vHMtsdf

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by vHMtsdf 4y ago
My "laptop" only gets used on desks and my "desktop" sits under my table. Go figure.. He calls it a laptop since Framework calls its computers "laptops" and the whole setup is battery powered.
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by vHMtsdf 4y ago
On my and my families windows machines, I try to follow the advice from Taylor Swift who seems to know what she is doing... https://decentsecurity.com/#/securing-your-computer/ In short: 1) secure bootup by locki
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by vHMtsdf 4y ago
I am not exactly sure what they were working on, but I am not convinced that any code can be made non-allocating easily. For example, when you are building large trees with complex structures in the nodes and you need to both add/remov
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by vHMtsdf 4y ago
It was a talk by folks from this team: https://gradient.avast.io/people-behind/
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by vHMtsdf 4y ago
I heard a talk from a large cybersecurity company that was using Julia for research and is apparently in the process of dropping Julia due to: - difficulty in hiring, apparently it was too expensive/difficult to hire Julia programmers
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
I remember a class I had where we were shown a methods for exact PC arithmetic with integers, rationals (e.g., 1/2) and algebraic numbers (e.g., sqrt(2)). Only thing it couldn't deal with were transcendental numbers (e.g., pi) I t
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
I really wanted to love syncthing a lot, I loved the idea, the interface, everything. But I would always get a number of errors on some files for whatever reason that I would have to then manually fix and sometimes I couldn't even do t
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
To be clear, in my browser, no article appeared, I only saw a single blinking eye in the middle of the screen. Together with the title in the link, I was appropriately confused/amused.
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
I think this is what a first rickroll must have felt like.
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
Regarding uranium extraction in Czechoslovakia, the Soviets later mined uranium in other sites by pumping sulfuric acid into the ground. This has caused a lasting ecological damage which has to be managed to this day. The acid was meant to
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
Kate Crawford is a famous researcher who focuses on social implications and ethics of AI, so kudos to her for being able to get her work into Nature so reliably! As an aside, that would be a real feat to ONLY publish papers in Nature, I won
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
The linked discussion makes me wonder, how much of our existence on the internet is just an unintended consequence of some minor engineering decision? Whim of an unknown engineer creating or destroying million dollar industries down the lin
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by vHMtsdf 5y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on this, but a comment in the article lead me to this discussion, which is just wild: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/issues/1482 I get a sense that the maintainers hol
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Failure Story of the Drunken Shotgun(gamasutra.com)
49 points by vHMtsdf 6y ago|22 comments
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by vHMtsdf 6y ago
They have some in the news section: http://gpl-violations.org/news/