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by stewbrew 7y ago
This actually actually looks surprisingly readable to me. What I find really funny though is how they use Haskell as a strict language mostly working around its lazy nature with all those do, let etc. constructs. It really makes you wonder
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I don't think this is correct. It wasn't Popper who came up with that bizarre misunderstanding of statistical testing theory that haunts social sciences. I myself had reservations towards Popper for quite some time (for similar re
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by stewbrew 7y ago
You need permanent ventilation, better heat insulation, better doors and windows etc. for this to work. You still have to plan for some way of heating so you cannot just leave that out. This in all takes more energy to build and maintain. T
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Computer science is something different than software engineering, which is something different than coding. One can discuss about which one of these albeit partially overlapping skill sets is best for which job/task but this doesn&#x2
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by stewbrew 7y ago
2 questions: - Doesn't "loopless" actually mean "implicit looping"? (unless you assume infinite parallelization) - How do you debug a chain of "loopless" functions when some corner case invalidates your as
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by stewbrew 7y ago
"I think that there exists a lisp with a set of axioms that split program execution into "compile-time" execution" Common lisp macros? Pre-hygienic macros in scheme? Did I get you wrong? The question is what is missing t
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by stewbrew 7y ago
He is famous for having written his books on basis of his Zettelkasten but I doubt he invented it. It could well be he thought so himself though after having lost/omitted the external reference on that index card of his named Zettelkas
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by stewbrew 7y ago
What makes you believe this is a more likely explanation than imitation of what they saw their peers doing?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I doubt they would have to change a single word to allow a third party (yet another recipient) to decrypt any message ever sent over this service.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Well, his a priori is rather skewed, though.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
"AutoOut is an automated outlier detection and treatment tool that allows you to get better models with even better accuracy without writing a single line of code." Is this ironic? If not, shouldn't you somehow describe your
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by stewbrew 7y ago
But why. What are the advantages and disadvantages?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
I prefer simpletask for Android.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The list is somewhat biased: Iron (from iron ore) [...] Steel (from iron) Paper (from standing timber) Is the energy for digging up the ore or felling that tree + transport + machinery for production included? Steel sho
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The problem is that it didn't just work e.g. on Windows with filenames that contained non-Ascii chars for a long time.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Modern Androids only support mtp for data access, which doesn't work well for that use case.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Who determined the "lack of significant body odour"? How was it measured? What's the threshold? Was there a control group? Was the experiment repeated at several times of the year?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Are there really people out there who believe that these things are "green"? It was well known before that the life expectancy those scooters is measured in months. It is also well known that electric vehicles with lithium batteri
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by stewbrew 7y ago
It's a pity they use pie charts to show off their software. At least the don't show them in 3D. (And just to make it clear: there is no use case where pie charts are the best solution. At best they are an acceptable solution.)
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by stewbrew 7y ago
The author takes a long time to explain what problem this is going to solve. Only at the bottom of the page did I get a vague idea.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
"It could be that I’ve never had a religious thought in my life." The very idea that life has to originate from somewhere/somewhat and cannot just happen sounds like a secular reformulation of a typically religious statement.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
So, the problem of nuclear waste is solved now?
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by stewbrew 7y ago
That's a rather unfair and naive assessment. Scientific disciplines exist within certain paradigmatic borders. What seems right for quantum physics might be implausible in the context of, e.g., cultural studies. What seems right in the
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Related all time classic: Roger Callois: La Pieuvre : essai sur la logique de l'imaginaire.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Well it's probably a question of perspective and problem domain. Also my main concern is precision and correctness. Quite often you can choose between (1) customized tools that achieve almost what you want them to do, but often the peo
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by stewbrew 7y ago
You make it sound as if this were a bad thing. RDBMS work well for many use cases. There are plenty of tools around to work with them. Good open source implementations exist.
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by stewbrew 7y ago
So how many seats are needed to hire somebody who creates a custom shiny + R app that does exactly what you want? How big is the average company that makes use of tableau etc.? Let's do the math ...
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Unless somebody else built the app from source and reproduced exactly the same binaries there is no guarantee that the binaries you download were actually built from the source you're looking at. Open source per se doesn't magical
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by stewbrew 7y ago
Can it be used on 2 monitors yet? I know you can detach the source editor but this is not the way I like it. IMHO RStudio 's usability suffers greatly from the rigid 2x2 layout -- or it did so the last time I tried. I also find the han
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by stewbrew 7y ago
How is the user experience with that if you don't use Intellij? It seems to require explicit support by the IDE, which is why it doesn't seem to work with eclipse.

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