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by rahen 5y ago
> The issue is whether it compares favorably to Upstart, runit, and OpenRC I would add S6 to the list, as this would be the better challenger to systemd. That said, I use OpenRC daily on Alpine servers with little to complain about.
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by rahen 5y ago
As a data processing language, IDL/GDL is even closer to Fortran. It's essentially a vectorized, interpreted, simplified Fortran. In many ways I still prefer it to Python these days.
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by rahen 5y ago
> In order to become relevant for the next 50 years, the computer needs to be made of easily replaceable parts. Inspirations are the Fairphone and the MNT Reform laptop. Interesting. I knew about the Framework laptop but the Reform seems
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by rahen 5y ago
Funny, all the simulations point to the wrong direction (ground view vs space view). I assume this design is intended for surveillance, not astronomy.
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by rahen 5y ago
Unfortunately there are few domain specific libraries available for Julia, like astropy. We're in the same situation with Julia than 10 years ago when we started moving from IDL to Python. It was painful as Python wasn't born a sc
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by rahen 5y ago
Not only out of place but it even felt downright offensive for some of us European folks. No different than quoting the Quran and praising Allah for the JWST. How about praising NASA, CSA, ESA and CNES for this brilliant endeavor?
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by rahen 5y ago
Have a look at Interlingua too. It's essentially a modernized, simplified Latin. You can readily understand it in spoken and written forms if you're used to the major western languages (English, French, Spanish, Portugese and Ital
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by rahen 5y ago
Good, lightweight, OSS text editors for the main platforms: - Linux: gedit, geany - macOS: TextMate - Windows: Notepad++ And the one to rule them all: emacs (also gvim).
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by rahen 5y ago
You probably want to test: if [ ! -f "$zipfile" ] Instead of if [ "x$zipfile" = "x" ]
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by rahen 5y ago
I use Alpine as my server OS, with Alpine, Ubuntu and CentOS containers running on it. It works great this way too.
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by rahen 5y ago
Well, claiming to offer an alternative to the GAFAM while depending on their products / data / infrastructure is a bit misleading. So indeed they're doing okay privacy wise, but a lot of users feel cheated when they realize t
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by rahen 5y ago
Doesn't it use Bing results, like DuckDuckGo does? I read it's hosted on MS Azure like Bing and DDG, so in the end it's somewhat just a rebranded Bing. Quite a shame for a European (Franco-German) search engine.
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by rahen 5y ago
This also scales well with size, so you will see that with NYC, Paris, Tokyo and most large "world cities".
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by rahen 5y ago
I don't really see the benefit over Nuitka, or even a JIT like Numba. Can someone help?
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by rahen 5y ago
Wait until you also have to mourn nslookup/dig and learn resolvectl...
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by rahen 5y ago
I find the use of dithering fairly ingenious, even though the result looks like a printed newspaper. Essentially the goal for him was to achieve the best possible energy efficiency (CPU, bandwidth) and he came up with this idea. I'm pr
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by rahen 5y ago
I knew Esperanto, but it's kind of alien and soulless. Interlingua is readily understandable for a westerner and seems to check all the boxes - easy to learn, built on widely spoken languages (notably English, French and Spanish but vo
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Interlingua – How TikTok is helping an obscure language find its new voice(dailydot.com)
4 points by rahen 5y ago|1 comments
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by rahen 5y ago
Not really, not all land can be used to host people. We need space to grow food, produce energy, have factories and offices, infrastructures... We're already using more than what the entire emerged land can provide us each year (with t
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by rahen 5y ago
Not in Africa though, which will probably multiply its population by 4 to 1Ghab by the end of the century. Also their environmental footprint will multiply by a lot more than 4.
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by rahen 5y ago
Nobody asked to delete population. The challenge is to allow people to access familial planning, make contraception and abortions more widespread in developing countries, and stop or at least reduce pro-natal fiscal policies in the West. Be
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by rahen 5y ago
I agree we should help curb down our fertility rate worldwide. However this would take at least 50 years before it starts showing effect. It's too long a time when facing an environmental emergency.
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by rahen 5y ago
Apparently it's only the status page. My mail servers have been down for just about a hour.
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by rahen 5y ago
It's now back: https://status.ovh.com Short lived incident fortunately...
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by rahen 5y ago
Many computers were designed entirely out of NAND gates. Most famously the Cray-1.
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by rahen 5y ago
Have a look at PLASMA: https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA
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by rahen 5y ago
For those interested, there is a gate-level emulator for discrete logic arcades from the 70s: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/DICE Unfortunately it isn't actively maintained anymore.
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by rahen 5y ago
> Can somebody explain why it is interesting to get a much-lower resolution image than the VLA provided? Is it sampling some property the VLA image does not? The ATA has less and shorter baselines, each made of much smaller collecting el
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by rahen 5y ago
You would be surprised, I'm 37 and yet building a PDP-8 on a (large) CPLD, because I'm fascinated with this machine. I even considered building a DTL replica of the straight 8 with PCBs and SMDs for a while, I have some R-series l
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by rahen 5y ago
> Not sure why this is on HackerNews. This is the type of content I come to HN for. Nice tight code on well designed hardware, what's not to like?

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