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by piokoch 5y ago
No F1-F12 keys? Maybe it is just a software I use all day (IntelliJ), but I think others also make some use of functional keys (for instance I like Windows convention that F2 is rename, whatever it means in a given context).
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by piokoch 5y ago
The Old Internet way, you knew people by their nicks. The only thing that mattered was what they are bringing to the table in terms of valuable input. Sex, race, nationality, education, believes, age, etc. were irrelevant. Asking someone f
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by piokoch 5y ago
"Did you know that marketers lobbied for underground design and architecture? Long labyrinths and slow escalators allow marketers to exhibit hundreds of hypnotising billboards." I did not. Are there any evidences for this? Tried g
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by piokoch 5y ago
I am only surprised child porn has not been found on her computer yet. And there is no report from some hotel room cleaner that he or she was raped by Elbakyan. Those "stolen" military secrets published in journals anyone can purc
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by piokoch 5y ago
Rather not, they are not in the business of mass production of this kind of chips. They don't need, probably they will own a few really hot patents (and they deserve them). The article mention they will team up with Samsung and Intel.
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by piokoch 5y ago
I think argument about 30% is not that good. There is a number of services that Apple provides like software distribution, updates distribution, reviews (even though they don't benefit software creator directly, they build trust in the
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by piokoch 5y ago
I am curious what are going to be consequences of this in coming year? Less flu overall? More dangerous flu overall as our immune system forgot it?
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by piokoch 5y ago
After years of not working in statistics I've decided to learn something new, so I've purchased a Coursera MOOC course on that new kid on the block - Machine Learning (now rebranded as AI I think). To my surprise (I wanted to lear
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by piokoch 6y ago
In that case it makes much more sense to build a space station somewhere in asteroids belt between Mars and Jupiter, there is carbon, metals and, what's very important, water, so it is possible to make station self-sustained and easily
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by piokoch 6y ago
This game is big, really big. It is all about getting rid of dependency on the SWIFT system backed by US dollars. Iran wants to sell oil to China and buy military equipment from them. Russia wants to sell gas to China. Right now USA can blo
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by piokoch 6y ago
You've started a really interesting discussion, after reading the thread I am no longer surprised why companies are simply banning AGPL-ed software en block. Dealing with such issues, the risk of being abused by some AGPL-enforcement t
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by piokoch 6y ago
Why "government founded grants", "medical software", "incompetence", "very profitable" and "data leaks" are always magically joined together...
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by piokoch 6y ago
China, Russia will do anything that will help to destabilize USA. Have I discovered anything new? Rather not. This sentence is a tautology. In the same way USA is/was destabilizing Middle East countries or communistic countries during
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yes, but you need to face reality. US, Germany can afford spending huge amounts of money for renewable energy, but many countries just can't. Worst, India at least recognized that they can't afford that, but for instance Poland si
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by piokoch 6y ago
You have kind of answered you own question: "people who just care about hacking something together and, as long as it works, it's fine." If you need to hack something fast, deploy it using SCP on a cheap hosting then PHP is a
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by piokoch 6y ago
Popular culture is full of historical myths, another popular one is about cruelties of Holy Inquisition. Inquisition is painted ("The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco and others) as some sadistic group of catholic priests who were
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by piokoch 6y ago
"Besides being a beautiful website". I think my beauty standards are terribly outdated since the last thing I would say about that website is that it is beautiful. Let me list my concerns: 1. It plays sound in the background 2. It
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by piokoch 6y ago
I think this is not something bad in itself - such practice is well known, for instance truck drivers are being tracked routinely and nobody makes a big fuss about that. But this is unacceptable: "telling employees to download an app o
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by piokoch 6y ago
There is a link to article in Elsevier's Environment International journal. Looking at its ranking it is not some totally crap journal (which does not prove that this particular article is correct, though).
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by piokoch 6y ago
I was investigating recently options which laptop I can buy to be able to use Linux without any issues. I've checked Lenovo Legion 5 with AMD processor. Looks like good machine for a price, but touchpad is not gonna work out of the box
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by piokoch 6y ago
We used to say if developers did not have the idea what to add to the application, they were adding ability to chose skins. Nowadays it seems adding cryptocurrencies took place of fancy skins management.
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yes, yes and yes. People are sometimes surprise why people who has a lot of money seem to be left-leaning and support things like higher taxation. First, it is never a concern for them. If they need, they offshore their money or pay lawyers
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by piokoch 6y ago
"in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working [...]. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sens
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by piokoch 6y ago
This is not that simple, unfortunately. Advertising in itself is not bad. Why informing about a good product is something wrong? How we would have Tesla or iPhones, etc. without advertising. Nobody would know about all of those. But somethi
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by piokoch 6y ago
Yes, the point with selling electricity is that you need to guarantee that you will deliver some fixed amount of electricity. If you depend on wind power plants how this guarantee can be given? What if wind stops. Maybe it would make sense
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by piokoch 6y ago
I think it can be done faster, there are people specialized in such tasks: https://www.smit.com/#view/map but yes, you are right, this is not going to be 2h fix.
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by piokoch 6y ago
"Don't try to make a career out of optimizing the SQL queries to display a preference page on a line of business app at a company that no one has ever heard of. That is not the straightforward path to having other people learn you
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by piokoch 6y ago
There is nothing ironic here: capital punishment is supposed to protect life of those who are potential future victims of a crime. It also lifts imbalance between the criminal and the victim. In a country without capital punishment criminal
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by piokoch 6y ago
I didn't know that Richard Stallman or Eric S. Raymond are abusive, toxic and misogynic meritocrats. All those people who contribute their free time into development of Linux kernel, Gnome, Tex, Audacity, Gimp, Inkscape, Libre Office t
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by piokoch 6y ago
Is there some massive action against AZ vaccine. Looking on any provided data it seems that those blood clots cases are below population averages, but everyday I read about someone killed by AZ vaccine. I feel lost, frankly speaking. AZ vac

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