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by q-big 4y ago
> exaFLOP Nitpick: FLOPS (floating point operations per second) is singular. "FLOP" is "floating point operations per", which does not make sense. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
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by q-big 4y ago
When I read the title, I was thinking that this was an application for the computer algebra system Magma: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_(computer_algebra_system... > http://magma.maths.usyd.edu
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by q-big 4y ago
> Printed books - > 300-400 € per semester. Ebooks from questionable sites - > free. + more and more material is from papers instead of books so pdf were easier unless you wanted to pay 20 cent per page printed at the university pr
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by q-big 4y ago
The first computer mouse was not invented by Douglas Engelbart, but by the German corporation Telefunken: Auf den Spuren der deutschen Computermaus https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Auf-den-Spuren-der-d... &
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by q-big 4y ago
> The simplicity of the Taylor series of sine and cosine is irrelevant, there are no important applications for those series. The addition theorems for trigonometric functions can easily be shown by the multiplication theorem for Taylor
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by q-big 4y ago
This is perfectly explainable: Very often, early adaptors of, say, communities are a very different breed of people than people who join the community in a later phase. So, it is the behaviour to expect that sooner or later these early ad
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by q-big 4y ago
> This site really isn't news for hackers, either... I would consider this actually to be a serious point. Indeed there exist people who complain that the focus of Hacker News has shifted from what it was in the past.
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by q-big 4y ago
> Books also don't have the secondary income stream of live performance, so they're even more at risk of major loss. Lecture offers are secondary income streams for nonfiction authors (actually very similar to what live perfo
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by q-big 4y ago
> Purchase books. Please. The people who download lots of books illegally are often also the biggest buyers of books.
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by q-big 4y ago
> I suppose they have the “Toys R Us” kind of thing in mind with it. The German Wikipedia page explicitly mentions that the Я in Toys R Us is not supposed to be a cyrillic letter: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/in
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by q-big 4y ago
> Sounds like you're doing it wrong. Then I have to conclude that a lot of dating advice that one finds is plainly wrong: "show off your best side" is for example an instance of "manipulate the other person to believe
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by q-big 4y ago
> The issues laid out in this[0] email thread are pretty concerning, [...] Then I saw this[1] recent email response which left yet another bad taste in my mouth. To me, being German, these e-mails from Jörg Knobloch rather look like the
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by q-big 4y ago
Some people insanely detest being manipulated - even if it is for their own good (that's at least what the manipulating person claims). I personally observe this "manipulation-detesting" character trait in particular to be pr
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by q-big 4y ago
> There are of course valid points in there but this is not the way to make them. Why not? I consider such slight renaming to be quite a good idea since these are quite memorable and thus hopefully hackers will tend to use them in ever
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by q-big 4y ago
> in the end it will end up as an absurd waste or the Star Wars of gaming. Why not something like because the funding dries off, they will put together the parts that are somewhat complete into a game that will turn out to be a quite ave
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by q-big 4y ago
> In that case, target dates must be carefully forecasted and estimates must be performed with great care and detain. That is exactly what many software engineers accuse of quite some project managers not to do.
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by q-big 4y ago
> random people come by and make demands with zero plans to pay for it. Perhaps we should then oppose the whole "hustle culture" which such attempts are part of (i.e. make demands without willing to pay, see whether they stick)
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by q-big 4y ago
Just for the sake of completeness: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/24/logj4-security-inquir... has a link at the end to the following HN and Reddit discussions: > https://news.ycombinat
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by q-big 4y ago
> The metaphor in this case is pretty straightforward as are its limits, and it doesn’t appear to be causing confusion with people misidentifying attributes of the metaphor that don’t map to the software domain. One of the central points
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by q-big 4y ago
> It's clear that the PRs aren't your own content, unlike comments which you're sorta responsible for moderating. I see this differently: you have some own content * a blog post * a Git repository that is hosted by some pr
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by q-big 4y ago
> and can just ignore PRs This complaint is in my opinion rather specific to GitHub (and could thus likely be solved by switching to a more repository provider, or hosting the repository oneself), but not being able to disable PRs at you
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by q-big 4y ago
> and the 'treaty' at the end of that war was "make stuff that isn't awful", which is being peeled away layer by layer. There never was a treaty (not even an informal one!). In businesses, the reason why open sou
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by q-big 4y ago
> The most difficult part about software engineering and IRL engineering is the feeling of “everything’s broken always” and just constantly needing to fix or tweak things. Who says that this feeling is not entirely correct and most of so
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by q-big 4y ago
What actually happened to Devuan, the fork that was created because of the decision to use systemd in Jessie? > https://www.devuan.org/
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by q-big 4y ago
> It seems a bit off to me to claim it's a superset of C while banning the subset of C. C++ is not a superset of C.
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by q-big 4y ago
> They're maglev trains, so there's no pantograph involved there. The linked wikipedia article also lists speeds of Chinese non-maglev trains.
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by q-big 4y ago
> The engineer that can solve this problem will allow top speeds in the range of 400/500 kph on /existing/ TGV tracks. How is this problem solved in China? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastest_tr
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by q-big 4y ago
> This is the problem with privatisation of public services. The much bigger problem is that not masses of users quit such a problem if such a problem occurs. This is a signal to the market that such behavior is perfectly fine. Markets h
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by q-big 4y ago
> Turns out there is some pretty good architecture documentation: https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12358545 .. but that only describes the 3D capabilities, not the whole register map. This documentation is for the Vide
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by q-big 4y ago
> I am in favor of double-blind, non-public peer reviews because I don't want to invite 4Chan into my daily work. At least for mathematics papers, the community who works in a particular area, and is thus actually able to do a revie

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