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by wfn 11y ago
I wonder, are there any good tools for translating COBOL into something else? There must be at least some demand? Wouldn't that be a good approach in some cases? (I suppose it requires longer-term thinking, and is sometimes simply not
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by wfn 11y ago
Thanks, looks interesting, will check out their whitepaper! Interesting architecture in regards to their "General Hook Middleware" and other ways of implementing "middleware contracts" (for things such as company payroll
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by wfn 11y ago
That's an interesting idea and angle. While reading "The Dispossessed"[1] and thinking about the way syndicates work there, I had this (generic, not-worked-out) thought about some form of protocol for creating co-ops of the k
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by wfn 11y ago
Agree completely. Not having the ability to inflate one's currency in times of economic struggle (so that exports are made to be cheaper, etc.) is not the best thing; while for Germany it helps with their own exports. Moreover, lots of
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by wfn 11y ago
No, it would seem (I'm not sure though) that this happens for you because your distro is smart enough to have a nice security setting be on by default. The setting / sysctl can be changed at: /proc/sys/kernel&#x
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by wfn 11y ago
By looking at /proc/kallsyms : grep commit_creds /proc/kallsyms grep prepare_kernel_cred /proc/kallsyms Then update addresses as shown in one of the code snippets: _commit_creds commit_creds = 0xf
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by wfn 11y ago
Not "override" in the sense of changing local law at the conclusion of the case, but "override" in the sense of a trade tribunal deciding against a given state's laws (on the basis of a prior trade agreement), and t
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by wfn 11y ago
Thank you for the trip. Really cool insights there... e.g. (massive Mass Effect spoilers..): "For millions of years, the Reapers existed for the sole purpose of ensuring the ongoing existence of organic life in the galaxy, based on th
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by wfn 11y ago
I've found myself wondering at times, has there been any new development/thought put into Egan's Dust theory which you mention? As I take it a more rigorous but very close formulation is articulated in Max Tegmark's Math
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by wfn 11y ago
Proteus (video game) has procedural mixing of a pre-set score based on which objects the player is near at. I suppose not much in terms of actual composition (harmony etc), but something which continues to irk me (so to speak) to try to t
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by wfn 11y ago
Try exercising a less naive approach ("incredibly charitable act") perhaps. In particular, regarding your statement "he has never attempted to make Internet.org anything close to a monopoly", it surely looks like that&#x
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by wfn 11y ago
Yeah, I think one of those philosophers who suffers from Russell's extreme bias (so to speak) was Nietzsche... Also, his discussion of pre-socratics is lacking IIRC; but on the whole the book is certainly a worthy read for sure (not th
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by wfn 11y ago
But you probably know that Wikipedia is completely fine as a reference aggregator ; I was just using it as a heuristic. But now you're doing the bait thing... :(
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by wfn 11y ago
No, wait, there is no way one can charitably interpret what I said to extract the notion of "UN declaring Israel Null and void". UN declared the occupation of those Palestinian territories under consideration as null and void. P
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by wfn 11y ago
I'm sorry but in this particular case I would disagree. If you google for "Palestinian territories", you end up with the wikipedia article which uses the wording "occupied territories." (As it says there) the occupa
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by wfn 11y ago
It was shadowbanned before, but apparently it isn't anymore.
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by wfn 11y ago
@ 'berntb, you've been shadowbanned for unclear reasons IMO, FYI. Their dead comment: You are mixing up dark matter and dark energy. The main effect of dark matter is not universal expansion, it is from both influences o
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by wfn 11y ago
The fact that a headline such as "Mark Zuckerberg Will Take Two Months Off from Facebook for Paternity Leave" [half what FB gives anyway] receives more than 200 points on HN means that something is really wrong on that other side
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by wfn 11y ago
Very well put.
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by wfn 11y ago
> Do you think Africans would learn how to read and write if the Europeans didn't alter things? That seems like a point the arguments for which would not stand well under scrutiny. Can you decompress your thoughts in this regard,
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by wfn 11y ago
The cat was first invoked as a kind-of-mocking thought experiment and a point of critique towards (the Copenhagen interpretation of) QM, IIRC. (The answer to the thought is that yes, indeed, the cat would already be in a single state prio
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by wfn 11y ago
That was a nice long read article. I particularly liked the curt-ish, even terse writing style, a kind of an eulogy (if not for the bar in question.) Thanks. I currently reside in Scotland and wonder what's the real estate market with
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by wfn 11y ago
...and that's why I think it's a good thing that some universities have separate CS and software engineering diplomas/tracks..
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by wfn 11y ago
Hm, I suppose you're right, yes. Could probably come up with interesting things to use API endpoints for, too. :) but my initial thoughts were about something else, I agree.
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by wfn 11y ago
It was more a comment about how considerations such as this make collaborative recommendation systems precisely less useful. Regarding rec.systems that move beyond naive rating/like intersections between users (such as e.g. Jaccard sim
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by wfn 11y ago
Regarding your second point, I really understand this position - fair enough (re. zeitgeist and personal point in life of someone looking for films and rating films, etc.) I just wonder if it wouldn't be interesting to spend some time
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by wfn 11y ago
For starters, I'd like to * index every piece of data properly, for easy reference to (a) films, (b) user ratings (per user per film) and (c) users (seeing the latter as simply sets of ratings on films) * then run a few collaborative r
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by wfn 11y ago
MUBI's curatorial approach stands in sharp contrast to major streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, which have amassed large libraries and deliver personalized recommendations based on algorithms. MUBI's human
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by wfn 11y ago
Some websites seem to use Comic Sans in particular so that folks just looking for form would go away: http://www.libressl.org/ (OpenBSD's OpenSSL fork) ;) edit oh no, it seems LibreSSL changed the font! :( But I qu
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by wfn 11y ago
Hmm do you have any references to stories/explanations what did not go well - anything beyond critical mass (lack thereof) / network effects issues?

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