Then the search division doesn't have incentives anymore to prioritize websites based on AdSense presence.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
And those that you cannot assert, you can still document, which will make debugging easier.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I really hope this works out. The cynic in me immediately says "so many moving parts, maintenance will be quite a problem", but I don't really have the expertise to make that a argument against the success of this concept.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
You probably need to adjust the time scale of what "recent" means based on the number of reviews. If a project has a total of 10 reviews, it's probably best to not just take the average of the 2 newest reviews. On the other h
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> Also, unless you're driving some kind of monstrously powerful performance special, your brakes can overpower your engine. I've seen a few combinations of engine power and breaking power of car, and if I remember correctly, th
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Given how much of a huge pain it was to use PGP / gpg back in the days (for email encryption/signatures, to be precise), it's amazing how easy end-to-end encryption on Signal and Whatsapp is. And how it lacks that drama that
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Another interesting generalization of the DFT is the Lomb-Scargle transformation, which doesn't require a fixed measurement interval in the time domain. It is often used to determine the frequency of a period signal when you don't
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> One of the interesting ideas [...] is to run high-speed rail to Moses Lake Airport in Central Washington and just expand there. While reading this article, I thought about something like that too. Build an airport quite a while away fr
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by perlgeek 3y ago
My experiences, though a few years old, boil down to this: * Spam isn't really a problem if you only allow members to send mails to the list * Moderation effort really depends on the size. If you have 10 or maybe 20 well-behaving membe
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It's not really a hard problem. Even if you argue that for example a phone and messaging app should/must be preinstalled on a phone, Apple could allow competing apps for that, and uninstalling or disabling the preinstalled one. Th
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Raku (formerly Perl 6) has picked ^ and $ for start-of-string and end-of-string, and has introduced ^^ and $$ for start-of-line and end-of-line. No multi line mode is available or necessary. (There's also \h for horizontal and \v for v
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> This new paper demonstrates that their model can fit a part of the observational data, including parts that could not be explained by the previous models using dark matter. That's how nearly all successful models started out: bei
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by perlgeek 3y ago
There are now several good lines of evidence for dark matter, at least: * rotation curves of galaxies * cosmic microwave background fluctuations * gravitational lensing of galaxies which would otherwise have far too little mass Whenever a &
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by perlgeek 3y ago
not against silver bullets :-)
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by perlgeek 3y ago
As someone living in the EU, I'm well aware of the EU's failings, but also of the successes, and I think we don't celebrate them enough. Some things I really like: * I can travel in a wide area with just my ID card (and pract
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> Only other edge case is if someone takes a 2024-02-29 timestamp and modify the year part, without using date library to do so. That should be rare, only use case is a yearly report. Another use case: you create a pair of cryptographic
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Huh, my mental model was always that Blue Origin is a small-ish company, and ULA is a behemoth made from merging two already-behemoth launch companies. I guess I never validated these assumptions, and I didn't really count the amount o
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Somehow, Thorium has been the future of nuclear reactors about as long as fusion has been. It's almost a running gag. (And yes, I know that there are concrete plans for commercial Thorium fission reactors, in a way that aren't for
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by perlgeek 3y ago
https://www.drugs.com/ozempic.html says > after 30 weeks, patients on Ozempic 0.5mg had lost 2.6 kg more than the placebo group, and patients on Ozempic 1mg lost 3.5 kg more than the placebo group. That doesn't seem
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I remember being surprised by the open core thing some years ago. I had been an Apache user for quite some time, and thought I'd take a look at the (at that point, a few years old) "new" shiny thing. I found that something as
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Another valuation/taxation scheme I've read about is: you can value your patent however you want, and it's taxed based on that value. The kicker is: the values are public, and if anybody wants to buy it for something higher t
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> GIF was, despite patents a dominating image format for a long time and PNG took quite a while to replace it. Yes, and it caused quite some legal grief for many software vendors. > If we look at video codecs "open" variants
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Open Source Software has a hugely important factor that we don't talk about enough, IMHO: it promotes standards that are actually accepted. Think about it. A new image compression standard comes out. What are the chances that it become
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It works fine for me, with a current FF on Linux (Ubuntu), opening in a new tab. I have lots of extensions enabled. But I do share your frustration: the modern web seems unusable, unless you have a collection of extensions that block ads, a
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by perlgeek 3y ago
There might not be a previous value. If you insert a record and then later delete it, you need to store a range or two timestamps to know when the insertion and the deletion happened.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
The application I develop for work has its own, horrible, home-brew solution to update log/audit log, you cannot really call it system-versioned, so I read each of these posts with interest. One thing that nearly all of them gloss over
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Maybe a complete biosphere is still a valuable target for resource exploitation?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It would boost the navy's ego dramatically, because then nukes carried on submarines would have another strategic edge over silo-based missiles.

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