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   by qznc 7y ago

   For GDPR the consent of all participants is missing. In a recent HN discussion some people were explicitly complaining about their chats getting published.
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   by qznc 7y ago

   One could imagine an annotation for if-statements that both branches should run for the same number of instructions or cycles.
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   by qznc 7y ago

   Here is a war story from the Harfbuzz dude: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wMPwVNBvsIriamcyBO5aNs7C... > It turns out, for many of the scripts we are interested in (Indic-like ones), we have to deal with a
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   by qznc 7y ago

   No hinting? Isn't that bound to be ugly? I read some stuff from Behdad Esfahbod [0], author of Harfbuzz and thus one direct layer above Freetype. One article [1] illustrates well how ugly "iiiiiiiiiiii" will look without hint
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   by qznc 7y ago

   Being good at social media is not worth much by itself. What is the actual goal? Selling something?
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   by qznc 7y ago

   I get the vibes that thrwaway69 does it professionally. Maybe some social media manager job? In that case a tabletop game club will not be helpful.
7. 727.▲
   by qznc 7y ago

   Place your bets here: https://predictionbook.com/predictions/198711
8. 728.▲
   by qznc 7y ago

   Sounds like we wait for some technologies to reduce the prototype cost by two orders of magnitude. What makes it so costly?
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   by qznc 7y ago

   Our older one goes to school himself from first grade on. The second is about to start school. Each one getting to school safely is not the problem. Getting them to school safely if they walk together is a problem.
10. 730.▲
    by qznc 7y ago

    Voice fake has been done already as well. https://github.com/CorentinJ/Real-Time-Voice-Cloning
11. 731.▲
    by qznc 7y ago

    "This is fine" is an awesome idea. Now I'm sad we have to use Skype at work.
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    by qznc 7y ago

    What would be the advantage of a wiki? To me it only seems to have downsides: Not using my local text editor and having to worry about web security. Why not just put some Markdown into a git repo?
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    by qznc 7y ago

    The dump thing is a non optimizing compiler. GCC and LLVM contain many optimization phases. It is probably some normal optimization which is only "wrong" in the context of loop conditions.
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    by qznc 7y ago

    I'd say both statements are correct. Compiler implementers are happy when they don't have to care about some edge case because then the code is simpler. Thus, only for unsigned counters there is the extra logic to compile them cor
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    by qznc 7y ago

    I more serious variation on the topic: http://bootstrappable.org/
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    by qznc 7y ago

    Around 1995 I had my own PC but only my dads PC had internet access. Every other day I had half an hour of internet to download stuff. Then lots of time playing around on my PC. I did Linux from Scratch back then, for example.
17. 737.▲
    by qznc 7y ago

    Hehe. My blog falls through every statistic: No tracking and self made generator.
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    by qznc 7y ago

    I agree with number 3. Laws are introduced "against terrorism and pedophiles" and then used against drug dealers and activists.
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    by qznc 7y ago

    Practically every compiler does formal verification. The type checking of C for example. The question is what properties you want to verify. It isn't a binary question but rather a continuum from C up to Isabelle/Coq.
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    by qznc 7y ago

    http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/blog_en.html You probably should not read it. I don't have a topic but write all over the place from software engineering to fan fiction. The good articles were on the HN frontpage. That should
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    by qznc 7y ago

    Don't start with the first one (Color of magic). Pratchett became a lot better over time. Also, stick with it through one book. I found quite a few books childish in the beginning. It is often a journey from "this is silly" o
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    by qznc 7y ago

    Matthias Poehm essentially made this his personal brand: http://www.anti-powerpoint-party.com/
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    by qznc 7y ago

    We have much bigger illusions than wrestling. Ironically, a piece of fiction made the point much clearer to me: “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.&quot
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    by qznc 7y ago

    There is plenty of sites to track predictions: https://www.metaculus.com http://longbets.org http://www.knewthenews.com https://predictionbook.com I try to record predictions I find in the new
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    by qznc 7y ago

    What is the matter with losing a little bit of privacy? You have nothing to hide, don't you? /s
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    by qznc 7y ago

    Sounds like Second Life. https://www.connect.secondlife.com/about
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    by qznc 7y ago

    Sounds like Junta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junta_(game) Essentially, everybody has a role in a banana republic government. President hands out money which everyone tries to get into their swiss bank account. If th
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    by qznc 7y ago

    If you want a trading game, why not play one that is designed for that? Catan, Bohnanza, ... https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamemechanic/2008/trading/lin...
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    by qznc 7y ago

    There was the "I Am Rich" app: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
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    by qznc 7y ago

    Comments is a mostly subjective topic. In this case, I have two arguments against the comment. First, it just says what the three simple lines of code above did. Comments should rather focus on the "why" to provide information whi