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by tralarpa 6y ago
Yes, number of aphids goes up, number of butterflies goes down. Conclusion: no net change. The study has been criticised by German scientists for this reason. With rather drastic words, e.g. "I don't understand how a paper with su
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by tralarpa 6y ago
And then you end up with explanations like "Gravity is like a deformation of a rubber sheet". Completely misleading. In a similar case (not physics), I literally wasted years on trying to understand something correctly because I w
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by tralarpa 6y ago
> Code browsing and inspection is somewhat hampered by the fact its CLI. That's interesting because code browsing and inspection are by far the most important reason why I use a modern IDE. I tolerate all their weaknesses (slow, hig
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by tralarpa 6y ago
Concerning the example with the outstanding orders, I think the main problem in practice is not so much the poor naming of the variable, but the lack of documentation of the called function ("Process" in this case). I could live w
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by tralarpa 6y ago
> but for the fact that Germans so readily identify with the idea of taking pleasure from another's misfortune that they coined a word for the term That was meant as a joke, I suppose? If not, you might remember that it is very easy
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by tralarpa 6y ago
You can kind of do that in Java by manipulating the integer cache
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by tralarpa 7y ago
May I ask what your field is? Is it CS? I am asking because we computer scientists are sometimes a little bit naive when it comes to research and publications. In other fields, like pharmaceutics, where future patents can be worth hundreds
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by tralarpa 7y ago
I don't understand what the contribution of this paper is. The most important thing, a scability test, is missing. You don't need 16 pages to describe a LoRa-based device-to-device messaging application.
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by tralarpa 7y ago
I kept using my Amiga(s) as my main computer as long as possible, then switched to Windows NT and OpenGL. Very happy to have skipped the HIMEM/extender/etc. nightmare on MSDOS :)
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Or just buy The Art of Electronics :)
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Can you tell me more about that? I am only using a local database (with GenealogyJ) and I don't have any experience with online databases like ancestry.com. How is your dad using it? Do the people he's paying directly enter the da
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by tralarpa 7y ago
The sentence "routinely showering (hot-to-) cold resulted in a 29% reduction of self-reported sick leave from work but not illness days" raises some alarms. Also the fact that so many participants discontinued the intervention &qu
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Amiga OS 9 would have looked very different from the Amiga OS that we know (I am talking from a developer's point of view, not about the GUI). Since inter-process communication in Amiga OS was based on message passing with memory-shari
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by tralarpa 7y ago
How do you guarantee that the two trained autoencoders speak the "same language", i.e. the code learned by the autoencoder of the original face gives a reasonable output when uncompressed by the target autoencoder?
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by tralarpa 7y ago
As the authors wrote in the discussion section, it is not very surprising that a combination of light physical activity and meditative mindset has general positive effects. However, you could probably obtain the same result by walking and r
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Maybe, but it kind of became (or already was?) the official position of the catholic church for many centuries. And many of his rules (mariage, bestiality, etc.) were supported by the bible. A theologist once wrote that the concepts of dead
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by tralarpa 7y ago
I used the javascript and java versions of mxGraph (jgraphx) in several projects. Very powerful libraries with many features and many possibilities for customization. Documentation sucked, though.
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by tralarpa 7y ago
> it leaves "assume it's magic and extrapolate" as the only viable world view. Yeah, and, to be fair to people in the past, the assumption that similar things are connected often works well in practice. If you already know
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Seems to be this one: https://www.merkur.de/bayern/54jaehrige-unfall-vollautomatis...
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by tralarpa 7y ago
> Why good? Who knows? We would need a time machine to know that. I could imagine several reasons: - Because it works sometimes (coincidence or not) - Because believing to understand what is going on around you gives you an illusion of s
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Jump of logic for us. Not for people in the past. This is called a "vertical" (or magic) world view where things with similar properties are believed to be connected. Examples: 1. The moon is influencing the ocean? -> It will a
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by tralarpa 7y ago
By the way, the possible difference between instruction and data address space can have interesting effects. Amiga programmers, do you remember the (bad) habit of putting data fields directly into the code? Like this fragment: ...
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by tralarpa 7y ago
The two MMUs use the same page table. There is only one page table root pointer (actually two: one for user mode and one for kernel mode). But there are two translation caches for code and data (usually called TLB; called ATC in the 68040).
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by tralarpa 7y ago
The languages Oberon and Oberon-2 were explicitly designed for the task of creating the operating system Oberon. When Wirth started working on the OS he realized that it would be too hard to write a nice OS with just Modula-2 (at least that
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by tralarpa 7y ago
If I remember correctly, Wirth mentioned the moon Oberon and the fact that the name starts with an "O" (like "object oriented") as the source for the name of his programming language.
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by tralarpa 7y ago
> isn't even remotely related to the subject That's quite a statement, knowing the history of those languages.
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by tralarpa 7y ago
> better to have every body just learn english as their second (computer usage) language Why not Chinese? It would have many advantages: - Text layout would be much easier (Chinese fonts are mostly mono-space). - In addition to the first
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Me, too, me, too. Knowing a little bit of Chinese, I can understand that this is not an easy job for an AI. Too much context dependend stuff. Or maybe, there are simply not enough bilingual documents for the training. That's the great
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by tralarpa 7y ago
> I appear to have kicked off a frenzy of folks eurosplaining Ah, come on. You asked for it, didn't you? You wrote "I'm guessing it's a special magic planet with startlingly good weather year-round, without disabled p
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by tralarpa 7y ago
> I can use any half-decent online translation services and the result is totally understandable But in the case of deepl, the result is not only understandable but also often (but not always) nearly perfect.

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