wolfgke

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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Of course, content producers could run back to the state for more protection (as they always do) and get legislation forcing browser makers to comply. Implementations of such forced-by-court features tend to be buggy. ;-) The implement
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but it doesn't seem like much of a mystery why non-techies don't know about the specific details of why they can't save a streamed movie to watch it offline, o
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> it does NOT force a content creator from offering their content open for downloading and republishing, even if it's for fair use. But being able to use the fair use rights means that you must not be sued for breaking the DRM on
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I tell it to my acquaintances all the time. Nearly all of them are not interested in this information.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
As I often write here on HN: "Learn the lessson not to make yourself dependent on a despot.".
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Unity developed a video game designed to test AI players(theverge.com)
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What will humanity’s next major framework for comprehending reality be?(twitter.com)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
No mention of assembly language, which should be even lower on electricity and RAM usage than C and Pascal.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
To me, as a German, doombolt calling himself a Russian nationalist is no signal for downvoting, but rather a signal that the answers that he will give could be from a pro-Russian perspective - so only ask if you are sufficiently open-minde
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The Meme Hustler (2013)(thebaffler.com)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
"This part scares me: '... repeated violations can result in the suspension of this app or your Google Play Developer account.'" Learn the lessson not to make yourself dependent on a despot.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Is there a known example of something a digital computer can do that a Turing machine cannot? - Physically exist, since Turing machines are a purely abstract mathematical model that can because of the infinite length of its tape never
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Try Library Genesis. :-)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> People in tech make well above the median income in most cases. But have to live/work at places where the costs of living are enormous.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I have zero doubts that those ciphers are intentionally backdoored. > And they are required if you're interacting with government state information systems What interest would the government have to have interaction with govern
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Here the opinion of one of the Veracrypt authors on this topic: > https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/issues/419 Highlight: "This leads me to think that maybe there is another interesting possibili
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I also take it to mean that they will focus on what they enjoy and not scrabble to climb the corporate ladder. Climbing the corporate ladder is something many employees seem to enjoy.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> The interviews often include tasks that traditional candidates would find boring and lots of repetition. Intuitively this sounds like many programming tasks (I still like programming, but admit that many tasks in programming are quite
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by wolfgke 8y ago
And what was it about?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
- TikZ wizardry. - Often, I had to look deeply into forum posts to get LaTeX to format a formula in the way that I imagined (often the solution involved deep LaTeX wizardry) - Creating a document that involves text in multiple alphabets (e.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If you can draw a commutative diagram, and insert a PDF graphic, there isn’t really anything much more complex than that. Not true. I know what I am talking about since I work in mathematical research (I like math, of course, but I ope
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Basic LaTeX isn't that hard to learn Basic LaTeX is probably not that hard to learn. But LaTeX is a really deep rabbit hole and you need a lot more knowledge of it if you write math papers.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Hales didn't resolve the 4 colors theorem, Gonthier did that. Gonthier didn't resolve the 4 colors theorem, Appel and Haken did that. Gonthier just created the first computer-checked proof for the Four-color theorem.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> In 2007, Axiom was forked twice, originating two different open-source projects: OpenAxiom[3] and FriCAS,[4] following "serious disagreement about project goals".[5] Do you know what this disagreement was/is about?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Intel should release documenation/example code how you can program the GPU "bare-metal" (i.e. load a raw binary program directly on the GPU instead of providing, say, SPIR-V intermediate code to the driver).
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I wasn't crazy about that line, but basically, sines and cosines make much less sense over say, the rational numbers, whereas polynomials work just fine. They're the most general "nice" function one can define over
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> and much of the EU internet traffic, including to/from germany, goes through the UK. Indeed - and many German citizens who are interested in such topics find this concerning exactly because of Five Eyes. My comment that Germany is
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> They never claimed Germany was. The article is about Germany.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> What happened after it was known that the NSA had tapped Merkels phone? Nada. For understanding Germany, you always have to keep in mind that there is a deep ditch between the "political interests" of the government and the &
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Germany is not part of the Five Eyes alliance.

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