skriticos2

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by skriticos2 10y ago
>> English, like many other European languages such as German, has many loanwords from French, Latin, Greek, and probably even more. That's what I hinted at with "it's a funny mix of other languages". >> It m
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I heard this opinion before.. but I also speak Hungarian from birth and a tiny bit Japanese (out of hobby). English is rather simple. Not as simple as Esperanto mind you, but simple enough (comparatively) that it beats most alternatives tha
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I speak Esperanto (at least used to, I grew up with it), but I have come to learn the practicality of a language is in it's usage, and so English wins out (I'm from Germany, so English is not my first language either). English is
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by skriticos2 10y ago
People are different. I like typing, so I do it a lot while coding. Admittedly I use it more to write a journal to gather my thoughts and outline the strategies to solve problems and keep to plain English most of the time, but I do like fas
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by skriticos2 10y ago
Not contradicting your core argument (though I'm sceptical about the significance in impact of this process), but you are certainly apt at mutating grammar: the plural of virus is viruses - not virii. http://english.stackexc
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I would also hazard a guess that the closer to the horizon the Sun is located, the more atmosphere it needs to cross to reach you (because of the lower angle) which results in higher absorption rate before it reaches you (simply said, it&#x
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I was a bit paranoid about this in my mid 20's, so I learned touch-typing the Dvorak layout (well supported on all major OS's, so no problem using it everywhere), got myself a decent mechanical keyboard a few years later and I use
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by skriticos2 10y ago
A DIY toolkit would be nice, that gives you various peaces that it explains and then let's you fit them together. Of course without a million dependencies, clean-room type display of concept. Anybody bored enough to build this?
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by skriticos2 10y ago
Banking is all about ledgers and everybody is rolling their own. That's why there are big clearing houses that allow funds to be transferred between entities. It's a form of minimal protocol, but it's still incredibly ineffic
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I have never noticed it until today, sitting in a completely quiet room.. yes, it's there. But it's incredibly quiet. ps: and only when using the touchpad.
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I just got a Dell XPS 13 (with Ubuntu pre-installed). It's a fairly well built machine and works without any major issues that I could find. I mostly bought it because of the infinity edge screen (very small bevel), which you won'
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I'm writing this from a Kaby Lake (7th gen) I5 running Fedora 24 and it shipped with Ubuntu (Dell XPS). It does require the newest packages but I don't see any major issues. My Skylake (6th gen) NUC I5 works well with Fedora 24 to
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by skriticos2 10y ago
Windows 8 has almost no corporate adoption, so the interesting data point is 2020 and 7, which is just a bit more than three years away. Migration targets should be somewhere around 2019 (last minute really), but procurement for new machine
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by skriticos2 10y ago
>> "don't manufacture and maintain themselves" Well, for any kind of industrial operation you'll want to plant the trees.. then there is the 10-20 year growth period that's kind of a problem for planning flexi
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by skriticos2 10y ago
There is a simple way: 1. Plant tree 2. Wait 20 years 3. Chop tree 4. Burn tree in steam engine and generate electricity. However, that's a long time for a relatively small amount of energy (not even counting logistics losses here). Mo
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by skriticos2 10y ago
I think you missed the point. What I read from the statement is that Warren was not good at sports (arbitrary discipline not matching his forte for illustration) so he would suck in an economy focused around it. What he implies is that a lo
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by skriticos2 10y ago
The travel industry (packaged trours) say it will replace catalouges. Sounds plausible for me and as far as I heared there are a few pilots going on.
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by skriticos2 11y ago
I picked this up a few days ago on Steam and spent considerable time on it since then. It's really addictive for people who like automation. It has a nice pace, throwing in some interesting challenges, but generally let's you focu
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by skriticos2 11y ago
They might send some porn and maybe give the crew some privacy.. but really, if they are focused on how not to die in the next 72 hours for the duration of the mission, this might not be as big a problem as you think.
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by skriticos2 11y ago
Because afterward you only need to send about 4 bytes, instead of multiple KB, because the other end already has the image and just needs the serial?
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by skriticos2 11y ago
Uniformity and documentation. If you want to do something fancy with the terminal (ncurses like) and try go get into the topic, you'll find a dozen different standards that add bits and peaces with only very cryptic documentation and n
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by skriticos2 11y ago
Tap-water is very much a hit-or-miss here in Germany. In some cities (like Berlin) it's almost hazardous, while in other cities it's very drinkable. The tubes the water passes also make a big difference (there are still lot's
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by skriticos2 11y ago
I agree. A company's efficiency and effectiveness all depend on a working interlude between (org) process and sane leadership decisions. No kind of process or organizational structure will fix bad management. I guess, for bigger organi
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by skriticos2 11y ago
The Hungarian notation is informal and not enforced by compilers. You can easily do >> bool iMyInt; It's obviously wrong, but the compiler will happily compile it. When you declare the following in go: >> type NotExported s
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by skriticos2 12y ago
If I put your comment to any of the popular TTS systems, it will be understandable, but painful to listen to. If I create a presentation and use a TTS instead of talking myself, people will cringe and hope it's over soon. That's w
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by skriticos2 12y ago
This reminds me on how researchers call speech synthesis a "solved problem" since decades. When asked why they don't use it for presentations, they say that it just doesn't sound very well..
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by skriticos2 12y ago
For me, the quality of a keyboard mostly comes from it's ergonomics. That mostly means tall, mechanical keys that give me tactile feedback about 2/3 press with some space to go. I can't imagine how you'd cram that kind o
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by skriticos2 12y ago
Asking someone a quick question while they are in the middle of something is a good way to break their focus. It takes a lot of effort to "get into the zone", so you will not only lower the productivity of the person you "ask
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by skriticos2 12y ago
I did not mean to say that it's an easy problem to solve, just that I don't see an overwhelming political or societal will to push for a solution here. Flying to the moon was also a hard problem, but resources got allocated and th
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by skriticos2 12y ago
For me this tells that we as a species are still horrible at producing electricity in an environmentally balanced way. Especially stuff that's on the grid (like stationary computers) should be easy to run on regenerative energy and as

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