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by veddox 6y ago
Yes. I'm currently doing my M.Sc. in ecology, with a special interest in conservation, so I think about issues like these a lot. The most important lesson? Life's complicated. It doesn't matter what issues (or proposed soluti
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by veddox 6y ago
Though I don‘t know either of them, I was impressed by his essay about her ( http://paulgraham.com/jessica.html ).
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PG (Paul Graham) is the founder of the seed funder Y Combinator. (A bit later, he also started HN.) Jessica is his wife and co-founder of YC. He started off as a Lisp academic, then had a web shopping startup in the 90s. He is also known fo
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by veddox 6y ago
Fascinating history, reminding us once again how scary much of the tech we take for granted really is...
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by veddox 6y ago
So use Nextcloud instead ;-) You can link-share files and folders as read-only, write-only (i.e. upload drop), or read-and-write.
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by veddox 6y ago
Plus, the enterprise version is a subscription.
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by veddox 6y ago
Last year I ran some simulations that maxed out a 48 core machine. That was a sight to see :D
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by veddox 6y ago
Yes, the title is inaccurate. Titles on the Internet often are. That is precisely why it is generally a good idea to actually read the article before firing off a flaming reply. Basically, you were trashing the German government for somet
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by veddox 6y ago
This isn‘t the government carrying out the trial, but a crowd-sourced private non-profit.
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by veddox 6y ago
> Firefox isn't used by consumers Though there are big regional differences: It still has a 13% market share in Germany... 22% if you only look at the desktop. Worldwide, across all platforms, it's 4%. ( https://gs.st
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by veddox 6y ago
The majority of data we've gathered so far (though mostly in Europe) points in another direction. Therefore this study is unexpected and we're trying to figure out what's going on - is America doing so much better than Europe
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by veddox 6y ago
The problem is you simply cannot identify most insect species from photographs of them flying. Depending on which taxon you're working on, you have to do things like count the number of tarsi (foot segments) on each leg, look at the ve
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by veddox 6y ago
OK, let's clear up some confusion here. You need to differentiate between endangered species and protected species, and between biodiversity conservation ("Naturschutz") and animal rights ("Tierschutz"). The fox is
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by veddox 6y ago
> in the real world in situations like these, there is almost always one overwhelming factor that accounts for >60% of total influence That may be true when you're optimising a program, but is very much not true in ecology. The
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by veddox 6y ago
That is a pretty accusatory tone... There are probably over 10 million species of plants and animals in the world. Of course some of these are going to be better at coping with humans and their cities than others. As you correctly observe,
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by veddox 6y ago
Glad to see they're on to this. However, I gather that this is still a "Referentenentwurf" - i.e. a first draft written up by the ministry staff. This still needs to be approved by the cabinet before even going into parliamen
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by veddox 6y ago
> Drop according to whom? The people whose jobs depend on the alleged drop? Speaking as an ecologist here, colleagues of mine were authors on one of the recent studies on insect decline in Germany ( https://www.nature.com/
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by veddox 6y ago
I think you meant "astronomical" sight-seeing? ;-) Yes, constant light does have a strong effect on animal circadian rhythms, but for insects, the problem is rather that they exhaust themselves from flying around the light source
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by veddox 6y ago
Our math teacher, a former engineer, once brought his slide rule to class when we were in grade 9. He posed a problem and raced us to the solution, slide rule vs. calculators. He beat us all...
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Although the two are often conflated. If you grow up in a poor area, it‘s easy to become fatalistic and drop into a victim mentality, even though you might actually have a fighting chance to get out. Likewise, you can maneuver yourself into
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by veddox 6y ago
Because anything that was created before the Internet spontaneoulsy generated in 2005 is obviously so not worth reading about. HN is about more than just the latest JS fad: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by veddox 6y ago
I would expect state actors to have gone for a lot more damage than "make Twitter look stupid". Also, all the high-profile state actor hacks I'm aware of were a lot more clandestine - it was months before they were discovered
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by veddox 6y ago
I think „coding security risks“ referred to language properties that increase the likelihood of introducing bugs in a general sense, not in terms of cyber security/hacking.
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by veddox 6y ago
Out of curiosity: what‘s the difference between a REPL and a shell?
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Sounds cool, but what exactly is the advantage of doing it like that?
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At our research institute most people use Linux + LaTeX, which is great, but interfacing with MS Word is an absolute pain when you work with external collaborators. Accordingly, one of our professors‘ key argument for Mac OS is: „It’s a Uni
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by veddox 6y ago
That is the one thing I miss most about Unity! It was such a sweet feature. (Also, Unity minimised on the vertical space it used, which was great for small laptop screens.) The new GNOME versions are much improved compared to a few years ag
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by veddox 6y ago
What? Do you have any source for that?
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I get the impression you're using a study comparing programming languages to back up a claim comparing text editors?
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"Printing books in bulk" has survived quite a few epidemics in the past 500 years... Why do you think this one is different?

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