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by staunton 3y ago
Yes, oups... I always mix them up
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Scientific datasets like that can be very easily hosted at one of the repositories such as zotero. The only reasons people don't do that is a vague sense of insecurity about having someone declare their analysis botched, vague legal wo
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by staunton 3y ago
"design patterns" and especially one specific pattern such as "object orientation" are just part of code, i.e., easy , according to GP.
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by staunton 3y ago
This really isn't that complicated. You can't do a link through pretty much any cloud where you would say "it's cloudy". If you're not sure, the link still works but a lot worse...
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by staunton 3y ago
> I truly don't know how people that aren't that far below us on the resources / income scale have any hope of comfortable retirement prior to actual death. "Comfortable retirement" is a luxury of the recent past
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by staunton 3y ago
I fully expect buying most things with cash will be impossible or at least very cumbersome pretty soon
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by staunton 3y ago
Not that kind of risk...
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by staunton 3y ago
I fully agree that churning out some LaTeX PDFs isn't that cumbersome compared to doing a website, for example. When you already have a workflow for PDFs, which you can pass down generations of students, doing more is work. However,
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by staunton 3y ago
Sounds like a pretty nice achievement. On another note, I'm increasingly amazed how researchers seem to persist in using ugly PDFs to publish their work. I cam understand e.g. biologists doing it, but when CS folks who should know alte
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I generally agree (although I'm not sure if the example really illustrates it enough to justify it's length). However, this is an incomplete or misleading view on three counts. First, it sounds like you're justifyimg immortal
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Both things can be true at the same time.
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Pension fund losses should not deter climate action in high-income countries(doi.org)
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> plain and simple C client? You mean native binary? Why? It is too slow?
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by staunton 3y ago
Can you explain what you mean? Is it due to the technology or an accidental adoption pattern that's independent of the technology?
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> And then people would need to take those classes as well, and not just claim they can write React apps just fine without a degree. Weird tangent. They can write React apps without a degree, can't they? What's wrong with tha
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> The longer Bitcoin survives, the more it will get adopted and integrated into the world's financial fabric, e.g., as a store of value. > We sure live in interesting times! I'm not really sure it's that interesting, or
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Very "poetic" presentation but the ideas don't speak to me. > The goal of a compiler author is that their language live. No it isn't. The goal is that the language is useful over time while discounting the future. Lan
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by staunton 3y ago
Sure, who knows. But would you like new features in C?
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> what leads you to believe that there is value in stopping others from improving upon a language they use? Continuously "improving" a language has upsides and downsides. The upside is, of course, people get to use the new feat
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I still think they should stop adding new features and do what the C committee does in keeping the language stable over the decades which it will take to slowly die, as it should. Can't the new-feature enthusiasts just make a new langu
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They (top athletes) are also often physically devastated at age 40 and suffer from chronic issues for the rest of their lives. The incentives for top athletes are not conducive to a healthy life at all.
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The logistic function is bounded, so I'm not sure what you mean...
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Nobody suggested killing Android (and they couldn't do it in the first place even if they wanted to). It's about adds. I hope this is a step towards seeing adds for what most of them are: lies, propaganda, manipulation, and a poin
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Low barrier to entry can do a lot. Regardless, a much more important factor is that all the data about everything, which people have been collecting for decades as a matter of almost religious belief in its usefulness and never done anythin
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The price of building software is going to go down a lot. Of course, the demand will increase and also the output of any given engineer. Nevertheless, the trend towards remote work and mature AI tools should lead to software engineer salari
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> People still have access to analogue amplifiers but digital simulations of them are still developed. That's because analog stuff requires hardware. There's "something to simulate". You don't simulate digital co
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> I think the evidence is pretty clear that at least the Chinese government believes that the covid-19 virus came from their lab What evidence are you referring to?
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> Some people still argue that security by obscurity works and hide everything. I doubt that. Most things involving security also use and greatly care about obscurity of implementation. The principle is that the security should not &quot
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Pretty much all architectures have "simple" instruction sets under the hood, that is, the microcode that executes the mess we put in binaries. RISC-V is based on the idea that you can skip most of this step. The difficulty is gett
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My hope is that paying for the service will absolve one from adds. But it's a very faint hope. In the long run, we will either have governments regulate adds or be ruled by adds.

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