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by sedachv 9y ago
> The biggest threat seems to be that the government will have my data and I'll be advertised at, but having my own domain doesn't help either way. Am I missing something? The biggest threat is that Google removes or locks you
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by sedachv 9y ago
> "a few ten-thousandths of an inch" - close to micro meter precision - sounds almost like exaggeration, but some type of stone might just split in a very planar way. Not an exaggeration, just an extremely long time spent hand
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by sedachv 9y ago
Check out Christian Schafmeister's research if you are interested in this: https://www.schafmeistergroup.com/ There is a brief summary of the history of Schafmeister's approaches (and why he thinks direct copying
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Barring some serious security gaps, JS isn't even capable of doing anything more than lock up the browser and maybe send some extremely minimal information about you back to someone elses server. Not true. First JavaScript Rowhamm
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by sedachv 9y ago
Has anyone here tried building a laser printer following Horace Labadie's book Build Your Own Postscript Laser Printer and Save a Bundle ?
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by sedachv 9y ago
> as fewer people turn off JS and browsers become better at running web apps In my anecdotal experience, I am running across more people that are turning off JavaScript, partly because browsers are becoming more bloated and worse at runn
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by sedachv 9y ago
Why? You can use Youtube just fine with w3m and an external media player: http://francismurillo.github.io/2017-01-11-Using-vlc-With-w3...
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by sedachv 9y ago
> At some point blaming administrations 30 years ago for practices continued by subsequent administrations becomes deeply dishonest. That statement is nonsensical. Who else is to blame for originating these policies?
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by sedachv 9y ago
Private prison contracts are structured to basically provide taxpayer-subsidized slave labor.[1][2] It is just another Reagan-Thatcher era privatization scam. [1] http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2013/09&#x
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by sedachv 9y ago
That is already how biology is being taught: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m4Gvu90Ydw [Lec 1 | MIT 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004]
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by sedachv 9y ago
> At borders is a huge limitation. In the United States, border zones are any areas up to 100 miles inland from a land border or coast. The majority of US population and cities are in border zones and the border rules apply to them: htt
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by sedachv 9y ago
What advantages does HOCON have over s-expressions?
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Also note that lack of hygiene is actually a useful feature - it allows macros to capture variables from code passed to it as well as the environment they expand it. Some cool stuff can be done that way (some uncool foot-shooting too,
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Plus there is a big love of embedded images in signatures, different fonts around the text in their signatures.. all sorts of stuff. IMO not displaying people's dumb signatures is a big advantage of text email clients. I switched
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by sedachv 9y ago
Benchmarks or GTFO. Tracing JITs are hard to implement, use up a lot of memory, and cannot efficiently implement many kinds of control flow[1]. AFAIK TraceMonkey was the only JavaScript tracing JIT and it was not that great.[2] [1] https:&
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by sedachv 9y ago
Emacs has had both shell completion popups (via Helm) and a better git UI (magit) for a number of years now.
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Haskell is complicated, but some complication is needed and that's more of a learning-curve problem. That is a junk argument. No one needs context-sensitive grammars. I think designing a language that cannot be parsed with an LL(1
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by sedachv 9y ago
> I think you should really be pushing more for SML or Haskell or something like that. There are two clues in this sentence (mentioning SML and not OCAML, "something like that") that suggest you do not regularly program in a &q
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Yes, the exhilaration of having the next big thing is great, but functionally I'm inclined to believe that having the old thing is just fine 99% of users, and probably 80% of HN readers. A couple of months ago I dusted off an Acer
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by sedachv 10y ago
This slide deck is incredible. Slide 8 "Language evolution" compares LISP vs Haskell to a rotary telephone vs a cell phone, then the next 80 code-packed slides are spent re-inventing s-expressions, but more verbose and harder to u
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by sedachv 10y ago
Dammed rivers release less water because of increased evaporation. Another problem is riverbed deepening which lowers the groundwater table. Where the water pools up is also important - having a bunch behind a dam when former wetlands and f
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by sedachv 10y ago
I am a mail account hoarder (9 so far and more coming) and offlineimap together with mu4e is the best email client for multiple IMAP accounts across multiple mail servers. For sending mail I have message-mode and smtpmail.el (both come with
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by sedachv 10y ago
Not the original poster but here are two issues I currently have with EXWM (have been using it exclusively for about two months now): 1. If Emacs hangs/pauses, the window manager hangs/pauses. Can't really do anything in X so
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by sedachv 10y ago
Dams contribute to droughts by limiting the recharge of downstream ground water levels and aquifiers.
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by sedachv 10y ago
This point cannot be overstated right now. Recommendation systems like Amazon's are terrible for book discovery compared to looking at the rest of the shelf when you are getting a book at a library. There is a popular sentiment that th
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by sedachv 10y ago
A lot of people, including me, think the exact opposite: we should be tearing down as many existing dams as possible. Dams are extremely damaging to river ecosystems and are a huge contributor to coastline erosion and exacerbate droughts.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> and the documented bird deaths are awful[2]. Stop quoting this bullshit "fact." It is a meme made up by conservative think tanks to discredit wind farms. As other posters have already pointed out, other human-related factors
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by sedachv 10y ago
In the 1980s and 1990s the Vancouver Stock Exchange was notorious for fraud, and Vancouver was known as the "scam capital of the world."
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by sedachv 10y ago
For some historical perspective, compare this to Harold Cohen's AARON generative rule-based system: http://www.aaronshome.com/aaron/aaron/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARON P
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by sedachv 10y ago
That is a shame to hear. As recently as 2011 I thought that MEC's house brand gear was much higher quality and had better design and features than REI's house brand. The MEC stuff I bought was comparable to some of that made by mo

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