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by vog 9y ago
In physics, local violation of conservation of energy due to quantum effects is pretty established by now. Unfortunately, these effects don't scale, that is, in larger scale conservation of energy does hold. So alas, you can't use
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by vog 9y ago
Archive.org is a great project that one can't recommend highly enough. It's not "just" collecting huge amounts of data, it is a living archive. For example, when they publish old Amiga software, they publish it ready t
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by vog 9y ago
Nice idea! However, I still struggle to see the advantage over "!g". The workflow is exactly the same: Search for stuff in DDG, and if you suspect that Google might have returned a better result, prepend "!g " to your qu
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by vog 9y ago
> The primary downsides to consider are efficiency of the system, and the complexity of managing it This shouldn't be underestimated, though! I agree that efficiency is a no-brainer for almost all purposes, especially compared to
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by vog 9y ago
> I doubt IPFS will automatically win this because it was the first to make a glorified BitTorrent client available via HTTP. This may be true. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if IPFS would win for exactly that reason
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by vog 9y ago
But that requires extra work, compared to simple JSX-based React code, doesn't it?
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by vog 9y ago
That's strange. I've had the same feeling with Google for a long time: Why are the results so strange, and no improvement in sight for years? Then I discovered DuckDuckGo and never looked back. For example, why do Google searches
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by vog 9y ago
I don't get it, either. Even the include is longer that directly writing a plain alert: <script type="text/javascript" src="warning.js" charset="utf-8"></script> versus:
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by vog 9y ago
Good point. Thanks!
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by vog 9y ago
Don't forget the animated ASCII art, aka ASCIImations, which is a large field in itself. - The most popular ASCIImation is the famous Star Wars fan art: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ - I created some of my own when I w
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by vog 9y ago
On the other hand, PostgreSQL is a very good example of a successful implementation of the opposite strategy, that is, "correctness first". And since PostgreSQL fills that niche very well (correctness + real ACID + extensibility +
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by vog 9y ago
> With more constraints in the language, one gains greater power to reason. Not only that, but you can also apply more tools onto it, treating the code as data and having a chance to use that as input data for totally different purposes.
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by vog 9y ago
The problem is exactly reverse: From a security and anaysis point of view, you want languages that do the job with the least possible power . And those are surprisingly hard to find. You start with simple and not too-powerful languages (ru
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by vog 9y ago
*> die Maedchen (Mädchen), but is actually das (neuter) due to the -chen Yes, that's true. Roughly speaking, little and cute means neuter. [1] To confuse you even more, however, note that "die Mädchen" is still correct, bu
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by vog 9y ago
Small nitpick: It is "Die Bräutigamseiche", not "Der Bräutigamseiche". (That is, even though "Bräutigam" (bridegroom) is of course male, the last word "Eiche" (oak) is female, so the composed word as
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by vog 9y ago
> because I would never trust the other drivers to behave correctly. But in Germany the drivers are very well trained. This is the true value of proper education. [1] [2] And this holds in general for all aspects of education, not just
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by vog 9y ago
Thanks! Now I understand what you mean.
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by vog 9y ago
> It reminds me of a friend that used to start off particularly rude statements by saying "I don't want to be rude but..." I don't see the contradiction here. I interpret these kind of phrases as: "I don't
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by vog 9y ago
Do you have a screenshot? I don't feel like enabling JS for that site. Moreover, a screenshot would keep your argument understandable for readers who might encounter your comment in a year or later, when that site changed their layout
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by vog 9y ago
Congratulation! You passed the test. Another way to pass the test is to enter cypherpunk/cypherpunk as first/last name, I guess. Oh, and the email field isn't validated anyway, it doesn't even need to contain an "@&
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by vog 9y ago
Thanks for the feed, I just added it to QuiteRSS. However, it seems the appropriate headers are not set in the HTML pages. So there is no indication in the browser that your site has a feed, let alone where to find it. I propose to add some
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by vog 9y ago
Is there a similar book for French or German?
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by vog 9y ago
There should be " (2015)" added to the title. (BTW, I was slightly confused not to find a single date on this blog post, and the HTTP headers were also useless. But at least there are rough timestamps at the main site.)
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by vog 9y ago
Is there any Free Software VCS that specifically targets monorepos? If not, which of the "usual" VCS are best suited for monorepos? CVS? Subversion? Darcs? Bazaar? Mercurial? Git? Should one use Mercurial simply because Facebook u
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by vog 9y ago
I wanted to add you to my RSS reader to ensure I won't miss it. But it seems your blog has neither RSS nor ATOM feeds, neither for the full blog nor for the OpenStreetMap category. This is really a pity.
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by vog 9y ago
Shlightly off-topic: Maybe it's just me, but this is exactly why I'm not a fan of feature branches. I do like to have local branches which sometimes serve as feature branches. But those are short-lived, so these either make it int
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by vog 9y ago
Thanks for the hint! I wasn't aware of that package. I'll try it.
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by vog 9y ago
Maybe. But if this encourages other people to write a follow-up paper that fixes the issue, it would still serve an important purpose.
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by vog 9y ago
> And maybe this is exactly the trick, make it low key and have a sense of humor about it. I agree in general, but I'd also love to see those published as actual beautiful papers, not just ugly formatted websites. (Okay, the websi
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by vog 9y ago
As funny as this may sound, there's some deep value in this: We deeply need more incentives in the academic world to report non-findings like that. We have a strong publication bias towards positive results, which has already become a

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