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by wolfgke 7y ago
A less odd forum, where he presents his ideas, is his book "The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics": > https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-41285-6
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> > Just a consideration: for many centuries (at least in Germany), arranged marriages were quite a success story, while love marriage are a quite modern invention. > There are cultures and countries for which this is true but Germ
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Just a consideration: for many centuries (at least in Germany), arranged marriages were quite a success story, while love marriage are a quite modern invention. Perhaps if dating is too time-intensive for these people, they should (somewhat
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If nobody will hire a whistleblower, that leads me to believe everyone has skeletons to hide. In German language, there actually exists no native word for "whistleblower" (one uses the English word). The German word is "
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I feel obligated to mention in every one of these threads the wemos D1. Does there exist a similar board with an ESP32?
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Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Because They Were Never Meant To(forbes.com)
3 points by wolfgke 7y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Look at schools. We live in a school district that’s extremely proactive about addressing bullying. Yet, our friend’s kid recently had water poured over her head on the bus. You can justifiably argue that schools are "prison light
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Boeing might represent the greatest indictment of 21st-century capitalism(salon.com)
40 points by wolfgke 7y ago|24 comments
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Gog.com makes their living specifically by updating games that no longer work on modern versions of Windows. Many old games that GOG distributes are not written for Windows, but for DOS.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Two people can agree on a window manager if one of them is dead. But why is there no similar fight concerning CLI software?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Binary compatibility is only a pressing issue if the majority of the software you run is closed source and not provided by your distro. Binary compatibility is a very pressing issue if there exist software that is closed source and you
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Neither Qt nor GTK care about backward compatibility.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
The problem rather is that even if you do, many distributions will not obey "your" standard. EDIT: So the problem is that it is not a problem of work to be done, but a problem of willingness to standardize.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If paying for exclusives is bad what viable alternative strategy should Epic be using to get users to their store? Offering the games DRM-free (the audience that GOG is aiming - though I am really concerned about what GOG is currently
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Yes and no. It's a different mindset. In many cases Linux can run CLI software from the 1960s just fine but the desktop moves fast and breaks things often. Serious question to all the GNU/Linux hackers: why can't we stan
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> It is the hybrid open source library / closed source app that causes problems like this. There can exist good reasons to deliver the application as binary even though it is open-source. The difference rather is: Microsoft cares ab
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> 10 years is just wild. Most 20 year old Windows applications still run on Windows 10.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Thus preventing the users from being able to use the fair use rights from US copyright.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
TLDR: The developers of the GNU/Linux userland libraries do not care about binary compatibility.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
On Windows, you can easily install lots of parallel versions of libraries.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The main difference is that most Windows apps are statically linked. A game from 1998 will very often come with its own set of .dlls that were built with the game and unless the underlying Win32 api changed, they should "just work
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> But the cost of not doing so, especially when others aren't waiting, is being considered a moral busy body and missing out on the culture it creates. Stop being friends with such people.
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Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League (2014)(newrepublic.com)
3 points by wolfgke 8y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I openly say I cannot stay a fan as soon as I hear of such bullying behaviour.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
According to the German Wikipedia article > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Great_Giana_S... there was no lawsuit between Rainbow Arts and Nintendo, but only a threat of legal steps by Nintendo, which
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Nobody hates their most hardcore fans more than Nintendo. Perhaps you should not become a fan of a company with such a bullying behaviour.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
OK, point taken. I considered "scaling" in a less general sense (scalar multiple of the unit matrix), while you want to allow arbitrary diagonal entries. My definition is to my knowledge the common one in linear algebra textbooks
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The next relearning step is to construct the category where arrows are matrices... Why not the category of vector spaces (morphisms are linear maps)?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Shearings cannot be represented in this way.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
My argument is that it is hard to find an "objective" criterion on what is "interference with the peaceful enjoyment of others".

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