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by veddox 6y ago
> The same applies to German, what is spoken today isn't much like the German spoken 150 years ago. How do you mean that? Of course there were different styles of speaking (especially in polite speech), but it‘s perfectly intelligib
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by veddox 6y ago
Languages are inseperable from the culture they evolve in. Humour, historical references, values, even entire philosophical concepts can be impossible to adequately translate, because they are often so closely tied to the way a culture’s la
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by veddox 6y ago
I know some Koine Greek and am just starting on Hebrew, both of which I wanted to learn to help me understand the Bible better (as a Christian). For Greek, I bought myself a textbook to get started and did a lot of vocabulary on Memrise. To
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by veddox 6y ago
I've just started learning biblical Hebrew, and I must say I find it a fascinating language - especially its alphabet (or aleph-bet, rather). I'm particulary intrigued by the development visible in the writing: how it started off
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by veddox 6y ago
I haven't tried Budgie yet. I really like Elementary - a lovely design consistently implemented. Unfortunately (like you said for Budgie), I found it buggy enough that I eventually went back to standard Ubuntu. Might give it another tr
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by veddox 6y ago
If you have an issue with a specific user, take it up with dang. Ultimately, it's not "the algorithm" that makes HN what it is, but the people. Software can enforce minimal rules, but it takes more than that to make a communi
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by veddox 6y ago
If you know German, have a look at his writing ("Ansichten der Natur", for example.) The prose is just beautiful!
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by veddox 6y ago
Absolutely! That was my favourite book of the year when I read it. And not that long for a biography, actually.
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by veddox 6y ago
"Almost ignore" is a bit strong - his South American trip is 40 of 340 pages. But yes, she doesn't give it any special prominence compared to the rest of his life (as it perhaps would have earned), and she talks a lot about h
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by veddox 6y ago
We use such a setup for the students‘ computer lab at our research institute. Great way to get a lot of cheap work stations and introduce students to Linux and server computing. Although one should also mention that the Pis are a little too
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by veddox 6y ago
I'm pretty sure this is an attempt to regain some of the market share they lost against Nextcloud. IIRC, the latter's popularity has been growing continuously, while OC has been stagnating/shrinking. Let's see if they ca
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by veddox 6y ago
That the German government (specifically, ITZBund) chose to use Nextcloud is one of the most reassuring things I ever heard about it :D Thanks for this comment, and your work on {own/Next}Cloud!
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by veddox 6y ago
I very much like Nextcloud too, and have set up/administrated three instances in various contexts (family, friends, work). It has a lot of great features and good multi-platform support. I also like that the company is based in Germany
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by veddox 6y ago
Here's a more detailed (German) discussion of what the rewrite entails: https://www.heise.de//news/ownCloud-Infinite-Scale-Go-statt-... I wonder what this will mean for the competition with Nextcloud? So far,
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ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP(heise.de)
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by veddox 6y ago
The sound quality for phone calls is fantastic - I prefer Threema calls over regular mobile phone calls because they are just so much clearer. (Provided one has a stable Internet connection, of course.)
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by veddox 6y ago
> By reading indiscriminately, I learned to discriminate—and learned also to comprehend: for it’s only with the acquisition of large data sets that we also develop schemas supple enough to interpret new material. That's a good sente
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by veddox 6y ago
Oh, hello, interesting to see you here :D Perhaps you ought to say that you're a co-creator of the language...
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by veddox 6y ago
I deeply loath R for its terrible type idiosyncracies, syntax, and slowness. However, even I must admit that it is incredibly good at what it was meant to do - analyse and display data. (And yes, the tidyverse is a huge improvement of the
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by veddox 6y ago
I think its website makes it pretty clear that it's mostly targeting scientists... https://julialang.org/ , https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/ (The first two words of the Introduction are liter
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by veddox 6y ago
> Julia has to be way better than Python to give people an incentive to switch. A language doesn't necessarily have to give all the old programmers an incentive to switch, if it can position itself as a good language for new program
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by veddox 6y ago
It's not meant for web, it's meant for scientific computing. And it has already left a mark on that field.
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by veddox 6y ago
I don't like those two either, but that doesn't change the fact that the rest of the language is absolutely ideal for what I do ;-) (ecosystem modelling)
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I shifted my family to Threema last year. Paid for it myself in the case of my younger siblings :D But it‘s working really well.
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by veddox 6y ago
It seems most people have chosen the centralized system, whether we like it or not. So then, the next choice would indeed be „public or private“?
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That‘s a good observation, and I agree, though I wonder why. It would seem to me that Americans have had more experiences with bad companies, and Europeans more experiences with bad governments over the past 300 years...
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by veddox 6y ago
1) Mostly remote (I show up at the office for meetings once a fortnight or so) 2) 20 minutes bus ride 3-4) Pros: I work better at home (I'm more relaxed and more concentrated), don't need to spend time on the commute. Cons: I miss
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by veddox 6y ago
> I guess the lesson here is that when it comes to focused work, the 8-hour working day is an unattainable target and should not be used as a benchmark. Any thoughts on this?
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... just as a more flexible model would favour people who prefer that mode of working. I guess it boils down to what kind of culture you want in your organisation. I‘m involved in a national students‘ association where we have some very str
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by veddox 6y ago
I think Qt is generally superior. Still, I find GTK easier to get my head around (though I don‘t work regularly with either). Also, as a vanilla Ubuntu user, GTK apps look better on my system.

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