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by yason 8y ago
So that implies that a majority of academics, or at least a portion of them with meaningful power, of academics actually place value on the 'name stamp' that Elsevier and others apply to other researcher's work. They all coul
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by yason 8y ago
I don't have a desktop PC right now but if I needed one I'd just place it in the basement or a closet (with enough ventilation), and wire the screen, HIDs, and a few USB connectors to my desk. Bam, no noise. However, it's coo
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by yason 8y ago
Well. Programming, like life in general, is made out of imperfections. There is a shitload of corner-cases in APIs both ancient and modern that you cannot possibly "fix for all" or, alternatively, learn to avoid. In many cases, it
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by yason 8y ago
The article could do without any references to C++. Surely writing long, imperative lists of register writes makes the reader's mind boggle. C has more than enough tools to encode all that into something that is maintainable and readab
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by yason 8y ago
Or maybe money and recognition aren't that valuable intrinsically and the industry is basically (ab)using men craving for those both. Maybe women are simply much smarter to not choose that line of job in the first place, or it would ta
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by yason 8y ago
That's often a good direction. When developing, you don't necessarily know about your types yet. And you might not even want to think about them. It's easier to shove in assumptions because things will change as you begin t
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by yason 9y ago
who believe that some guy who founded PayPal can just "think from first principles" and outwit nearly a century of manufacturing and industrial innovation I believe someone surely could, maybe Musk or maybe someone else. It does
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by yason 9y ago
The comment seemed pragmatic. Coins will be mined regardless of whether it makes sense: it's better if it's done more ecologically as long as coins will be mined.
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by yason 9y ago
Substantially is a relative term. There are niche cases but how many people really care, or need to care, about the last bytes that can be compressed? Packing a bunch of files together as .tgz is a quite universal format and compresses mos
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by yason 9y ago
The article doesn't seem to be exactly about using Morse code when kidnapped, unlike the title, but about instances of Morse and other code used in various circumstances today and in the past. Having said that, to reflect the title its
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by yason 9y ago
How long before roads churned under the pressure of the earth into indistinguishable small pieces of rock? Would they be gone in less than a million years? When built on top of freezing and thawing soil the current roads and asphalt start
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by yason 9y ago
Leaving is the only option.
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by yason 9y ago
This kind of tools borderline the very interesting threshold where writing your own tool can be less of a mental effort than discovering, learning and keeping track of these small utilities separately. I've written a similar tool in Py
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by yason 9y ago
That's quite opposite to how autonomous systems should be built in the first place: start with isolated modules that do not depend on each other, and stack them on top of each other as the abstraction level goes up. If you have an au
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by yason 9y ago
Or just make the law so that the customers own their own private details, and not the company. If the company wishes to use private data for anything else than providing service to the customer, it must ask for permission. They can still pi
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by yason 9y ago
Is there a particular reason you'd like to join with one, some or all of the cliques? It's quite natural for people who get along to group together because in the group you can act and speak more freely with the friends you know.
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by yason 9y ago
I can understand the case but this is just littered with perverse governance all over. I didn't know there would be places where you could be assumed to request a mining permit? What's it to anyone else what you're doing with
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by yason 9y ago
In the "good" old days there were several things you could do: - turn off the ignition (now purely software-controlled in keyless systems) - put transmission to neutral (a physical link doesn't necessarily exist anymore in au
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by yason 9y ago
Oh my, Hunter was so captivating! I played it a lot even if I never made much progress, at least as in how they maybe officially intended! Amiga could certainly do vector graphics but without texturing . The Blitter chip could easily fill
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by yason 9y ago
They were so good that a multiple times computationally slower Motorola processor would run a Doom clone at the speed comparable to a contemporary PC bucket. Never. You just could not get a VGA-on-i486 level rendering performance out of 2
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by yason 9y ago
The big problem tended to culminate in per-pixel rendering which was really slow on Amiga (with planar bitmaps) and really fast on VGA (writing one byte per pixel). Theoretically there was no difference as you could, ideally, just rewrite y
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by yason 9y ago
I use the new language to write a non-trivial program (several thousands of lines) that I've written before several times, knowing all the algorithmic and design pitfalls so I can be certain that I need to learn the language's own
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by yason 9y ago
Ah, the good old "just when I began to think Slack is pretty decent after all", still remembering fights with Windows office communicator and others. The reason I use the IRC gateway is primarily to cut down all the extra crap exc
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by yason 9y ago
I do agree. I was just looking at the selection of regular-size bags today at my local Finnish grocery store: - 0.20€ for a biodegradable bag - 0.20€ for a plastic bag It's good that they offer bio bags that are no longer more expensiv
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by yason 9y ago
Friendships need presence and presence can be supported by hanging out and/or commitment. Ideally both but commonly by only one or the other. Phases in life make hanging out easier in the early life and harder in midlife, then easier a
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by yason 9y ago
I don't think this is anything new at all in itself. Chats, anonymous comments, forums, public walls, etc just allow these weirdos to express themselves out of that place of theirs that is unattached to reality. Already in the 90'
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by yason 9y ago
I haven't had much problems with Google Hangouts but on the other hand I'm a light user: I just wanted a real-time text chat and didn't suffer from most of the problems decribed in the article. Yes, the video chat was choppy
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by yason 9y ago
I think they do but not in the ordinary way. The only way to give people the signal "I have a five-thousand dollar bag" is to go buy a five-thousand dollar bag. The value is not in the bag but in the message of owning (and being a
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by yason 9y ago
I much prefer an Amazon Locker, or the equivalent postal self-service lockers in my country. I hate the synchronicity of home deliveries. Either I'm at work and not home, or somewhere else but not home. And if I'm home I still hav
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by yason 9y ago
> My personal problem with most of this conversation is that > in bigger teams (e.g. 500 people spread through 5-10 > countries) it is really the truth that you are left > behind if you are not constantly up to date on emails &g

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